• unphazed@lemmy.world
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    The Stonewall riot proved that the Queer Community were not violent - until pushed too far. I have seen little to no violent activity from that marginalized group in the news (and truly they would make sure people knew so long as it wasn’t a white straight male), making this false attack to rile up hatred. But people will only remain defensive for so long. It will end up finally giving these conservative groups what they want - actual violence, and a reason to push harder. It worked well for Israel, so why not do a pogrom here, too?

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    They’ll try and pin any excuse, on furthering their agenda, even if it has zero data or evidence to support it. Just because you’re terrified of things you don’t understand, Mr distraction, doesn’t mean those things are terrorists. It’s just you.

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    Full quote:

    In a clip from the interview posted to X by journalist Ken Klippenstein, Watters asked the vice president whether he considers “the militant transgender movement” to be a “domestic terrorist threat.”
    “If you are encouraging people to commit acts of violence against the United States government or against your fellow Americans, absolutely. You’re involved in a terrorist movement,” Vance responded.

    Not that I don’t think violence against trans people is absolutely his intention, thankfully, he didn’t manage to vocalize that specifically to his base, nor is he capable of doing it himself - he’s still very scared of getting sued for hate speech or libel, or for anything hate-related to happen under his direct watch. The quote was basically “If you’re a terrorist, you’re a terrorist!” with numerous wording twists to hope bigots would take further implication.

    My point being, keep fighting them for being transphobic, but please don’t reach the level of fear at which you become afraid of daily life.

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      Ken Klippenstein is citing two inside sources who claim Trump is about to designate trans people as “violent extremists,” and that the FBI will target them, and that is a bit scarier. I think the queer community actually needs to be highly alert and paying attention in the coming days, unfortunately.

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      I can’t argue with his response in a vacuum. But the lack of any sort of attempt to make it not just about trans is exactly what I would expect.

      He could’ve added “any” in there, but he didn’t.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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    I mean that’s definitely not true and he knows it. He is saying he wants others to murder people for him in cold blood.

    At the very least let him do it himself. A leader who so loudly values strength would surely be capable of it.

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    Oh yes men in dresses makeup and heels are deadlier than assassins. What are they going to do? Gag you to death with their caustic wit? Read you to filth? Do a death drop right in front of you? Kill you with kindness and vegan makeup. You’ll be blinded to death by bold color eye shadow. Take a deadly shit in a women’s restroom, fuch some hunk so hard your eyes will bleed?

    This is truly the party of fools. Maybe the aliens are coming to eradicate earth of all this suffering at the hands of idiots.

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    I wish jd Vance would suggest shutting his mouth and spending the next 3 years in quiet contemplation over how he got here

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    and in europe they want to remove everyones privacy. what could possibly go wrong???