🤬#Missouri judge ruled ban on gender-affirming health care for minors can take effect Mon…means next wk health care providers prohib from providing gender-affirming surgeries to children. Minors who began puberty blockers or hormones before Mon will be allowed to cont. meds, but other minors won’t have access to drugs.
Some adults also lose access to gender-affirming care. Medicaid no longer cover treatments for adults, state won’t provide surgeries to prisoners #LGBTQ https://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-minors-missouri-196d873aa5a5b8b05b0af18f0e653a16
sad. inhumane. medieval.
@HistoPol @GottaLaff = republican.
The Republicans are not not conservative (of course,) they are not even reactionary. They have been taken over by MAGA fundamentalists which are not unlike muslim fundamentalists in that they want to create a (quasi?) theocracy.
That never existed in the US, though.
Therefore, I say that they are not even reactionary.
What is as bad, for a lot of people the christian faith is important for their daily lives. The way they cherry pick christian teachings impacts the...
@HistoPol @GottaLaff christian, muslim, same same. Fundies are fundies. They have no souls, nor are they human, because they *chose* to deny that in others, whom they see as different.
Thus, I don't have to see them as humans. They deserve no such regard, until they offer it to others.
MAGAts are just that. Soulless trash.
@faraiwe
You mean well. And I agree with your assessment of fundamentalism.
But you err, and I am sorry to have to say this, gravely with regard to them not being human.
Declaring your foe to be non-human is the final step in escalation. It provides you with the justification to anihilate the enemy, b/c he is no longer protected by human rights, etc.
Human beings are neither good nor bad. We all have streaks for both. We can chose. But even if we chose falsely, this is...
...also human.
As a further proof: the last time a society declared certain kinds of people not human, over 6 million lives were destroyed in an industrial process: Nazi concentration camps.
This must never happen again.
Roussau was wrong. There is no "noble savage". Human beings have savage traits.
Understanding this makes it easier to comprehend the Christofascists. And develop strategies to neutralize their further rise to power.
@HistoPol @GottaLaff There is a WHOLE LOT of privilege in stating we ought to respect MAGAts rights.
Typically, comes from people who would not be initially shoved into trains by a MAGA regime.
For some, IT'S EXISTENTIAL. For others, they can afford to tsk-tsk as the trains are loaded.
@faraiwe@mastodon.world
I guess you know #MartinNiemöller's poem, too:
"First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me" 1) ...
@faraiwe@mastodon.world
...most people around here who engage in serious historical + political discussions do.
They know. It does not really make too much difference, if you are in the first or the fourth train. They'll come 4 you.
Also, he's missing an important group, that all dictators kill of initially: the intelectuals (ask Stalin and Mao.)
So, no, it is existential 4 most people.
And, however, yes everything legal must be done to stop the MAGATs. But this must suffice.
@HistoPol Did it suffice, before?
That assessment in its stark, incredible naivete, shows you haven't yet grasped. THEY DO NOT CARE. They giggle at the indictments. They use it as grifting opportunities. Only REAL consequences, loss of personal liberty, freedom, privilege and property will grab their attention.
And the lower echelon of MAGAts have even less to lose, so they become the suicide bomber paradigm/problem.
Wake up.
@faraiwe @HistoPol Good point about whether it was enough before and kinda of "if the system will stop itself" which the answer = HELL NO / NO WAY
So it's just up to individuals as main fallback and well most people are not working on themselves and working on / with others to improve their own mentality and instead spend time throwing stones at #Trump #Musk #AlexJones, #Bezos, #Zuckerberg etc.
Simply building our own thing or just making more friends than focusing on enemies would work WONDERS if not minimise spreading less of the bad word (which in itself is a winner now everyone is spreading it all).
