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[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 minutes ago

FINALLY! something to help LOWER those gas prices!

/s

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Even setting aside people's gender identity, 1.7% of the population is intersex. A law can't make that untrue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

not sure how to tell you this, but they can absolutely uhm… change that number

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 hours ago (9 children)

They'd have to shoot me before I will ever deny my own womanhood. Not even with a gun to my head would I call myself a man. I lived in a closet for 18 years and it nearly killed me. It damaged me in ways I have to live with forever. I am a woman. They can say whatever the fuck they want it won't change that. I will not bow my head. If it comes to it, I'll die with my back straight, proud of who I am.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry. We got your back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 minutes ago

Thank you. Truly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Proud of you, but seriously, be careful? Emigrate to a country where people are treated like humans, perhaps? You might even be able to request asylum.

Just don't get yourself killed because some psycho said something stupid

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

Glad you're here. As a fellow LGBTQ+ card carrying member, we are going to keep fighting even harder. Let this presidency radicalize you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

You have a lot of allies who feel similarly about being forced to be cruel to people we love and care about. Let's live through these terrible times with our humanity intact.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Even ignoring socially constructed gender identities, in the case of biological sexes, this is scientifically wrong. The world doesn’t fit into neat little boxes like these people think it does

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

His next trick will be to define pi as 3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 37 minutes ago

In order to reduce the cost of space launches, executive order gravity to be smaller.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

Fascists think they can force the world into their boxes through violence and cruelty. We must never stop resisting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I mean if he plans to kill all intersex people then there will be two sexes.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 hours ago

Just ignore the outrage machine and focus on what things you can do to help. The outrage is only to make you tired. Sue when you must, support businesses, organizations, and politicians you agree with financially, vote in every election, don't add to any problem, and ignore Trump and his minions to the best extent you can.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

Congrats to all the "both sides are the same" folks who stayed home and handed this election to Trump.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Same for the “establishment Democrats suck so I didn’t vote” as well. Because trump is so much better.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

we won‘t win against these politics of resentment with resentment against potential allies

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 hours ago (8 children)

65,000,000 eligible voters don't vote. Should have fought harder to get those butts off the couch to vote than just "but Trump". If you don't excite the base, they're not going to go out and vote.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Not voting is an action. An action that says, "either is fine"

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

So was appealing to right wing voters and alienating huge portions of the populations. In fact the Democratic Party took a LOT more 'actions' to lose this election than the people who stayed home did. Put your anger where it belongs for fucks sake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

The democrats tried to appeal to the people who actually vote.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Preventing fascism isn't exciting. It's a necessity. It's the civic equivalent of brushing your teeth.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah that doesn't work. Making that argument again and again and not responding to the above critique is why Trump won.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Trump won because millions of people were swayed by propaganda and misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

There was a lot of propaganda going around, but the Dems decided their message was to be in denial about the economy and to court the Republicans who were too sexist to vote for a woman anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is the Democrats told the truth about the economy. They said it was getting better slowly over time and that prices were never going to go back to what they were before Covid. People would rather hear Trump's comfortable lies than face the uncomfortable truth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Regular people associate "the economy" with their own subjective bubble. Regular people are dumb as fuck and the Dems shouldn't pretend like we are a country with free education where people make collected and informed decisions.

Despite the dems prepping the macro economy to distibute wealth to workers, the workers did not feel that wealth.

It was a good economy for transitioning us to EVs, bad for affording human needs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Biden hopefully will be the last "must secure the center" democrat. The winner in American elections is the one that has their base turn out more. If you do things to appease the center at the expense of the base, expect to loose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Unfortunately the Neolibs would rather burn the country to the ground than lose control of the Democratic party

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Well they can be excited about the new gender options now

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 8 hours ago (8 children)

How does this help men and women? I know how it hurts people, but who is HELPED by this?

[–] [email protected] 91 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

Fascists.

Edit: Whenever the question is "Who could possibly be helped by this?" the answer is "Fascists."

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

whats next, an executive order stating black people are only 3/5th of a white person? c02 isnt rising in volume in the atmosphere? that he isnt a literal hitler wannabe?

[–] [email protected] 74 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

You're making jokes, but yes. This is a man that drew on a map with a sharpie to change the course of a hurricane. There's nothing stopping him from blatantly lying about the reality that is right in front of our faces.

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