EmptySlime

Thank you. It gets so tiring seeing these people constantly shouting "WhY ARen't YOu FIGhtinG bAck?" Whenever someone expresses fear about what's been happening. Oh I don't know about anyone else, but I'm a little preoccupied wondering how my family and I are going to fucking survive the next four years in the first place.

My wife's disabled, we've got multiple autistic kids, my health isn't the greatest, I'm trans but luckily I can still play cis. We can only afford to live because my wife gets Social Security Disability, and we have Medicaid and SNAP. All things they're certainly going to be targeting. Yeah we'll likely be shielded from some of the worst of this living in a blue state but I'm not sure how much even that's going to protect us anymore.

Not me taking my morning adderall dose on a chill day so I can get my brain to shut up and let me go back to bed.

I love the idea that Frieren would be a fan of the Doom Slayer.

In group and out group baybee!

"Surely they don't mean me, I'm one of the good ones." The magic words that let people that are part of any group they screech about vote for him. No honey, they mean you too.

To your point about nonbinary people getting caught up in it. I can't even tell you at this point how many specifically trans women I've had tell me point blank to my face that I'm not actually nonbinary. That my egg still hasn't fully cracked and the only reason I think I'm nonbinary is because of internalized misogyny. I'm just too scared to be the woman I really am deep inside.

I didn't figure out I was trans until my mid twenties. I had a whole gender crisis in high school but because my knowledge of gender identities began and ended with full binary MtF/FtM I eventually figured I must just be cis but against the gender norms forced on men and boys. Yeah I'd have crying fits wishing I had been born a girl, but those tended to link back to people bullying me for not being "man enough" or my early career wish of going into childcare or early childhood education and quickly learning that I'd be forever looked at as a predator purely because man alone with children. When I thought about actually being a girl? That didn't feel right either. I'm sure at least a little bit of that was due to being asexual and not being comfortable with the sexualization inherent in much of the female experience but I didn't know that at the time.

Anyway it wasn't until I had that discussion with the woman that eventually became my wife that I learned that nonbinary was even a thing you could be and suddenly I had a word for everything I'd felt since I was like 14. So I understand the impulse to say "but I wish someone had told me sooner" but like... I got "egged" a lot before this. Not a single one heard my story and gave me info on nonbinary identities. They all heard me say "I don't feel right as a guy, but being a girl didn't feel right either" and did some variation of "Egg. Internalized transphobia/misogyny. Egg."

Nah, they harass cis women too. My wife has been harassed multiple times in the bathroom for "being trans" by MAGA dipshits in our area. Hell, one of the chuds even "transvestigated" our daughter back when she was like 2 because she had short hair and was in the stroller with her twin brother. Because everyone knows that toddler girls are literally incapable of having or wanting short hair right?

One of the worst aspects of this for me is how brutal the means testing is for many assistance programs. They often turn eligibility into a sheer cliff face where the second you make even a dollar more than the cutoff you lose the whole benefit. But even if they don't and there's a more gradual reduction you're often on multiple assistance programs if you're poor and the reduction to all of them often puts you in a worse place than you stated in.

My partner is fully disabled, she's got neurological issues where she'll be pretty much fine one minute but with maybe like an hour at most of warning she could be fully incapacitated from a migraine brought on by pseudotumor. Not even because of the pain, she starts having trouble walking, standing up straight, remembering what she was doing. Sometimes she temporarily loses access to years of her life like the Cosmic Dungeon Master said "Roll 2d20, that's how old you think you are for the next 2d4 hours"

So obviously that makes having me work right now basically impossible. Very few jobs are cool with your availability being subject to that kind of rapid change. So I stay home to take care of her and our kids. But back when her symptoms weren't so severe and I could work I had to be very careful what kind of jobs I found because depending on how much I made we actually ended up losing more in assistance than what I made that caused us to go over.

Fantastic example, our oldest just got approved for SSI because they relaxed some of the asset/income restrictions and now my wife's disability benefit isn't too much money for him to qualify. We get Section 8 so our portion of rent is based on our income so our rent went up when he got SSI. Our SNAP amount also went down because our income went up. He got approved for like 200 something in SSI and between the rent going up and SNAP going down at the end of the day we get like $10 dollars more a month than we did prior to him getting it. This shit happens everywhere with these kinds of programs and is one of the many reasons people get trapped in poverty.

He/They because I'll never be Him.

Why do I get the feeling they're hoping the gun will go off and then they can get their ~~bottom surgery~~reconstruction covered?

The amount of IT nerd trans women I've had straight up tell me that I'm not actually nonbinary and that what's really going on is my egg still needs to crack more because I've got too much internalized misogyny is uncomfortably high. I've had at least a dozen separate conversations where different people have tried to convince me I'm not actually nonbinary, just a trans woman in denial.

In a different circumstance definitely. In this one though it's most likely Bibi taunting everyone else and shouting "Nyeh nyeh! I got away with it!"