Neither the laws nor the courts recognize the concept of "fake human beings".
I'm mean, why not worry about Trump turning everyone who didn't vote for him into a newt with an executive order?
Why not worry that he'll repeal the Law of Gravity and set pi to three by decree, so lids will never fit on jars again?
Makes the same about of sense.
Basically, you're panicking that someone who wrote a book that Vance likes called you a name.
@mcfate Dehumanization of a group of people is the first step to genocide. Nobody in the history of mankind has declared to turn humans into newts (apart from some witches with mediocre success) and the Indiana pi bill never became law.
@mcfate However, to declare Jews as vermin that need to be exterminated has been enacted. The legalities might be difficult to fathom atm, but whether the current security measures hold depends on the people enacting them. Let's hope they do hold. As a German, I am less inclined to believe that a people cannot go into a collective meltdown.
I'm seeing people going into a collective meltdown every freaking day here.
I'm not becoming frightened and hypervigilant over an obnoxious book. That's what the people who've got you so worried WANT.
"Get as anxious as possible" is neither a strategy nor an "action plan".
@mcfate Totally agree. But neither is ignoring the warning signs as the Association of German National Jews found out in 1935.
Okay, fine, "warning signs".
What are you going to DO about 'em? What do you think the Association of German National Jews ought to have done?
@mcfate For a start, they should not have supported the party that killed them later by saying "Oh, Hitler just wants to rile up the masses, he doesn't mean it."
I'm not supporting Rethuglicans already. Jews generally aren't supporting Republicans.
"That was your WHOLE plan?" β Ghostbusters
@mcfate We will see how it plays out. I hope for the best, but the past decade was one disappointment in mankind after the other. My biggest hope at the moment is that they are too dumb to get anything done in a coordinated and effective manner. Boebert for Education Secretary would be a good start.
Okay, but again, if your PLAN is to be very, very concerned, that's going to be ineffectual in the face of what you fear.
My worrying about Boebert being put in charge of DoE won't stop her being put in charge.
@mcfate You misunderstand. I hope Boebert will become Education Secretary. She is imho neither clever nor strategic enough to create long-lasting damage to the education system. Way better than calculating strategists who know what they are doing.
I still misunderstand.
Trump's neither clever nor strategic, and he's done PLENTY of damage.
@mcfate As it stands, the trajectories are random damage on #Trump's whim or strategic damage. I assume the latter will be more efficient and more problematic to counter and repair. Hence, my hope.
And should your point be "hope is not sufficient" - well, as somebody who lives in Greece, the only option I have is not to visit the US in the next four years. Not sure what else can be done from my side to not support the current US government.
Fine. What are you asking ME to do?
@mcfate The only thing I wanted you to critically reevaluate is your trust in stable laws. They are stable until they aren't. In the summer of 1989, I was living in East Germany. A year later, this country did not exist anymore. This outcome was unimaginable even for us who went to the streets to demand changes.
What does that even MEAN?
Tomorrow morning when I wake up, not trusting in "stable laws" any longer, what shall I do DIFFERENTLY than I did THIS morning?
If you're not asking me to do anything, then what are we even talking about, aside from "reasons to frighten oneself over things that MIGHT happen"?
LOTS of things MIGHT happen. Shall I worry about ALL of them?
@mcfate No, not worry. But consider them as possibilities.
There are an infinite number of possibilities to consider.
It's possible I could scald myself to death in the bath. It's possible I could have an anaphylactic reaction to something. It's possible I could get run down by a beer truck. It's possible that I could have a brain aneurysm and just drop dead in mid-sentence.
If I spent my time considering "possibilities", especially ones for which there's no effective action I can bring to bear, when would I have time to do anything ELSE?
@mcfate @ToruOkada I feel like I had this conversation in 2015 . βDonβt panic βthey said. βAbortion rights is the lawβ they said. Please donβt dismiss the fear people are facing.
Please don't burden me with your panic.
Better still, I'll unburden myself from your panic.
@ToruOkada
You seriously believe that laws can get passed declaring people to be something other than "human" based on how they vote?
I feel like you're working EXTRA hard to find things to panic about.
Plans along those lines would face 4th, 5th, 6th, 13th and 14th Amendment problems. Just for starts.