Trump winning supports the genocide of every LGBTQ+ person in all of North America, be it directly or indirectly. No one wants what is happening in Gaza. But, I have to say the potential genocide (in the sense of complete erasure of culture as well as open murders with little to no consequences sense) here is even higher.

I have the unfortunate circumstance of being a trans woman in GA. I already have had to completely shut off most contact with people, both work and personal.

I’ve already had rocks thrown at me in an attempt to kill me (this was years ago, even). I already feel like I have to carry a gun. If things go the way they seem, I will even have to order in groceries because it will further empower the people that hate my existence.

The foreign policy is shit, no question. However, I don’t like the possibility of being raped and murdered by some asshole that thinks he understands Co² emissions after watching some video.

I have a lot to say here, especially as a very blue collar machinist. I will refrain, though.

In conclusion: by “avoiding” the genocide in Gaza (which would have in my opinion had a much higher chance of being resolved with Democratic policies), you have also doomed people like me to maybe live in fear for the rest of our lives.

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    Trump literally said Israel should finish the job. You’re getting both genocides and probably a few on top!

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      A genocide of brown people too. And not just the ones in the U.S. illegally. Anyone who is brown and happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time either without ID or with an ID that a cop thinks is fake or stolen is going to be sent to a camp. That’s not even a “potential” thing. Trump has promised to deport millions of people. There is no way they can do that without accidentally deporting plenty of citizens and putting them in concentration camps first while they work out extradition deals.

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    The number of people who essentially told me that my kid’s life didn’t matter because of Gaza before this election was just disgusting.

    And they’re going to stand there as queer people are marched into conversion camps and say it was your fault.

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    Oh trump is going to help flatten Gaza with such a raging boner. Everyone that voted “uncommitted” has the blood on their hands they blamed others. Fucking repugnant

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    Its always amazing to me.the lengths someone will go to to avoid blaming their party or candidate for a loss. The blame is not even directed to the millions of people who actively voted for the fascist, but to the political minority with the least impact on the result.

    Lets face facts. The DNCs strategy to move to the right and court the mythical moderate Republican failed again. Their strategy to fund extremist Republican candidates in local races was another bet on the goodwill of the GOP voters and look they lost the Senate. They failed you.

    They failed the country. They had a huge hand in creating the trump mess for their own assumed gain and yet, none of the average libs will acknowledge it. They took the votes of independents and leftists for granted and decided Liz Cheney and AIPAC would bring them victory and they failed again. Face it.

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        I don’t see why it’s exclusive though.

        First and foremost, Republican voters are to blame.

        Voters who didn’t make the choice of voting for the milquetoast liberal instead of the overt fascist are to blame.

        People who argued for the both sides are the same rhetoric ad nauseam are to blame. I wholeheartedly agree that both sides suck, but let’s not be delusional there’s obviously one that’s worst.

        The Democratic party which propped up the most extreme fascists while courting anything supposedly both undecided and to their right instead of all the leftist voters are to blame.

        Even if it’s conceptually easier to handle, in such a shitty situation there’s usually a lot of blame to go around.

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        Agreed, it’s their civic duty, but if 2/3rds of the people think the electoral college needs to go,it’s the civic duty of the politicians to represent that. The US democracy is just so terrible that just blaming the voters is the easy way out. It’s the undemocratic system which year over year hasn’t changed even though the consequences were predicted year over year. This is not hindsight!

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    I hate to downvote a Star Trek meme, but that top half is inaccurate. America voted for a genocide of American LGBTQ and Gaza. Both.

    We “avoided” precisely fuck-all and everyone who claimed otherwise is a blatant goddamn liar.

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      It’s directed at people who absolutely cannot vote for Harris due to her stance on Gaza. Instead, they enabled a war on their LGBTQ neighbors.

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        But that’s my point, though: they didn’t do that “instead.” They did that in addition to!

        Fucking lying, bloodthirsty, fascist clowns, all of them.

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        Now that the election is over, we can admit it: both sides were bad. Sure Trump is worse, but Harris can be blamed too

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          There’s plenty of anger and blame for everyone today. Trump and his voters are the most at fault. Harris listened to the lobbyists instead of polls about Palestine. Democrats should never have nominated Biden, and shouldn’t have gaslit everyone about the economy being fine. Americans are far right.

          And last of all, I’ve never punched a Nazi or joined a union myself.

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    In conclusion: by “avoiding” the genocide in Gaza (which would have in my opinion had a much higher chance of being resolved with Democratic policies), you have also doomed people like me to maybe live in fear for the rest of our lives.

    Doesn’t matter. They get to LARP with their purity politics. The lives of American minorities don’t matter to them.

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    I hope for the best for your safety, sanity, and well being. Fuck this “interesting times” nonsense.

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      There’s a reason people’s are cursed “to live in interesting times.”

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      I have to reply here because SDF was down for a while and federation is still catching up. I want yout to know, though, you’ve kept me laughing and that has helped me a lot, so thanks for that.

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        Thank you for doing the same.

        The laughter is the release and therapy we’ll be needing going forward.

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    I told this to one of the tankies over in leftymemes, got called a genocide apologist and banned. Funny thing is, one of their mods is trans. Not American, though, so it doesn’t matter to her I guess. And let me tell you, that mod in particular, she was working hard to convince people not to vote for Harris. Didn’t have much to say about Trump, though… pretty interesting.

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      Asking a tankie what the best path forward is for the US is like a black man asking a Klansman for career advice. They want to see us burn, not be better.

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        Asking a capitalist what the best path forward is for the US is like a black man asking a Klansman for career advice. They want to see us destitute, not be better.

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      I really don’t get that.

      US is one of the world’s hegemons. They have disproportionate control overthe global energy markets, financial sector, and so much more.

      Pretty much wherever you are you will be impacted by US politics.

      And it sucks because the US is increasingly becoming a shit hole country.

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    Trump winning supports the genocide of every LGBTQ+ person in all of North America, be it directly or indirectly.

    Trump winning also supports the genocide in Gaza.

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      This is very true. I wanted to address the idea that not a single outlet has touched on, though.

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      Be it because people on the left want to carry out attacks on their peers to falsely prove a point or…

      Remember kids: it’s more important to be right than to live happily under a Presidency you don’t agree with didn’t win.

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    All of these so called anti fascists sure do seem excited about a fascist being elected

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    I suppose it’s not the best. But if things go really wrong. Every LGBT migrant is welcome in my country (Spain). We have some of the most advanced laws on LGBT protection on the planet.

    And while we have our share of far right that wants ti abolish LGBT rights, it is unlikely they will succeed at this even if they reach power (please, don’t let this afe like milk).

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    How about we stop the blame game and stay focused on fighting for both (and to be honest many more) causes?

    There was always going to be a fight, it was only a matter of how we were going to fight.