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At CPAC, Michael Knowles said:

“for the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely”

Trump banned trans people from serving in the military. More broadly, trans people routinely lose their jobs.

Trump has repeatedly called for socialists to be destroyed. For example:

"We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections...”

Trump has called for socialists to be deported:

“Today I’m announcing a new plan to protect the integrity of our immigration system. Federal law prohibits the entry of communists and totalitarians into the United States. But my question is, what are we going to do with the ones that are already here, that grew up here? I think we have to pass a new law for them.”



They're saying their plan out loud on TV and people still don't believe it. It's maddening. It's not that your Republican neighbor is going to bust down your door and string you up, it's much slower and subtler than that. Institutional subjugation is much easier to pass and for people to quietly ignore. Elimination from public life was literally part of the Nuremberg Laws! And Florida right now has a law on the books that on paper bans transgender people from being in public if they ever felt safe to enforce it.

Calling Trump Hitler gives Trump too much credit, but the political conditions of 1930's Germany and economic anger giving rise to a desire for national purity and scapegoating minorities is pretty dead on. And it's not like Germany is unique, we're really not much more advanced than ritual sacrifice of people taken by demons to bring about a good harvest, err economy. This has been a persistent bug in Human we keep hitting.


Would you mind sharing information about this Florida law which bans transgender people from appearing in public? I tried Googling for it, but only found one which restricted access to transgender surgery for minors.




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