"I never want to hear the words 'America is better than this' again.
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"We are a country that just elected – that just willfully chose – one of the most cruel, unscrupulous and transparently self-serving political figures in modern history to be president. Again."
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"The majority of white people knew that a vote for Trump would be a vote against Black people, Brown people, Asian people, queer people, trans people, disabled people, poor people, Black and Brown immigrants, Palestinians, children, the rights of women, unions, literature, art, the environment, and democracy."
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"Trump’s predictable return to the presidency—in what is the final American presidential election of our lifetimes (a conservative plan decades in the making, with help from liberal complicity masquerading as incompetence)—was nothing more and nothing less than the majority of white voters confirming that they want to live in a country that adheres to the standards of living as expressed in 1824 rather than 2024."
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"no longer America the beautiful"
it's depends on who is setting the beauty standards
by conventional measures, America has been a global tyrant for a long time, since the 1850s, and domestically it has believed in race and justified its racism for longer.
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Erin Reed reminds us of the practice, life-or-death challenges now facing some of us due to the choice made by the rest of us. She's offering advice to trans people and people who care about them:
"I wanted to share some very practical next steps for my trans readers. Here are the things I recommend:"
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/12https://substack.com/chat/994764/post/89164a20-5afe-4fc0-a4ff-aa351390f592
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"Get your passport. Today. It takes time to come in and getting an updated gender marker will likely be shut down under Trump. - Update every ID your state allows you to. - Make sure you have a supply of medication in case of disruption - If you have a trans kid that is stealth, consider maintaining stealth to get around enforcement of anti-trans laws."
It's going to get very bad for some of us, quickly. Because others have chosen this for us.
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"With the election of Donald Trump, our fellow citizens are about to get exactly what they want. There is nothing that God, man, or the Constitution can do about it, because we did it to ourselves. …
The American people, which is all of us, got together on Tuesday and chose everything that’s coming for close to the next decade."
~ Charles Pierce
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/14https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62828684/donald-trump-elected-2024/
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"America was given the opportunity to let a Black and Asian American woman move us beyond a decade of Trump’s racist, sexist, and toxic form of grievance politics with a broad agenda grounded in joy, compassion, and opportunity. And America, specifically the majority of white Americans, said: 'No thanks. We’re good.'”
~ Kimberly Atkins Stohr
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/15https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/06/opinion/trump-president-black-women/
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"They knowingly voted to once again tear families apart and put babies in cages and commit what will almost certainly be horrific human rights abuses against immigrants. They voted to make life harder for me and my daughters because based on their conveniently misogynistic and bigoted interpretation of the Bible. ...
I am done being nice to people just because we are related."
~ tonyahky
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/16https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/6/2283776/-Cancelling-Thanksgiving-this-year
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“'The Confederacy won,' says [Carol] Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University. 'It paints a picture of what Americans are willing to embrace,' says [Michele] Goodwin, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown and an expert on healthcare law…."
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/17https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/6/carol_anderson_michele_goodwin_2024_trump
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"Fuck your pathetic, made-up, morally simplistic, manipulative, dishonest litmus tests that allow you to pat yourselves on the back and avoid your own fear and failure and take a nap in your spiritual easy chairs, watching your North Korean style TV, without ever using your damn brains or searching your damn hearts."
