put all of your election posting here so it doesn't bother anyone else!
from @CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net:
For Agitprop purposes, I’m asking comrades to help aggregate any and all effortpost responses, critiques, or general thoughts that you have seen or written pertaining to yesterday’s U.S. election that you think have standalone value for discussion either online or IRL.
I made a post for that purpose here, and ideally it can be used not only for general discussion, but as a reference for well thought out responses in discussions about the election to save all of us some brainpower.
No shitposts please, as we’d like to highlight some comrades’ actual effort in constructing responses or analysis, but humor is 100% welcome to help make your point!
Before I get doom and gloom about Trump season 2, do you all think that Trump would actually do any of the insane anti-lgbt stuff he's talked about? Like I don't exactly expect it to be good for us, but at the same time it feels like something he drummed up to get support and isn't something that can be practically enacted or enforced.
Yeah he’s going to be fucking awful and he’s old so he’s likely to die in office which gives us President Groyper
Idk that man is like Mr Burns, all his ailments keep him in equilibrium.
I don't think Trump will ever die. The year is going to be 2032 and he's going to somehow be running for a 4th term and still beat the democratic candidate by babbling incoherently.
He can certainly undo standing executive orders that prevent discrimination against LGBT people by federal agencies and federally funded private entities. His justice department will do little/nothing to contest state-level anti-LGBT legislation. I don't think it's particularly likely, but it's possible that the GOP Congress passes legislation banning gender affirming care for minors.
Yeah that adds up :/ Sucks, but my liberal transgender friends have been panicking about us all ending up in concentration camps, which has felt pretty unrealistic to me but fuck if I know. Maybe dems will realize by 2028 that continuing to go to the right doesn't work and we'll get another pro-lgbt candidate but, doesn't seem likely.
Yeah you’re not ending up in camps. My country is in far worse shape than yours with lgbt rights and even we haven’t reached that point. Getting anti-lgbt legislation passed that makes it harder to get gender affirming care is more likely
My condolences. In hindsight it was dumb of me to be worried in the first place, but its hard to feel that way when everyone else around me is panicky. Guess it'll just be another 4 years of Trump saying something outrageous, Dems getting up in arms (but not fundamentally doing anything about it), and things getting slowly worse with nobody in power actually trying to stop it.
I don't think Trump will do much, he admitted in a rally the other day that no one actually cares about trans athletes. He definitely won't stop the states from doing anything though so it kinda depends on where you live