Why I Am Leaving the USA | Dame Magazine
Why I Am Leaving the USA | Dame Magazine
"Back in August of 2016 I created a list of 19 ways that the Nazis pushed Jews out of society[...] By my count, Republicans today are attempting to achieve all 19 of these effects but attacking trans people instead."
Ngl, this article paints a pretty grim future for America and especially for trans Americans.
F me. This hit really hard.
I think this line hit harder than any:
More likely than not, the current MAGA base would laugh and revel in photos of trans people having their heads shaved, having involuntary surgeries performed upon them, being correctively raped, and being forced to do manual labor…
…They would. This is not an exaggeration or “I hate MAGA” litmus test, millions would legit cheer this on from their little screens, like it’s the solution to the country’s problems, and social media platforms would egg them on and tailor posts to fit the individual. Hitler’s propaganda apparatus has nothing on us.
F me.
Yeah I don’t see a way out of this either. Collapsing corporate social media would help more than the author realizes, I think, but still.
Considering how the whole room laughed after Trump said to Bukele "You're going to have to build five more places"? I absolutely believe it. People have been so brainwashed by the propaganda machine, it's insane.
You have no idea. There are millions that don't just want public executions without due process, they want to participate. They want to publicly stone people. They're just waiting for their daddy to say okay, go kill people. Yall-qaeda was a joke in 2016, today its the fascist regime that controls ever facet of the US, including the cucks that call themselves chief of a military branch. The oath is to the constitution, not the commander in chief. They have all proven they're apart of the dismantling and destruction on the US. History won't forget.
We came to similar conclusions during 45. We completed our exit during 46.
Glad you were able to make it out!
I agreed with most of the opinion. However, I found myself often wishing the author had citations for their interpretation of current events.
The Trump administration has made it clear to companies with federal contracts that if any of their employees say anything bad about the administration, those companies will lose said contracts.
Here is one that is just generic enough that I can’t find much in terms of information. It would have been nice for the author to do that. Then again, perhaps would have been simply a bit too to manage for an opinion writer.
Accurate grim view for those of us who can’t leave.
The most-prominent example is the executive order targeting the law firm, Perkins Coie.
Trans are what, 0.x% of society? They're being used in the exact same way the German Reich used gypsies and jews...
They're being used in the exactly the same way the German Reich used trans people.
1.7 to 3% of the US, depending on how you define it. Or to put it another way, 1 in every 30 people.
The list of undesirables is unquenchable.
As a trans woman I find this pretty spot on. And bleak.
Historically, even unpopular dictators who ruin their countries tend to hang on to power indefinitely: Cuba,...
But also we're just going to fire shots at the most LGBTQ progressive country in North/Central America, on the way out.
Leaving doesn't work this time, nukes exist. Unless everyone stays and fights the whole world is doomed.
I used to think like this. Now I think "eh, if that does happen, all my problems will at least be solved very quickly."
Most people aren't going to want to die for a country that's hated them all their lives. That's what staying means.
you dont fight for what is, but for what can be.
As another poster indicated, if nukes start flying I'm grabbing a drink and sauntering directly towards the expected point of detonation. Having it all be over very quickly doesn't sound too bad.
Up until that point though? I have already spent most of my life having to fight against society to make room for myself because I'm not wired to just fit in. That's going to be true wherever I go and I'm OK with that. However, I'm not going to put even more effort info trying to fight what appears to be a losing battle just for the sake of it.
My reaction: this is weak and scared. Fortune favors the bold; I'm not letting a guy who shits his pants intimidate me out of my home. My wife was tortured under the first Trump administration, trans in the military shit, and she got paid out winning that fight. Right now she's in the federal government and they can't fire her. My brother is too, they said him and his cohort would be fired in less than one day and it's been months and they are all still there waiting.
Sometimes you have to get rocked in the face really hard a few times in order to position yourself to make a winning move in a fight. America is the blue print for Nazism, we were born out of chattel slavery and genocide, all these systems being destroyed were basically irredeemable to begin with. We're not descending into fascism, we're waking up to the reality that we've already been fascist for a long time.
Trump bankrupts casinos and always screws over everyone he works with. Is he a fascist who scares me? No, it's a hilarious godsend my idealogical enemies made him their standard bearer. W Bush, that's a fascist that scares me. He set the stage for a real dictatorial takeover of our county and then Leeroy Jenkins Trump drives straight into a wall and wrecks their shit. He backs up and now he's ramming into the wall again
Trump has to put on a show of force quickly at the start of his term because in another six or nine months it's going to be incredibly obvious he is an impotent lame duck
It's not Trump who scares me, it's who comes after. They may not have the sway over the base that he does, but at that point they won't have to.
