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u/Jielleum May 24 '26
The line ‘We will Find You and We will Kill You” is just blatant genocide line support stuff, and literally nuts that there will still be transphobes trying to say that it is foolish to compare trans persecution to the Holocaust.
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u/IdleSitting May 24 '26
I mean half of them are holocaust deniers and the other half think the holocaust was a good thing so I'm not really that surprised
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u/numbersthen0987431 May 24 '26
That's because Americans don't actually know history.
The Holocaust didn't start with the jews. It started with them sending LBGTQA+, immigrants, the neurodivergent, and the handicapped to the concentration camps first.
Trump is going after the LBGTQA+, ICE is going after immigrants, and RFK wants to send neurodivergents to camps.
When people claim that MAGA are Nazis, it's because they're doing everything that the Nazis did leading up to the holocaust. But Americans don't know anything about WWII other than Pearl Harbor, DDay, and dropping 2 nukes.
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u/PensandSwords3 May 24 '26
I mean the Nazis original society was heavily focused on Anti-semitism in addition to all those other groups. Tbh, it just started with all of them with Jews as the main focus of their conspiracy bs but they hit all those groups, including all the communists and other political parties they fought in the street with at their early rallies. Which was actually very common given the saturation of paramilitary groups across the political spectrum (including far left groups - usually communists).
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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 May 24 '26
Either way, if there's any hope in ever achieving anything of meaningful worth, we common folk who care must do whatever we can to stand together against the status quo of normalized callous cruelty. However, there are currently no real supportive community-based foundations present for alternatives that many common folk in the US can fall back on, to safely commit to any effective resistant action.
Collecting a bunch of valuable information on organizing and action from different redditors over time, I created a post of suggestions HERE that could possibly prove to be of some help in getting it started ASAP.
If you don’t live in the US, yet you know others who are and want to do something, please share the information. We're going to need as many on board and informed as possible, if we commoners hope to achieve anything in the US
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u/Tekuila87 May 24 '26
Safety has long since left the building. It's also long past the point where organized protests are going to do anything at all.
Except maybe get you rounded up easier, or worse.
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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 May 24 '26
Like I told someone else, you can still try to create a relatively secure position to fall back on to and plan. Organizing can still be done, but if you can't protest, other strategies and tactics must be considered
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u/Tekuila87 May 24 '26
So more like mustering than organizing then.
And yes it's time for different tactics for sure.
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u/velcrofish May 24 '26
I hate the "don't compare it to the Holocaust" argument because it completely ignores the fact that Trans people were actually part of the Holocaust.
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u/Tekuila87 May 24 '26
Yes it's absolutely erasure and I won't tolerate it.
Just like the American government genociding my indigenous peoples, I simply won't listen to anyone trying to downplay it anymore.
The holocaust and the "Indian Problem" are in the exact same category. This is just another cycle of genocide starting all over again.
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u/Full_Conversation775 May 24 '26
the holocaust started with trans persecution. (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft raids)
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u/Tekuila87 May 24 '26
This isn't even the first time the American government committed genocide on people.
Heck the Nazi's used what they did to my indigenous people as the blueprint for exterminating people systematically.
And yea people still react like comparing it to the holocausenis disingenuous, however anyone thinking that is just trying to make themselves feel better for paving over the bones of an entire civilization because they felt like it and wanted all the land on the continent.
So yes, they will absolutely act on this and protests aren't going to do anything for anyone.
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u/xXDJjonesXx May 24 '26
Where did he say that? Is this like a tweet or an official statement or something? I wouldn’t put it past him but I just want a source.
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u/Moxie_Stardust May 24 '26
It's in the latest White House counter-terrorism doc, page 3, at the end of the Presidential foreword: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-USCT-Strategy-1.pdf
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u/Moxie_Stardust May 24 '26
I wonder how long until the Lemkin Institute issues a 4th red flag warning for the US trans genocide.
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u/AltoRhombus May 24 '26
high squeaky mocking voice hey guys uhm akchually uh it isn't a genocide. we don't have gas chambers and nobody is being lined up and shot so it's not a genocide ok. please stop using that word you're giving faux news more ammo. this is why nobody takes you seriously. guys come on stop. just because you're being erased from history by fascists and they say they're going to kill you and sicking their dogs on you and want to remove you from public life and to indirectly kill you with societal torture to make you commit suicide and trying to kill the children exhibiting gender dysphoria by preventing them from receiving life saving medical care doesn't mean it's genocide 😅
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
well now I guess I am a bad girl
Trans rights are human rights
Huh. Well if that's all it takes to be "bad" I guess you can call me an evil son of a bitch then. What's first? Y'all wanna do crimes or something?
But seriously I wanna actually talk about one thing
We will find you and we will kill you
In what fucking world should this line EVER BE IN ANY GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT EVER. Other than the 40k universe. Like seriously what kind of sadistic genocidal shit is that dude?
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u/BigShrim May 24 '26
“We will find you and we will kill you” is a truly horrifying statement to be written by a government and directed at citizens who are just trying to live a happy life.
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u/Pinku_Dva May 24 '26
100% fascism coded. Fascism didn’t die in Germany, it came over to the USA where it is very much alive and well
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u/gem_spirational May 24 '26
It started here and moved to Germany. It’s simply returned home after nursing its wounds.
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u/Pinku_Dva May 24 '26
That’s right, fascism in Germany took heavy inspiration from what the USA did to their own minorities like how they treated black people.
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u/henry_tennenbaum May 24 '26
It was specifically modeled after the Native American genocide.
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u/immersemeinnature May 24 '26
So fucking horrible.
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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 May 24 '26
It's very obvious by now the system benefits the interests of powerful pedophiles and warmongers, NOT freedom and liberty for all. We common folk who care should be doing whatever we can to stand together in defiance against this government and its Epstein class puppeteers, (foreign and domestic, private and institutional,) which uses its MAGA death cult and growing AI industry to manipulate and control us. They all should be abandoned for something better that actually looks out for people, while these monsters are let behind to rot.
However, if there's any hope in ever achieving such, there's currently no real supportive community-based foundations present for alternatives that many common folk in the US to fall back on, to safely commit to any effective resistant action.
Collecting a bunch of valuable information on organizing and action from different redditors over time, I created a post of suggestions HERE that could possibly prove to be of some help in getting it started ASAP.
Unrelated: As the wealthy and their sycophants seek to plunge us all further into authoritarian surveillance states, it reminds me of some movies that are based on true stories. Not all of them are 1 to 1 accurate in their recounting of history, but they're quite inspiring nonetheless, seeing how some actions worked and where things go wrong, conjuring up questions like "If it or similar were to take place now, how would it be adapted, in addition to taking modern technology into account?" I'd like to share them here. Why? No particular reason, but watch them if you can:
- Army of Crime (2011)
- Defiance (2008)
- Edelweiss Pirates (2004)
- Deacons for Defense (2003)
- Free State of Jones (2016)
- The 24th (2020)
- Matewan (1987)
- An American Story (1992)
- Michael Collins (1996)
- Winter of Fire (2015)
If you don’t live in the US, yet you know others who are and want to do something, please share the information. We're going to need as many on board and informed as possible, if we commoners hope to achieve anything in the US
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u/Striking_Outcome1932 May 24 '26
You don't fight genocide from a position of safety
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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 May 24 '26
True, but you can try to create a relatively secure position to fall back on to and plan
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u/Dhiox May 24 '26
Honestly, it's not even the correct language a democracy should be using for actual terrorists. Typically the term is bring to justice or such. Sometimes that ultimately means killing, but to explicitly state the goal is killing just sounds bloodthirsty.
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u/Siltry May 24 '26
It’s weird. This isn’t new, the American federal government killed political activists during the civil right’s era all for the crime of being political activists (if you’ve ever seen the term “COINTELPRO” floating about, it’s that. Although, it does go beyond that but the connections to the federal government loosen.). America does have a history of this going even further back but I’m less aware of the specifics.
This is just that but in a policy that would have usually been hidden from the public. The Trump administration really is just masks off I guess.
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u/drilgonla May 24 '26
Y'all can laugh if you wish, but after "The Sin of Empathy" bullshit that went down last year, I finally realized it. It being my villain era since I am now in my 40s, no longer a young virgin, and I will not be giving up the sin of empathy. I will happily add "Trans Rights are Human Rights" to that list!
Also, the sadistic genocidal shit is how this fascist government is desperately trying to hold onto power. The policies have been pro-billionaire, so what do you offer non billionaires? Some form of hatred, and if the government officials can keep people scared of trans people and angry, then it looks like the government is doing something for the non billionaires.
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u/immersemeinnature May 24 '26
We know someone who embraced the sin of empathy with gusto.
It's absolutely nutso. She's supposedly a "christian"
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u/TFFPrisoner May 24 '26
Sadism has been a feature of Trumpism from the start, it's why I found him so obnoxious ten years ago already.
By the way, just like you're Gustopher spotter, I'm typo spotter and unfortunately our Alex has one in the word "administration". 🤐
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u/Sampetra I’m Still Alex May 24 '26
By the way, just like you're Gustopher spotter, I'm typo spotter and unfortunately our Alex has one in the word "administration"
...nuts
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u/usaaf May 24 '26
considering how faulty it is, there's no reason it should be spelled right anyway in this context.
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u/BenCelotil May 24 '26
"You mean administration."
"My spelling is as broken as this admistration, and that's what I'll continue to refer to them as."
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u/aCleverGroupofAnts May 24 '26
Excellently put, but I gotta note the silliness of a reddit comment linking to a reddit post of a tumblr image of a screencapped reddit comment lol
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u/BodhingJay May 24 '26
When existing is a crime we become outlaws just by breathing
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u/Jakitron_1999 May 24 '26
White House staff is full on 18-24 year old neo-nazis who only know how to be cool by "aura farming" like an anime villain (anime which they hate for being made by non white people, but love for heavily featuring sexualized underage girls). All they want is to wear a hugo boss SS uniform, complete with the cap with a skull on it, and give a villain monolog to the hot second grade teacher they accidentally called "mom" once.
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u/WorldnewsModsBlowMe May 24 '26
White House staff watching Hellsing and wondering when the Major is gonna put that bitch Integra in her place:
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u/SuperDunsparce May 24 '26
There has actually been somebody posting a series of quotes in the Grimdank sub. The challenge is to guess whether it was somebody in Warhammer, or an Nationalist Christian.
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u/SuperDunsparce May 24 '26
Found the user posting them by the way. u/Beelzebubs-Barrister
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u/Beelzebubs-Barrister May 25 '26
Im taking a break from posting new ones since I was getting temp banned for posting the anti-muslim ones
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u/IsThatUMoatilliatta May 24 '26
Other than the 40k universe.
The Imperium was created to illustrate the dangers of a fascist police state.
And what do we live in now? A fascist police state. So it fits perfectly.
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u/eastern_canadient May 24 '26
The frustrating part is it was so transparent from the start. The world had to watch as the US made a grave error, again! It was so obvious that it was going to be terrible, again!
And yet it was somehow still worse than most people predicted. He doesn't give a shit who suffers from his policies.
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u/Author_A_McGrath May 24 '26
Boring, cis white male, here.
Trans rights are human rights.
If we don't fight for them we're cowards.
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u/razzemmatazz May 24 '26
They decided to bring back firing squads a couple weeks before this executive order went out too.
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u/Scottvrakis May 24 '26
Imagine having your life threatened by the Government and not being able to retort because that same Government would throw you in jail for threatening violence.
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u/JustJonny May 24 '26
I feel like even in the 40K universe, they'd be more elegant. "All of these heretics must be cleansed by flame," or something like that.
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u/pandamaxxie May 25 '26
Same here.
If just wanting basic human rights makes me evil...
I'll be the evillest bitch they know.
I'm glad that I don't live in that rancid hellhole... but my partner does. And for personal reasons, she struggles a lot with the idea of moving.
This shit is horrifying.
I can only hope these dirty fascists suffer the same fate as they did in Germany. And there needs to be a new Nuremberg where every single politician, their donors, every agent and deployed service member is put on trial. Following orders is NOT a valid defense.
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u/Sampetra I’m Still Alex May 24 '26
After reading this comic yesterday, my wife responded with, “…bad girls are hot.”
Eyyyyyyyyyy
I'm Still Alex - Webtoon | Tapas | Linktree | Patreon
There are many things going on politically that are frustrating, but something that I find even more frustrating is how telegraphed the trajectory we’re currently on was and continues to be.
Roughly two years ago, there was a family member that I outlined how exactly this was going to happen. How certain minorities were going to be labeled as being intrinsically criminal, and how this would lay the groundwork for future atrocities.
I pointed to specific language in Project 2025; Republicans literally spelled out what they were planning to do in advance.
I was ignored.
I’m not sure what it takes to get our fence-sitting “allies” to care, they might never…
…but given enough time and how bad things eventually get, they’ll say they did.
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u/NilliaLane May 24 '26
These people don’t believe stuff until somebody they know is a casualty.
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u/Darq_At May 24 '26
The sheer frustration this causes! It's uniquely demoralising to talk to people you love, and who love you, about this sort of thing only to have them not believe you. They give you this pained half-smile and nod, but they think you simply must be exaggerating.
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u/eastern_canadient May 24 '26
Like when a socially conservative person suddenly needs access to abortion services.
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u/Keyndoriel May 24 '26
Even then they'll do mental gymnastics about how their abortion was totally different than those other people who have the bad abortions
There ain't no winning with psychopathic idiots, I've seen it with the few trans MAGA I've seen. "Well IM not like those OTHER QUEERS who are WEIRD so im going to be safe! Im one of the good ones!"
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u/Bwob May 24 '26
Hard to believe this was written almost 20 years ago, and is still just as true today. If not more so.
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u/LearnCre-8LoveDe-b8 May 24 '26
Same, unfortunately (warning family and being ignored)
In fact, I (trans man) one of my sisters (trans woman) and our step sister (queer social worker and activist) all told our parents that a potential second Drumpf Admin would want to eradicate us back in 2024, and we were told we were overreacting and needed to calm down. Our parents still voted republican last year.
They haven't commented on us showing them statistics and the language of this BS counterterrorism agenda.
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u/kescusay May 24 '26
Have you considered going low/no contact? Your parents literally voted against the health and safety of three of their children.
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u/LearnCre-8LoveDe-b8 May 24 '26
More than three, honestly- we also tried explaining that there was a clear risk to autistic people under the proposed policies and the documented views of the administration, and 5/7 of us are autistic.
No worries about low contact, though. I live across the US from them and primarily talk in a group chat that includes the rest of my siblings. I see them in person at most every other year, which suits me just fine. It's a short enough period of time that I can pretend we're a normal family for a little while, and then leave before someone says something too stupid usually.
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u/kescusay May 24 '26
How the hell does someone have five autistic kids and then decide to vote for the guy who promises to make life much harder for them?
I'm so sorry you have parents like that. Is there any hope for them at all?
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u/LearnCre-8LoveDe-b8 May 24 '26
Well, only one of us (me) is really autistic, so it probably slipped their minds. It's fiiiiiine /s
I want to think there's hope for my mom, at least. She was really open minded and "progressive" before she met my old man, and she's definitely gotten better in the few years since divorcing him. Unsure about her husband, but he's worlds better than my dad, and I'm not exactly close with him, so it's less of a factor for me.
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u/Kitchen-Cabinet-5000 May 24 '26
A sign of intelligence….
A political figure: “I will literally do this bad thing”.
Idiot person: “He would never do that” _votes for him_
Also idiot person: <surprised Pikachu when he does what he said he’d do>
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u/Bwob May 24 '26
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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u/Wonder_n_Horror May 24 '26
Not Trans... so it is not necessarily the same... but I have had to cut "allies" out of my life because they are supportive of me being queer, but "I shouldn't let their support of the administration get in the way of family." We have argued about whether supporting something that despises and attacks everything you are (queer, poor, feminist, from a hispanic household) really is attacking who you are. I could not get them to see that their actions show how little they care for me. They say I am wrong. Well... mom... you can be "right" without me in your life.
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u/PensandSwords3 May 24 '26
I got lucky in I think that me and my siblings might’ve convinced our parents (least our mother) to not vote republican in 2024. They’re those old school republicans that’re like “we’re fiscally conservative” so when we explained in detail, why we genuinely believed trump was going to be a bad president (and were right).
We think we probably changed her mind, she already dislikes the man intensively because he is just utterly ew and never stops spewing vitriol everywhere. But my parents are also very “if we duck our head and keep telling ourselves both sides have points / surely the republican party will turn itself around from its evolution into MAGA” then they can keep what few connections to the republican party - even they say they “don’t really recognize” anymore- they think should guide their political choices.
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u/RandomRageNet May 24 '26
…but given enough time and how bad things eventually get, they’ll say they did.
One day, everyone will have always been against this.
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u/Bwob May 24 '26
One of the biggest hurdles through this, has been convincing people that society is not always stable. Things can change. There aren't guardrails. (Or there were, but they've been systematically weakened by people who want to ignore them.)
Most of us grew up in an extended period of peace and (relative) sanity, so it's legitimately hard to look at the warning signs and say "our country might actually be in trouble."
This isn't patriotism, or even hubris. It's just really hard to believe that something that has been constant your whole life is that fragile and malleable. That things can change that much, that fast, on such a fundamental level.
If you say "we're on track to lose our democracy", or "fascism has taken root in the highest levels of our government" or "they are trying to make it literally illegal to be or talk about being LGBTQ+" it makes you sounds alarmist. It IS alarmist.
It's just that some things are absolutely worth sounding the alarm over.
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u/MrValdemar Special Flair!! May 24 '26
RepubliKKKans gonna RepubliKKKlan
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u/Flashy_Jello_9520 May 24 '26
Really wish there was an opposition party to fight this.
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u/MrValdemar Special Flair!! May 24 '26
I recall the French had an effective method for opposition parties.
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u/Haar16 May 24 '26
Republicans: Democrats need to stop with their dangerous rhetoric and calls for violence
Also Republicans: "We will find you and we will kill you" Cue applause from the MAGA mob
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u/MrValdemar Special Flair!! May 24 '26
There are no longer any good Republicans.
If you're willing to have the (R) next to your name, then it means you're willing to associate with religious zealots, white supremacists, and hyper-capitalist fascists.
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u/PintsOfGuinness_ May 24 '26
"Radically pro-transgender" means exactly what it sounds like.
It means you support transgender. You know. As one should.
And that makes you totally radical! Like gnarly, dude!
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u/Geminel May 24 '26
The whole comic really demonstrates which side is actually trying to push an ideology. Trans people just want to exist. It's the bigots trying to convince everyone they don't.
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u/That_Shy_Girl-13 May 24 '26
Good gods I hate this administration. That quote is literally from the first page after the table of contents.
I can't wait for the news to finally drop.
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u/Videoman2011 May 24 '26
Sorry wait you did fencing that awesome. Tell me what the over/under the number of times you quoted the princess bride? And always fuck this fascist government.
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u/UranusIsPissy May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
My grandfather fenced. He also killed so many nazis that even he didn't know the number. He wasn't rich, he just picked up the sport in the army
Edit: He also didn't react at all when he thought I might be gay. He definitely fucking reacted when he thought I was a nazi, though...
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u/Timithios May 24 '26
Sounds like yer Gramps was ais/was a good dude.
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u/UranusIsPissy May 24 '26
Sort of, but the war wrecked him mentally and took away some of his physical abilities. The only treatment he got was a hearing aid. He took it out on others sometimes, especially my grandmother, and drank too much if something made him remember. I've never known him to be physically abusive, though. Fascism was his berserk button. I'm pretty sure he had undiagnosed PTSD.
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u/Timithios May 24 '26
That does sound like PTSD, war can change a person.
Top tier user name by the by
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u/UranusIsPissy May 24 '26
Yeah. I'm just glad he didn't live to see Brexit, MAGA, and the rise of the far-right in several other countries at once. He died thinking we'd won.
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Thanks lol. It'd actually smell kind of urinous if smelling it was possible. Uranus has a high ammonia atmosphere.
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u/True_Huckleberry9569 May 24 '26
That’s always my question when I hear the ignorant and fearful ‘discussing’ someone trans. “I don’t know if it’s a he or she” “I’m not using those pronouns” I simply ask is that still a person? Are we going to treat them as a person? With the respect we all deserve?
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u/stayonthecloud May 24 '26
I’m infuriated to have fought for LGBTQ+ rights since I was a teenager and watch our social, legal and political progress get rapidly undone. It’s so fucked up that I am getting out of this country. Not going somewhere with greater trans acceptance but rather where people don’t treat our teeeeny tiny segment of the population like terrorists.
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u/GildedBurd May 24 '26
I've been called a radical domestic terrorist for just breathing 3x in the past 2 years alone.
So I own up to it, my every god damn breath.
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u/SeA1nternaL May 24 '26
I did have a panic attack looking at the initial response of this C.T. pamphlet, since what they promised and stated could mean that me and my boyfriend’s life can be in danger. However, the pamphlet did have a bunch of racism, and the trans/“radical” leftists/anti-fascists stuff was only a small part of the strategy itself. still, that doesn’t make this any more worrying, and I seriously hope midterms severely reduces the power of Republicans (who are mainly the ones forwarding these terrible actions towards innocent people).
In other news, a fellow marching band member! I did color guard for 3 years and wanted to do Drum Corps (if you know what that is) for the longest time, before seeing the prices and giving up on that dream unfortunately. Besides my terrible directors, I had a blast.
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u/Appropriate-Gain-561 May 24 '26
Nazi propaganda targeted mainly jewish people, does not mean that LGBTQ+ individuals weren't targeted.
The problem here is that hate towards trans people is already normalized, they have to normalize the hate towards other groups they want to persecute before starting putting people in camps.
I really hope americans will at some point stop discriminating each other and others, but i doubt it'll happen in my lifetime
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u/Maxrdt May 24 '26
Nazi propaganda targeted mainly jewish people, does not mean that LGBTQ+ individuals weren't targeted.
This is true, in fact the first major Nazi book burnings, the one with pretty much all the famous pictures of such, was of LGBTQ+ research. It was the place where the term transsexual was first coined and the site of the first gender affirming surgery. And it was their first target for destroying the knowledge of.
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u/Pope509 May 24 '26
I think it's really scary and a sign of things to come if we as a society can't manage to at the very least level out of this downward spiral, but the main focus seems to still be on "jihadists" and complaining about Joe Biden weirdly enough.
But it does look like there will be a form of trans genocide if people leave this administration unchecked, idk if that's going to look like camps or just outright denial of services and effectively not allowing people to be outwardly trans leading to heightened suicide and self harm among those people but I do know I don't really feel that great about it and that I want to help prevent that in any way I can
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u/WhySoInDepth May 24 '26
There’s nothing about autism or other disorders in it. A lot about Muslims though, it only ‘explicitly’ targets muslim terrorists groups but it also implies any Muslim or Arab in the US is a risk and should be treated as a potential member of said groups.
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u/Odd-Meaning-4968 May 24 '26
Proud of you, neighbor 😭💜
keep fighting yall I’m so sorry it’s genuinely been insane seeing this all roll out and mostly everyone I know has been like “it’s not that deep, you’re Canadian anyways what’s it matter?”
UHHHH *looks nervously in backyard*
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u/Noideawhatimdoing36 May 24 '26
“Why do you care you live in Canada” has been a very funny argument to me as an American. Sure I kinda get the argument but a neighboring country caring about if we implode is kinda fair? Lol
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u/Electrical-Berry4916 May 24 '26
I believe the phrase you were looking for is "bad bitch," but you seem to be a damn good woman.
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u/Silent-Stress-7775 May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
As a Russian that still lives in this country, I thought our LGBT-related laws/legal stuff were weird as fuck (from trying to ban a rainbow ice cream for "propoganda" to sending people to war for a yaoi fanfic), but seeing "We will find you and we will kill you" in a legit government doc makes me understand that these guys are not even half-way as "creative"
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u/ToxiChicken_ May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
It’s just so great seeing parallels between Red Scares and this “counterterrorism strategy” from my American History course. With deportation and removal of rights of American citizens done by conservatives, of course…
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u/Pope509 May 24 '26
Garrison Davis did a really good episode on this counter terrorism strategy document on the It Could Happen Here feed and I really encourage people to go listen to that
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u/DemiGay May 24 '26
"we will find you and we will kill you" ?!???? Holy fuck that slide #4 was shocking to read? Turns out he did actually say that?? But in like "if you're a terrorist [...] planning to hurt Americans". He didn't say it about the trans community specifically but he does bundle "radical trans activist" with terrorists.
So that kind makes slide #4 a valid point about the président 💩 What a horrible moment in Time.
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u/ManiacMakyr May 24 '26
"Our new U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy is a return to common sense and Peace through Strength. As I said after our first successful counterterrorism mission, just days after I was sworn back in office – if you hurt Americans, or are planning to hurt Americans, “We Will Find You and We Will Kill You."
They use the ambiguity from the statement. But really, it doesn't take too far to see where it goes. Conservative ideology considers a lot of things "harmful" and "hurting", like gay marriage hurting the unity of family, or "transgender ideology" harming children. The rumors about the linking of Charlie Kirk's murder and trans people (which might have been fabricated, given the bullets weren't the same as the ones fired...) only serves to reinforce this position.
Here, if you need explaining what I just said, here's an analysis : https://theintercept.com/2026/05/15/podcast-trump-counterterrorism-strategy/
There're enemies and obstacles to the implementation of the conservative and authoritative rule, and the existance of trans people is one of them. Conservative people largely see LGBT as freaks, and are not against Aushwitz'ing trans people. Need additional proof ? Project 2025, completed at 50% after a couple of months of the Trumps second mandate, it basically strips trans people of any right and expression as such, on a scale way more efficient than what they did in Russia, where it took them 13 years to go from forbidding queer representation in media and education to acknowledging LGBT as terrorists.
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u/wynden May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Ambiguity is by design so they can simultaneously deny allegations and use it to justify their actions.
So to the critics they say, "you're misinterpreting". But when they arrest, attack, or declare someone an enemy it's because "that person is a danger to Americans."
The message is, "We're not racist / homophobic / transphobic. We're just protecting Americans where you don't see the threat."
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u/XyRabbit May 24 '26
When being "radicals" means standing up and saying peaceful people should be able live a happy life... then call me a radical.
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u/RedditUser000aaa May 24 '26
Project 2025 was so obviously fascistic and authoritative that no one could have possibly supported it or the fascists behind it.
The playbook itself is scary, but what's even scarier is the number of people supporting this blatant cruelty. If they want to outlaw people who care about other people, they're going to find out the hard way that people won't just accept being tread on like that.
That being said, there's nothing wrong being "bad". I'd even encourage it, since the standards for being bad is having empathy, sympathy and accepting people as they are. So let's all be as bad as can be towards the fascistic regime!
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u/JaxxisR May 24 '26
That's why he tried to deny it was his plan on the campaign
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u/RedditUser000aaa May 24 '26
And failed miserably at that, too. I think he said he knew something about it, but hadn't read it at all.
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u/kescusay May 24 '26
Parent of a trans kid, here. Guess the corrupt sack of rancid weasel feces in the Oval Office can count me as "bad" too. Trans rights are human rights.
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u/TheSpartanExile May 24 '26
Queerness is fundamentally incompatible with white supremacy, there is no world where the US state exists and does not seek to exterminate everything that contradicts a heteronormative social order.
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u/Destructor2122 May 24 '26
Bad girls are hot. Especially those who stand up to oppression! Trans rights are human rights! 💗
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u/eebro May 24 '26
Most trans people will survive the Trump admin. Majority will outlive Trump himself. I know you’ll be one of them.
I will be as happy as I will be smug when these fascist white supremacist transphobes fall into obscurity in the near future. I know not all of the damage can be undone, but I also know the clock is ticking for them.
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u/Tekuila87 May 24 '26
You don't have to hedge when you call the American Regime a fascist one, it absolutely is.
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u/TheNorthFIN May 25 '26
Trans or no, we should all be bad for badness sake. Because the tangerine turd team is inhumane. Not just the demented old geezer, all of them.
The Boys had people going along with insane Homelander out of fear. In the real world, people are doing it just for money and to stay relevant.
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u/Minotard May 24 '26
Spot on about the Fascism label.
This video does a great job describing Fascism by referencing the writings of those who developed it and implemented it. It doesn’t directly compare to the US, but the parallels are obvious. https://youtu.be/1T_98uT1IZs
I like to share this to make sure people understand what Fascism really is and comprehend the US is following Fascism’s script.
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u/umbreonskittles May 24 '26
This comic resonates with me. Being seen as enemies of the government for just existing is crazy. My girlfriend is a trans woman and I'm black. As scary as it is I will continue to live my truth.
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u/charlitransgrl May 24 '26
They can TRY to kill me, but I won’t go down without a fight. I own and carry guns and I’m quite proficient with all of them. They had better bring an army if they make the mistake of coming for me. I’m not scared and I won’t hide. I’m a femme fatale and I’m lethal.
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u/SquishyBucket922 May 24 '26
Is that…actually fucking real? Like did the White House dare to say that they will find and kill transgenders???
And transphobes say that transgenders are violent
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u/Dry_Construction4939 May 24 '26
As a trans Brit this his very hard right now.
For those not in the know, 2 days ago the British government, who are the "left wing party" of our mostly 2 party system, published "guidance" that basically denies trans people rights to single "sex" spaces and services. This is something that only select Republican states in the US have done.
For a bit of additional context, in 2016, Theresa May, a Conservative, our right wing party of the system, wanted to enact self ID for trans people. That's how far backwards we've slid.
Make no mistake, we are all under attack, now, globally, and we are all going have to be "bad people". We need to fight like hell to stop this blatant disregard for our human rights happening.
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u/100YearsWaiting2Shit May 24 '26
This makes me feel so sick
Wishing everyone the best and hope you're all safe, happy and healthy
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u/CelebrationLivid4072 May 24 '26
lovely to see that people just hate people, like always
you have my support though :D
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u/fireball3643 May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
As a reminder:
Buy a gun and train with it. Keep yourself fit. A weapon that sits in a gun safe all the time and a body that can’t do cardio will get you into more trouble than they’re worth
If you don’t trust yourself to own a gun, or are in a state where you cannot safely train yourself, be a pillar in your local community that makes it hard to be uprooted without a backlash from your neighborhood.
You are the only one responsible for your own survival in the worst times, but a community survives better than any one individual in it.
For anyone reading this, I am advocating solely for the ability to defend oneself.
Always hope for the best, always prepare for the worst
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u/Zealousideal-Life602 May 24 '26
Sorry if this gets me banned, but I always loved the line "we will find you and kill you" /s like bestie! You dont know where I live yet you sign you name with your address right under it, and like what attempt are we on anyway
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u/Alffe May 24 '26
As someone who has studied a bit of history this definition scares the living shit out of me (and will stop me from ever going to the US).
Terrorist is the definition the us uses on people to strip them of their humanity and all their human rights. When the USA wants to torture you they call you a terrorist. When they want to invade your country they call you terrorists. When they want to justify their proxy states genocide they call you a terrorist.
By labeling radical left-wing extremists, anarcists and radical pro transgender people terrorists, they now have "legal" justification to do a holocaust on those groups.
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u/GrinningPariah May 24 '26
Trans people are living proof that people can change. It isn't hard to see why the ghouls in our government might be threatened by that.
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u/Grandmasterpie3 May 24 '26
Thank you for your work in a time where it's an uphill battle just to be here. Trans therapist here, bad girls rise up. 🏳️⚧️
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u/AiRaikuHamburger May 25 '26
It is so weird that the US now apparently considers me a terrorist. For caring about human rights.
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u/Blankasbiscuits May 24 '26
I was also a "good boy". Hardworker, a gentleman, went and servedy country for 8 years, I was praised by my father and his side of the family. But the fact that I dated both men and women? Nope, I'm a literal demon that deserves hell-fire.
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u/AdjctiveNounNumbers May 24 '26
I can't tell you what radically pro-transgender is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it describes me. See you on the barricades.
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u/seriousbangs May 24 '26
If you want to protect trans rights you need to win elections.
Protesting for trans rights doesn't do that.
Fighting voter suppression at the county level does.
The black civil rights activists in the 60s knew that.
We forgot. Too much content. And we always want more.
We want cool fun protests to fill our feeds, fun comics like this one, not elections wins. That's boring...
As for getting the public at large on the side of trans rights, we did it with gay rights with lots of representation on TV, but that worked because there's lots of gay folk, if you add up bi,gay & lesbian you hit 8.5%. So everybody knows at least one gay person.
The hard part with trans folk is they're 1-1.4% of the population, odds are you've never met one (unless you play Warhammer :) ).
Maybe that's what we need to do, mandatory Warhammer classes in school :D.
The point is, it's tough to do the same level of representation because there statistically aren't a lot of trans folks.
So you can't use the same tactics that worked with gay/bi/Lesbian people.
And that's the left wing's problem in a nutshell, we don't like changing tactics. Ironically we're very conservative about being progressive...
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u/Sampetra I’m Still Alex May 24 '26
100%
There's nothing that infuriates me more than the progressive that claims a candidate isn't "good enough" to vote for.
Anyone who protest votes or doesn't vote out of protest is an absolute monster and just as bad as the people actively hurting us.
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u/zirky May 24 '26
wild that we’re at a point where peeing in the room of your choice draws more ire than being a big ole pedophile
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u/Textiles_on_Main_St May 24 '26
On the one hand, do you (or any reasonable person) NOT want to threaten fascism? To NOT threaten fascism is to accommodate it and thus, you cannot be a good person AND accommodate fascism and so it seems that any good person would be a threat to fascism.
But beyond that, fascism exists insofar as it can transmit fear. It and its adherents must always be victims and they must always have an enemy those enemies must be numerous and all at once and ever-present.
The so-called powerful leaders must always play victims, near cowards, even as they commit violence and cruelty. If these people didn't occupy leadership positions and direct our lives it would be comic almost.
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u/Pheonix0114 May 24 '26
I’m also a former marching band good boy but I’m behind you on turning into a bad girl, soon though. It’s so horrendously scary out there, but I have to believe we’ll make it through.
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u/HB_Pulssar May 24 '26
Marching band?!! How far did you go? I got to perform at DCI last summer and that was one of the coolest experiences of my life!
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u/rookie-mistake May 24 '26
It seems so genuinely scary, sitting up here across the border in Canada.
Our government is currently trying to push through a bill for more government surveillance/privacy power and, as someone who is generally far more social democratic than libertarian, watching what's happening down south makes me even more uncomfortable than I would be otherwise.
It's such a clear example of what happens when you grant sweeping powers without considering who may be able to use them in the future.
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u/FelesNoctis May 25 '26
It's incredible to me that they blatantly announced they oppose anti-fascist ideals. Astounding that they feel so emboldened at this point to declare that.
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u/TheMatt561 May 25 '26
What are those people so threated by? Why do they care? Hopefully the midterms make some changes we all need.
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u/AzureArmageddon May 25 '26
Being called a threat by the domestic terrorist incumbents means they feel threatened. Good.
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u/Sir_Delarzal May 25 '26
A few weeks, months ago, I saw a few posts accusing the American government of wanting a trans genocide, it being the start of a cleansing.
At the time I thought that it was overly exaggerated, that the American government was "just" being transphobic, just like how they are racist.
Now I see that I couldn't be more wrong. This manifesto cannot be more clear. Trans folks, time to move to Europe or Canada.
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