I am now 63 - it's my birthday. · 9:33am Dec 30th, 2022
Birthday, 2022
☛ I have reached Level 63 ☚
I really need to choose something from the spell list for my level, I guess...
December 30th is both my birthday and the birthday of one of my spouses, we share the occasion. He's a year younger than me. Not that it matters.
3255757
may be you can post this as blogpost, so it surface on people's newsfeeds?
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Shows you how hypocritical the right wing is when they condemn the left wing for politicizing mass shooting but then turn around and do it themselves.
I can agree with this statement, the nutters have been coming out of the woodwork lately.
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Yes, I have. And it is just wretched use of a tragedy to malign and entire population.
Of the nearly 4000 mass shootings this year, 4 of them, including this new one, had a trans (man) or nonbinary person involved. One of those shooter's claims to be nonbinary is contested - they seemed to be using the term falsely, likely to 'shame' nonbinary people. So, conservatively, 3 people out of almost 4000.
The remaining number were all one single thing - cis men. Heterosexual men committed all of those mass shootings.
Yeah, it's just MAGA Republicans trying to stir up fear and hatred for political gain. The real issue is - no other nation, on the planet, has this number of mass shootings. There is something deeply wrong with America, and easy access to guns is a huge part of it.
And of course I am concerned. This is seriously playing out like a repeat of the 1930's, when the first group to be persecuted were trans people. Then came gay men, then lesbians, and finally... Jews. The fact that American Nazis are a strong part of this hate-movement against trans (and gay) people is, I think, expected.
The GOP has become a cult that is working towards a Christian nationalist, white supremacist fascist dictatorship, and they are using every scheme and scam they can. I have watched this grow over the last forty years, but I never expected it to get this big, or this bad, or this dangerous.
The canary in the coal mine for democracy surviving is what ultimately happens to LGBT people.
3255757
Have you had any fears or concerns regarding that recent shooting in Nashville being used by The Right to exacerbate the situation?
Republican politicians have introduced 493 anti-trans bills in 2023, thus far.
Ant-Trans Bill Tracker For 2023
493 bills ◦ 47 states ◦ 26 passed ◦ 424 active ◦ 43 failed
All of them have one purpose: to make people just like me have no right to be alive in America.
No hope of puberty blockers. No hope of hormones. No hope of surgery. No right to transition.
No right to equal treatment under the law. No right to exist at all. Make no mistake - when they are done with folks like me, they will do the same thing with the right to marry, the right to be GLB in any form. They always start with trans people. Trans people were the first to be attacked, in 1933.
Do not vote Republican. Not for anything. Not ever. Not even for Dogcatcher. Not even once.