Out here desperately hoping that the fake leftists propping up Trump are mostly Russian trolls or just a pocket of internet children. I think actual real life people on the left in the US largely get how dangerous this could be.
I’ve been having a number of conversations on Hexchan recently trying to make sense of their politics. The most common instance of their hateful hypocrisy I’ve encountered is this constant assurance that they support trans people while immediately attacking and dog piling and trans people who point out that the situation would be much worse under Trump.
I live in Massachusetts. We are a very blue state and we’re one of the best places in the world to transition. We have informed consent, legal protection of our basic rights, and mandatory insurance coverage of trans health care, which state insurance also covers. Whatever you think of the DNC, the Democrats in Massachusetts are absolutely allies of trans people who’ve worked to actively protect our rights.
Still, I’m well aware of the danger that federal law could potentially pose. I know there may be a time when I have to flee the country if things get bad enough, and that’s a lot more likely under Trump.
But they don’t actually care about my rights, happiness, or safety, or those of any other trans people. They don’t care what happens to us, they just want to use us as a bludgeon to dunk on people.
The hexchanners who aren’t actively Russian trolls seem to be little more than useful idiots for conservatives, minimizing the damage they do to vulnerable populations and engaging in high school level pettiness and hate.
Nope. Blocked the community and all the users who replied. Go dig around in their trashcan of an instance if you like. Or just tell them you’re trans and want to make sure Trump doesn’t get into office so you don’t have to flee the country and watch them come out of the woodwork.
I do believe I said “immediately attacking and dogpiling trans women who point out that the situation would be much worse under Trump”, not using transphobic slurs or whatever.
I hear all this talk about women's safety when out on the streets (a real issue which I do acknowledge) and how we as men need to do our part to make sure they feel comfortable, safe, and that we hold other men accountable when doing the same thing. Absolutely have no problem with this. But one of the main issues men have is a...
What? No. Women don’t feel safe around men because many men, when interacting with women, are fucking creeps.
Let me give you an example.
This guy I would drive occasionally, probably 12 years older than me, reeks of too much cologne, and has zero interest in how anyone else feels about anything other than himself. He’d repeatedly ask me to come hang out with him while I was on shift, saying he’d hire me for an hour or whatever. I told him I wasn’t interested, and yet every time this manchild got into my cab, he felt the need to ask me again. Every time I said no, it seemed to annoy him.
Eventually he said something like ‘I’m not a bad guy you know, all the other drivers come hang out with me’ and I had to put my foot down and tell him I have zero interest in ever hanging out with him, talking to him outside work, or spending a single minute of extra time with him out of the cab. I don’t want to. No.
He was insulted, but finally got the message. He’s either become homeless since then and no longer takes cabs (he was having trouble finding an apartment, can’t imagine why), or he’s started asking for someone else who’ll humor him.
The problem is that this dude, and guys in general who take the view point he espouses, and that you espouse here, is that they don’t see women as people to be friends with, they see us as objects to make them happy.
If he’d just politely asked, accepted the no, and moved on, we’d be fine. I wouldn’t have had to be clear and specific about my lack of desire to interact with him. But he refused to take the rejection over the course of days, continuing to subtly proposition me in a completely inappropriate context. This is the problem.
A woman does not need to approach a man. You have nothing we require. We can exist perfectly fine on our own. That doesn’t mean men suddenly need to spend their every waking moment of interaction with a woman trying to get into her pants.
Want to improve things? Treat women like people rather than goals. Stop thinking about ‘getting’ a woman, and start seeing what kind of relationships you can form with your fellow human beings. Maybe they’ll lead to sex and romance, maybe they won’t, but they’ll be with an actual person sitting in front of you, not an imaginary version of them that you keep locked in your head.
Sure, if the civilian population of the US had to actively repel an invading army with their own organized militia, it’d be completely one-sided.
But if the US military were engaged in a war against its own civilian population, it wouldn’t be a remotely straightforward fight. They’d be dealing with a local population and the emotional impact of fighting their own population at the same time. Guerilla warfare in the United States would be a mess to try to deal with. We have a lot of wilderness, and the division within the military would likely be significant enough to have a major impact on any attempted operations.
The US military is really good at organizing its troops to fight for the US. Fighting against the US is a whole other can of worms. And by my count, most older vets wouldn’t be on the side of using the military against our own civilians, whether they’re otherwise more on the conservative side of politics or not.
I don’t think there’s anything like the kind of support or organization to see something like that happen, but I think it could get a whole lot uglier and more complicated than just the numbers suggest.
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