The choice is being championed by the Heritage Foundation, which is behind Project 2025.
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    921·
    4 days ago

    “Nihilistic Violent Extremism” as “criminal conduct… in furtherance of political, social, or religious goals that derive primarily from a hatred of society at large and a desire to bring about its collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos.”

    Are… Are these people capable of not projecting who they are onto everyone else?? Projection is in literally everything they do and say.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    641·
    4 days ago

    I mean… I guess that’s a way to encourage trans people and their allies to become nihilistic violent extremists…?

    What a time to be alive 🫠

    • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      20·
      4 days ago

      Creating terrorists by rooting out terrorists is an old strategy but this does seem to be novel in sheer stupidity.

  • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.cc
    36·
    3 days ago

    Holy shit. If they really go through with this, it could be the pretence they need to segregate or arrest trans people. This is like the first of the Nazi laws discriminating against Jews. Five alarm fire moment.

    • moubliezpas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      I agree with the principle (and the general vibe) but I think an awful lot of awful people are already looking for an excuse to claim that trans people are just regular people who spontaneously claim to be trans to make a political point. I don’t think it would help to have concrete evidence of Bob MacMan, who looks and dresses like a man and has been living exclusively as a man and showed clear desire to use men’s facilities and men’s prisons when arrested, has claimed to be a trans woman, or vice versa.

      For it to not be counter productive, you would have to commit to proving that trans people are very much not just ‘one gender pretending to be the other’, and that would be difficult.

      What might be more effective (and honestly, kinda fun) would be like, 8 people all insisting on being arrested at once, or an entire class, or the whole household including ‘granddad’ Dorothy. With everyone committed to doing the conically low/ high voices and playing up the silliest exaggerated charecature (I thought autocorrect was gonna have my back with that word but hey ho) of the opposite gender. You’d get to have some fun, a much lower risk of being placed alone into an opposite gender space, and could really demonstrate the ‘no, this is what it looks like when people just pretend to be the opposite gender’ difference between claiming trans as an act of political defiance - proving their point- and just happening to be a trans person trying to get on with their lives.

      Disclaimer - I am not the Joke Police and do not speak for trans people, so pinch of salt required. Also I haven’t seen Spartacus, but I’ve seen the Life of Brain ‘Im the Messiah and so is my wife’ scene, so I feel like I’ve pretty much watched the important bits of Spartacus

    • JonsJava@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      182·
      4 days ago

      This comment was reported for encouraging violence.

      What I think the OP meant was

      If they are planning violence on us, we need to be ready to defend and return the same energy back on them

      Leaving up.

      (the person who reported this comment had the best of intentions, and even apologized if they were wrong – Thanks for that!)

  • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
    26·
    3 days ago

    I have never met a trans person I was afraid of. Of course, I don’t feel the need to carry an assault rifle to buy donuts, either.

    It must be incredibly stressful to be terrified of everything all the time.

      • Oxysis/Oxy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        19·
        3 days ago

        I don’t want to have to be strong every single second of my life just to be me. It’s also pretty clear that not everyone loves trans folk judging by how transphobia is increasing worldwide

        • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          I’d wager a lot of those who hate transfolk are a lot less sure of their own gender identity and sexuality and the existence of transfolks scares them because it makes them face that fact.

          It’s almost always projection of their own insecurities. You’re right, you shouldn’t have to be strong all the time in the face of all these weak willed assholes.

    • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      <3. I love you all the more for your dedicated introspection and understanding.

      Things may have been easier on the gender front were you cis, but that just means that other things would fill that void - especially considering your empathy in these times of global strife.