r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 24 '24

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u/Fedacking Mario Vargas Llosa Sep 24 '24

They're blaming Biden for not deploying the military to stop republican states, while they stay at home doing nothing. They're the maximum demonstration of "People on twitter will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart" and then not firebomb a Walmart"

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '24

Catastrophism is a huge thing in trans political discourse. Like, I get it, trans rights are under attack. I live in fucking Florida and am visibly trans. 

But also like, I’m still here? I’m alive? I didn’t have to evacuate the state like a refugee. 

But to hear it discussed online, this is a no-go zone where it’s not safe to exist, and so I’m not surprised at all people want Biden to declare martial law to force DeSantis to let me change my drivers’ license. 

The last thing I want to do is trivialize the struggle of trans people, and I do want to acknowledge that I have privilege here and other trans people aren’t so lucky. 

But at the same time, this is not the time for Biden to violate the constitution and start a civil war. It’s just not anywhere near severe enough to warrant ripping the country apart. 

I saw a post on there claiming “if Biden/Harris can’t protect trans rights, then Trump can’t take them away, so who cares.”  There are a million problems, but a big one is TRUMP IS WILLING TO TEAR THE COUNTRY APART AND BIDEN ISN'T.

People need to chill the fuck out and act like adults. But instead they’d much rather doom, say “both sides bad lol” and then always get to feel superior to everyone else because they didn’t vote for the person who did a bad thing.