• skisnow@lemmy.ca
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      That’s exactly the reason why trans bigotry as a “feminist” movement has had so much effort put into stoking it. There’s a ton of dark money from Evangelicals being funnelled into astroterfing to divide progressives by forcing wide wedge issues. They don’t care about trans people, they care about turning non-conservatives against each other so that they can scoop up the disaffected to their cause.

      Ten short years ago the average person in the street didn’t care either way about trans people. Sure, they didn’t get much recognition or support from government bodies, but neither did they have this army of self-proclaimed feminists trying to persuade them to kill themselves.

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      you weren’t unified enough to prevent a convicted felon from getting into the white house a second time, so forgive me if I don’t have hope for the future of your country

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        It’s hilarious you assumed where we live, incorrectly. No we’re not going to tell you. But maybe don’t assume everyone or everymany lives on land stolen from the indigenous folks on turtle island.

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          my belated apologies for assuming that you were also part of the minorities you spoke about being unified. assumptions were made on my part and they do, in fact, make an ass out of mostly me.

          I hope you can at least see where I’m coming from, in that talking about “if we’re not unified” in a thread very heavily about US politics would inspire a person who is otherwise left-leaning to leave one negative comment about the future of the US as a whole. I meant and continue to mean no offense to you, about whom I know nothing; my aggression was evidently directed elsewhere.