The bureaucratic model gives rise to agencies with their own powers and we depend on respectability to keep them in check. But this erodes.
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Portland's *transit authority* is building a jail. I mean, what the actual fuck? But also, this is regulatory liberalism's steady state.
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In Virginia, we've had ABC officers pulling guns on a college girl for buying sparkling water. They beat up a black kid for being near a bar
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There are no safe cities. There are no safe states. The erosion of the barriers against full scale authoritarianism is at all levels.
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"What's the best city in the US for a trans woman?" None of them. Nowhere is safe.
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You can say, "we have to stay so we can vote them out" but a candidate beat the shit out of a journalist and it probably bumped his results.
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The only thing giving trans folks hope is the idea that many people want to help us. But it's not enough, and we're not enough to have power
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Getting out of the US is a priviliged thing to do. But it's a survival act. And if you can do it, do it while you can.
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Wait I thought you were a liberalist ***Confusion***
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Noooopppeee
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Wait what even is a liberalist in this confusing modern age
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A statist who supports regulatory checks as a ward against overreach is the easiest way to put it
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Think I support that. I don't really feel entirely comfortable leaving the big businesses to just run themselves. Look at Da Vita
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"good intentions" oh we're fucked
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