Why is almost everything on Lemmy political?
I joined Lemmy a few days ago and have been reading around. 90%+ of the content I see, even on non-politics related communities, is political in some way. I have no interest in that, so it’s tiring, especially when it’s inserted in the comments of completely unrelated posts.
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Stick your head in the sand if you want to, but as a trans woman, I need to know when I’m gonna get imprisoned for existing, and never see my family again.
Sorry to make things political.
This. A lot of ‘making everything about politics’ is the reaction of people whose very existence been politicized by those in power.
You wouldn't be imprisoned. That would imply due process and habeas corpus.
Enemies of the regime will be disappeared.
I'm not trying to make you feel bad. I just think this is where we are at the moment and I have a hard time not thinking about it.
Yeah, they’re wanting to suspend habeus corpus, so that’s utterly terrifying and I really hope my last moments aren’t spent personally witnessing the CECOT body pile in their backyard.
Same boat as your original comment. I keep telling my wife (cis) we gotta start planning to bailout, but she's not taking it as serious.
I'm at the point of hoping I just go quick, if it comes. Trying to live my life with more intent and get the things out of it that are important; experience more while time is short, love unconditionally, etc. Very Hallmark of me, I know, but it's all I can do. Lefties screamed Nazi from the rooftops, screamed project '25, screamed while ripping hair out.. it didn't work, and here we are. I'm trying to be helpful to those I can help, but the political situation on that national level is far beyond my control.
If we gotta bail, hopefully somewhere else lets us in. If we can't bail, I just hope I'm not tortured before the end. I've lived as kind and helpful a life as I could, I think. Struggled when I couldn't be kind, but I tried. If the end comes, so it goes. History books don't remember the every day people anyways, we're already a statistic. I just hope we aren't a statistic in the Stalin-istic way.
If I were religious, I'd say I'd pray for you, and us. But since I'm not, I'll just say that I hope things get better for you, and us.
I sincerely hope it swings back to a happier place for everyone. If you can't live for happiness, love for spite. One day we'll read the obituaries (of natural causes!) for these awful people and can finally have a breath of ease.
Do try and keep yourself safe. 🧡
I’m doing my bucket list now, before it’s too late. I went to the Oregon Coast yesterday and did the whole Life is Strange field trip, which was fun.
I don’t know how much time I have left: could be a month, could be the back half of my natural life. I’m not gonna waste any of it.
Also I swear to god it smells like TERF in here, someone’s downvoting is cause we’re trans.
We’re thriving and happy and I mix those downvotes in with my tea.
Eh, I hope the best for them too, and that they one day see the errors of themselves for blind hatred. Not much I can do about it. I've been out and transitioning for nearly 15 years now. The current hatred has a new form, but it's not the first time I've been called horrible things or told to kms or been scared of politics.
I can't change anyone's mind. I just try to live my life on my own terms and be the person I needed. I just see people like terfs as people who grew up in a small town, or had a bad experience with someone like me. Fear of the unknown is a hell of a drug.
I wrote it into a poem once, "I wish you knew me as a person, before you hated me as a perception." No matter the argument, no matter the conversation, it ain't gonna change the mind of a bigot. Especially todays works. So I just leave em to it. Block, downvoten, whatever, and move on. Maybe that makes me a coward, I dunno. It's just not worth screaming to the void, anymore.
Anyway,
Oregon coast seems the tits! I've always wanted to see Thors Well nearby like, Newport? I think?
Cheers to a long, uneventful life for you. I hope we may live in precedented times, for the rest of it, and... for once in the past 30 years, maybe.
As a European, I never thought particularly highly of American politics and culture. I never got the whole Americana hype of the last decades. But at least it used to be not fascist and kind of democratic. Seeing the country move towards loosing that is heart breaking. Seeing European countries trying to follow the example is terrifying.
They're talking about suspending habeas corpus so...
Regardless I still think they're going to go after the unhoused more explicitly and use less explicit means to push trans people (and others they disapprove of) into that category in order to make excuses for the disappearancess. We shall see I suppose.
Edit: well, shit. To emphasize my point below: https://lemm.ee/post/63762572
The theory I've seen around is the effort to classify trans people as pornography. And by that, I mean, illegalize pornography distribution to minors punishable by death penalty, classify trans people in public as said distribution, and then execute.
The way Proj. '25 is worded gives credence to that theory. Not to be a 'the sky is falling' type of bird, but, it does come across as a goal for the fasc.
To borrow from a reditor's explanation... They (not me) posted the following:
On page 5, it states the following.
“Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology[…]“
“Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women.”
“Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders.”
On page 554 it states the following.
“Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.”
“It should also pursue the death penalty for applicable crimes—particularly heinous crimes involving violence and sexual abuse of children—until Congress says otherwise through legislation.”
Apology not accepted. You don't owe anybody apologies for that, ever. They should be apologizing to you.