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@alice There are many people outside Kansas who want to help our trans friends and neighbors--how and where can we direct energy/funds/aid?
@alice Trans Continental Pipeline helps trans folks in unsafe states relocate to Colorado: https://tcpipeline.org/
Seems like a good place to donate money to right now.
@alice ....and yet European countries still (so far as I understand it) refuse asylum claims on the basis that "The USA is a Safe Country".
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I feel the need to clarify: I oppose the suggestion for all USAmericans to flee via students visa. B/C this is a hypothetical & imo for many reasons a bad idea. This hypothetical idea following I oppose for many as well hypothetical reasons. 330 Mio ppl fleeing would flood capacity & systems & worsen the sit. for everyone and not change 1 thing. 500 sign limit doesn’t help a deep convo.
Well, good news -- the number of people seeking to flee is only a tiny, tiny fraction of 330 million.
(P.S. many other fedi instances have larger character-limits; I agree that 500 is ridiculous for having substantial discussions.)
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@woozle 2/2 interesting imo: 2nd/3rd/4th Gen Jews, whos ancestors fled Nazi GER, are looking to claim their right to a GER passport. No one could ever have imagined that 16 months ago. It needed Felon 47 to become FOTUS to get he world into that crazy state. @juergen_hubert @Alice @gneilyo @Njord @Raccoon @joe_vinegar @miss_rodent @ChuckMcManis
I have to keep reminding myself that change, even when it's for the worst, is also an opportunity for progress -- because people who would have resisted new ideas before may now realize that there is no "keep things the way they are" or even "put things back the way they were".
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@woozle thank you 😉 Yes, 500 limit is annoy.. It wont be possible to predict "real" numbers, we will only know "after the fact". Currently ~5k did leave in '25, double is expected for '26. Indeed a tiny number. Looking at housing though, for example AMS lacking 220k appartments missing to accomodate (just)students, Europe has diff. dimensions than USA. 1/2 @juergen_hubert @Alice @gneilyo @Njord @Raccoon @joe_vinegar @miss_rodent @ChuckMcManis
Housing is a problem everywhere, it seems -- one major symptom of the plutonomy sucking the street-economy increasingly dry: more and more property is owned by fewer and fewer, who can then collaborate (often illegally, but it's too often always okay for them to do it) to raise prices to squeeze more life from the rest of us.
The mass media seems to be ignoring or glossing over this, and talking only about how we need to relax regulations so the property-owners can build more properties (which too often then become more useful to them as unoccupied "investment vehicles" than as residences).
...to oversimplify a bit, with a sprinkling of salt.
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@juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice USAmericans need to stay and clean up the mess they created for themselves. There isn't enough room in Europe to host half their population. USAmericans have not done enough to prevent this, now they need to get up their lazy asses & stop this desaster. You don't want to hear this I am sure, yet this is the reality.
@juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice I do know. I have lived in USA, have family & friends in USA I very much love. Yet, everyone who let this happen either by voting, or especially by NOT voting, or by ignoring, or by avoiding political talks with MAGA supporters is guilty. That would be everyone. Nothing will change if the "good ones" flee. It needs the good ones to stay and fight. Fact: we have no room in Europe to take them all in. Housingcrisis. Fleeing JUST relocates the problem to Europe.
I am staying here, despite being trans in a southern state with a right-wing General Assembly, but I totally respect the decisions of those who feel they can't risk their safety here. Some of them are my friends.
We each do what we can.
I hate this line of reasoning because this is the _exact_ same argument made by German right-wing politicians for why Syrian refugees should return to Syria.
It's easy to say that others should fight for their rights if you are not part of the marginalized group that is being oppressed.
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Yeah, pretty much. German political leaders always stressed the "Transatlantic Friendship/Alliance", and it would be awkward to admit that this now belongs on the dung heap of history.
And this doesn't even count the European political leaders who were extruded from the American business machine, such as our own Friedrich #Merz (a #Blackrock veteran).
My European driving licence has an entry about which vehicles I'm allowed to drive. And if I would be required to wear glasses.
Nothing about my sex.
Even though some people (almost always men) express their feelings of inferiority by choosing an overpowered vehicle - nobody (at least somehow sane) drives it with their genitalia.
These law makers in Kansas are batshit crazy. My sympathy to all who are affected.
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True. But your EU license has a name in it. Now, with German Mr Dobrindt and Mr Linnemann, both fascists in disguise, and their demands of "special registers" for trans people and deadname forwarding to police and other "security institutions" we trans people will face the same, as soon as the Nazi party AFD comes to power in 2029. Every nazi cop will see your name/gender-ID change, forever.
After "special registers" we'll see "special housing" aka camps. Again.
It's weird seeing all the far right "15 minute city" conspiracy theories (which claim alternatives to cars restrict people's freedom) and now the far right is specifically using cars to restrict people's freedoms.
It's like yet another accusation being a confession. All the conspiratorial lies they told about public transport being an instrument of control, they are now actually doing themselves with cars.
@FediThing This is more about the DL as personal ID, which is ubiquitous in the US. We use our DLs as ID all the time -- liquor store, club, bank, etc. This is about shaming and humiliating a disfavoured group, and making just living as hard as possible. And, ultimately, discouraging trans people from voting, where ID is also required.
@wesdym @FediThing Ah shit yeah, as a European I had actually forgotten this is your baseline ID as well. That makes it even worse and I would not have thought they could make it worse.
@wesdym @FediThing Ok I see why they want to ban trans people having ID. It links right into this
@FediThing @alice every time they acuse some group of something it is a self report on their own intentions it seems.
@alice Why is it that conservative forces are always so fixated on other people's genitals?
(Interestingly in more than one way)
@Fettlaus because they don't actually have any of their own. I know, it's weird, but true. Republicans are all like Ken dolls down there. It's part of the deal they made with Satan for him to send them Reagan, and they're still salty about how that turned out.
@alice WHAT THE FUCK !!!
How can this happen ???
@B_Bird @alice A poorly-written bill went to a committee who gutted it and inserted some batshit insanity without following the procedure for allowing any public input. Less-insane politicians suggested amendments to make it less awful and were repeatedly shut down. The bill went to the Governor's desk and she not only vetoed it, but made a public statement on how awful the bill is.
The Republican-led legislature voted to override the veto, and now we're stuck with the law.
Really flagrantly disgusting.
@munin and you *know* once they're making solid progress wiping out trans folx and immigrants, they'll start into Black folx, women, and the rest of the queers.
I'm sure they'll start in immediately. Every time they have 'success' they push further the sleazy fucks.