• moss_icon [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    I will predict the next 6 years of American politics right now:

    The Democrats will win the presidency in 2028. They will do absolutely nothing of substance for the next 4 years. The GOP will run a candidate even further to the right than Trump and the average voter who has a dogshit attention span will eat it up. The Democrats trying to win right wing votes will shift further to the right once again, push a candidate who runs on the exact same platform as Trump 47 but isn’t as “mean” about it and scream at you, calling you a fascist if you don’t vote for their guy while begging the last guy they called literally Hitler for an endorsement.

    How do I know this? Because the exact same thing has happened every election since the 1990s and Americans are incapable of learning from their past.

    • EatMoreMacroplastics [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      6 days ago

      Also, after being out for more than 5 years, i can safely say that medicine is absolutely and without the tiniest doubt the part of society where i have encountered transphobia the most and in its most blatant forms. “I’m a liberal physician who is fine with trans people” easily translates to “i know literally nothing about trans healthcare, i will refuse to treat you even though i easily could, and if i would bother i would prescribe you 30 times the recommended dose of this depression causing anti androgen alongside a homoeopathic dose of oral estradiole that will keep you below menopausal levels of estrogen. Also i constantly misgender you at every opportunity when you come into my practice, i tripple my normal amount of fatshaming now that you’re out and i will also assume that literally every symptom you report is somehow linked to you being trans.”