The economy, AI datacenters, the war in Iran… voters were more likely to say all these issues were more important than trans issues.

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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    Making them a perfect ‘other’ or ‘out’ group for the right to demonize and rally around hate. First they came for the trans… and then they came for me and no-one was left to stand up for me. Don’t be that person, even if you are selfish.

    Relevant Star Trek:

    You know, there are some words I’ve known since I was a schoolboy: “With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.” Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as wisdom and warning. The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on, we’re all damaged. I fear that today…

    • Captain Jean-Luc Picard (TNG: The Drumhead)