• AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    How you could hate him? I understand. I have a nonbinary kid, and I’m against what he stands for. But advocating for political assassination is just wrong. We don’t punish people for crimes they haven’t yet committed, and we don’t support vigilantism.

    We need to vote out fascist Republicans, not kill them.

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          It is sad to see this state of the divide in the US. Even if you are against Trump, you’re not against him enough unless you want him dead. If you don’t want him dead, you must be a troll. What a sad state this debate has reached.

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            I’m dumbfounded at how bad it is, and that apparently the left is becoming as bad as the right as far as ends justifying means, at least.

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              Yea honestly I usually just avoid these kind of threads because any debate just seems pointless when it comes to US politics. I’m just glad I don’t live there but it scares me how much their politics matter for the rest of the world when it is such a shit show.

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      You know Trump was already president once, right? It’s not like it’s a secret that he’s anti-LGBTQ people.

      We Made A List Of All The Anti-LGBT Stuff Trump Has Done As President from 2018, it includes

      • Saying it’s legal to fire workers for being transgender.

      • Arguing that it’s legal to fire workers for being gay.

      • Making transgender female prisoners live with male prisoners.

      • Telling the Supreme Court that shopkeepers can turn away LGBT customers.

      • Withdrawing protections for transgender students.

      • Refusing to investigate anti-transgender discrimination complaints in public schools.

      • Trying to kick transgender people out of the military.

      • Issuing a religious liberty policy.

      • Starting to rescind protections for transgender patients.

      and their list goes on.

      The Trump administration on Friday finalized a rule that would remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people when it comes to health care and health insurance from 2020

      A controversial new rule that could allow homeless shelters to turn away transgender people based on physical appearance is the Trump administration’s latest attempt at restricting trans rights. also from 2020

      I’m not sure it’s possible to get a full picture of everything Trump did wrong, even if you narrow it down to specific topics like LGBT rights. A lot of these things aren’t crimes, but that’s only because he was the one writing the laws and policies.

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        And the solution to this problem is to murder him? That is not how democracy works. Besides, the problem is not Trump per se, but the people voting for him. That won’t change just because Trump is dead. They will find some other bigoted candidate that will be just as bad if not worse.

        People need to be educated and informed and know why it’s a bad idea to vote for someone like Trump - that is the only sustainable way to fix things if you ask me. Murder and violence will only entrench people further on either side and drive people to even more extremes.

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          Oh stop fuckin being precious. That’s exactly how settler democracy from Amerika to Germany and back works; you CLEARLY don’t know your own history. When you don’t like a world leader who told you ‘no’ at the trade table, the West has him put down. When a world leader proposes divestiture from the petrodollar, the West assaults him in ways you ALL claim to detest with bayonets, then make fucking jokes about it in the days after. When the West need land cleared out for genocidal settlers to put down their stakes, you ALL provide all the weapons in the world.

          Amerika’s very ‘democracy’ itself was built on the genocide of Native Amerikans, and slavery of stolen Africans. The hegemon whose comforts, privileges, and treats YOU ENJOY was ALWAYS greased in the blood of the people you ALL consider ‘lesser’. I repeat: you don’t know your own fucking history.

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            You mean virtue signalling. That’s their cute little phrase for it.

            It’s easy to do if you just ignore all the inconvenient facts and pretend you’re more righteous than others.

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        I honestly understand all that, and believe it’s vitally important that he’s defeated. But assassinating political rivals is literally a characteristic of fascism.

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          It literally isnt: fascism is capitalism in crisis and assassinations have gone on for most of human history, before the development of capitalism in the first place