• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    The US began with slavery.

    Then slavery ended (with the prison exemption, but still…)

    Only white male land owners had rights.

    But eventually all white males had rights.

    Then rights were expanded to black men.

    Then to women.

    Then segregation ended and interracial marriage is legal.

    Now same-sex marriage is legal.

    Soon we will have trans rights protections.

    Don’t give up. We’ve come a long way.

    This nation was started by white land owners for white land owners. But it has since evolved. More people have rights than ever before in the history of this country.

    Do not give up. We can’t let 200+ years of history go to waste because of two four-year terms of one politician.

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      1 month ago

      This. America used to give so many fewer rights to all.

      Yes, there are SERIOUS problems in America that are systemic, but they are fixable. We just need to keep going.

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        A ton of gender-affirming healthcare is illegal in most of the USA, the bathroom laws are a patchwork of un-navigable bullshit, the process for changing your legal name doesn’t really work, I could go on but I suspect you aren’t asking in good faith.

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          I’m in California where there’s gender everything, gender neutral bathrooms, freedom for illegals, and you can pretty commit petty theft with no repercussions… my point is, this country is made up of individual states, that’s why each state has their own voting systems to elect politicians, pass laws, enforce laws…etc… just because you can’t get gender-affirmation surgery, or take a piss with women as a trans in Alabama, doesn’t mean the entire country is like this.

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        Well, I just saw a news article today about how Trump was immediately going to kick every trans person out of the military. Also been seeing articles for years now about Republicans trying to ban sexual realignment surgery even for adults. So what more proof do we need that there’s a problem?