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This is it. This is the one I most dreaded. I knew they were coming for NOAA and I knew they were going to destroy it and here we are, forced to watch it happen.
I cannot, for the life of me, begin to give a damn. Sometimes I see some terminally online people getting all pissy about not being perceived as cool, but that behavior isn't cool either, so it just proves the point.
I don't even want to be perceived, let alone labelled.
And then he got all mad and demanded a bunch of retractions because he claims that saying you want to eradicate transgenderism is somehow different than saying you want to eradicate transgender people and went on to say some extremely upsettingly stupid things about how it can't be calling for genocide because âItâs not a legitimate category of being.â. Out of the two links, that one at Human Rights Campaign has a lot of other instances of assholery, so it's a good link for this conversation.
So it seems (unsurprisingly) like chuds are trying to move the goalposts on, "it can't be genocide if they're not really people," which is actually way, way more disgusting than anything else I've read. Glad I went looking for supporting documentation, sad I found so much of it so quickly.
And for any chuds who want to argue these points as if this is distinct from the Trump administration, please actually read that second link. There are exact quotes from Trump, from Reps, from former advisors. They did a great job collating info for us.
This is a normal ADHD thing. We can easily space an item that's blended into the environment. It's why I have to move the whiteboard that says "DON'T FORGET YOUR MULITVITAMIN" to a new location every two weeks or I'll never see it again (and thus, not take the multivitamin).
I'm sad to tell you this, but there were camps there in the 90s, and people died of lack of health care.
As I said to my last suicide counselor- you don't really need a plan to kill someone. You can just stop doing all the things they need in order to keep living. It's pretty easy.
This article made me realize something about myself- I had assumed that the insurrection was predominantly white. I mean, the pictures! All the most famous pictures of the insurrectionists that come to mind were exclusively of white people (perhaps with a few demographics sparsely represented in the background.)
"Those charged were overwhelmingly white (659 of 716, 92%) but also included Hispanics (39, 5.4%), Blacks (10, 1.4%), Asians (7.1%, 5 of the 7 were of Vietnamese ancestry) and one Native American."
(If you add up all non-white persons and subtract them from the whole, these numbers indicate that 620 of those arrested were white, non-hispanic. So 39 people were white, also hispanic. So 86.5% were white, non-hispanic.) (See footnote.)
Those are really telling numbers. But while I was looking, I found something we don't get enough of lately- good news.
"517 of 716 (72%) were charged as the result of tipsters and informants..."
I'm notoriously anti-snitch, but this gave me some good vibes. That is so many. And-
"35.1% of defendants were identified as going to the Capitol alone..."
I know that's fewer than I'd like, but I'm choosing to believe that 250ish people had such unpopular ideas that they couldn't talk anyone into going with them. I wish we had demographic information indicating which races were represented in that group.
Now... according to census.gov, the US is comprised of people who identify as white alone (non-hispanic) at 75.3%. As you may recall, 86.5% of the rioters were white, non-hispanic.
This means that more-than-general-population amounts of white people were represented at this thing.
I don't know how to address this, and I myself am white enough that I classify myself as white on forms. So it feels like it's a conversation we need to be having. I wish I knew how.
Footnote: I'm bad at math and doing my best. I promise I welcome corrections.
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