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cute_spider wrote

Look I don't think this is good advice, but it's all I have: Be gay do crimes

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twovests OP wrote

I may or may not have already been doing a variety of crimes. Everyone's talking about how we'll have less energy to organize against support for Israel, but I think we'll also collectively have a lower risk tolerance for being arrested.

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twovests OP wrote

sorry. context was that i was transitioning. there were a lot of factors that had me on the fence, but this is a showstopper

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neku wrote

i'm not a transgender american but i think you might be overestimating how good transition might be under a democratic president. at the end of the day do you really want to live inauthentically for four or more years because of who's president

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cowloom wrote

it could literally be a matter of life or death now, I don't blame op for feeling this way.

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twovests OP wrote (edited )

two of my trans friends killed themselves during the trump presidency and MAGA is successfully and increasingly associating trans identity with pedophilia. pick your favorite transphobic slur, your favorite far-right forum, and your favorite search engine, to see what the winners were and are saying about us

most americans believe in christianity and we're living like the world isn't burning. people actually believe in christianity! that's wildly delusional! not transitioning is, like, third or fourth on the list of ways i'm living inauthentically

i will feel meaningfully safer and more secure in a life under trump if i don't continue my transition

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cowloom wrote

I'm so, so sorry

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twovests OP wrote

I don't mean to be edgy, but I won't even have it that bad! I'm white and still very cis-male passing and employed. "I can move to Canada" is actually a possibility for me.

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cowloom wrote

I'm the same way, and that also makes me feel kind of guilty. My friends are going to be targeted, but I won't be. But I have to stick around and help them fight.

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twovests OP wrote

cryptocurrency is good now

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twovests OP wrote

I was part of the "I won't vote for genocide" vote, and it does sting that that principle did mean throwing all these minority groups under the bus, but it's even worse that the "I won't vote for genocide" didn't end up mattering at all

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twovests OP wrote

I want to emphasize what I mean here:

If DIY HRT becomes associated with the same level of illegality as child sex abuse material, then you don't want to be buying that with your credit card. You want to be buying your HRT with the same money that people use to buy CSAM.

(I'm also increasingly worried about how credit card header data can be used, but that's a separate thing)

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