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F me. This hit really hard.

I think this line hit harder than any:

More likely than not, the current MAGA base would laugh and revel in photos of trans people having their heads shaved, having involuntary surgeries performed upon them, being correctively raped, and being forced to do manual labor…

…They would. This is not an exaggeration or “I hate MAGA” litmus test, millions would legit cheer this on from their little screens, like it’s the solution to the country’s problems, and social media platforms would egg them on and tailor posts to fit the individual. Hitler’s propaganda apparatus has nothing on us.

F me.

Yeah I don’t see a way out of this either. Collapsing corporate social media would help more than the author realizes, I think, but still.

We came to similar conclusions during 45. We completed our exit during 46.

I agreed with most of the opinion. However, I found myself often wishing the author had citations for their interpretation of current events.

The Trump administration has made it clear to companies with federal contracts that if any of their employees say anything bad about the administration, those companies will lose said contracts.

Here is one that is just generic enough that I can’t find much in terms of information. It would have been nice for the author to do that. Then again, perhaps would have been simply a bit too to manage for an opinion writer.

Accurate grim view for those of us who can’t leave.

Trans are what, 0.x% of society? They're being used in the exact same way the German Reich used gypsies and jews...

As a trans woman I find this pretty spot on. And bleak.

Historically, even unpopular dictators who ruin their countries tend to hang on to power indefinitely: Cuba,...

But also we're just going to fire shots at the most LGBTQ progressive country in North/Central America, on the way out.

Leaving doesn't work this time, nukes exist. Unless everyone stays and fights the whole world is doomed.

My reaction: this is weak and scared. Fortune favors the bold; I'm not letting a guy who shits his pants intimidate me out of my home. My wife was tortured under the first Trump administration, trans in the military shit, and she got paid out winning that fight. Right now she's in the federal government and they can't fire her. My brother is too, they said him and his cohort would be fired in less than one day and it's been months and they are all still there waiting.

Sometimes you have to get rocked in the face really hard a few times in order to position yourself to make a winning move in a fight. America is the blue print for Nazism, we were born out of chattel slavery and genocide, all these systems being destroyed were basically irredeemable to begin with. We're not descending into fascism, we're waking up to the reality that we've already been fascist for a long time.

Trump bankrupts casinos and always screws over everyone he works with. Is he a fascist who scares me? No, it's a hilarious godsend my idealogical enemies made him their standard bearer. W Bush, that's a fascist that scares me. He set the stage for a real dictatorial takeover of our county and then Leeroy Jenkins Trump drives straight into a wall and wrecks their shit. He backs up and now he's ramming into the wall again

Trump has to put on a show of force quickly at the start of his term because in another six or nine months it's going to be incredibly obvious he is an impotent lame duck