🧵 It strikes me that the UK & US LGBTQ communities need to take social media more seriously. Your enemies do. These are bigots who want to erase you legally. If you think you will not be criminalised or jailed, you’re not paying attention [1]
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[2] Unlike most people, I actually read Project 2025. Despite the Orange Taco’s insistence, the Project is being put in place, executive order by order. You can see this in the case of trans ppl, refugees & abortion. The document was written by the Heritage Foundation, the leaders of which are…
[3] …now members of the US regime. Irish ppl read accounts of women being tortured over abortion on social media & remember how it was standard here. My friend, for instance, had her baby die in her womb. But because abortion was illegal in Ireland, she was forced to carry her dead baby for a week…
[4] …until she started having cramps. So we watch the horrors emerge & see our history. Because the UK & US are authoritarian cultures ppl there ignore the experience of other countries.
I am begging you not to ignore how Irish people dealt with more extreme forces than you are now.
[5] You might be wondering why the far right hates Queer ppl, it’s not just about their feelings of inadequacy in their masculinity. It’s about expression. Your sex & gender are the ultimate form of free expression. The personal is political. You need to think about that.
[6] From your perspective, you are being you. From a bigots you are shouting in their face & from a cis straight person you are singing a different tune. Think about who you are as a statement. How would you introduce yourself to a bunch of strangers?
[7] Ireland has the answer. We have had three referenda in a row, where we won. Our system works & nothing you are doing does. We may not be colonists but our experience is valid. You know who we fought? The US Heritage Foundation, the ADF & Christo-Fascists. We beat them.
It's because if trans women exist, then there exists a narrative that cishet men cannot be universally considered the pinnacle of civilization because if they were, no one would voluntarily turn in their man cards. Trans women are a threat to their de facto dominance that can't be countenanced.
Case in point: brain dead woman in Georgia being kept alive to incubate feed who was 9 weeks gestation. No clue the effect this will have on the baby they plan to deliver by c-section. That poor family had no choice but are forced to pay the bill. It's a Naziesque science experiment.
Agreed. The control that the government has over the body of that braindead woman and the foetus she is forcibly incubating is abhorrent. And now all women at medical risk because of pregnancies, even unviable, will be left to die. Autonomy no longer exists.
No it’s Christo-fascism. That’s why Americans should know about Modern Irish history - it’s your future. As I mentioned we know about the US, probably more than Americans as we are not siloed.
I'm in 🇨🇦. I've watched friends and my ex who immigrated from the US go through a deprogramming process of sorts. They had to unlearn so much of what they were taught, and learn the truth. They've been kept in a bubble under the guise of patriotism. It's interesting to watch that bubble burst.
I guess I really don't understand what exactly you are suggesting be done or why it should be done that way. This thread seems to be mostly just assertions.
Read it as well. And yes, it is unfolding as planned. I am esp concerned for many friends in the US particularly 2 trans peeps, 2 same sex couples, 5/6 government workers, 1 already fired from high profile position. I am suggesting that they look at our Expedited Entry for Experienced Class. 🇨🇦
I don’t agree & I think that’s racist. Some close friends & v close family are American. I don’t think division helps, it’s doing the work of the far right.
They tried, they failed. They’ll fail again.
As long as they keep having babies, gay, bi, lesbian, transgender, queer, and so on down the line, WILL EXIST.
The thing is that colonial White culture is based on them being the civilised superior to the Other’s savagery. That’s why protest & marches are so minor in the US. It’s pervasive in everyone’s thinking in the US in the same way as theocracy is in Irish people’s thinking. It’s a subconscious bias 😞
Agreed. We try to remind others that this nation (United States of America) was colonized by white slave owners who used slaves to work their plantations, took property from the native tribes that already preoccupied the land, incorporated Asian slaves to work on expansion, etc.
Exactly. It's why I try to use my social media to openly talk about being a trans man, and discuss what's going on with the LGBT community and our rights to be citizens with protections.
It's really frustrating that these people have essentially "won" social media since around 2019, they managed to latch onto short term content much faster, and short term content simply appeals to people online much more.
Do you mean we should invest in bot armies like the right does? As a trans person, any time I go outside my network all I see is hate speech, often from bots. The vast majority support my rights: if I lived on social media, I would believe the opposite.
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I am begging you not to ignore how Irish people dealt with more extreme forces than you are now.
The US itself is quite segmented, if for no reason other than it's size (But it's not the only reason).
What you refer to in Ireland was progression, yes? Not a fight against regression.
Arrogant, selfish with limited self reflection skills.
I'm American there is nothing
" racist" about my comment. Possibly a generalized stinging statement but racist, no.
As long as they keep having babies, gay, bi, lesbian, transgender, queer, and so on down the line, WILL EXIST.
What they gonna do? Kill their babies? 😳
(My source is the book Night, which describes Nazis blowing babies to bits with machine guns in one page ;~;)
Here is where our community needs to do solidarity work. The BIPOC portion of the community already knows.
It’s the light skinned, fishing for safety in whiteness and heteronormativity that are in for a surprise.
Solidarity work.
MAGA will eat itself. There is not one person safe. When the serpent has consumed everything, it will eat its own tail to sustain its hunger.
If it does, we hope it dies of e-Coli.