Microblog Memes

This is also why the attacks on identification documentation for transgender people should concern everyone. We used to consider ex post facto laws unconstitutional - even things like sex registry acts have been historically controversial because they were adding a punishment that had not been previously ordained.

I spent $5500 that I could not afford (as in, I ended up having to do sex work to pay for it) - to get my “irreversible and permanent” surgery that the state I lived in said would qualify to have my legal sex changed. Like, I would have preferred to wait until I was in a more financially stable situation or might not have even bothered because I didn’t even really need to bind to pass - but the drivers license with an “F” is a problem once you have a full beard.

I followed their rules, I played their games. And now they get to say, nope, doesn’t count anymore. That’s not how the law is supposed to work.

A reminder about your rights. If the government can declare you to have an attribute that negates your rights, then you have no rights.

Any time someone claims that some group of people should have no/reduced due process, I respond essentially the same way: "If you believe that $GROUP shouldn't have due process then you are a $GROUP_MEMBER. Prove you're not without any due process." Before this year, it was mostly people accused of sexual assault, but illegal immigrants are the new target of choice as people who allegedly don't deserve due process rights.

People like her argue in bad faith.

Shun and ostracize people like her.

Remove them from your civil social circles.

Only side eye!

yes it's the appropriate term with the same meaning dating back to its original latin meaning, well before the concept of extraterrestrials

Where did you think the scifi term alien came from?

It just means foreigner, people will even use it as a verb

Something is alien (unknown) to me

Alienate is to exclude

Comes from here https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/alienus#Latin

I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien. I'm an Englishman in New York

I think it's the original definition of the word alien, but I might be wrong. Kinda derogatory now but still used in legal contexts

It makes me wonder for what purpose people think nations have courts. Sure, we want to punish murderers, why is there a court? Now, let's talk about "illegal aliens".

Yes but understanding that requires second order reasoning skills, and most Americans don't even have first order.

I just got a few days ban from reddit for saying it's the people's responsibility to overthrow tyrannical governments and that there's a blurry line, but it's on the deep end when people are being detained without due process.

Yeah argue with one long enough and they basically just admit they don't care what happens what they love is "owning the libs" the more facts you show them that they can not respond to the more they think they are pissing you off and the more they get their rocks off. 100% they could not care less about any of the things they claim to revere, like the Constitution. Literally the only thing that makes them change their mind is when they realize the policies they voted for apply to them too.

One of my friends adult daughter is fully disabled mentally and physically and my friend can not even work the state pays her to be a caregiver for her child. They100% lives on state support programs. She voted for Trump, I told her before hand she is shooting everyone in the foot and shooting herself in the face with that vote,. She said she disagreed and things will get better for her that she is tired of liberals and "their immigrants" (???) taking part of the tax money that should be going to her and others like her. I was completely dumbfounded. I told her that is completely fabricated BS from Trump and it does not work that way but she told me I did not know what I was talking about, Trump wouldn't just lie about this stuff... yeah. She said THAT.

Now she is telling me how she is so scared they are going to cut her benefits after all the targeting of Social Security and that she felt so betrayed and she thought there was no way Trump would betray his voters like this and there was no way she could have known Trump would have done something this terrible.... I had to look at her and ask how she could have NOT known when I fucking told her multiple times. She finally realized after I said that that I was right. So she knows and will admit she was wrong now. None of my other friends have been affected yet but having talked to them none of them will change their minds until it hurts them or their family directly. Most of them are good enough friends they even admit that they don't care (or even pay attention to) what Trump does as long as it is pissing off the liberals they are happy. At least the first friend realized she was dumb about politics. She told me from now on she was just going to ask me who to vote for.... she is getting smarter about it at least.

They're just mad and stupid and the left did nothing to manage and redirect this toddlerish rage and incompetence, instead we pretended the system was fair and the idiots wouldn't have power because how could they. Naive and foolish on both sides.

Liberals did all that. The actual leftists have been saying for decades that this was exactly where liberal centrism was going to end up as the Democrats did everything they could to keep funneling money up to the top as well.

"Don't care."

Not just blatantly ignorant, willfully choosing to ignore the Constitution even when confronted with it.

"The new trend 'Vibe Governing' is sweeping the nation as lawmakers just ask racist AIs with no knowledge of the bills they're actually writing"