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1 year agoI still pass a place in California where they have a bunch stashed. I don’t think they are selling well either.
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They’re gonna happen eventually if nothing improves. There’s a breaking point to this all that we are on a collision course with.
They wouldnt be trying to throw trans people, women’s rights, immigrants etc. under the bus so hard if they weren’t desperate for the distraction. Genocide is the last gasp of empires as they fail. And we will fall if trump wins or further damages democracy.
Read your own damn study. You are selectively omitting the words right before "of the 139 participants "
"Sexual orientation was ascertained for both fantasy and behavior and then dichotomized as either biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic. Of the 139 participants, 17 (12.2%) were classified as persisters and the remaining 122 (87.8%) were classified as desisters. Data on sexual orientation in fantasy were available for 129 participants:… "
Right off the bat that study is about sexual identity, ie- sexual preferences, not gender identity ie who one is.
And the are much better studies that are far more comprehensive
“found an overall rate of 1 percent for regret after surgery for both transmasculine and transfeminine surgeries.” https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/transgender-youth-health-care-regret-pamela-paul-nyt-data.html
With a 1% regret rate it is not something that trans people have an issue with. You can count on one hand the number of trans individuals that have gone back permanently. Also puberty blockers are completely reversible, it’s not until months on the actual hormones that people start getting permanent changes. And even then that isn’t that irreversible.
Any vote that does not prevent Trump from being president is a vote for a Trump/Putin collaborator.
I am applauding the act of resistence, I don’t think the fact that garnishing wages is a consequence should dissuade those from trying to take a part in resisting. It doesn’t make the debt culture we saddle our children with, for a chance at survival, any less immoral. Any resistence in such a culture is therefore a moral obligation.
As far as I know indentured servitude is illegal in this country already, I’m pretty sure that’s reason enough not to pay.
They are conscientious objectors in that sense and I’m cheering them on.
How’d that execution turn out? Oh it took 22 minutes to die.
And I wonder why that is?
Could it be that no study is allowed on executions. I am talking about individual reports in the medical community . https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/dpic-reports/in-depth/behind-the-curtain-secrecy-and-the-death-penalty-in-the-united-statesI am not happier with any method to execute someone because the cruelty was always the point, not rehabilitation and not deterrence.
A few people have survived their first administration of a lethal injection. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/28/lethal-injection-surviving-execution-attempt-alabama
It was deliberately made painful by the reports of the survivors. They took what was a deliberately painless set of injections and would administer massive overdoses of the killing portion of the cocktail without administering the sedative portion. I don’t want to remember how I know this. There were various reports of individual staff members overseeing the cases, included in how I’ve come to this conclusion.
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They chose a mechanical non- biological method that could proceed without the medical community, again this isn’t out of benevolence, they were forced to act less cruelly because their hands were forced by the medical community.
And the old method was often misadministered so it was often as painful as they could make it. Link I have no doubt someone will find a way to make suffocation painful. Even if the method on the books is painless. The cruelty is/ was/ and always has been the point.
They aren’t doing it willingly. The drug manufacturers are no longer supplying the cocktails for lethal injections and the medical field is refusing to take part in the act.
Writing is on the wall for the entire world. What the writing says and where we go with it is still up to us. I’m going to resist and persist.
Really? They haven’t won anything. They’ve made progress, they are advancing a genocide against trans people like me and I’m not even this doomery, but the resistance to any destruction of this country will grind it to a hault again and again. They havent won the popular vote in this country in decades.
Get out and vote. Organize and resist. BLM was the biggest civil rights movement in the world. Covid shut this place down. Resistence is as easy as organizing a stay at home day.
And oh look the unions are already planning it. https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/04/business/uaw-next-auto-strike/index.html
And the discrimination that I face as a trans person is very different from the discrimination that a person of color feels in this country. The remedies aren’t the same, and umbrella terming discrimination just sweeps it under the rug and fails to provide a tangible set of goals to fix.
Fixing discrimination globally all at once is impossible. It creates apathy and makes us all bystanders to the problems. Legally ensuring that the nurse or teacher doesn’t misgender me is a very fixable and tangible thing that is very easy and clear cut.