That’s what I don’t understand about many U.S. lefts. I do understand that the Democrats ain’t perfect and that they have some weird positions. But your elective system (which is kind of screwed from the start anyway) only has two possible outcomes, dems or reps. And the two of them are not equally bad, so why take away votes from the by far not that bad option, strengthening the really bad option?

I’very been to a psychosomatic rehab for the last weeks and the actually had restrooms marked with the standard “male/female” stick figures but each restroom also had a stick figure on it’s sign being half “male” and half “female”.

Props were given.

Even from a German POV this is funny because the former Secretary of Health, Jens Spahn, is attending this convention and he’s openly gay (don’t ask me how gays can cope with Republican policies, but Spahn even is connected to DeSantis).

Yes and no. Obviously, trans and drag are two different things, but they are hated for the same reason: transgressing gender normativity and especially showing it’s OK for AMAB persons to have and display characteristics traditionally assigned to femininity.

So yes, equating trans with drag is wrong for all reasons, but this doesn’t make this cartoon transphobic, only realistic.

And especially that research about transgender was among the first books to be burnt.

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That’s just wrong. The Rainbow Flag represents LGBT Pride and does not include BIPOC.

I don’t know why you don’t like the progress flag, but it’s not racist and it’s not transphobic and it’s not segregating. It highlights the diversity of human rights movements and points out that all human rights movements have the same goal and should work together.

I feel more includet in the Progress Flag than the standard Rainbow. That’s just me, but why should that be less valid?

The trans community, or any other community of marginalized people for that matter, is not a threat to any one person but to conformity and the status quo.

Throughout history, very similar people held the most power and wealth, and power and wealth were passed on not by means of merit but through connections.
But this power was always fragile and dependent on others, on servants, the lower casts and classes. Every now and then though, the lower classes unite, revolt and force the ones in charge to make concessions or straight up replace them.

The rich and powerful obviously want to limit these occasions and the most effective way to do so is to make the lower classes believe that they are not the enemy and someone else is to blame for the misery, someone else wants to take the few breadcrumbs the lower classes have, someone else is the villain. As longs the lower classes have another enemy to fight, they’ll conform to the class system bestowed upon them by those who hold power, serve the system, consume the goods sold by the rich.

But you cannot vilify just anyone. If you make the majority and enemy, they’ll resent and ultimately revolt. You have to pick those who are few and have limited capacity to fight back. Refugees, Sinti and Roma, Jews, the LGBTQ+ community.

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nor what the rest of the world did to us once World War 2 ended.

There’s a reason jews and dissidents are the only holocaust victims publicly talked about. I am german, went to school in Germany (history lessons about the Third Reich, Holocaust and WW2 are super extensive here and take up basically 3-4 school years), yet we only ever talked about jews and dissidents of the nazis. No Sinti and Roma, no queers, no nobody else was ever talked about during these lessons.

I think they were quite calm. Tiktok is cancer. And I’m not talking about the content.