• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      This. America used to give so many fewer rights to all.

      Yes, there are SERIOUS problems in America that are systemic, but they are fixable. We just need to keep going.

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      I don’t think you understand.

      Most of those 200 years aligns with Trump’s agenda

      He’s not the deviation. Historically speaking, Trump is the norm.

      That doesn’t mean I’m giving up, but I’m not going to fool myself about the odds of success either.

      • Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.ee
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        I think people are uncomfortable with how all the rights of modern America were forced from the hands of privileged white society. “Equality” is a threat from the perspective of the entitled.

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        A ton of gender-affirming healthcare is illegal in most of the USA, the bathroom laws are a patchwork of un-navigable bullshit, the process for changing your legal name doesn’t really work, I could go on but I suspect you aren’t asking in good faith.

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          I’m in California where there’s gender everything, gender neutral bathrooms, freedom for illegals, and you can pretty commit petty theft with no repercussions… my point is, this country is made up of individual states, that’s why each state has their own voting systems to elect politicians, pass laws, enforce laws…etc… just because you can’t get gender-affirmation surgery, or take a piss with women as a trans in Alabama, doesn’t mean the entire country is like this.

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        Well, I just saw a news article today about how Trump was immediately going to kick every trans person out of the military. Also been seeing articles for years now about Republicans trying to ban sexual realignment surgery even for adults. So what more proof do we need that there’s a problem?