I have a friend that has been keeping a count of the mass shootings in the USA and the number he posted yesterday is giving me the chills. 254 shootings, in 160 days. This isn't the country I love anymore, it hasn't been for nearly half my life. But I'd like it to become a country I can love. #CoSoPolitics
What's worse is that there's some firearm workers in the industry that are firing up warnings on twitter that it's possible that the Pride parades nationally might be the next targets for mass shootings, given light of some of the customer chatter they've been hearing at work. I am deeply fearful that my existence as a trans person, and my family, may become the next target too locally. I'm not out publicly in my region of the country, and things like this, makes me deeply afraid. #CoSoPolitics
@PaganMother the rednecks on nazidoor tried to pool together 30K for "Jesus" to erect a 120ft statue of a cross in an illegal code loophole off Hwy 25.
They couldn't come up with the money tho
@PaganMother yeah they don't like me none too much... but nextdoor only represents 5% of the population here. I bout got it to 10% until nextdoor pissed me off.
@kg_diamonds I stay clear of using Nextdoor cause of the number of ignorant folk that live in my part of upstate rural Michigan. I live pretty far from village and about an hour away from any real city limit, but that fear isn't helping my agoraphobia at all.
@PaganMother I argued with them to begin with.... now I just roll my eyes... one lady said I don't believe that was an insurrection. I said you bet your ass that was a GD insurrection!
She responded LET"S GO BRANDON!
the thread was deleted and I was booted
@kg_diamonds Yeeeah Nextdoor needs to just really purge the nazis off there.
@PaganMother they prolly got more single triangle classifications at nazidoor than the Nazi Concentration Camps had
@PaganMother i cussed up and down the thing for a while.. then I couldn't log in... I was like hrm, didn't think much about it... looked into it months later
no notice, nothing just banned no window upon re-entry just user:pass invalid
then I found out they didn't just kick me, they kicked my Parents off too! They were like fuck ALL this family!
@kg_diamonds Sounds like a collective network of nazi's in that part of the world. :( I'm sorry they did that to you and yours, but I do hope there's better moderated networks for you to use.
@PaganMother yeah well I got back on so my parents could get back on and I promised not to cuss and abide.... for the first time in my life (internet since 1989)
been booted a few times since, I'm improving tho :-)
@PaganMother I thought NaziDoor had Verified Physical Addresses...
that was a NSA-level gaffe with the metadata...
@kg_diamonds Yeesh, sounds like a network that needs to be stripped down and revealed for what it is. Publicly.
@PaganMother biggest reason we can't/won't tour or move to the US with music. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
@lilyunsub Yeah, I don't blame ya at all in that.
@PaganMother Canada really needs to rescind recognition of the US as a "safe country" for asylum claims. It's not and it hasn't been. And we need to give Americans the option to flee if they don't feel the political situation is stable enough that "just moving states" will help. Especially when there's no social safety net to ensure a person's well being.
@CannibalHoliday For once, I absolutely agree with you. I do know canadian trans that are just trying to get by and getting mistreated by the system there as well however, no system is perfect, but progress is never a means towards perfection, it's just a means to do better day by day.
@PaganMother There's lots of bigotry still, but there's definitely been a sea change. I started HRT in 2014, but haven't done any social transitioning, just was relieved that dysphoria was drastically reduced under the meds. Anyway the docs and nurses here on PEI have been really accepting. Weird considering how backward this place was growing up.
@CannibalHoliday I have to find a new clinic to get on any kind of HRT or start the progress towards top surgery. The last clinic I went to has not been very accepting or progressive in regards to trans treatment or supportive of transfolk in the region I live in. It's hard cause I would have to travel more than an hour to get help transitioning.
@PaganMother I hear ya on that. The endocrinologist is 4 hours away from here, and I used to have to drive that for a 20 minute appointment to get prescription refills. Covid got them to consider phone calls as an option. Yay?
Hope you find a solution that works for you and isn't too much of a burden.
@PaganMother I live in one of the only blue state counties in Mississippi 2020