this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2024
314 points (94.4% liked)

World News

31903 readers
392 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] CreativeShotgun@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (38 children)

This man wants to do things that will make me and many people i love dead or suffering. How do you not understand how we could feel this way?

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (10 children)

How you could hate him? I understand. I have a nonbinary kid, and I'm against what he stands for. But advocating for political assassination is just wrong. We don't punish people for crimes they haven't yet committed, and we don't support vigilantism.

We need to vote out fascist Republicans, not kill them.

[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You know Trump was already president once, right? It's not like it's a secret that he's anti-LGBTQ people.

We Made A List Of All The Anti-LGBT Stuff Trump Has Done As President from 2018, it includes

  • Saying it’s legal to fire workers for being transgender.

  • Arguing that it’s legal to fire workers for being gay.

  • Making transgender female prisoners live with male prisoners.

  • Telling the Supreme Court that shopkeepers can turn away LGBT customers.

  • Withdrawing protections for transgender students.

  • Refusing to investigate anti-transgender discrimination complaints in public schools.

  • Trying to kick transgender people out of the military.

  • Issuing a religious liberty policy.

  • Starting to rescind protections for transgender patients.

and their list goes on.

The Trump administration on Friday finalized a rule that would remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people when it comes to health care and health insurance from 2020

A controversial new rule that could allow homeless shelters to turn away transgender people based on physical appearance is the Trump administration’s latest attempt at restricting trans rights. also from 2020

I'm not sure it's possible to get a full picture of everything Trump did wrong, even if you narrow it down to specific topics like LGBT rights. A lot of these things aren't crimes, but that's only because he was the one writing the laws and policies.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And the solution to this problem is to murder him? That is not how democracy works. Besides, the problem is not Trump per se, but the people voting for him. That won't change just because Trump is dead. They will find some other bigoted candidate that will be just as bad if not worse.

People need to be educated and informed and know why it's a bad idea to vote for someone like Trump - that is the only sustainable way to fix things if you ask me. Murder and violence will only entrench people further on either side and drive people to even more extremes.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (8 replies)
load more comments (35 replies)