This is literally just wrong dude

No lol your second statement is literally just wrong. The only way to do anything like this would be through an Amendment, which equated to literally changing the rules bc the current rules do not allow for it.

What are you trying to say?

What city is this? I apologize if that’s not something you want to share.

In the 70’s US, most people were entirely unaware of the subject. Violence against trans people absolutely occurred, and it was absolutely horrific, but the problems mostly stemmed from true ignorance. It was not like today where over 500 anti-trans bills were introduced this year to systematically harm, erase, and even hunt people for not identifying with what they were assigned at birth. With multiple organizations like the HRC declaring a state of emergency for trans people, yes, things today are undoubtedly more hostile than they have been in the past.

Talk to older people

How about you do that? I do quite frequently, in fact. From the events I’ve created or attended to celebrate trans identities, older trans people have exclusively expressed to me their fears for the growing hatred, and how it is unlike anything they have seen before. There are far more people that are accepting today than ever, yes, but there are also far more people who have so much extreme bigotry that they commit violence against trans people.

Believe it or not, you can do more stuff than just vote. However, you can do nothing about problems that you’re unaware of, even if they’re problems that affect you directly.

If only that were true. I can’t speak for the world as a whole, but things are pretty bad in the US. As a whole, LGBTQ+, especially trans folks, are at the highest risk of being victimized in the last 50 years. Just a few months ago, about 15 miles away from where I live, a trans kid was lured by right wing extremists and murdered. They used Grindr to catfish him in a planned, coordinated action. They are on trial for it right now.

I used that example to iterate how problems do exist in our personal communities. Anecdotes are not proof of larger societal trends, but the societal trends show it is a societal problem, too.

Yes, the number in the article I linked is not large by itself, but it is important to remember they are nearly all people who were fully out and were not afraid to tell people it. Most trans people are either somewhat or entirely closeted for safety.

“it’s not real if you just ignore it”

Or even

“They’re just lying to you about it for views”

I’m sorry to inform you, but the world is going through very rough times politically, especially the US. Many things are exaggerated, or even entirely fabricated, for views, but many things are not. Some of the worst stuff, however, is stuff that is never even covered by the news, like Project 2025 or the stuff happening in the Midwest/southeast states. Putting your head in the sand helps no one, even yourself.

Infinite growth is fine when the thing growing isn’t real, like money. Money is not a resource we find in reality, it’s purely a human-made representation of value. It’s only when it spreads to real resources does infinite growth become a problem.

Desantis is a goddamn psychopath dude. Trump is obviously not someone that should have any type of power but Desantis is literally no better. His policies are fucking insane, his personal ideology is fucking insane, the voters he encourages and the culture wars he wages are fucking insane. It’s not “just a job”, it’s the opportunity of power, something he seizes as much as possible. He is absolutely a fucking dictator if he gets the chance.

He came to my college campus a couple months ago, he kicked off his q and a with a prayer asking god to kill trans people. I’m not even saying that as a euphemism, the motherfucker literally said “and we ask you to stop the prevalence of transgenders by force if you need to” during that opening prayer.

Fucking insanity.

I highly disagree. The dude has made life for those he dislikes miserable in Florida. It has been so bad that multiple organizations have issued state of emergencies for trans people, from local trans organizations all the way up to the Human Rights Campaign. Trump is fucking horrible, Desantis is not a sliver better.

His policies consist solely of demonizing minorities and instilling facism as much as possible, I encourage you to read more about it.

The 14th amendment doesn’t require someone to be convicted

And who should be the one to actually do the reforming? Everyone always asks for reform in the system but no one actually wants any specific entity to do it.

To make it true? That would be the federalists and the democratic republicans. To keep it true? Well that would be the winner-takes-all system the US has. Blaming a single entity for systematic issues will never work the way you want it to.

If the democratic party died tomorrow, a new party would take its place and it would be just as terrible as you believe the DNC is now.

If you got the money for that I’ll be down to be your campaign manager

Bro do you know how power storage works

Bro who asked

Dude deadass you are either ignorant or disingenuous if you think the South is not a special kind of evil. I hope it’s the former.

Point fingers? Why are you being so dense?

It’s not like the corridor of shame was some unforeseen possibility caused by a lust of lowering taxes. It is intentional, by design. It is no coincidence the schools are entirely for predominantly Black neighborhoods and counties. The schools are so bad due to the state intentionally cutting off access to funding for Black students. Obviously, they do not claim this is the reasoning. However, at the exact same time these students are discriminated against to an unimaginable level, other students are enjoying the luxuries of multiple $1 billion buildings at some schools, like in Summerville, a predominantly white area.

But no, let’s not “point fingers” lmfao. Occam’s Razor is that you should never attribute to malice what you can attribute to ignorance. Well, this cannot be attributed to ignorance. The state of SC, and many states in the South, are full of malice.

I could literally go on and on if you want, I study political science in the South. The hatred on display here is different from the rest of the country, it is not the same as prejudice or racism in other areas, though it does exist all over, of course.

I grew up in South Carolina. OP is absolutely correct. If you do not believe them, or I, I do not know what to tell you.

I can say that all areas of the South (they mean the Southeast, btw. So anything East of Texas) are historically fucking evil. My family here goes back over 200 years, I can conclude that the history here has been consistently the worst part of the US.

Obviously, nearly anyone can experience discrimination or prejudice in any state, but it’s a different story when you have a history here of people who got into power by bragging about partaking in massacres of minorities, like Benjamin Tillman who governed SC and was a senator to Congress after that.

Or you can look at more individual situations, like how Louisiana sentenced a 16 year old to death in 1947 for a murder that he never committed (look up louisiana ex rel. francis v. resweber). In that situation, Francis’ case only made it to the Supreme Court of the United States because the best friend of the person that was murdered happened to be a lawyer who took Francis’ case after the State’s attempt to electrocute him failed the first time. I encourage you to look into this case, as it is obvious it was framing a child for the murder of a white male, a murder likely knowingly committed by a sheriff from a neighboring town.

You could look at the histories of discrimination and hatred and the use of people as hostages for political power, or even the civil war itself.

You could also look at more recent examples, where the South has continuously acted against their own people politically and physically through violence or barring people from education. Currently, right now, TODAY, there is a place in South Carolina referred to as the “corridor of shame” due to how abhorrent the schools are there. Yet, the majority of people that live in South Carolina actively support this violence.

Anecdotally, before I left the community I was able to talk with southerners, being a white AMAB person, where they would speak as though it was behind closed doors. The amount of extreme racism, hatred, homophobia, xenophobia, and anger towards anyone wanting to better themselves was overwhelming. The blatant disregard for human beings was never in short supply.

Yes, there are examples of northern states doing horrible things to their people, and examples of northerners themselves doing their own atrocities. The difference is those atrocities were recognized as such by more recent generations. Today, people here still praise the past as a better time, wishing they could go back to Black codes or Jim Crow Laws.

Most importantly, there has never been a single good thing the US has done that can be attributed to a Southerner or Southern state.