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Cake day: September 12th, 2023

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  • I think you have comprehensively missed the point of this post.

    This post: “people under threat here’s some things you can do to lower your profile, mitigate risk a little” (positive actions)

    Your comment (initial & reply): " how did the US let this happen & why didn’t you fight it, why aren’t you fighting it now"

    That assumes a) the people most under threat are the same people who should be/can be fighting it b) that they didnt before the election and c) that the actions you prescribe will be effective.

    So. Are your assumptions valid and do they actually add anything by voicing them ?

    I know many in the US queer community worked tirelessly to prevent Trump being elected (assumption b) but now they really do need to get as low profile as possible, because there is a pogrom coming. Straight white people can afford to protest, the numbers are there. Minorities in small numbers not so much. Easy pickings.



  • Agreed, also the assertion that most are Latin derived seems questionable. I count Portugal, Spain France Belgium (part), Italy, Romania, Luxembourg (French partial) Switzerland (part & not EU) . Ireland (part & saying English is Latin derived is really stretching it)

    Non Latin (Germanic / Slavic) is Belgium, Lux (Lux lang), Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway (not EU) Finland, Estonia, Latvia Lithuania, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland (part), Croatia, Montenegro, N.Macedonia, Greece, Malta, Cyprus, Ireland (part)

    Did I forget anyone ?

    That gives 9 Latin derived, 24 not Latin (noting double count of partial and including 2 large technically non EU)

    Left out the 3 non EU micro nations of Andorra, Monaco & Lichtenstein but even if included it’s 1/3 latin, 2/3rds non Latin by count. Probably the same by population but I can’t be arsed to look it up

    (Also ignored the UK for obvious reasons)


  • I’m increasingly annoyed at all these posts going "here’s how to lock down your comms from all the people coming after you for all the protesting you’re not doing.

    People aren’t going to be coming after LGBTQ+ people “for the protesting” they are or are not doing.

    They’ll be coming for them because they’re queer.

    If you’ve even been paying a little bit of attention the magats have made it clear the two main minorities in their sights for the first round are immigrants and trans ppl.

    They’ve already sent a US citizen to an El Salvadorian camp and shrugged and said sorry, can’t reverse that now.

    If you think the rest of the queer minority are not in their sights you’re kidding yourself (and us)

    Check your privilege.


  • Move to the bluest city & state you can get a job in. Then hunker down and either save hard or start studying something that will allow you to emigrate (medical&IT security are always on the list), or something that can be done fully remotely. You’re a lot safer from a camp in a place where there are 100s of thousands of minorities. Not safe forever but it buys you time.

    If you can get a job that can be done remotely you can get out to asia or south america asap.











  • Given the restrictions reddit has been bringing in (upvoting luigi on a nintendo related site got one user banned) you may wish to encourage your reddit subscribers to at least get themselves setup here for when the sub gets inevitably banned. Reddit is unequivocally on the side of the GOP & billionaires now.