Something else that comes through in this anecdote is the opportunity cost. It's absolutely vital that AGs are doing this but the resources they're bringing to bear to preserve people's rights could be targeted at other things if Harris had won. - ThreadSky

nied.bsky.social • 14 days ago

Something else that comes through in this anecdote is the opportunity cost. It's absolutely vital that AGs are doing this but the resources they're bringing to bear to preserve people's rights could be targeted at other things if Harris had won.

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Comment in r/Seattle detailing why it took a few more days for the Washington AG to file the suit wrt the trans EO. A huge thank you to all the people in the AGs office that made this happen.

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politiburb.bsky.social•14 days ago

Extraordinary circumstances require sacrifice, which is great and all until you realize we wouldn't have had to sacrifice if a bunch of idiots hadn't voted in the extraordinary circumstances to begin with.

noahdeuce.bsky.social•14 days ago

Almost every person and institution with the power to prevent this chose not to, and now us everyday people have to throw ourselves into the gears to try and slow it down.

kvoxsky.bsky.social•14 days ago

This isn't going to accomplish anything anyway. The administration will at best ignore them and their suits, at worst I dunno, have them killed?

nied.bsky.social•14 days ago

My AG spent the last two years ruthlessly enforcing the MBTA communities act, which requires municipalities to build multifamily housing around mass transit stations, & I'm definitely worried she won't be able to keep the pressure to build housing up when she's (very valiantly) fighting Trump.

nied.bsky.social•14 days ago

I guess this is all a very long winded way of saying worse is worse & you don't actually make things better by putting bad people in charge to send a message.

collect-turnip.bsky.social•14 days ago

People just don’t seem to understand, or in some cases want to understand, that there are a lot of things going on in the background of every day life. The Trump admin is just a new issue on top of others going on.

neotiamat99.bsky.social•14 days ago

It's bloody infuriating, yeah. Like, even in the best case scenario, even if we assume these fools implode and we win in the end, there's just so much wasted *time*.

We'll be years fighting and years rebuilding. And it's all so goddamn *unnecessary*!

nied.bsky.social•14 days ago

Tired: "We could've been at brunch right now!"

Wired: "We could've been expanding trans rights & building housing right now!"

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