Liberalist regulatory states flirt with authoritarianism and rely on jurisprudence and good intentions to stay away from it.
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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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Relocate to 1...Homosexuals are beheaded, hanged and stoned in modern Saudi Arabia and Iran, where Muhammad's laws are applied most strictly
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In Iran, the state pays for transgender surgery. So in a way it's quite a ways more advanced than the US. Nice try.
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Jails beat mass graves any day.
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For too many Black people there's no difference but the time delay.
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I've read that the best determinant of survival rates in the Holocaust was the degree of organization and cooperation in the country.
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That's probably true, though mitigated by external factors. But this is why community organizing is so relevant!
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What I mean is that countries that had their shit together (to e.g. keep records and/or take a census) had the highest death rates.
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oh, huh. I guess that makes sense
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Apropos your point about how liberal regulatory states can lead to badness. Even though I sort of disagree.
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It's the expansion of executive power, coupled with deference by the courts, that is its undoing.
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