• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If Trump gets elected, my queer daughter could very well be part of a domestic genocide. For my daughter’s sake, and the sake of all other queer people in America, Trump cannot be allowed back into office.

    So please tell me who I should vote for to keep my daughter safe.

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      9 months ago

      Your queer daughter is lucky to have a parent like you who takes voting so seriously (and I genuinely mean that).

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        9 months ago

        Thank you. She is the most important thing in my life and I will do anything I can to keep her from harm. And- I know a lot of people make this claim- if Trump wins, we are moving to Europe. I recently found out, based on research my brother and I have been doing, that I’m eligible for German citizenship (my Grandfather was German but renounced his citizenship and became British in 1936. However, my father was born in 1931, making him a German citizen and me a German citizen and my daughter a German citizen) and I’m working on getting us German passports if we have to. We’re also looking up places to live where most people speak English so we can learn the local language while we’re there rather than have to know it before we go. The closer we get to the election, the more I’m going to do to make sure we get the fuck out of here before January 20, 2025 if Trump wins. I will not risk her being put in a “conversion therapy” camp or whatever the fuck they want to do to queer people.

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      9 months ago

      And while Republicans are creating the environment that threatens your daughter, Democrats have done jack shit to counteract it. Republicans targeting trans didnt start overnight, it’s been going on for years, so Dems have had years to protect them, yet here we are. Their inaction allows Republican action.

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        9 months ago

        Interesting how you didn’t respond to the final sentence of my very short post even though it was separate from the other two setences.

        Maybe you missed it. I’ll post it again:

        So please tell me who I should vote for to keep my daughter safe.

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          9 months ago

          The choice is yours but neither Biden nor Trump will keep her safe. As someone that’s been out since Reagan the quality nor safety of my life has been safe regardless which shade of fascism runs the government.

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            9 months ago

            The choice is yours

            I know the choice is mine. That’s how elections work.

            but neither Biden nor Trump will keep her safe.

            Okay, then who will? Because that was my question. Tell me who and I’ll vote for them.

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      9 months ago

      And if Biden gets elected then you can be sure that America will shift even further right in the future.

      And then your daughter will actually get genocided.

      First they came for the Palestinians.

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        Wait… are you actually claiming that it’s Biden and not Trump who’s the massive homophobic bigot?

        You must be insane.

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            Again, please tell me who I should vote for to keep my daughter safe.

            Because your answer so far seems to be ‘not Biden.’ That means you think Trump does not already have a record of oppressing queer people (he does)- therefore vote for Trump, that Biden’s record is worse (please show evidence of this)- therefore vote for Trump, or that they’re both equally bad in that regard and so I should vote for the person who has a chance of defeating both of them.

            So is it that I should vote for Trump or is it that there is a third option that you refuse to name?

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              Cornel West, Jill Stein or any other third party

              Nothing is going to happen in 2024 to your daughter. Trump is going to screw over some Mexicans and Arabs like he did in 2016 and that’s it.

              America needs to move way further to the right until Adolf Hitler2 with Nazi tattoos shows up before you see domestic Genocide.

              And that will happen if the current cycle of “picking the lesser evil” continues. Because America will keep shifting to the right.

              Either you break the cycle or eventually you will actually reach the Genocide point. If the Democrats learn that they can be Republicans and win elections, they will keep being republicans.

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                Cornell West, Jill Stein or any other third party

                Please present evidence any of them have a chance of winning.

                Nothing is going to happen in 2024 to your daughter.

                You’re right. Because Trump gets sworn in January 20th, 2025 if he wins. And then he has a good chance of putting my daughter in a camp.

                But you don’t care about queer people.

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                    I don’t need to ask. They think I should vote for Cornell West at the expense of my daughter’s life.

                    I doubt you give a shit about queer people either.

                    And if I asked you, you’d probably say you do. And then tell me that I shouldn’t try to save my daughter’s life by voting for a candidate who has a legitimate chance of winning but instead vote for the guy who is a write-in for most states.

                    Because you likely also do not give a shit about queer people.

                    Funny thing about bigots. So many of them hate to admit it.

                    Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be ‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government

                    – Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito

                    https://newrepublic.com/post/179149/supreme-court-samuel-alito-traditional-people-bigots-lgbtq

                    He also does not give a shit about queer people and also does not think anyone should vote for Biden. You three should get along swimmingly.