𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍

There’s literally one window with a large X in the top right. NPR and Wikipedia do the same thing. But here, I copied the first three paragraphs for you so you don’t have an excuse.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security is releasing this third Red Flag Alert for the USA related to the Trump Administration’s anti-trans initiatives, which have continued to expand nationwide since our last Red Flag Alert (RFA) on this subject. Over the eight months since the second RFA’s publication, the Republican Party’s anti-trans agenda has radicalized and continued to intensify. 2025 was the sixth consecutive record-breaking year for the number of anti-trans bills considered across the country. There was a 45 percent increase in bills between 2024 and 2025. Between 2021 and 2025, the number of bills in consideration has increased by 668 percent.

The Administration has moved from identifying transgender people as a threat to the family and to the nation’s military prowess to claiming that transgender people constitute a cosmic threat to the spiritual health of the nation and the greatest direct threat to U.S. national security in the world. Given these ideological developments, especially coupled with the increasingly hostile and draconian legislation against trans identities, the Lemkin Institute believes that the United States is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. and globally.

Genocide against trans people takes on patterns that set it apart from the mass murder genocides that people commonly associate with the crime, such as the Holocaust. Currently, the genocide against trans people follows a pattern – denial of identity (pattern #9 in the Lemkin Institute’s Ten Patterns of Genocide) – that makes it more familiar to the colonial genocides against indigenous populations, including the residential/boarding school systems in North America and Australia, where indigenous children were “allowed” to go on living if they gave up their identities, including their languages. Denial of identity involves two main steps: preventing people from openly expressing an identity and destroying institutions that reproduce the identity. Given that the denial of identity is the consequence of a well-defined hostility, even hatred, for the identity, the pattern is often characterized by incitement against the group. Alongside suppression and incitement, perpetrators of this pattern of genocide will simultaneously criminalize the identity, so that expressions of it or institutions that reproduce it become characterized as threatening and corrosive to the body politic and warranting state violence and coercion. People who assert or support the denied identity then become criminal elements that must be eliminated. In the case of the boarding schools, children who used their mother tongue or otherwise showed signs of their independent identity were severely punished.

Trans people being effectively legislated out of existence and the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued three red flag alerts, but go on about how it’s not a genocide

the Lemkin Institute believes that the United States is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. and globally

I urge anyone skimming by to the article I linked, if you have 5 minutes. It’s actually a pretty good read. I’ll also note that this is why I fled the US when I had the chance

The US has been openly genociding trans people within its borders and no one cares. People turned out for Palestine and Venezuela to the extent that the state allowed them to, but have been seemingly silent on Cuba. Genocide is as American as the Kardashians.

To be clear, I’m not talking about politically savvy users on Lemmy. You’re not the problem. The problem is the “white moderate” that MLK talked about in his letter. The problem is the apoliticals who complain about having to take the scenic route to Starbucks because of protesters on the streets. It’s the so-called “adults” who treat politics like an optional sport. It’s the people who have never heard of AIPAC, and who act surprised to learn that the US is at war. Those people need a good wake up slap.

The cultists are too far gone, the only hope for them to rejoin civilized society is literal cult deprogramming

Not to bothsides the issue because Republicans are literal death cult pedophiles, but big-D Democrats are also complacent. They’re using the war to fundraise but have been awfully quiet otherwise

(Seriously, my entire SMS history looks like this)

I got a tongue split in 2017 so uhh probably that. I have a high pain tolerance.

Unintentional pain, probably the last time I ended up in the ER with severe food poisoning. I had fully emptied my stomach by then but my body kept going. The bile burns your throat and mouth when it gets that far along. It was so painful

I was just watching this one, but I’m performing this week and she’s working on a theater piece

Tattoo

I’m a performer and my partner’s also in the arts, so uhhh, -1 hours

The fact that you think the US has any form of “far left” presence beyond fringe college clubs and CIA honeypots says everything

Not that I necessarily disagree with your first point, I just don’t see it as evidence of the existence of a far left. The Iranian people have been protesting the Iranian government on their own for ages.

Fwiw, I completely forgot those existed

You win a no expenses paid vacation to an ICE facility in Bumfuck, Idaho!

I plan to book/get a tattoo that reads “I outlived the clown” under a cute clown face. I’m a circus performer so it’ll be a fun talking point

…which of these two governments is left wing, exactly?

They’re about evenly known in my experience. As an example, Verne is in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but Wells is not, whereas Wells got a remake of a remake. I like em both. Classic scifi and steampunk nerds certainly know them both

Wells is probably fresher in the general public’s mind because of the War of the Worlds remake

Any time I call an Uber and get a Tesla I automatically deduct a point. I hate being in those things.

In fairness it’s strong plastic, but I wish they’d used metal. Curse you Timberland!

Emoji réactions

Ah man you got assigned to the Lenin Ave HQ? I got the one on Soros Lane which is fine I guess if you don’t mind small talk with Hillary Clinton

There’s friendly fire and then there’s

I hate the guy with a hatred that words cannot describe, but really? The first?