This is the day I've been dreading for months. It only gets worse from here. So many aspects of my life are now in the hands of outright fascists, and anxiety has peaked. :(

That's pretty much my thoughts exactly. We're heading into dark times.

Even as a Canadian his reach is so far stretched it's been seeping into my country for years. It's worse than ever, and he's causing problems for other countries unnecessarily instead of helping his own.

Four years and not a day more...then never again.

But He has a son 😨 !!!

Is he aware of the fact?

He won’t last 4 years, I promise you that.

I agree with this. And I think he does, too. Ten 'Commandments' (so to speak) he pushed for without waiting for much more than the fireworks show. He's very likely going to make every day count for his agendas. As I suspect too much of the world wants him removed. And the man is playing Roulette in the harshest way possible.

Vance could be even worse, believe it or not.

If that’s the case we’ll kick him out too. And Rubio, and whatever boot licker comes next in line until we get someone passable.

Unfortunately, that may not be possible. While we do have power, we don't usually have the power to do that.

He's a walking coronary, never mind the dementia.

*sighs* They want to break us for our defiance. They want to break us for protesting. They want to destroy us because we're not the majority. They want purity, but they know what doesn't work now... They learned from history, but it seems many others did not.

I am tired. So many humans are hateful and dangerous creatures... Who are greedy, selfish, and evil... Genuinely malicious...

Once their target is eliminated... They will need another... To drive the hate machine... Never forget that...

The fact so many are so easily manipulated... Makes me sad...


... Humanity has left me sad. We can do so much better... We could be space faring...


... When the billionaires have destroyed the world and collected all the money... What will they do? It will mean nothing. The pieces of paper will mean nothing. They're dragons hoarding wealth, nothing more... ... We need a generation of dragon slayers... For the dragons have eaten too many of the poor and weak and different... But not enough to warrant the 'regular' people to not keep giving them treasure...

*sigh* ... ... -w-... I am tired...

EDIT: To the idiots who would go "lol nothing will happen". Things are already happening. Florida is forcing Trans prisoners to detransition. The government has banned trans youths from participating in any sports, specifically targeting trans girls. You think nothing will happen? It already is happening. You think nothing will happen TO YOU, you fucking selfish assholes. Stay comfortable until they run out of people to hate, then they'll come for furries. Furries have been on their list for a LONG fucking while.

But we ARE the majority. Don't let them convince you otherwise.

I can't comprehend the level of loathing directed at furries from people who have accounts on this site. For many of the FA magas, gestapo targeting furries IRL would be a day for celebration. Some people are incapable of creating anything, and they are filled with rage and contempt for those who do create. They'd love to see this entire place burned to the ground if it means hurting the people they despise.

It's rather remarkable how many of those people there are on this site. I see and deal with them all the time.

That's for sure. I guess you heard about Drumpf's statement today. Time for us to all take care of each other. This won't last. Hate will not triumph over love.

I am terrified.

As am I…

I’m incredibly terrified, as you know since you held me in the shower last night as I sobbed about it… but most of us are ready to band together and not let the orange fucking turd stop us. If I have to put my combat boot up some one’s ass for discrimination and I go to jail for it, I’ll do it. I’m not gonna sit and take it any more. I’m not gonna let these fucking right wing ass holes win. We tried fighting hate with love. Time to fight back.

I would highly recommend my trans and LGBTQ+ friends and allies on here to check out crashoverridenetwork dot com and their COACH cybersecurity helper.

They also have tons of tools and guides on locking down your online presence; because I fear that over the next four years, there may come a time where being openly trans or even LGB+ etc online could legitimately threaten your safety and lives.

Do what you can to keep yourselves safe; you'll get through this!

Lots of Love

You are not alone, we are still in this together.

I hope my american friends get through the next four years, and I hope germany doesn't follow into the same insanity...

-w-... Elon is already trying to manipulate German politics... *sigh*

Yeah, I am aware, and we have elections soon...

just show them that little gesture Elon did during the inauguration, it should leave no question what his intentions are now.

The german media today avoids calling it a "nazi salute" for some reason, calling it an "odd gesture" instead. Our consevative publication already try to downplay it. And I am loosing my mind.

So far not that fruitful luckily. That public interview he had with the far right leader had practically no influence on the polls at least.

These comments are so dramatic, like he's about to hunt everyone down.
He's a politician, he'll do the bare minimum and get rich doing it. Besides, he's too thick to do any lasting damage.

that may be but you have to worry about the assholes in the other branches of the government with the republicans dominance over the three government branches. THAT is what worries me the most

He's an idiot with a wide variety of handles to manipulate him with; Trump may be too stupid to reliably tie his own shoes, but he's both a sadistic, narcissistic child that has no concept of ethics, justice, or restraint, and he's an easy route to power for all the other worst people on Earth.

OK, but if I can find you a few dozen quotes from Berlin 1932 saying the same thing about Adolf Hitler, will you change your mind?

Sure, go for it

Here's a good start: https://www.theatlantic.com/nationa.....hitler/254146/

Money quote: "This guy is a clown. He's like a caricature of himself." Sounds pretty similar to me.

This Hitler quote too: “It makes no difference whatever whether they laugh at us or revile us … whether they represent us as clowns or criminals; the main thing is that they mention us, that they concern themselves with us again and again …”

Source: https://archive.ph/Gx3Cx#selection-1467.0-1471.1

People didn't think Hitler would really go through with any of his threats, either.

And https://eloncdn.blob.core.windows.n.....rine_Blunt.pdf

Here's the money quote from that one: https://imgur.com/a/oiCWCq2

I do this for a living, hun, I could keep going...

How about another.

“It is highly improbable that in this case he will succeed in putting through any of his more radical plans in respect to the constitution.” - Dorothy Thompson on Hitler, 1931

https://medium.com/timeline/some-pe.....r-cd671577367b

Ain't done. When I said "dozens," I meant dozens.

"So it's worth remembering that Hitler was actually an incompetent, lazy egomaniac and his government was an absolute clown show."

"In fact, this may even have helped his rise to power, as he was consistently underestimated by the German elite. Before he became chancellor, many of his opponents had dismissed him as a joke for his crude speeches and tacky rallies. Even after elections had made the Nazis the largest party in the Reichstag, people still kept thinking that Hitler was an easy mark, a blustering idiot who could easily be controlled by smart people."

"Why did the elites of Germany so consistently underestimate Hitler? Possibly because they weren't actually wrong in their assessment of his competency—they just failed to realise that this wasn't enough to stand in the way of his ambition. As it would turn out, Hitler was really bad at running a government. As his own press chief Otto Dietrich later wrote in his memoir The Hitler I Knew, "In the twelve years of his rule in Germany Hitler produced the biggest confusion in government that has ever existed in a civilized state."

"His government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do, and nobody was entirely clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often end up relying on gut feeling, leaving even close allies in the dark about his plans."

--https://www.newsweek.com/hitler-inc.....pinion-1408136

Convinced yet? Is any of this starting to sound just a tad familiar?

I mean if you're going off ridicule people gave a politician you're not gonna be in short supply lmao
I fail to see what this actually proves. People hate politicians universally. Ain't nothing new there "hun".

Wow.

This is how you end up with fascism. Exactly what you're saying.

Is that what you want?

You need to study your history if what postvixen said wasn't good enough for you. Fascism needs to be nipped in the bud. Why do you think that antifa exists?

Politics aside I appreciate you for emphasizing the "Hun" there. That shit drives me up the wall.

It proves that a dangerous man and ideology were underestimated before...

"I fail to see what this actually proves."
It proves that people like you let fascists come to power because you never understand how bad it can get, you dunce.

You missed one important point there, not just the things against Hitler are a match for whats happening there, Trumps own words and Hitlers are very similar, proving that at least one man learned from history, sadly he wants to repeat it.

That's spectacularly naive. You're just wrong.

Specific to what EC and Vega are talking about here, Today Drumpf declared that the US will only recognize Male and female as legitimate designations of sex or gender.

That's just ONE of the cruel and hateful things that will be done, or at least attempted, in the next four years that will wreck lives and make innocent people miserable.

Of course they won't be able to do everything they want, but you can guarantee that there will be chaos, misery, and even deaths because of this.

you're incredibly naive and/or not paying attention if you haven't seen the immense damage that's already been done, and it's only the beginning

Then educate me. What immense damage are you on about?

Do you know any trans people in the US? ask them why they're terrified.
It looks like you're from the UK so i guess i can't blame you for being ignorant, though even there you must be living under a rock

Oh right, you must be one of those American exceptionalists that think everyone watches NBC and sings along to the US anthem like it means anything to the rest of the world. Lmao. I'm sure you know so much about UK politics though, right?

Jesus Fucking Christ.

You're just determined to keep digging yourself a deeper hole, aren't you?

Try shutting TF up when you don't know anything about something and putting your energy into learning something about it instead. It would serve you well.

You're coming here saying how something you know little about is no big deal and then get mad when people call you out on your ignorance? That's rather sad.

Might want to give this a watch. If you can spare 30 minutes of your time and attention, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s
This was posted seven months ago and is still relevant today.

He's bought and paid for by anyone who wants him to twist the nuts of the nation in their favor. It's why so many people are concerned for his term, for what these organizations have in store for us as citizens, and what he can employ with his position by standing up the military and coast guard into a militarized policing force.

As Ecmajor stated below, I'll also give you some credit if you're not actively engaged in the political ongoings in the rest of the world besides your own four walls of the world. However, even in the US I've heard of Brexit and the various other difficulties governments are having in other places of the world. It's not rare or exotic news what Trump plans to do to people here. Or, barring direct action, make it damn near impossible for anyone to have rights beyond 100hr work weeks and 5$ an hour.

They want their power, they want their control, and they want to rule over any minority / working class individual.

Found the guys who's not paying attention

I'll point you at the judiciary. I'll even narrow it down for you. Look at the supreme court.
I'll narrow it down further to a single ruling, Trump v. United States.

Do you know what the six goons (three of whom Trump put in their positions) decided existed? Prospective immunity from prosecution for sitting presidents. They invented it out of whole cloth (and so you don't have to google that phrase, it means that it was fabricated without any factual or legal basis).

Also, lets not forget that by "sitting presidents" they mean "Trump." And Trump even extends "sitting presidents" to "and the incoming president elect" (ie. Trump) or even just "presidential nominee" (he actually tried that, it got shot down at least a dozen times, but it didn't stop him from trying again in the same trial a couple months later).

Additionally those same six SCOTUS goons has also ended Roe (because something something, ah fuck it, we just want to ban abortion because we want men to have power over women), ended Chevron deference (because a judge understands an agency's job as outlined in law better than that agency does), killed the Lemon test (because, uh, something something Jesus I guess), and decided that being homeless is a crime (see City of Grants Pass v. Johnson) and definitely constitutional.

It isn't just this, but it's a very apparent degradation of the judiciary unfolding in real time because Trump (and honestly, most of the GOP) embodies "rules for thee, not for me."

this is the kind of apologetic behaviour that allows fascism to flourish and grow, please better yourself

The fact that he's too thick to understand what he's doing and only craves attention and weath is WHY he'll do such incredible lasting damage without giving a single fuck.

Hundreds of E.O.s on the first day is not "the bare minimum." Texas is already declaring war on anybody not white enough. A mindless avalanche can still do a lot of destruction.

Trump has so far signed 26 Executive Orders since retaking office, not "hundreds", you liar.

Yeah, you know no matter how much you kiss Trump's ass, he still thinks you use a litterbox. The number is irrelevant. It also doesn't include seventy-eight reversals of Biden EOs. Even 26 is more EOs issued on the first day than any president in history. Because Trump KNOWS he can't govern, except as a dictator. How many EOs he issues is less relevant than the fact that some of his EOs attempt to re-write the U.S. Constitution.

Now he's commanding "Prices Go Down!" What a fucking clown. Less hilarious is granting top secret security clearances to his cronies who were denied them already for being national security threats. But I'm sure you're just laughing your ass off over his plan to expand use of the death penalty, sell off national parks to mining interests and mobilizing the Army to operate on US soil for the first time since the Civil War. This is like a Project 2025 wish list.

Found another Drumpf bootlicker.

What a completely dumbass thing to say. We all know he plans to, and of course now he has.

Tell us, how do those boots taste?

"He stated a mild retort with verifiable statistics to someone else and didn't give a full condemnation of Drumpf! He's a bootlicker lolololol!"
Better than the lead paint you've clearly been eating.

Fucking fashy cultist.

Using typically fallacious rhetorical techniques because you don't really have a supportable argument, too.

Pot, meet Kettle.

Pff.

https://trumpfile.org/

Most fascist regimes are cram packed full of dunces who are just there to get rich. It doesn't take a genius to stir up witch hunts and moral panics, and it's quite lucrative to the people leading the charge.

I agree with you. These people are melodramatic fools. Trump and his followers already had 4 years to "hunt them down."
If he was going to do it, he already had a chance and didn't. These people are just so used to being socially institutionally advantaged that now that they're being treated fairly (and having their prejudicial privileges stripped) they cry foul.
“When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.”

Ah yes, the institutional advantage of not being discriminated against. How unfair to everyone else.

I also like how your quote actually undermines your argument. That's pretty amusing at least.

You're a real piece of work.

Nice to see that you're a general purpose bigot. Not particularly surprising though.

Consider who is hurt when DEI programs are eliminated. That's what you actually want though, isn't it?

Oh no, someone who is interested in meritocracy and equal opportunity! How horrible! That you aren't agreeing with me shows off the fact you're a racist, bigoted shit heel who is more interested in advantaging certain groups of people to the detriment of others in order to pat yourself on the back and pretend you're a good person. It's nice to see you're a general purpose dumbass.

What a complete load of shite.

Fuck off, fashy scum.

Piss off, Commissar.

Lordy. You're really that dense, aren't you.

I said FUCK. OFF.

No u

Har har.

SO mature.

Not only that, but you're one of those cowards who snipes and blocks people. Why am I not surprised?

Because I knew you'd get miffed by it! :D

Miffed? Hardly. I just said I wasn't surprised. Do you even know what "Miffed" means? -Apparently not.

Now you get to be reported for violating the COC.

Touched a nerve, did I now? May you one day become a less angry, bitter person and actually enjoy this one life you have.

Poor guy. I wonder what might have happened to someone to make them be like that.

Yet another response to Cyprena, as they have necro'd this message an entire week later while still keeping me blocked:
No, I just gave a coherent and detailed response. Those require more than a single sentence. If anything I should be asking you that question since you're invested enough to leave a comment an entire week later.

My mom's Facebook (because I don't use that shit) is already being flooded by right-wing assholes talking about how great a day today is.
I'll do whatever I can to help those hurt by what's to come. I don't know what I'm really capable of, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna sit here while people I care about are hurt or ostracized just for being alive.

I’m with you on that. I hold out hope that more right-wingers feel the sting of Trump’s lies as he grifts them down to their bones for money, and they finally wake the fuck up and see that all of us are really being manipulated for a class war. We have more in common with each other than we do with the billionaires and they need to stop taking the bait of their masters and buying into the hate.

I'm not even on the same continent, so all I can do is wish you all good luck and stay strong!

It's going to be a rough four years for sure. I'm trying to keep my spirits up, but we're sailing into a hurricane.

FA dosen't ban facist too, 4 month i reported someone on FA, saying things against LGBT & gay, and they did nothing, tickets have not been seen a single time by the staff. Block them as soon have you see's one of them.

People get permabanned for speech like that here all the time. I've helped with that a number of times.

At the moment the admins are understaffed and overworked. I have a number of tichets in right now that haven't been responded to for up to abour 3 months right now. They're usually pretty good about responding.

I clearly hope, cause its getting seriou with the number of peoples sucking trump dry & defending musk to do a nazi sign

Keep fighting and don't think your vote doesn't count. Many didn't vote the last election.

My only comfort has been watching the MAGA terrorist network cannibalize each other as they fight over policy.

Now they've got actual power. And frankly, I won't be surprised at all if the giant orange turd only lasts a week before the Apartheid brat is xcreting about the 25th Amendment or threatening to fund primary challengers against anyone who doesn't vote to impeach and convict him.

And mark my words: The 2028 Democratic nominee will announce they are countering "The MAGA Party" with "The FAFO Party" and campaign on a promise to dismantle MAGA and put the screws to everyone who ever aided or abetted it.

Just gotta hold the line as best you can.

I sure wish I could fave journals

Time for a man who only sees billionaires as people to be in charge of America, continuously cutting taxes to the 1% and doing whatever it takes to make money for the people who need it the least. Trickle down economics is a lie with these billionaire/multi-millionaire money hoarders.
I’m Canadian and his economic threats make me super uneasy. I really hope the USA steps in and takes away his authority before he does something irreversible

One supposed rule about maintaining the stature of an American President is that no one person in that office position is to be taking in outside money while they serve their term. The man never gave up his empire of money making profit ventures while he served the first time.
The corruption here is absolute. I don't see the 'USA' effectively removing him from office. I also don't see him surviving this term, either. He's going to push his public appearance luck one too many times and give his many enemies one too many opportunities. And he will, too. What's this crap about surviving assentation by the will of God? Sounds like wearing his luck like plot armor to me.

*hugs*

dude no it isn't. Even if you ARE trans the reality is your sex is your sex. You can prsent and portray as you are but you should NEVEr abandon who you were, ignore it, as it was at some point, you.


Just cause there is gonna be af ocus on stating the reality we are a sexually dimorphic species doesn't mean trans people lose rights. Just that they gotta accept their past and stuff.

With "accept their past" you mean be continuously confronted with who they once were but aren't anymore by society, thereby always treated as the "other", which is a deeply disempowering thing to experience, right?

He already signed an executive order stating that trans people Do Not Exist. People who don't exist have no rights.

You're either a troll account or merely pants-shittingly stupid, and the terrible thing about contemporary times is it's nearly impossible to tell the difference these days.

You just couldn't be more wrong here. Sex and gender are far more complex than that. Your ignorance, and probably your bias, is showing.

Go study some science. Start with "Intersex".

Bro they already did an executive order that removed all of the federal discrimination protections for gay and trans people except for employment discrimination.

Does being denied an apartment lease for being LGBT sound like not losing rights? Because that happened to me back in 2015 and now it can legally happen again.

Does being denied prescriptions by the pharmacy for being trans sound like not losing rights? Because as of yesterday that's legal again.

Do you think all of that is justified as "gotta accept their past and stuff"?

irrelevant, a person has a right to their identity. Weather someone is male, female or anything else does not affect you in any way. Why is that such a hard concept to grasp?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLlu-JbkQR4

That’s incredibly insensitive to trans people. You do realize his wife is trans and is fighting very hard to be recognized as who she is right?

the fact that people like you still exist in this fandom, which has a larger proportional representation of LGBTQ+ people compared to general western society, just makes me sad.

Well said. We’ve got to stick together and hold on to each other because no one else, certainly not our politicians, are going to offer meaningful support.

Thanks to all of this I think I legitimately have a case of generalized anxiety. Like seriously, there is isn't a day that goes by where I don't have a sense of dread for the future.

Am honestly proud of how our community sticks together and how supportive we are of each other. But there is no way denying that there are going to be a lot of difficulties for the next years to come. I also feel like we'll see many dangerous situations from extremists being encouraged to exert violence against specific groups of people. It's just all the red flags of a state going fascist.

let's keep going. <3

Ugh and it happened on my monthaversary with my partner too. I chose to focus on that instead. And now to stay strong and defiant for the next four years.

That's really scary, all of these impeachments and lawsuits for nothing. January 20 was the pinnacle of them showing the failure of the rule of law and the judiciary system, showing how all of this simply doesn't affect them, will not stop them now.

Elon's provocative gesture was, of course, completely deliberate, a spit in the face of whoever believe in justice, equality, and any other social values... A way to tell "look, I'm too big to fail, I can do whatever I want now"

Dark day, dark times indeed.

That gesture was one of the most disgusting things, and the fact that people were flocking to defend it just further confirms how disgusting things (and how brainwashed and/or hateful a lot of the nation) have already become

At least, this incident revealed a lot of things about a lot of people, and even organizations.

The ADL actually defending the gesture? Who could've seen it coming, it's like living in a parallel world

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This Brit has the back of all trans folks everywhere.

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I'm here out of pure of spite and I'm never gonna back down from these fash fuckers. I got yalls back always just I know the community has mine. Dark days ahead, but like usual we keep going because we have to, we need to.

I'm with ya!

yes

Much love EC. Laws be damned I refuse to be erased.

Fuck off

Please die

Don't lie. I know you're not feeling better regardless.

How ignorant. -At least what you say doesn't matter, because that's scientifically incorrect.

It's also bigoted and cruel, which, I assume, is your actual point.

Seriously, though, how does what someone feels comfortable with as far as what they wish to be called negatively affect anyone? You and all of the other fashy bigots who think that this is great need to get their noses out of people's genitals and mind their own damn business.

Scum.

Kiss my trans ass and take a long walk off a shot pier with a concrete pair of shoes.

I like when you make these journals because it gives me a bunch of new people to block ngl

Hahaha! RIGHT??

I always scan the comments on FA pro trans journals specifically for that.
4chan scum.

Hard to know what to say. Hard to know what to do. A lot of questions can't be answered. A very frightening future not just for the reasons described but for the uncertainty of the future. When I first really got into the fandom around 2009 and I met you EC, I really opened up and expanded my worldview. Ever since then no matter the path I took, that outlook has allowed me to meet extraordinary, expectational people and friends. Compassion, kindness and being able to put yourself in another person's shoes can not only help someone, but it can help you in ways you might not even expect in the moment. Despite the hate and an uncertain road ahead, I implore you all to continue to be yourselves. Continue to listen to one another without judgement. Continue to lift one another up and help each other as best you can.

Remember this too. Evil prevails when good people do nothing. Stay strong, stay safe, I love you guys.

I'm going to wear my Nazi Lives don't matter shirt all the time.

where'd you get that shirt? I want one!

Same.

Think I may make one myself that says "Fash lives don't matter".

It was a limited run hoodie from https://thepawsitively.com/

It'd be a great project to cut some stencils and make a sandwich board that you can stretch a t-shirt over with some fast drying spray paint so people could make their own shirts at protests.

<3

Some great words from  Patpahootie, AKA Pauli:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLlu-JbkQR4

We will survive. We will outlast them. We will tell the future's children what the right-wing revealed themselves to be.

I'm here, I'm queer, and if they try to come and get me I'm putting up a fucking fight.

We will not be silenced by a moldy orange and an elongated musk rat. Stay strong my friends! Protect your friends of color. protect your trans friends. we have your back! Love you all.

Ah shit i posted it before I could finish this. Hang on.

Tell your trans friends and loved ones that they matter.
This is VERY VERY important because of the number of trans people calling suicide hotlines after the election. If they understood why Trump won, and WHY they feel so suicidal... they wouldn't even be suicidal in the first place.

The absolute CRUELTY of the Democrat's "marketing" campaign was built on slander and falsehood. Making the lefties look insane for believing in it and Putting off normies from voting Democrat.

They wanted Trump to win. But why slander him?

Easy. Cuz the mainstream media dangled the "trump is evil" carrot over your heads and made YOUR SIDE look like a cesspool of insanity.

Most Trump voters were independent voters who grew tired of the crazies. And most of the crazies were just simply indoctrinated by the smear campaign.



It's just sad, really.