Vice President JD Vance just suggested the Trump administration has not yet gone far enough in limiting access to gender-affirming care.
Vice President JD Vance just suggested the Trump administration has not yet gone far enough in limiting access to gender-affirming care.
You really think the trans-hate is only going to affect people who are trans?
Any man or woman who aren’t sufficiently cookie-cutter cisgendered are going to be affected. Including people who simply work in fields that are typically gendered and not their gender. Women who are doctors or scientists, men who are nurses or stay-at-home.
People who just don’t look masculine or feminine enough. Women who don’t dress like couch cushions to let Vance creep out on them.
Pretty much anyone who doesn’t present themselves as they want are going to be “trans”.
And that’s ignoring creepy ass men checking a child’s genitals.
And of course, trans people are worth protecting, same as any other person.
Yeah, that’s why I said let the fascists fo whatever the fuck they want. That’s what the Nazis did-- hurt everyone but in the process actually led to their own demise. Maybe I am anchoring myself too much to the analysis of Hanna Arendt but reading her book on the banality of evil, the Nazis are actually inefficient. They either dismissed or killed so many people, many of whom have talents that could have been utilised otherwise. Not utilising talent is a waste and that led to Nazis own downfall.
Moreover, fascism is all about emotions (hence the rejection of reason and the anti-expertism). They have a latent angst that want to let out. We tell people to “get it out the system” so similarly we’ll let the fascists get it out their system. People could die sure, but we have to make sure more fascists die than the anti-fascists. It sounds grim and cynical but the Pandora’s box is open and it’s naive to think that there won’t a potential armed conflict. This is what the American founding fathers have put contingencies for with the second amendment.
The fuck you smoking?
The Nazis weren’t stopped until the allies stopped them. Until that happened the genocidal campaign kept accelerating. Most of the German citizens either didn’t know, pretended they didn’t know or were actively part of it. Some were part of the resistance.
Guess what? that’s HAPPENING NOW. you’re living in Nazis America, and you’re being like "yeah, well, uh. Just let them keep on keeping on. What’s a little fucking genocide.
This kind of accelerationist thinking is exactly how we got here; and I wouldn’t exactly be looking at Hannah Arrendt for wisdom here- she was a Zionist who helped enable the modern era of Israeli genocide of Palestinians by assisting jews flooding British Palestinian mandate (when it was going to be turned over to an Arab/Jewish state… subsequently resulting in the '47-48 war in Mandatory Palestine and subsequent 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
yeah, she subsequently distanced herself from that official Zionism- weakly advocating for a secular Arab/Israeli state (like what was supposed to be), but you can see the stupidity of thinking fascists will just stop in her own history.
The question isn’t whether or not fascism is a stable political philosophy- it’s not. it will inevitably collapse. The question is how much pure, unadulterated evil are you willing to accept before you start making it collapse?
Yeah, why do you think I advocated for an armed resistance? Because if it has to come to violence-- and I say, if–then I am unapologetically accelerationist with respect to this. It’s in human nature to “get out it of your system”. You can’t vote away fascism and they are not going away that easily (it will take a miracle for that to happen). Fascism did not come from a vaccum, it came from the pent up anger and that Pandora’s box has been opened.
Arendt’s view of Zionism doesn’t matter to this, it’s her research and observation on the undertaking of the Holocaust that would make someone think “yeah, the Nazis wasted so much resources killing people who could have otherwise helped them if the Nazis actually think”. Because that’s what Nazis are, they don’t think. Germany actually was on a brink of another economic collapse but Hitler invaded Poland to use the plunder to stave off that impending collapse. Heck, they did not even have enough resources to actually wage a war and Hitler was shock that the Allies declared war on them. Many Nazi officials after the war admitted that had the French pressed on with their offensive in Saar in 1939, the war could have ended quickly and saved millions. Because Germany actually only had enough resources to last them weeks at the start of the war.
No, it’s not. It’s precisely the “moderates” love of money and the elitist dismissal of the socioeconomic anxiety of the working class that led to where we are. The American political establishment had one chance to fix the underlying issue that led to Trump in the first place. And yet, the neoliberals did the exact same errors that led to Trump yet again for the second time.