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[–] 233 points 2 years ago (18 children)

I'll never forgive the people who worked to put this fascist in power again.

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  • [+] 104 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)
  • [–] 80 points 2 years ago* (21 children)

    I blame them most of all. They saw what was at stake and still demanded perfection on every issue, nitpicked, sowed division, and acted like we were having a totally different election where "not Trump" was an actual entry on the ballot (it wasn't).

    At least the Trump voters were honest about their intentions.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    And I'll never forgive the pundits and social media commenters who derailed conversations about how the Dems tone-deaf campaigning (e.g. promising the most lethal military in the world, Liz Cheney, etc.) was going to make some voters stay home and risked losing the election, very much like how the Dems blew elections in 2016 and 2004. Whining about alienating your own voters is like a football team whining about their opponents scoring too many points when they should be firing their head coach.

    e; and before it even comes up, I voted straight ticket Dem and have done so my whole life because there is nothing I want more than the total collapse of the Republican party

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    My pet theory is actually that Bernie helped, rather than gutted HRC/Biden. Through his primary campaign so many young people became convinced to vote Democrat. Even if Berniebros were disappointed, most of them still voted for a Democrat in the general election.

    One thing you could really see in this election was that confused progressives moved to Trump (or stayed home) after a successful misinformation campaign. Would have been far harder for that misinformation to find a home, if progressive voters had already voted in the Democratic primary, and their preferred candidate had pointed them to the winner of the primary.

    You could even see this on the GOP side. Because Hailey supported Trump, almost no GOP voters defected in the general election which ultimately resulted in the complete failure of the Democratic strategy.

    TLDR: primaries with a wide variety of choices are extremely helpful in the General election.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    And they're still trying to justify it, because preventing this shit wasn't exciting enough or something. I don't give the Democrats a pass on fucking the dog this cycle, but the voters knew what was on the table and choose not to vote against it and that's so much worse imo. They let one or two issues condemn entire groups of marginalized people, and still cry BoTh SiDeS.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    At least there's no more genocide going on anywhere in the world.

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    [–] 134 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Blatantly unconstitutional, and he knows it. But the point isn't to win on this issue, it's to move the Overton window a little more and to sow more chaos.

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    [–] 99 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There's just no words for this level of evil.

    The book burning and internet crackdown will surely start soon. Kiss the first amendment goodbye.

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  • [–] 87 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Surely this will finally rein in the price of eggs.

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  • [–] 82 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Being an educator in this day and age seems so difficult, we are taught all the studies and theories of healthy child development, how to promote healthy social emotional learning, but we must fight parents and increasely the law to maintain a safe, healthy social environmental layer.

    Good educators are already beaten down from so many things and have become rare, but I know most of my colleagues and friends have no intention of bending knee to this and policies aimed at hurting students we fight for, and I desperately hope this sentiment is shared by many across our country.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I desperately hope this sentiment is shared by many across our country.

    I'll leave this here...from 3 days ago: Teacher asks ICE to raid his school, says many students 'don't even speak English'

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Thanks, I wasn't depressed enough, but that really did the trick!

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    there are many more fully resisting each purge attempt. shits getting dark af right now, but dispair despair cannot be an option.

    get out and find community. I did a thing two days ago. stopped by one of the only houses in my neighborhood that openly opposed the trump collective before the election. let them know I (and my fam) were here if they needed anything. we shared ideas and history. face to face. in realtime. and we will be checking up on each other moving forward.

    edit: curnt speeeel.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That’s the point, that’s what they want and they want good teachers to be sick of it and leave so they can either put some uncertified person in your place or none at all and keep education for private schools. Trumpy said it himself, he loved the uneducated. It’s sadly all part of their plan to keep critical thinkers at bay so they can do whatever they want and nobody bats an eye.

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    [–] 65 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    This really is reminiscent of early Nazi Germany, with an obsession over trans people (like Jews), and the idea that they're the root of so much evil, and the constant implication that things would be better if they just go away...

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    [–] 65 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    In the executive order issued Wednesday evening, titled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 schooling,” Trump directs the attorney general to work with local and state officials to investigate teachers who “unlawfully facilitat[e] the social transition of a minor student.” The order defines “social transitioning” to include using a trans student’s name and pronouns, recognizing a student as nonbinary, or allowing them to use the restroom that aligns with their gender identity.

    Ordinary people are going to have to start accepting the risk and actually fighting back. They're a week and a half in, and already ordering Americans not to even recognise the existence of trans and nonbinary children, on threat of prosecution. It's not just about denying them healthcare now (which in itself is terrible), it's about preventing trans kids knowing anyone even sees them for who they are, or that they are seen and loved. The only outcome will be depression, loneliness and suicide, and Republicans want your kids dead if they don't fit some very narrow mold they've pulled out of their own violent insecurities.

    People need to fight now. Each day people lie low and wait to see where this is going, the chances of ever fighting back get slimmer.

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    [–] 64 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What

    The

    Actual

    Fuck?

    By supporting they mean what? Calling the kid the name they want to be called by?

    They don't necessarily need to explicitly teach gender and racial studies, whatever. But don't tell my kids' teachers they can't be courteous to the kids. The kids don't care one bit when someone who was a girl comes back saying they are a boy, they are nonchalant as fuck about it.

    You have lost this round, conservatives. The generation who will raise the next generation is already grown up with more reasonable teaching and parents who model tolerance, there are too many of us for you to be able to control us.

    Go back to your lairs and work on some other evil plan.

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    [+] 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 58 points 2 years ago*

    Surely it is THIS that will help those grocery prices...

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    “No transgender, no operations—you know, they take your kid—there are some places, your boy leaves for school, comes back a girl. Okay? Without parental consent.” He added, “At first, when I was told that was actually happening, I said, you know, it’s an exaggeration. No: it happens. It happens. There are areas where it happens.”

    Gotta wonder if he's manufacturing reality or if he's also caught up in a manufactured reality.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can't believe there's a single person who believes that children are being snuck into hospitals to just have a quick 20,000 dollar surgery that takes months to fully recover from during lunch and sneaking them home without anyone noticing

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago

    It's definitely both.

    He's a conman by nature, not by intelligence.

    He inherently knows he has to manufacture lies to get what he wants, but he's very clearly not an actually intelligent person and you can clearly tell sometimes that he's 100% bought into some conspiracy theories, the same way any dumb person would. The guy's brain is mostly fried, but the conman in his nature is still there. Will be until he's 6 feet under.

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    [–] 55 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Hey acceleratiionists and people who Harris "wasn't good enough" for, remember that you could've helped stop this shit before it even happened. Now people are going to suffer and die under this regime that you helped bring to power

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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Crickets from conservatives who love to screech about free speech

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    [–] 45 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Supporting people is lawful.

    Whether the laws he passes are legitimate, up for debate.

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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    If we don't ban trans people, then Trump could end up mistakenly raping a dude, and we can't have that! What would he even grab them by?

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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Let's play the "replace the group with jews and see if they sound like a Nazi"

    Trump tells DOJ to proescute teachers who unlawfully support jewish students.

    Eyup

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    They already made women second class citizens. Now they're moving on to vulnerable minorities.

    Sound like any other examples from history?

    I'd say the alarms have started going off, but they've been going off for quite some time now. Deaf and dumb Americans as a whole can't hear them though.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    But what does “discriminatory equity ideology” actually mean? The order defines it as “ideology that treats individuals as members of preferred or disfavored groups, rather than as individuals, and minimizes agency, merit, and capability in favor of immoral generalizations.”

    Oh for fucks sake. That literally describes how racism, sexism, and bigotry work: by treating people as part of a preferred or disfavored group instead of individuals.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Dipshit Donnie, your executive orders are not laws. They also only apply to federal government. As far as I know, we don't have federal schools except for the armed forces academies.

    They'll probably end up making federal aid contingent on being assholes. Just like how Reagan coerced the states into 21 year old drinking age by withholding highway funds.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    It works like this:

    • Teach at a public school
    • That school receives funding directly or indirectly from federal programs under the executive branch, including the Department of Education
    • DEI support disqualifies institutions from receiving Federal funds
    • Supporting DEI and trans rights while receiving Federal funds counts as defrauding the US government
    • DOJ takes up the case

    While EOs are not laws, they have the potential to do massive amounts of damage because most of the government runs on agencies under control of the Executive. And while universities and public schools are not federal, they receive shit tons of funds through grants, contracts, and subsidies from a wide array of federal agencies (see: academic panic at the NSF and NIH halting grant review and funding as a result of Trump’s recent orders).

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  • Trump answered a voter’s question about failing school systems by saying, “No transgender, no operations—you know, they take your kid—there are some places, your boy leaves for school, comes back a girl. Okay? Without parental consent.” He added, “At first, when I was told that was actually happening, I said, you know, it’s an exaggeration. No: it happens. It happens. There are areas where it happens.”

    Good lord. In a world where people will believe something like this, what hope is there really.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    So guys, unrelated question.

    Say I have a bear that isn't a protected species that wanders around the area. Say I'm a lot of bit nervous of this bear destroying stuff towards the edge of my property, but my property edge is pretty damn far.

    What kind of equipment would I need to take care of this bear, if the agencies and law enforcement wont do anything to protect me or my vulnerable neighbors from this bear?

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