• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    “It’s a good thing that our current situation couldn’t get any worse.”

    Situation: [gets worse]

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      I may be a naive optimist but I do not see it every getting to this point. Even after everything that’s been happening, it feels too extreme

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        4 months ago

        All bets are off, man. “It couldn’t happen here” is an old and tired refrain, I’m afraid.

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    Remove their tax-exempt status. The distinct separation of church and state should prevent this murderous group of sycophants from tax-free status.

    Did Jesus ever say a single word about LGBTQIA+ issues ever?

    Morgan Freeman voice: He didn’t.

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    We often point out how modern christians would crucify Jesus again today, but they also hate listening to what he said in the Bible. Take the plank out of your own eyes you sorry excuses for people.

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      Absolutely. Jesus was a middle eastern man who preached caring for the sick and poor and hated the commercialization of religion. It’s like they stopped reading when they they got to Leviticus.

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    It’s interesting, and by interesting I mean horrifying, that these outspoken hateful religious leaders assume that just because gay people give in to the homosexual desires everybody obviously has, they will also give in to the pedophilia that everybody obviously has.

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        His dumb fuck supporters will either not care.
        Blame the kids for being so tempting (😐).
        Or they’ll not believe it (or pretend to not believe it.)

        All the other people either already know and hate him for it.
        Or they know about it and are indifferent of it until it can be used in some way (such as when musk alluded to it during their little bitch fight on social media a few weeks ago)

        Either way the obese cunt will just scream “FAKE NEWS” and carry on being a useless waste of oxygen.

        There will be no justice.
        My one hope is that history will treat him and all his cronies the way they deserve to be treated.

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      Being some flavor of evangelical who raves about “groomers” seems to be the best predictor of being an actual groomer I’ve seen so far.

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    The Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death. They are supposed to be executed by the government. We are not to take the law into our own hands.

    But, you know, if someone were to take matters in their own hands, we’ll just wash out hands in innocence and act like we didn’t do anything

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      Yeah, this sounds an awful lot like “oh please won’t someone take the law into their own hands.”

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    “Christianity is a modern, tolerant, peace loving religion! Not like those other ones!”

    5 minutes in to Christian theocratic control

    “KILL THE UNDESIRABLES! THEY OFFEND THE CHRISTIAN GOD’S BLESSED EYES!”

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    Place your best now about the odds that Trump tries to make being LGBTQ a capital offense. I’m going with 10%, which is already too high for me.

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      Why do you think some states have made sex crimes against children a capital offense? They call trans people groomers and predators. This is literally the intended effect.

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        Can you link to such a law, from the past 5 years (the new era of anti-lgbt hatred)?

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            I figured that would be the one. I don’t find this a satisfactory response.

            [a] measure allowing the death penalty for those convicted of sexually battering children under the age of 12.

            (Emphasis mine). In my uninformed non-lawyer opinion, this law cannot be used to target LGBT people in general, as it only applies to physically violent crimes. So that excludes, say, doing a drag number for kids or just being yourself out in public. Might it be applied disproportionately to child rapists who happen to be LGBT? Quite plausibly, sure, but that’s not really the subject here.

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              Keep in mind that these are the small steps they are taking to get to the point where we are afraid to be seen in public.

              At first it’s protect children from learning about LGBTQ+ culture by banning education, removing books (they don’t need to burn the books, they just remove ‘em). All in the name of stopping the spread of a radical agenda. Bear in mind we make up around 1-2% of the population in the US.

              Then it is banning healthcare for minors, which consists of support, social transition and possibly puberty blockers. This is to protect the children from being “surgically mutilated”. Never mind the fact that children do not receive trans surgical interventions.

              Next comes capital punishment for sex crimes against children. For now, it is reserved for physical sexual assaults.

              The latest attempt against trans people was banning all trans healthcare for those on Medicaid. Trans patients account for approximately 0.4% of those on Medicaid. Around 276,000 trans people (as of 2022) out of 71,258,215 total people on Medicaid.

              It is not much of a stretch to assume that they will continue to attempt to backdoor their way to banning trans health care for all trans Americans.

              What’s after that? Classify presenting a trans, but obfuscated as “drag performances”, in any public setting. The public support of these laws has been from the messaging, by successfully equating drag performances with being based upon indecency. This is limited to 2 states at the moment, but the fact that it is illegal anywhere in the country is deeply disturbing.

              In my opinion, they will continue to push further and further to make us fear being clocked (caught) in public, by legislating us into criminality. This may seem like a leap, but overall support for trans people has declined in recent years. While the major drops in support revolve around trans athletes and healthcare for minors, these issues are overblown and are used to erode public opinion of us.

              TL;DR: The overall outlook for us right now is not good. I don’t expect ya to follow each link, I just wanted to back up my claims with reliable sources.

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                I follow Erin in the Morning, and I totally agree things aren’t looking good. Death camps aren’t impossible.

                But you don’t have support for this statement right?

                Why do you think some states have made sex crimes against children a capital offense? They call trans people groomers and predators. This is literally the intended effect.

                Let me be clear: I’m completely onboard with you. We probably have similar opinions. I just wanted to see the source for this claim. (That is, the claim that there exists a state which introduced a capital offense that could plausibly be used to target LGBTQ people.)

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                  Perhaps I should clarify “intended effect” as it being a thin veil. They can claim they are doing this to protect children from all predators, while simultaneously repeating the groomers line over and over again.

                  In my opinion, it seems a little too coincidental that they pass this law in a state that has a very hostile anti-LGBTQ+ stance, while also attempting to portray us as child predators.

                  It’s possible that I am drawing conclusions incorrectly, but I sincerely doubt it.