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[US] Texas AG Threatens Seattle Hospital With Jail Unless It Provides Trans Patient Data
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But the Republicans are the ones who put in the time and effort while the left is smoking doobies, playing their bongos, and masturbating.
#¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It takes more than having a majority.
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edit: The comment above this is literally hinting at violence.
Organizing around issues and engaging in direct action as well as political action is a good first step before we start plotting how to "disappear" people and wage war.
Yeah, it's just billionaire funding, not gumption.
Left is king of grassroots movements that go nowhere because they can't get funded while the right has daddy koch and murdock making it rain all the way down to altright and neonazi youtubers.
But call me a hippie conspiracy theorist and move on with your day, because you're obviously not too bright.
Ah the ad hominem attack, the bread and butter of people who have a half-formed argument. The signal of a weak argument dressed in forceful garb.
Ah the fallacy fallacy, the bread and butter of people who are incapable of making any argument to support their beliefs, leading one to believe they can't logically explain their position because they didn't logically arrive at it.
Calling out the ad hominem and dismissing it is all well and good, but they had other actual arguments in their post as well. Using the ad hominem at the end as an excuse to run away, claim victory, and commit some ad hominem of your own is just pathetic. If you're going to call out fallacies I expect you to be better than that.
You expect me to be better than that?
All you did up above was exactly what you accused me of doing. I pointed out a fallacy (what were the other arguments exactly? Koch/Nazi? Yeah I didn't mention them because the fallacy was the strongest part of their comment) and you created a false situation (that I "ran away" from something or other) and called that an ad hominem. Objectively incorrect.
Maybe a primer on Aristotelian logic might help you out... Unless of course you'd rather continue to dribble urine down your pant leg and present it proudly as a comment worth reading.
All you had was a long winded ad hominem.
If you had any actual points I missed please point them out.
If you're going to spend 2 days coming up with a response you're going to have to do better than that. You've once again provided nothing of value to the discussion, you've just flailed around trying to insult me and even failed at that.
This. I live in a "liberal" place and people look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them what the GOP is up to in the South. Sometimes they even laugh. Libs think we're as ridiculous and safe to disregard as the MAGAs do. A genocide is coming and libs have their heads in the sand about it. Voting will not save us.
As a straight, white man, I don't sweat it personally. I'll be the last one thrown into a camp.
But the people who are more at risk need to get practical with their planning. Community organizing is a great place to start. And I'm not taking violence off the table if it's in self-defense. But fantasizing online about taking up arms against the christo-fascists while skipping the planning stage and training is just going to get a lot of femboys raped and killed.
If a group of queer folks organized in my home state, that would help the GOP make their lists. If we got violent in self defense, they would kill and jail us. I used to be more of an activist, but it’s fucking impossible to get a job without scrubbing every trace of your transition from the internet.
Then scrub your fucking transition. I've done a decent job of scrambling my online identity so that it appears more like noise than signal. I get junkmail addressed to burner jokenames. And I'm a straight, white male. I just like my privacy.
Nothing is going to be handed to you. Keep a low profile and organize among people you trust. This isn't a fucking game. They want to kill you (probably rape you first), and you need to avoid that.
Do you do any community organizing yourself or do you just lecture queer folks on how to do it on the internet? I know “nothing is going to be handed to” me, I’m a trans person in a state where I don’t legally exist.
Currently, I bankroll and organize a group of ESL teachers to teach English and the basics of the USCIS citizenship test to immigrants. Is that community organizing?
I've done other work around labor and anti-war over the years.
Fetish stuff isn't my bag, but I know a bunch of repressed Republican guys who can't wait to get their big, meaty paws on a few femboys.
What a disgusting hateful piece of shit you are
And yet, I'm encouraging people to organize for self-defense.
#🤔
Sometimes strangers have your best interests in mind more than you do.
The rape and femboy fixation is fucking weird bro. And trans people aren’t femboys….