cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45577075
United we stand, divided we fall
Trans rights are human rights and stripping people of those rights is my biggest make me angry button.
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2026
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The other day at work, someone made some transphobic comment and i was like: nah dude. He asked me why i care, i'm not trans.
I was honestly kind of taken back by that comment. I told him that he's not a child either, if i can kick his kid in the face?
I hate people more often than not.
Lmao that's a great comeback from you. How'd he react afterward?
He was honesty just confused. He didn't see a connection at all. But that's life if you don't see gay or trans people and probably immigrants as human beings
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Excellent retort, give them their own medicine
How was it again?
They came for the trans, I didn't care, I am not trans.
Then they came for the gay, I didn't care, I am not gay.
Then they came for the women, I didn't care, I am not a woman.
Then they came for me, And no one was left to cry out for me
I am not gay
Who are you lying to??
I am whatever it is called when you are attracted to any person, thank you very much
Physically (bisexual), personality wise (pansexual) or emotionally (demisexual)? Don't answer, just wanted to give you more pointers.
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Too late; you’re gay now. I don’t make the rules—I just think them up and write them down.
Can I be gay too please? I could do with cheering up on a Tuesday :)
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when they came for the gays, i didn't care because i am not gay... maybe curious, that's normal, right? like who hasn't kissed a guy once just to see what it would be like? also some guys are just objectively hot
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I believe it’s more like “and no one was left to protect me” but I could be very wrong
Well the original poem goes
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
I changed it a little when writing for dramatic purposes as well as not remembering verbatim
Thank you :)
"Literacy" down the line really hurts me.
I'm an elementary school teacher, and I just had a conversation with my principal today that really upset me. He has a vision of the future where AI is ubiquitous and video takes such precedence over the written word that everybody doesn't need to learn how to read. He thinks he's a futurist. I think that version of the future sounds like a nightmare.
Fucking gadget fetishists getting toys they can ~~own~~ rent mixed up with utopia, at the expense of all good.
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ok listen i agree with the sentiment but this smacks of 'behold, i have presented myself as the chad and you as the soyjack, therefore i win!'
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all for one, one for all
But i want everyone else to lose everything, and to just stop it cold right when it gets to me. Telling me i cant is actually bigotry.
It's gonna take a socialist revolution to liberate people from oppression
Imo, a socialist revolution starts by rejecting our current business associations and recreating them as employee-owned businesses.
What I mean by that is instead of worrying about "Unionizing" start scouting and then taking the capable people in your corporation that would allow you to recreate your current workflow. Then do your previous employer's job better, while continuously sucking up their work force. Imagine how much money there is to go around when you cut out the middle-men(CEO/Board of Directors), and how easy it would be to steal the talent while leaving them with the mushroom managers.
As for defending human rights, and freeing people from oppression, that takes violence. And doesn't require waiting beyond grouping up and dealing with the ugly business at hand.
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Okay but what if instead we just made everything worse and shot ypu for suggesting there was any other options?
What?
Instead of liberating people. Just make everything worse!
Please explain
I... I dont know how to break down that proposal any more than this.
What annoys me, is how obvious this is. It's not like most people who e.g. hate trans people even pretend to not hate gay people or women...
We skipping the immigrants rights stone already?
They can be with us on the trans stone, I'm happy calling them transnationality folks
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Can I humbly ask for something? After we are done with the current stone, can the next one please be „common sense“?
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any group's rights are human rights, except fascists because human rights is an agreement and if you don't agree to it then you also renounce yours
Assuming this is US based on the slogan.
Good think Roe V wade was defended and the "women's rights" domino is still standing!
Wait a second…
Look, women can still vote and be a man's baby factory, its not like society is working hard to erase women from existence.
/s
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“But the democrats supported Israel…”
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And we should condemn them deeply for it.
You should still vote for them, I guess, but they don't even have a presidential candidate for the next election.
This purity testing between Democrats is so stupid. They fucking better give me a candidate, that doesn't want to slaughter Palestinians. That shouldn't be a controversial statement. If we signal to Democrats now, that we will vote for them no matter what stupid inhumane bullshit they do, then we are just gonna get another Biden that doesn't do anything for 4 years and then loose to the stupidest Republican candidate imaginable.
It's not like the Democrats do anything for transrights, Gavin Newsom literally said, that they were to supportive of Trans People and that's why they lost the last election. Shure, their own research (that they tried to hide from the public) showed, that Kamela Harris's position on Gaza lost them the election, but shure, let's blame the minority group that is already heavily under attack.
I mean, shure in the short term, Gavin Newsom might be preferable to Trump, but he will be so bad, that everybody is gonna hate him after 4 years and people will just return to the Republicans. If we just continue to accept the Democrats bullshit, we are not doing anything for ourselves.
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Yeah, the Democrats were better than the American Hitler, but trying to shame the left is not only never gonna win anybody over, it encourages the Democrats to never be improve. It encourages them to never be strong enough to prevent the fascists from taking over again, and to not undo the damage Trump has done. The Democrats need people to be harsh on them; their loss in 2024 was their fault. Their stance on the Palestinian genocide was only the tip of the iceberg of the bad political decisions.
Democratic bootlickers offloading responsibility for their loss onto the left makes me more hopeless for the future than the Gestapo who want to put me in camps. I know the Republicans are evil and will only ever seek to harm me, but seeing my potential allies being so weak willed makes me sick. We're in for generations of suffering rather than just a few years because you aren't willing to hold your politician's feet to the fire. Liberalism is dead and liberals are responsible.
Maybe not put them up so close together?
all rights are intrinsically linked
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