Proposed legislation behind the impending US government shutdown contains provisions that would ban federal funding for transgender adults, as well as youngsters.

  • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
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    12 minutes ago

    IDK how dumb this idea is, but what if Trump/Republicans that align with him are trying to cause a shutdown to take advantage of the chaos somehow and blame it on the Democrats, and part of the reason for sending the military to Portland/LA was to anger the Democrats enough to not fold?

  • Johnny101@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Do it you fucking orange, do it.

    But don’t be surprised when half your population moves to a better country.

    • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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      52 minutes ago

      getting rid of half the population is the goal. they’d prefer we emigrate (which is not nearly as easy as you seem to be assume) but killing us is also an acceptable means, as has been demonstrated.

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      I honestly don’t think he even knows what shutting down the government actually means. I’m betting he thinks it’s just the poors not getting access to essential services, which he’s probably fine with. I’m positive he doesn’t realize that it cuts off literally every perk except for secret service that he gets as president. The entire White House staff will be sent home except for executives and unpaid interns.

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        The entire White House staff will be sent home except for executives and unpaid interns.

        As long as one of those interns will bring him McDonalds, he won’t care.

      • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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        Honestly, at this point the government already is shut down. It’s been shut down for months. We’re just still in the denial stage. Trump’s claimed and a criminally corrupt SCOTUS has endorsed Trump just refusing to pay funds allocated by Congress. There is absolutely zero point in Democrats negotiating with Republicans on this, as Trump can just refuse to pay any Democratic priorities they fund.

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          Can or can’t doesn’t really matter to Trump. He will blame Democrats he will blame Biden he will blame “antifa” and he will blame immigrants. Trump is inherently incapable of taking responsibility for anything. He will just pick a group or person, usually one that is particularly irritating to him in that moment, and he will shove all the responsibility for everything that’s going wrong on them.

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            I was being rhetorical. He can and he’s backed by legacy and new media. Goebbels built Nazi propaganda “in a cave with a box of scraps”, imagine what can be done with AI, bots and social media.

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    3 hours ago

    Do it. Shut the government down. I don’t think you got the guts to give away your power in protest, you orange bum

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    6 hours ago

    Cis people should be scared about this too. Things like supplementing estrogen (for woman after they have gone through menopause) or testosterone is a quite normal thing. Im betting my ass, that this regulations will affect these things too.

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        Until they move the in-group. Which they’ll do if they continue to get their way. They have to keep projecting power like this to keep this up, and they’ll continue to grind through subgroups of the population to do it.

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        3 hours ago

        You’re not wrong, but you forgot that the in-group always shrink.

        Also, it is usual for fascists to throw others “under the bus” as a way to save their own face.

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        The in-group is wide enough that the people at the edges are hit with the splatter when the guy at the top takes another dump.

        If he makes it illegal to even provide estrogen or testosterone to patients, hospitals won’t stock it.

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    How dreadful! For many trans people it’ll endanger their lives.

    It all reminds me of what was happening in Russia over the decades, just smashed into an impossible timeline. Small steps lead to irrevocable disasters.

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    At this point, even the most die-hard republicans should be horribly ashamed by the fact this “man” is even allowed to participate in politics.

    Eh, who am I kidding? Few bad apples spoil the bunch, and it‘s already happened worldwide. Trump has become only a symptom of the wretched corruption that is everywhere.