Which is why they lable anyone they arrest as a criminal, doesn’t have to be true. You heard Trump, having a trial for each one would take too long. So just slap a label on them and say you’re though on crime.

It can be done. Europe as a whole was on its way to become as car centric as the US back in the 1960’s. People seriously revolted against that, most strongly in the Netherlands which is why it has such nice bike infrastructure.

We got gun laws because after WW2 Europe was full of guns, they were everywhere and it was untenable. So we got our shit together and did something about it.

Perhaps you should read your own comments with that in mind.

Cars are much safer than they used to be, so why get trucks and SUV instead as these are exempt from a number of car safety requirements (like crumple zones) in the US. They have a likelihood of causing fatal unjuries when they collide with other cars and pedestrians that is 8 times higher than the average sedan, according to a UK study. Due to their size, weight and bad visibility for obstacles close by, they are also much more likely to crash into stuff.

And get safer cars. The US has some kind of car arms race going on where you need a super large heavy car to be safe because the roads are full of big heavy cars… Resulting in much more deadly crashes for everyone. Besides most states driving test is a joke.

Ah yes, Afearican’s never worry, famously.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/13ejzr5/afearican_us_person_enjoying_freedom_in_a_safe/

No, it has nothing to do with conflation of the issues, it’s that women -trans and afab alike - get attacked because and forced to humiliate themselves to prove they’re real. If you want to see what happens in a real world example that got a lot of press look at that female boxer at the olympics. And it’s stuff like that that gets legislated in the US. You just refuse to see it. Meanwhile the regime removes every mentions of female leaders and scientists in things like the military and NASA. But that doesn’t bother you at all.

Why do you believe I see homeless people as less than myself? Quite a lot of people are only a short term breakdown away from being homeless, especially in ultra capitalist places like the US. Certainly they need help, but help is not always directly available, and you want to argue that while they look for help, making the world as hostile as possible is a good thing? And then you try to gaslight me with that? I think you need help.

The only thing you said that makes sense is to get rid of gendered bathrooms. That would solve so much.

I don’t follow you at all on the mental gymnastics thing.

The proposals for laws against contraceptives are easily found by google as are the results of trans hatemongering and laws on women in general. If certain politicians and their support network didn’t make a point of campaigning on trans (and women) hate not a lot of people would care if a girl was assigned male at birth.

That may be true in some cases but most of the time anti homeless street furniture is just made to get homeless people to not hang around that particular area.

As far as I can tell women in the US are really second class citizens, who can -for the moment - still vote and own property , but those things are being dicussed as stuff to remove by the conservatives in power. The anti -trans measures taken are a direct attack on women who now face the threat of having to prove they’re “real” women whenever some creep feels like getting them to strip or doesn’t like them competing in sports or going to the toilet. After abortion, contraception is now on the table to be removed.

You must not be living in the real world to think that women in the US are ok under the current regime. Sure you can compare with Iran or Afghanistan, but those seem to be the great examples to follow for the conservative evangelicals.

I suspect Iran will change soonish, Afghanistan… is taking things further down the road to oblivion every day.

Pff dude you think when you say that you are gay, that you have a pure platonic relationship where you wear gloves to hold hands?

I live in a country with rather restrictive gun laws. That stuff works great! I never have to worry about getting shot.

Yeah, American thoughts and prayers system works better, not.

We’re getting there we’re getting there. The president doesn’t need to believe in anything but filling his pockets to be a prime religious leader. I don’t think most cult leaders believe what they tell their followers, do you?

Trump enacts or supports a great lot of whatever the US fundies want. Women’s rights in the US don’t mean a lot now and will mean a whole lot less going forward, and a lot of that is carried by religion. I told my American friend in Januari not to panic, she still had time to get out, they would not turn the US into Iran in a month or two.

Things are going down that road faster than I believed and I am relieved to know she has been able to get out of the US today.

In Dutch you get fun stuff like 16.35 being vijf over half vijf, being 5 past half five. I’m sure German is similar in that regard.

When all the ones who are disgusted leave, you are left with only those who are disgusting. Not my words but somehow they apply again.

We are, despite centuries upon centuries of evolution, civilization, philisophy and education, deeply tribal creatures. While right wing propaganda most blatantly and directly calls upon our tribalism to dehumanize the “other” of the day, it is a trait we all share. Frankly when you look at how far some people take the denial of easily verifiable reality to stick to a feeble story and prop up the most deplorable of men, it’s easy to feel they are terminally lost and can no longer be part of any kind of moral and positive society. But that way we just end up dehumanizing them as much as they do to us.

Even as they have been brainwashed and molded to be perpetually scared and angry and to reject other feelings, they are people nontheless who need to be treated fairly.

To some extent I understand that murderer, misguided as he is. It would, for me be a better world if I could remove people I see as harmful to the world from existence. If someone were to remove a bunch of republican supporting billionaires, the whole of that parties leadership and the heritage foundation from the world I would not be angry at all. Not because I hate them. I don’t really, I don’t know them personally. But because they are so harmful to all of us.

We may say things like “eat the rich” but we don’t really do that, at most we affectionately nibble a bit, without breaking skin. I’m too well aware that to people who live in actual abject povery, my middle class ass could be part of the group of rich folk on the menu. Once we start killing the people we see as harmful, where do we stop. Where do we draw the line? Who makes the grade? We could easily end up in a situation where, like in post revolutionary China or France anyone could be accused and convicted for not being revolutionary enough. Accused by an angry neighbor, a jealous lover or your own kids.

So while I understand the feelings that lead to the actions, I cannot condone murder, nor do I take such action myself, besides, I have a job to do, kids to care for, bills to pay etc, etc, etc.

And no, I have no solution for any of this, it’s way too complex to solve with rigid ideology or easy to shout slogans.

That’s the onion though.