it occurs to me the we haven’t discuss the ethics of screaming at ICE agents once we run out of COVID vaccines. we could do it over a lunch of my favorite food, Indian of course while Dire Straits who are better than Boston or Led Zeppelin plays.
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it occurs to me the we haven’t discuss the ethics of screaming at ICE agents once we run out of COVID vaccines. we could do it over a lunch of my favorite food, Indian of course while Dire Straits who are better than Boston or Led Zeppelin plays.
yeppers.
okay. i’m a trans man living in Trump’s America. i spent today. as i do most Tuesdays yelling in the face of ICE agents. My name is Jacob Griffin.
i do it because the G-d i don’t necessarily believe in wants me to heal the pain i have caused others and the world and myself. i may not believe in G-d but i have found that if i follow the rules the world is a better place. that is Judaism for me.
newsom says people shouldn’t be allowed to transition until they are 25. that statement is so stupid and so dangerous that it makes you understand he has done no research. he’s a no for me.
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Hor-a-zon. instead of “horizon
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
i want you to live a long and safe life so when we meet we are both cognizant of how right i was about everything. i worry about you surviving this.
and note, i have no clue about Tom’s take on my rights as a trans man and i do not give another flying fuck.he’s most likely to help keep me alive while you all want to slim us down to the purest few and i get to pay the price.
yeah. this shit is literally going to get me killed. i’m trans.I do not give a flying fuck what Tom’s history is. i care that he is going to try and stand up against Trump. this isn’t a fucking game to some of us. it’s my life. you are going to get me killed, not him.
i read history but i can’t think of a single example of a world power deliberately dismantling itself before.
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right now, today, people are being kidnapped and their lives destroyed by the US government. if you aren’t showing up and speaking up you are now the very definition of a Good German.
if you haven’t absorbed it then you haven’t been to your local ice office to watch them destroy innocent people’s lives. go witness it so you can stop pretending everything is normal
any one close to Eugene! ICE is very active today at the fed building and are kidnapping people. come help us protest and witness! 8th and Pearl
i can’t find a Jew who is not simultaneously enraged at Israel and heartbroken.
“Surrendering is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival.” -Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues
i am amazed at your persistence to this point.
“Surrending is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival.” - Leslie Feinberg, Trans Communist
i find it hilarious when i am called a “purity voter”. that means that i vote for the person most likely to let me live.
“three rights” is so very optimistic. they would sell us out for nothing.
i am watching every sporting event i can find. we are all trying to disassociate into oblivion. and i’m sober so sports is the healthier option.
with ICE and we protest and witness those kidnapped. all of this started with a total of ten trans people and allies in my living room about ten days after the election. you can do a lot when you are scared to death. we can’t stop them but we can hold them back a whole lot in our county.
out of the SP the county is working with providers and our communities to help secure our GAC. a spinoff of our group provides de-escalation services to events for vulnerable groups and some hope of delaying ICE if they arrive. And we witness and support the people going to their check-in meetings
since the election our little trans group has gotten the county to create a Sanctuary Promise protecting trans people and immigrants, got them to make the new sheriff adhere to that Promise, have focused attention on FLOCK cameras, joined other local progressive groups to create a larger movement
three!
i followed Watergate with a passion. Bork’s legal opinions were not mine but he was in an impossible position and they knew someone had to do it. Bork was the straw man for our frustration. however, we should have charged Nixon.
he said it should be up to individual organizations. do you want your rights individually decided by whatever group? do you want your kids to have to go through scrutiny and ugliness just to play a game? which of your rights do you want decided by one group after another?
i have not a clue what you are trying to say. let me be clear on what i am saying: you don’t know what you are talking about. you are blathering about things you have not bothered to educate yourself on. stop. don’t type. go read.
what are you even talking about? what is your point?
you know, you could stop talking and listen a little. trans people are telling you this answer was bad and you are telling us that we need to shut up and accept it. not to educate him, not to get him to listen but we should shut up. you need to think.
if the only issue that we consider is our life and safety is that okay with you or do we need to expand it to also worry about the price of eggs?
why would i box a non-male? i am male. i have the muscles and the oxygen availability of a male. it would be unfair for me to compete against women. trans girls have the bodies and physicality of any other girl. to put them against males is unfair to them and an advantage to males.do your research
well, i’m a trans guy and yes, yes he did.
it starts when you decide that trans girls are dangerous to cis girls. like saying they shouldn’t play sports. that’s where it starts, Pete. when you treat them differently.
until this moment i had not realized that Tom was more than just the man we blame for fascism. Now we can blame him for fanatical religiosity, also. no need to stop there, couldn’t he also be responsible for the coming stagflation?
i’m a Jewish trans guy. Indian food is the best food. Boston sucks. But cats are nature’s perfect companion. i like people i can learn from. if i want people i agree with its best if i just talk to myself. And i like people who can grow and change and bring me along on their journey. Tom fits that .
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i never understand smugness as a tactic. My belief is based so much in much of what you describe and i find so much joy and comfort in my community and what is demanded of me by my faith. Fear is not my foundation. Heschel said “i asked for wonder and he gave it to me”. That is my foundation.
“I’m Ron Reagan not afraid of burning in hell”. i was fine with that ad until that smug dismissal of all spirituality as that crappy statement.
i do not know why i laughed so hard.
“legend” translates to Christian football messiah who failed”.
this is about harming people who spent their lives serving their country. not because they did dishonorable acts but because of who they are.
she has been bashing trans women. what did she expect?
i am never this rude but i am so tired of this nonsense. do we vote on your children’s medical care?
we were doing fine. getting the care we needed, living our lives. then people like you come along, spout some uninformed shit that creates harm and then wants me to fix your ignorance. Do you have to justify and explain your medical needs to strangers in order to be accepted?
not even vaguely my, or any trans person’s responsibility to educate you not to say stupid and harmful things. that labor is on you alone.
you are so very, very uninformed. you are talking about actual lives affected by people who have done no research, no thinking,spit out sentences that, if policy, will destroy many young lives. please, if you say “maybe i am not informed enough” that is a way of saying “i need to shut up and learn”
no world power has deliberately stripped itself of that designation.
devin nunes is still alive?
in this moment in the US? Lawyers, judges.
“what do you mean you won’t vote for the guy who thinks trans people are dangerous? how can you take part in purity politics?”
don’t worry about imagining it was someone in your family. you won’t have to soon. when this kind of machine start grinding humans it doesn’t stop.
My memory of Republicans from my childhood was patrician New Englanders who would be thought of as liberal Democrats today including the racism covered in a sheen of care.
i went to high school in Schuylkill County. worked in a PA Dutch restaurant where at least two workers had black lung disease from the coal stoves.
i’m trans. if it’s “purity” for me to refuse to vote for someone who won’t protect me, i’m good with that. your purity is my safety.
perfection
always.
i don’t care if anything happens except that we all know that the president of the most powerful country on earth is a sexual predator who raped women and children alike. if that’s all we can do, let’s accomplish that. At least.
i used to assembly those babies. their danger was nothing compared to the dremel saw.
i would vote for the dude if he could run.
The Republican Party: Party of Pimps
i won’t read it. how early does he throw trans people under the bus?
I won’t either. If you are willing to sacrifice me for “the greater good” then you just another threat and we might as well all go down together. No votes for transphobes. No matter what.
exactly.
they are supposed to be who they represent themselves to be when they are running for office. i know how naive that sounds and i do not care. i can’t imagine a moment when political calculation should mean less than this moment. And i am judging those who are calculating every moment of every day.
show me. as a trans man i would love to see where this support of his has been hiding. bring it out of the dark!
yeah. this. it’s really weird but after a lifetime of physical books i struggle. let me know if you figure it out.
it is not anti-semitic to refuse to support genocide. To welcome and protect the stranger and to repair the universe are the heart of Judaism. israel itself is slandering Jewish belief.
I feel very, very male and if anyone called me non-binary it would feel uncomfortable. But I spent years as a lesbian, I am a mother. It is hard to say that there is not a tremendous amount of gender fluidity in my life experience
Jeffrey Epstein will save democracy posthumously.
i love you.
i told a nurse practitioner that i was seeing that i was worried about losing my testosterone. she said “oh, the media is twisting this. they just want to protect kids”.
oregon does not fluoridate its water. Dentists can tell kids from Oregon.
No life needs context to matter. All children deserve safety.
and the more of us pebbles there are, the bigger and stronger the avalanche. Be a pebble.
is there a way i can pay her to allow me to put this on a shirt?
it’s true. i am a highly articulate bot used to bring complex arguments in favor of trans rights in order to try and cross the seal-satisfied brain barrier and clear failing.
what have you done to support trans rights? we’ve established my credentials, let’s establish yours. do you identify as a woman? Are you cis? Queer? And, again, what have you done, as an individual to support trans rights that makes it possible to say we are receiving too much?
what have you done to support trans rights? we’ve established my credentials, let’s establish yours. do you identify as a woman? Are you cis? Queer? And, again, what have you done, as an individual to support trans rights that makes it possible to say we are receiving too much?
what have you done to support trans rights? we’ve established my credentials, let’s establish yours. do you identify as a woman? Are you cis? Queer? And, again, what have you done, as an individual to support trans rights that makes it possible to say we are receiving too much?
can you show me where you are exhibiting any empathy for any group except women?
brown people. Now i am coming to you and asking for support and you are calling me names. i haven’t attacked you personally in any way. what is it about what i am saying that is provoking this response in you?
one last word before i go. i have more fear. more empathy, more lived experience as a woman-and a lesbian than you do.i worry more about future harm to women than you are able to exhibit for the pain that trans people are currently experience.Every week i protest and witness what the gov is doing to
lol
shut up and stop whining” we aren’t whining. we are screaming for help. and i hear your response.
. it’s what always made me proud to be a democrat. all my life. every vote, every election democrat. and i know about holding my nose. But, i, a trans person is telling you that laws are being passed clearly intended to end my existence and my dear empathetic liberal friends are “i wish you would
one thing about the left that distinguishes it from the right is our empathy, our understanding that everyone has a hard road and some have roads we do not understand but we believe them when they tell us their stories.it’s our belief in that that got us civil rights and women’s rights and gay right
threatened. if a Black person were describing that they no longer had a job because of the color of their skin or that they could no longer get medical care or that the government would not allowing them to care appropriately for their child, would you be sneering about “special
you say we should unify. Does that include you supporting us or does “unify” mean “shut up@. what have you done to show support for trans people as we come under increasing direct attack to our livelihoods and healthcare. and yes, all of us are under threat but some of us are having our very lives
is this how you want to respond when a marginalized person is telling you why your solution won’t work for them? that throwing up your hands and saying “well, she tried,” seems unsupportive to trans people?
to shut up but when they come for you you won’t be patient with politicians telling you to wait until they get elected. in 18 months.
congresspeople don’t create change. anger and loud voices change things. pressure on politicians changes things not patting them on the head and trusting them to do the right thing. if you are too afraid to talk about it you will be uninterested in fixing it. the same goes for you here. you want me
i can’t type when i am passionate. They may have had big moths, i don’t know but i sure as hell know they had big mouths.
Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, praised be her name.
Big moth that didn’t shut up.
worked. it’s not how gay rights worked. i fought for both. my parents fought for civil rights. it never got won by people shitting up and voting for meek politicians. it got won by Floria Steinham and Betty Friedan and Harvey Milk and ACT-UP. and you know what those heroes of mine had in common?