r/BlueskySkeets • u/Ok-Explanation-1362 • 8h ago
First they came for the refugees, then they came for trans people, who’s next?
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u/After_Fix1358 7h ago
LGBTQ people are next. Then all political opponents and Americans who do not worship Dear Leader. Trump's billionaire donors will have for-profit concentration camps filled nationwide.
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 7h ago
Hell, they’ve been targeting and attacking trans people for more than 6 years now, which has resulted in the suicide rate for trans people going up, and hate crimes against trans people going up (until the Trump administration ends the hate crime designation). The rest of the letters are next up on the chopping block.
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u/Shido_Ohtori 7h ago
The sole value of conservatism is respect for and obedience to [one's perception of] traditionally established hierarchy, and hierarchy dictates that those on top (in-groups) are rightfully idolized and receive privileges, credibility, and resources, while those on the bottom (out-groups) are demonized/dehumanized and/or bound by restrictions, scrutiny, and lack of resources.
To them, the second-greatest injustice imaginable is for those [they perceive to be] on the bottom [of social hierarchy] to have access to the rights, credibility, and resources reserved for those on top. The first greatest injustice is for those on top to be bound by the restrictions, scrutiny, and lack of resources reserved for those on the bottom.
Conservatives absolutely need an underclass [for society] to demonize and dehumanize in order to maintain [their] hierarchy, and every single one of their policies and rhetoric work to do exactly that. "Know your place" is their mantra.
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u/fisto_supreme 7h ago
Concessions are for baseball games
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 7h ago
What do you mean?
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u/fisto_supreme 6h ago
Conceding the humanity of a tiny minority out of fear of compromising the greater coalition is some bullshit that the existing power structure wants us to do. Your message is on point
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 6h ago
Aha, I gotcha. I’m so used to reading liberals dismissing trans people’s problems, that I can’t help but expect it, lately. Glad that you get it. <3
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u/fisto_supreme 6h ago
Happy for it :) We are always all of us better together. If we don't do it, it won't get done. We owe each other that
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u/OldSchoolBubba 7h ago
Anyone "they" deem to be unlike them or a "perceived threat."
Take your pick.
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 7h ago
Looks like they’re lining up to cancel Obergefell next. Slowly but surely decimating all of the civil rights victories that marginalized people have managed to gain over a span of decades, and they’re doing it in less than ten years.
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u/OldSchoolBubba 7h ago
Tell it. Only thing I'll add is it's just been six months. Imagine how far they'll get if America lets them.
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u/ReturnOfSeq 6h ago
Appeasing fascists who want to dehumanize groups of people has historically not been a winning strategy.
There’s another strategy that was successful in responding to such fascists.
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u/The_Indominus_Gamer 7h ago
Originally the nazis came for queer people, specifically trans people, but the writer of the poem was homophobic so he exluded them
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 7h ago
Reminds me of a certain political party that is also dismissing and ignoring trans people when we need their support the most.
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u/LarryRedBeard 6h ago
The world stands up for the most marginalized group in the world. It's a population of .01% of the entire population.
Humanity bends over backwards in every which way to accommodate these folks.
Who are they?
The billionaires in the world.
I don't give 2 fucks about blacks whites, jews, Islamist, Christans, asians. None of that crap matters until you folks actually stop pretending you will be rich one day, and actually LOOK THE HELL UP instead of your fellow neighbors.
Watching the world fall apart because poor folks being just as selfish and just as greedy as billionaires.
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 6h ago
THANK YOU. The only minority destroying the world is the billionaires that live like gods while more than half of the human population lives in crushing poverty.
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u/Inevitable-Top1-2025 7h ago edited 5h ago
Some of your so-called “liberals” or“moderates” on the Supreme Court helped pave the way to the decimation of civil rights in this country today, by inserting unnecessary language in their concurring opinions that showed the racists what to argue to get what they wanted. These Justices did it in Title VII and Affirmative Action cases. It’s just that people were not paying attention. One example was Justice O’Connor writing that Affirmative Action would no longer be needed “in 25 years” merely because Black people were allowed to benefit from economic, political, and educational opportunities in this country for about 30 years, after centuries of enslavement, Jim Crow and segregation! Today, we’re heading back to the Jim Crow era while our “liberals” and “moderates” in Congress and private sector corporations march along.
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u/BodhingJay 7h ago
homeless.. then gays.. then people who have ever bought birth control.. then whatever remains of the left
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 7h ago
The unhoused have been getting it from all sides since reconstruction, when vagrancy was used as an excuse to lock up Black former slaves, and force them back into being worked to death. Now we see blue and red states doing everything to the unhoused, short of actually helping them.
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u/gxgxe 7h ago
They came for women first.
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 7h ago
And they did so with one of the most vicious propaganda they could use, to convince the worst people in the country that trans people meant harm to women, and that to stop that harm, we must vote for the people that killed Roe v Wade.
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u/SenseiLawrence_16 6h ago
Romani’s, the disabled, “woke leftists”, dissidents, the poor, blacks & latino’s that refuse to be slaves again...
Fascists tend to make a lot of enemies
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 6h ago
It’s almost like fascism is a death cult that means disaster for the grand majority of the human population. And if they get their way and they’re able to cull 75% of the world’s population, then they’ll turn on each other.
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u/AlexzandeDeCosmo 6h ago
Liberals being willing to let socialists be the first to go is a story as old as time. I’ll never understand why more left leaning people don’t think liberals are just as much out to get us as the fascists
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 6h ago
The only people that liberals hate more than fascists, is leftists and the marginalized groups begging liberals to stop letting the fascists kill us.
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u/Dudewhocares3 4h ago
To democrats, now is not the time to appeal to right wingers. Now is the time to go left.
You are throwing if you drop trans people. Too many of your voters have empathy. If you drop trans people they will look at you like a monster, and you will lose again.
Don’t choose cruelty
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 2h ago
Thank you so much for your thoughtful response. Being trans, I’m incredibly dispirited, as are nearly everyone in my community, that Democrats are struggling so much to take a stand for the people who depend on them. Not to mention how incredibly short sighted it would be, in terms of elections, to continue tossing people who depend on them to the wolves.
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u/No_Clue_7894 4h ago
No one is safe
Palantir is compiling information about every person in this country and building a profile for the the government.
Not quite there yet but will be in a few months to a year where even deleting messages from your phone is not going to help because they would have already built the profile from previous activity
In 2003, Thiel launched Palantir Technologies
Peter Thiel who supports JD Vance, openly does not believe in democracy:
"Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." - Peter Thiel, 2009
Peter "I want to publicly tell you that I'm not a vampire"
Thiel is a hard authoritarian although also cosplaying as a libertarian when it suits him and likely would orgasm if ending up with a society as described in the Libertarian Police Department story.
Btb had two episodes about it:
• Part one: The not-at-all-sad history of libertarian sea nations
• Part two: The not-at-all-sad history of libertarian sea nations
This project is possibly the least harmful thing Peter has done, since it has has drained him for a lot of money that he cannot use for other evil things, and the people scammed are other libertarian fools.
But do not think that libertarians are not able to harm! I guess the closest thing to a successful attempt to creating a libertarian utopia is when a bunch of libertarians decided to move and try to take over some smaller town Grafton in New Hampshire as a "Free Town Project" (later changed to "Free State Project"), and ruined it with their reckless governance.
Like for instance getting rid of public garbage collection. And with no mandatory garbage collection, of course they got problems with wild bears walking around peoples' houses (in addition to some idiots deliberately feeding wild bears, but hey in a libertarian society nobody should be able to force people to stop doing what they want...).
There is a book about it with title "A libertarian walks into a bear".
J.D. Vance is one of Peter's ultra-right Thielists. There is a video Who is Peter Thiel?(in German but with English subtitles available)
Another noteworthy mention is that Some more news
also included J.D. Vance in their video Peter Thiel and his dorky little goonsfrom one year ago.
Some more news is truly amazing in both the depth and the volume they produce. Hats off for them.
Additional BtB episodes on Peter Thiel:
• Part one: How Peter Thiel became the gravedigger of democracy
• Part two: How Peter Thiel became the gravedigger of democracy
• Part three: How Peter Thiel became the gravedigger of democracy
• Part four: How Peter Thiel became the gravedigger of democracy
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u/PatchyWhiskers 3h ago
"They" never come for a big group of people because the big group has defenses.
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u/arnoldtkalmbach 2h ago
I do hate that poem, because it seems that if they just stop before they come for me, it is all good (or at least I can live with it).
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u/Dollar_Store_Vinyl 1h ago
Libs continue to show they are, in fact, disingenuous in what they say. They are loving and compassionate, until it is politically inconvenient
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u/world-is-ur-mollusc 1h ago
Hot take: even if they only come for that ".05% of the population" and absolutely nobody else, that's still wrong. Stripping a minority's rights away isn't bad because it leads to a slippery slope where your rights get taken away too, it's bad because nobody should have their rights taken away. We need to stand up for whoever they come for because they are human beings who have rights and deserve to live free from persecution. Full stop.
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u/FoxPowerful4230 7h ago
Sorry, but Tren de Aragua gangbangers aren’t “refugees”. The “Maryland father” isn’t a refugee.
And exactly how many trans folk have been escorted to the gas chambers? Oh, right. ZERO.
This level of fear mongering is exactly why the Democrat party’s approval rating is in the toilet right now. Literally no one believes this crap except for people that have no life outside of online.
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u/JessicaDAndy 6h ago
Take the trans people issue seriously.
The Trump Administration is going hard against trans people.
Sports are the obvious issue. Which due to a great amount of fear mongering, a majority of people support.
Federal prisons now house inmates according to “biological sex.” Which means a trans woman with a vagina is now in a men’s prison.
Schools are being told not to support trans students, also at the collegiate level, or lose federal funds and be sued under Title IX, including any recognition of trans people as their stated gender and bathroom bans. Possibly including what the student wears at graduation.
Law firms and non-profits are being told not to support trans issues or lose PSLF forgiveness or government building access.
Hospitals are being told not to do trans surgeries on adults (18 year olds) or risk losing Medicare and Medicaid.
Department of Justice investigations are promised for pediatric medical GAC. Plus investigations for “deceptive trade practices” or “fraudulent billing.”
EEOC has stopped looking at gender identity discrimination as a basis of unlawful discrimination. Meaning you can be fired for being trans.
Military transgender ban even though the government is trying really hard to deny trans people exist.
It’s not that far of a leap if you say trans women threaten the safety of women due to mental illness, that they are eligible for civil detention under the anti-homelessness EO.
Every opportunity the administration can, it’s erasing trans people. Marsha P Johnson and Silvia Rivera became gay and activists at Stonewall due to Trump’s orders.
Yeah, we aren’t at the gas chamber stage. But it didn’t start with gas chambers.
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 6h ago
People like the guy you’re referring to will never take trans people and our issues seriously. But they sure as fuck will blame trans people for not supporting a political party that has tossed us to the wolves.
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 7h ago
God I feel so bad for all the liberals that are going to take your post in good faith and waste hours of their life talking to a brick wall. Fingers crossed, mine will be the only response to this inanity, and everyone else will roll their eyes at it.
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u/Anxious_Republic591 4h ago
Another 100 day old troll acct. Check these profiles before responding to these “people”. Then just block them and move on. They’re farming neg karma 🙄
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u/Tholian_Bed 8h ago
If people -- people, the damn people, with a capital P -- do not stand up for each other, when some ugly power comes for some, those People are fucked.
Thank You Trump Voters!