Just because some of us aren’t in our 20’s anymore doesn’t mean we know much more… so many of us also discovered we were trans during or after covid. But its not like trans people didn’t exist in the US from 2016-2020 and we’ll continue to be around.

Taking some action to feel more secure might help some? From things like firearm training, to community organizing, to getting a visa (or visas, if you can get a foreign one), etc

Congrats on bottom surgery! /j

GG! Were you waiting to tell your parents at Christmas or something?

It still would be a mistake and would prevent some people from voting for him, but Bernie would at least compensate for it by actually supporting popular policies instead of the opposite and have some energy.

I was pretty politically oblivious until high school around the time of things like occupy wallstreet. Somehow ended up in socialist* spaces on facebook,.

*was also in progressive lib/socdem spaces, so I wasn’t particularly differentiating at the time. Honestly couldn’t tell you how much I’d still support the candidate I voted for in 2012 (one of the socialist 3rd party candidates). Just that it was seemed better than what the dems and greens or justice had to offer.

Guess it was the failure of “Hope & Change” in 2008-2012 that led to the movements that made me pretty anti-democrat, but I never believed in that hope & change; was simply unaware politically before. But it wasn’t like some discrete event.

it’s always nice to get a reminder of why i try to avoid posting there or even just look at it in general.

When I accidentally wonder into a trans thread on someplace like or beehaw, I’m always like “wtf is with these comments?” and then check the instance…

2. Not 70+ years old.

Still managed to make enough mistakes to offset Trump’s age.

Any idea how socialist parties did this year compared to the last few elections?

I’d love to go away from this country and especially from this state. Probably should have done it back when Biden announced he was running for a second term.

Kamala was less popular as VP among democrats than Trump was as president among republicans. Yeah. Trump is awful. Unfortunately he has a base of awful people who favor that. Emulating that behavior doesn’t make someone popular among people who’d vote democrat.