#Trans folx in #Kansas given 1 day to surrender their (now invalid) IDs and driver's licenses to the state.

[ki@chaos.social]

@alice
Dorothy flees back to Oz

[mrgm@mastodon.social]

@alice Sadly, yes. All of the "WE DON'T WANT THIS" from the constituents falls on deaf ears for the corrupt legislature. I'm hoping things get less awful here after mid-terms, but there's a LOT of damage the jackasses have caused in the last several years that needs to be undone. In the meantime, I'd recommend anyone thinking of moving to Kansas to stay away. The land is beautiful and the people are friendly, but the laws here are fucked.

[jsteven@wandering.shop]

@alice
Just fuck these people.
(I know, nobody actually wants to.)

[cojajo@mastodon.social]

@alice
Same shit, different country!

[ticho@mas.to]

@Goodlucksil @alice Every fascist regime needs an "out group", a group of people to rally against, to present as enemies to keep their support base occupied.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@Fettlaus because they don't actually have any of their own. I know, it's weird, but true. Republicans are all like Ken dolls down there. It's part of the deal they made with Satan for him to send them Reagan, and they're still salty about how that turned out.

[katharta@quietzero.net]

@alice This is wrong and ridiculous and I hate everything about it.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@ki *clicks heels together* "fuck this place Toto, the flying monkeys were better."

[bbbhltz@framapiaf.org]

@alice

<del>"America's Heartland"</del>
<add>"America's Hateland"</add>

[samanthajanesmith@lgbtqia.space]

@alice Cis people need to fucking well read this and do something.

[weirdone@wehavecookies.social]

@alice It would be interesting to see if trans people would sue Kansas for not letting them be people, or some such thing. It would be nice to have SCOTUS reverse the decision, and then fine the hell out of the Kansas government.

[swaldman@mendeddrum.org]

@alice ....and yet European countries still (so far as I understand it) refuse asylum claims on the basis that "The USA is a Safe Country".

[swaldman@mendeddrum.org]

@Fruan @alice that would conflict with "We can always tell". Not that logical consistency is always a requirement with this lot, I'll admit.

[ki@chaos.social]

@alice
I'm currently listening to an audio book of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and this line hits VERY differently :')

[riverpunk@defcon.social]

@alice unilaterally stripping the driver's license from every single member of a minority group is very mask-off fascism bullshit. That's so goddamn evil.

To act like the US isn't facing a crisis of authoritarian fascism seems at this point just functionally impossible. That's 1933 playbook shit.

Very worrying.

[phl@mastodon.social]

@swaldman @alice I honestly don't get why we still list the US as "safe to travel" in the travel advisories either.

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@alice How is this not a terror campaign? "We know who you are and where you live, today we're taking away your license to drive and we can take more tomorrow".

[swaldman@mendeddrum.org]

@phl @alice I've always assumed it's because it would be diplomatically awkward to do otherwise.

[amorpheus@kind.social]

@ticho @Goodlucksil Divide & Conquer

[phl@mastodon.social]

@swaldman @alice Last time I said this in a chat I got a similar answer — it makes sense, and yet it doesn't. Especially in the shadow of all the anti-EU/Europe rants we've heard and the active threat against Greenland.