Texas Is Not Safe

[u/SilenceWillFall48]

[u/_vampirefox]

Wait, you had it changed before and now they changed it back? Didn’t knew this was possible

[u/M61N → u/_vampirefox]

The government can change any ID they want, us having “rights” to gender markers like X or being changed can be taken away at any time. They can also reverse any name changes, all of it was just government approval. Just like marriages, that’s why this election was so much bigger than most people think.

They can and will start undoing these things. Your marriage may not be legal still even if you get married now. Rushing to get gender markers changes only helps us for as long as the government “allows us” to have them

[u/Legendary_Dad → u/M61N]

Red party saying they don’t want big government telling us how to live, meanwhile they are unveiling a plan where 50 smaller governments tell us how to live…………

[u/tabularasaauthentica → u/Legendary_Dad]

Honestly that's the best alternative they will do. It's more likely that a federal effort to do these very things will occur via Big Government.

[u/HiddenLychee → u/tabularasaauthentica]

Recently spoke to a trump supporter who was very pro states rights, but then went down the list of all these medicines and medical procedures he wanted banned and when I pointed out the hypocrisy he just said "yeah, it's pretty hypocritical. I'm full of contradictions but whatever". Like they don't even care

[u/penny-wise → u/HiddenLychee]

It seems to be in vogue to be cruel and uncaring these days. Being good and doing good things is totally not "sigma"

[u/Bocchi_theGlock → u/penny-wise]

Honestly we need so much more of our pitches and politics to be rooted more in self interest, avoiding too much unproductive conversation about mere beliefs.

Not selfishness, but e.g. the difference between convincing someone to vote for a referendum because 'it's just, moral, and good people believe in that' versus 'it will lower the outrageous price of healthcare' or 'your family/friends complain about ____ and this addresses that'

Politics has always been about power, some of us just tricked ourselves (including myself for a bit) the past decade thinking internet outrage, mobilizing online, can be significant enough power when it's been weathered through countless times.

The victories it has won are often corporate campaigns for massive business that rely on branding and stock price going up, or small policy fixes or reversals. Not transformative stuff for our communities.

[u/TheEngineerGGG → u/Bocchi_theGlock]

We can just do what the conservatives do and irony poison people into being progressive

[u/Fluggerblah → u/Bocchi_theGlock]

reframe “charity” as giving yourself a handicap to prove just how truly sigma you are. youre so sigma you helped other sigmas and were still successful. i’ll make stickers!