Make no mistake about it: this is ENTIRELY because of religion, which allows the rich to fool the lower classes into hating groups that the magical books say are bad.

Sadly, if Democrats were a party in favor of workers and benefits and also gave angry speeches saying how gays and trans people were going to an evil afterworld of torture, the world wouldn’t be like this. The bulk of the lowest classes of society are not only scientifically illiterate, they are prejudiced, idiotic, and cruel. They deserve what they fucking get for their religious idiocy.

The problem is that there are good decent middle class people and some lower class people who don’t believe in fairy tale garbage religious myths and THEY are the ones that get massively fucked by this voting block of the ultra wealthy and ultra stupid, and since that voting block is over 60 percent, and the psychopathic upper classes won’t change and the lower classes won’t stop being stupid, political mobilization sadly will continue to not work until something like market collapse, environmental collapse, or some sort of destructive force changes things.

Even among the 40 percent of people not in that block of idiots and upper elites, there is still a large part that is religious and can’t name the enemy: it’s religion, it’s idiocy, it’s the psychopathic upper classes, and this moderate group of complacent people will doom us all.

There’s not really a good solution to the problem. Education doesn’t work on the religious, it just creates a group of people who can’t think critically and can claim to be educated. Violence won’t work when only 20 percent of society is willing to act and a large part of the religious 50 percent is armed and part of the police apparatus in society. The only thing that will change this is technology that somehow destroys or creates poverty specifically for the religious ignorant classes while passing over those who understand science and technology.

It’s hard to even blame the upper classes for exploiting the lowest classes when they are so stupid and unwilling to learn basic scientific thinking. Everyone religious is delusional and going to collectively destroy the planet.

As someone who has experience with being a literal fugitive in a case carrying the possibility of life (before eventually being detained and then found not guilty and released), this is really hard to do and people underestimate how difficult this is.

There is a psychological stress that goes along with being “on the run.” A person goes into flight/fight mode and there is such a huge rush of endorphins for such a prolonged period that it wears down the brain. It’s the sort of endorphin rush that would be really helpful if 1000 years ago you needed to run for 2 days to get away from your local village after something terrible happened. It is not helpful in modern society when fleeing a situation. You are much more likely to crash a vehicle during this time, you are much more likely to be unable to think normally or even be able to sleep. Criminals are often caught after crimes and during fleeing because they make mistakes that seem stupid, and naive folks go “criminals are so dumb,” but it’s really the huge flood of fight or flight brain chemicals that makes regular thinking and regular actions impossible but physical running much easier.

To deal with this, you need to do anything you can to reduce steps that involve thinking in such a situation. You need to have at least 1 go bag fully packed and ready. You will also forget stuff when you need to flee. You may even forget the go bag. The steps needed to leave must be easy, few, and rehearsable (ie, message friend in safe house using XMPP, grab go back, walk to location 2, meet friend to get ride to safe house). Packing light is important. Cash is important. A burner phone is important, you don’t want to buy it later when fleeing. A water bottle and vitamins can be helpful. Sleep aids like sleeping pills, and a mask for over the eyes, and ear plugs are helpful in case you’ve traveled for 2 days and need to sleep somewhere hidden. Don’t forget sleeping pills. Anti-anxiety medication would be very helpful. There are license plate readers so any car in a “wanted” person’s name will result in arrest if they are suddenly marked to go to a “Trans Containment Camp” or “Mental Health Re-education Facility.” There are sometimes police in main bus terminals and other locations. How will you get to this secret place to get out? Even if you have a go bag, cash, and enough visual changes to not be identified using biometric technology, will you walk away to this safe location? Many visual changes can create anonymity, but identification is often required during travel and if you are on a list, it will flag you immediately.

Many ways of thinking about this type of thing (“use a Nord VPN and chrome in incognito mode”) are useless. Even relying on Signal is bad choice because if you have a burner phone with a removable battery never powered on at home purchased with cash in the go bag, then you can’t log into Signal with it after you’ve fled, since Signal is tied to 1 device. XMPP is always safer when fleeing. Accept that many law-abiding liberal people will not help you or will even turn you in if trans people are suddenly subject to being rounded up.

I am not trans, but for trans people in America, they may want to look at options now for how to get out of the country unless you have the midset of a fighter. I am a second amendment supporter. If they try to de-arm trans people, that would be the canary in the coalmine to get out of the country. Getting out now, or making an emergency plan to get out now, will be so much easier than waiting too long for those that do not believing in literally fighting illegal tyranny. Now is the time if you are trans to make the go bag, take 90 percent of your hormones and save 10 percent for the go bag, consider options on how to best flee.

You don’t need to flee now, and there’s no point in being sad or scared, but just try to do some preparation. Remember that black slaves long ago did these sorts of things and now slavery is illegal in the USA. It’s horrible that slaves had to flee, but they were heroes, and trans people who need to prepare to flee and take precautions are heroes too.

Target is one of the worst stores for facial tracking and has horrible privacy policies. I personally stopped shopping there completely to boycott this.

When McDonald’s and Targets introduce facial tracking technology and push tracking Apps and want to become part of a dystopian panopticon of tracking, and then a decent chunk of people just stop going there, corporate ALWAYS blames something else, as though people are too stupid to opt out of this. They never roll back any tracking, just change CEOs and add new coupons and close stores.

He fucked his best friend’s wife. Do you know how much of a disgusting horrid person you have to be to do that?

People won’t forget it, moderates won’t forget it, Republicans sick of inflation who could switch votes out of rage over economic fuckery won’t forget it, liberals are possibly willing to forget it.

He is much less electable than people think. AA and Catholicism and being tall and seeking redemption are fine, but the guy fucked his best friend’s wife. It’s a different kind of treachery and it will be poison to moderates, even if he’s super edgy and cool. The fact that he’s governor of California speaks to what degenerate selfish idiots the liberals in California have become but there isn’t a chance in hell the rest of the country is that vile.

Republicans: “Why are trans people angry at society and bitter and going crazy? We must take even more rights away from them and detain them, then study them using our religious pseudoscientific thinking, in order to find out the cause!”

I’m sorry. There’s really no way to undo this. Grieving and and moving on is the only option, and I am not being sarcastic. If my privacy was violated like that by google, I would be very upset and would grieve. Even if you complain, they won’t remove it from AI training or whatever they intend to do, even if they lie and say they will. Librem 5’s have no google in them if you want to switch to something else. FuriLabs also make a Debian smartphone.

There are phosh based phones and over time more people will hopefully switch to them, use them, and work on making them better. Phosh-based phones are currently are not as usable as something like GOS, but with Google challenging itself to become more and more enshitified in the interest in marginal tiny profit gains (even if it destroys their brand over the long term) nerds needs to band together prepare for an alternative. Part of this is going to be advocating for Apps that work in Linux mobile Phosh environments and just refusing to use containerized apks and part of it is going to be people doing what they can to support native linux phone apps that work well in Phosh.