In Umpiem Mai camp in Thailand, which is home to more than 10,000 people who fled the brutal civil war in neighbouring Myanmar, a resident and a health worker told ABC that multiple patients who were reliant on oxygen have now died.
“The medical workers left without even taking the equipment and the patients had to return to their homes, including some who had to be carried out,” said Sulaiman Mawlawi, a camp resident. “It was a very tragic moment for us.”
I’ve heard multiple really fucking disturbing things regarding queer people on Lemmy lately that do not get enough pushback and that is one of them.
Some others said to me (paraphrased):
“You’re complaining about a genocide that hasn’t happened yet when there’s genocide going on right now in Gaza!” The reaction to that link: “That isn’t genocide and you’re making light of genocide if you call it that.”
“You ran away instead of staying to fight” (Said to me multiple times because I got my gay daughter out of the fucking country to save her) along with “you think she’ll be any safer in the UK?” Yes. Not one person has threatened her for being queer since she’s been here or given her shit for dressing too “manly.” When she was in school in Indiana? Yes, those were among the multiple ways she was severely bullied until she literally could not take public school anymore and so we put her in an online school.
But people would much rather point fingers and blame each other than do anything productive. That is being made clear to me over and over on Lemmy.
Oooo… I got that one from a furry on discord. My jaw hit the floor when they said that to me. Granted, they were European so they may not be keeping up with the news, but it was still shocking to hear that from a furry of all people.
In my case, the most recent fuckwit told me to never move to Europe because I wasn’t wanted there.
(Do you want a furry trans-girl pet? I’ll be your pet if you move me out too c:)
(I’m joking. Unless…)
Believe me, if I could take every non-cishet person with us, I absolutely would. I don’t even have a job or a permanent place for us to live yet and she can only be here for six months legally unless I get a job above a certain income threshold, so we’re not safe yet. I think leaving at the end of January was still the right move though. Trump has proven to be so unpredictable that he could take any sort of horrific action at any moment.
I was heartbroken that my daughter had to leave behind not just her girlfriend, but one of her few other friends was a trans boy who was already facing a ton of shit for that, including parents who were only semi-supportive (they won’t deadname him, but they won’t give him hormones, he was only allowed an uncomfortable chest binder) and the school refuses to treat him like a boy. He’s already self-harming and doing lots of drugs and he’s only 13.
Honestly, you might not have to move back with the rate things are going.
How’d you move to the UK without having a job lined up?
Edit: also on the subject of her friends, where were you living before you moved away? I have friends in a number of states, they miiiiight be able to help, no promises tho.Edit 2: I’m dumb and can’t read.
Money from selling my car plus a credit card. And my wife is still in the U.S. and has a job, so money on a day-to-day level is not a problem yet.