If memes have taught me anything it’s that his name is Steve

Sports are like, 1% of the issues affecting trans people right now. The US is literally trying to wipe us out.

Leaving the US is one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life

I fled the country, so it’s been fascinating looking in from the outside while still having a stake vis-à-vis all the people I love back home.

On the inside, the people that matter are terrified. It’s easy to tell someone to grab a rifle and “do something”, but the average person is now more focused on their own immediate survival than anything else. People are losing access to life saving medicine, they’re worried about catching a life threatening illness, and basic costs of living (rent, food, health, etc) are getting more expensive. Even privileged people are starting to feel the screws tightening. The US is a ticking time bomb and something is going to give at some point, but it’s going to have to get significantly worse first.

On the outside, everyone understands why we fled. My new country has been so incredibly welcoming and sympathetic, with a hint of curiosity. I realized yesterday while I was reading about the Philly mass shooting that I’ve yet to hear of a single mass shooting where I am, and I immediately felt a sense of relief.

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How does this interact with male doctors’ right to deny women elective sterilizations based on their hypothetical future husband’s desire for a kid?

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If it’s a video, ESPECIALLY if it’s a YouTube link, I automatically close out

Here’s a story. Back at my previous job I had to work with this super MAGA heavyset Israeli man we’ll nickname A. This guy had a chubber for Trump. Back when Trump was separating immigrant families at the border and sticking them in camps, A justified it by saying that “we used to do the same thing to the Japanese and no one cared about it then, so why is everyone up in arms about it now?”

This was a 50-something man from Israel. I can only imagine he’d be wholeheartedly in favor of this.

The silver lining is he got laid off after the company got fucked over by Trump

I’ve never considered myself Democrat, even when I voted for them.

I’m happy to give Grimes first pull of the rope

Because it wouldn’t have been as cool

At least they’re (often) required to wear high vis

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Won’t someone think of the poor starving millionaires

I feel exactly the same way as you. I didn’t have any plans to leave my country up until a year or two ago. While I’m glad I did leave, I’m also so extremely angry and upset at the failure of a country that caused me to leave. It also makes me sick to my stomach to think about what’s going to happen to the people I love

The only people saying that are pedants who maybe passed a python crash course. In industry no one gives a shit.

Edit: except that engineer is a protected term in some countries

Controlled opposition

Man these rebrandings are getting out of hand /s

Not everyone’s brain works like that. My girlfriend, for one. She struggles to make those arbitrary abstract jumps

Idiocracy

Aren’t libraries supposed to have literature?