• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    8 days ago

    My mother in law is absolutely convinced that democrats are going to go marching around with guns to drag her and her family out into the street to be executed.

    If she realized there was still space to the left of “Democrat” on the politician field she’d have an aneurism.

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        As funny as this is, the populist right is on the rise across europe too

        Sweden having the SD in their government, germany looking at the AfD getting a shot at coalition…

        All that to say our far right (I think right of the dems) are also real and threatening democracy across the continent

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          that’s what makes it so wild, even SD, an all but literal neonazi party, are severely limited in how shitty they can be. if they take a step too far everyone else collectively slaps them across the face for being idiots, they’re like unruly children sitting around a table with adults.

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            Good point yeah. At least so far, lets hope our democracies are defensible enough to suvive this bullshit for a couple more years

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              at least here in sweden i feel the political system has at least another 10 years before things start going tremendously south, there’s a long way to fall if nothing else.

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    My mother in law tells me how worried she is for my daughter and how unfair it is trans kids will compete with her in sports and use her bathrooms. Thanks for the heads up, keep hiding in your house in the woods and leave the parenting to me, this doesn’t affect you now shut up.

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      It is absolutely soul sucking to see people look at children’s athletics and think to themselves “What happens if that girl is secretly a boy and then my kids play with them and my kids don’t win?!” like the local Little League club is going to deny your child a World Series championship ring.

      God forbid anyone play for the love of the fucking game.

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        And let’s just glide over the fact that none of these people gave two shits about girls’ or women’s sports before trans people were added to the mix.