I’m with you, this is bad. I’m not LGBTQ+, but the fact that I have autism combined with ovaries has been terrifying lately. It feels like no one else sees what’s happening and they definitely don’t want to hear about it… I remember in highschool getting to take an elective history class focused on the details (like how it happened) of the Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, and the importance of learning from history and our past. It was a great opportunity and sparked an “interest” in genocides and I guess social justice for me. I wish more people had this opportunity and interest. It’s really difficult to see what’s happening around the US and honestly many other places I’m around the world so plainly, but having no significance or capability to do anything about it. It feels like no one cares and it feels like the bad guys won and all in slow motion
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archonet@lemy.lol 1 day agoCurrently shit scared as a gay guy with autism. I studied this, on my own, out of curiosity – how a relatively modern society can commit atrocities upon its own citizens that it deems “lesser”. In school, where we had entire chapters dedicated to things like the civil war and the war of 1812, WWI and WWII were split between a single chapter, and anything later was glossed over in even briefer fashion. My point is, nobody chased me down with homework, nobody made me learn the finer points of going from an economic crisis to an angry little man getting elected to gas chambers and piles of bodies. Nobody had to. I wanted to learn, so that I’d hopefully recognize them if they ever happened again. And now I can’t leave.
Also, hey, sidebar: anyone else finding the combination of “cutting NOAA funding”, “open air cages”, and “located in Florida, where devastating hurricanes regularly sweep through”, to be something Eichmann would’ve called genius? “Oops, we didn’t have any warning! Awww, shucks, shame about all those un-people we wanted to be rid of!” And the gators take care of the bodies. It’s brilliant, in a way.
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Jarix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m currently wondering if I should offer to marry an American who wants to move to Canada. But even sure for that works but I’m kind willing lol, but new a house, we both live in it and larp a marriage if we have to, better than my current job
archonet@lemy.lol 1 day ago
at this point I think my faith in other people is too damaged to accept such a thing from anyone I don’t know personally – (and alas, I have no friends up north), but I do hope you rescue someone worth saving. Not all of us didn’t see this coming. Nobody deserves that fate, not a migrant, not someone trans or someone poor or who jaywalked while black or anybody who stepped on that orange rapists bone-spurred toes.
Having said that, you should probably get rid of this comment, as I doubt Canada’s immigration authorities are very keen on marriage fraud, no matter how nice a gesture it may be.