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

[alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com]

@Goodlucksil the architects of this sort of thinking don't actually care about trans people one way or the other. This is a classic wedge issue just like abortion has been.

The solution to this problem, like every other mind-bending problem in the United States, starts with campaign finance reform. The path from there is unfortunately long and fraught with difficulties.

@alice

[tina@mastodon.babb.no]

@alice So: you drive to turn in your license *before* it is invalid. But now you can't drive *home* ....

Guess they can be arrested for loitering, then. Land of brave and home of the whatsits?

[tina@mastodon.babb.no]

@munin @alice There's a certain poem that springs to mind

[nuwagaba2@mastodon.social]

@munin
How can they be stopped?

[ilka4you@mastodon.social]

@alice considering distances & (lack of)infrastructure of public transport in USamerica, this means most will not be able to legally show up for work or get food. So not only is this fascist controll & discrimination it takes away their ability to live. Wow. USA has become worse than any 3rd world rogue state. A place to avoid as a sane person, only good for child abuser, rapists & drug lords.

[nuwagaba2@mastodon.social]

@alice
Many people don't strive to end this until they're direct victims There are many black folks and immigrants that think it's non of their business. What can be done to stop them?

[jadedtwin@corteximplant.com]

@alice oh look, another state I'll never step foot into ever again. Another "I told ya so" for my family who keep saying I'm overreacting.

First it's POC and trans people. Guess who's next?

And I'm gonna keep saying this next part till my cassandra syndrome kills me:
Voting won't get us out of this. It's too late. Action must be done. Nobody voted Hitler out of office. Ballots didn't remove Mussolini from power. Y'all are gonna get your hands dirty before the end. You've been warned.

[ilka4you@mastodon.social]

@juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice USAmericans need to stay and clean up the mess they created for themselves. There isn't enough room in Europe to host half their population. USAmericans have not done enough to prevent this, now they need to get up their lazy asses & stop this desaster. You don't want to hear this I am sure, yet this is the reality.

[bthylafh@nerdculture.de]

@alice Republicans: if it's what the German government did with "undesirables" circa 1935, sounds great!

[hyl@mstdn.ca]

@alice omg 🤯 evil incarnate

[juergen_hubert@mementomori.social]

@Ilka4You @swaldman @alice

Look, while I can understand this sentiment, there are plenty of Americans who _aren't_ complete assholes and who are not in any way responsible for this mess.

[mloxton@med-mastodon.com]

@lemonlolita
Nearly half the voting population is actually quite ok with this.

@alice

[shadowfals@mastodon.otherworldsink.com]

@alice I regularly think about the people and places around Kansas City I miss. The current politics there leave me with the feeling I'll never see them again in person.

[ilka4you@mastodon.social]

@juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice I do know. I have lived in USA, have family & friends in USA I very much love. Yet, everyone who let this happen either by voting, or especially by NOT voting, or by ignoring, or by avoiding political talks with MAGA supporters is guilty. That would be everyone. Nothing will change if the "good ones" flee. It needs the good ones to stay and fight. Fact: we have no room in Europe to take them all in. Housingcrisis. Fleeing JUST relocates the problem to Europe.

[juergen_hubert@mementomori.social]

@Ilka4You @swaldman @alice

I hate this line of reasoning because this is the _exact_ same argument made by German right-wing politicians for why Syrian refugees should return to Syria.

It's easy to say that others should fight for their rights if you are not part of the marginalized group that is being oppressed.

[ilka4you@mastodon.social]

@juergen_hubert IMO it is very much different. SYR's couldn't have prevented what came upon them. They couldn't have changed anything except for dying vs being alife. USAmericans are the only ones who can end the regime they brought upon themselves. If half of them flee now it is out of convenience, not need. No one ould be left to stand up & you will have an even more devastating situation for them & the world. Research the market sit. in Europe before suggesting to move here. @swaldman @alice

[ilka4you@mastodon.social]

@juergen_hubert sign limit 2/2: ~1.3 Mio SYR refugess came to Europe within 12 years, you have potentially this is doable. It worked. You now have ~170 Mio USAmericans wanting to flee USA. Europe has a housing and job crisis as it is. Inviting them on students visa is short sighted & 1 single solution for 1 single person, it floods all social systems & will consequently breaking health care, social support, flood the streets with homeless ppl.
@swaldman @alice