• shneancy@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    nah even in Europe being trans friendly makes you at least left leaning

    we’re not many miles ahead in the societal run towards progress and acceptance, the US is just sprinting the wrong way

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      15 hours ago

      In Europe being trans friendly has fuck-all to do with your political leanings on the left-right axis. It’s just USA warping the political discourse with their literally one-dimensional politics.

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        though i agree it should have fuck all to do with your political leaning, in reality there’s a strong enough correlation that ignoring it would be foolish. As a European trans person if given the choice to out myself to either a group of people i know are left leaning vs a group of people i know are right leaning i’d pick the leftists in a heartbeat

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          23 minutes ago

          Over here a leftist could easily be someone voting for the communist party - which is conservative as can be, with most supporters being uneducated rural folk, much like GOP voters in the US.

          Your best bet would be a socially liberal party, which could be left-leaning green party or right-leaning pirates.

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      16 hours ago

      LGBT has always been a target.

      The “good guys” still (chemically) castrated one of their greatest minds that won the war for ten, just because he happened to like dicks.

      Theres a reason people wanted to reduce the victims of the Holocaust to just being Jewish and ignored all the other groups that both sides wanted to persacute.

      They did the same thing this time, target LGBT to build the movement and are now expanded to other groups.

      Hopefully everyone stands up while we still have the numbers, otherwise they’ll keep chipping away fringe groups.

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      12 hours ago

      You don’t even have to be trans friendly. He never said he was friendly. You can just not care about what other people do with their lives.

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        2 hours ago

        if someone is not outright hostile towards me when they learn i’m trans i consider them friendly :')

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      15 hours ago

      Nah it really depends.

      While the right tends to be religious and does not really approve anything LGBTQ-related, they’ve learned to behave and to mind their own business, which is actually fine. Respect other people, even if you don’t agree with them and as long as nobody’s getting hurt, we can all live happy lives.

      This new wave of “America-style” extreme right lunatics though, that’s a different story. Those entitled fuckers feel they’re allowed to mess with other people’s lives, and they’re due a harsh lesson in civility.

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      16 hours ago

      What the Americans call libertarians have some minority representation in Europe and they’re tolerant of minorities. Not as good as leftists but better than conservatives.

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      14 hours ago

      It’s pretty hard to make an accurate blanket statement about what the US believes any more. There really are two very different Americas, and the evil one is in power.

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          14 hours ago

          Most of America IS working class, so that’s not true. Neither political party represents the people well, that’s certainly true, although one does so even worse than the other.

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          13 hours ago

          True if we’re talking about the divide in the uniparty, though id say the real divide in America is between the wealthy/ruling class (and the sycophants they use their wealth to indoctrinate), and the working class.