If Democrats said murdering trans folks was necessary to beat Trump that means the overton window is too far gone and I’d be looking to ship as many trans folks out of the country as I could manage with my means. If and when it reaches that point, US democracy would be too far gone to even consider saving it. I don’t believe it is right now, as flawed as it is currently. Which is why engaging in harm reduction is still worth it.

Oh, please tell me which third party candidate not only has a real shot at this election but is also not just a far-right grifter in disguise.

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Trump was already president once and my political work was actually easier because liberals were outraged and could not understand the complicoty of their representatives.

Hope you can look trans and queer people in the eye and tell them their genocide will be worth it in the end because you’ll stop all genocides. You know, after they’re dead and gone.

not sapping wealth from developing nations like imperial core countries do

Oh, like Wagner Group is doing in Sudan, Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, etc.? Good to know they’re not Russian. Or are you gonna tell me it’s fake news by the mainstream media?

The global south may feel relieved now, but they are merely trading western colonialism for eastern neo-colonialism. I hope they realize that before they can regret it, like Kenya is starting to with China.

I didn’t say you lived in Russia. I meant “your side” as in, the side you defend. Meaning Russia, in this case, allegedly.

“Only the US has ever committed war crimes and genocide, my side is perfectly clean! I am very smart!”

Putin is no one’s friend but his own. I could go on but I remember your pro-Ruzzia tirades and it isn’t worth arguing with bad faith arguments, you’ll learn for yourself eventually when, shocking no one, shills like you outlive your usefulness and get disposed of.

https://youtu.be/MfGVB6xADGo?t=17

(yeah, I wouldn’t hold my breath on that)

Don’t think that’ll work in his favor but then again, he also thought he’d conquer Ukraine in 3 days…

Reverse psychology? Is he trying to make libs think that Biden has been compromised by Russia, therefore Trump wins, which is actually what Putin wants?

What do you mean by this? Are you talking about OP’s argument? I don’t get it.

How do you know for sure your brain is not doing exactly the same thing? Hell, being autistic, many social interactions are just me trying to guess what will get me approval without any understanding lol.

Also really fitting that Photon chose this for a placeholder right now:

That does make sense. It is a country with a fairly small population, so I begrudgingly have to accept that it has to have some control over this kind of thing, not to overload its public systems.

On the whole I think the concept of countries in general is bullshit but that’s a debate best had in another thread.

The thing with the children of migrants being denied residency is truly heartbreaking. Do they become stateless as a result?

I found out about the autism because I am autistic and I was considering New Zealand as a potential country to migrate to until I found out about that. I also found out about the plethora of other conditions that bar you from immigration but it started with my personal search.

I also wonder whether they measure the “burden on the healthcare system” in a fair or ableist/biased manner. Your link seems to suggest the former, but it also excludes ability to pay for private healthcare/insurance, which would preclude one from putting said burden on the public healthcare system and leaves the decision up to a medical professional, who may hold said biases, so…

It includes autism, which really enraged me when I found out. That’s one less country in this already progressively anti-immigration world… Well two, because Australia does the same wrt autistic people (and likely other health conditions).

Unfortunately unreadable for me, it’s requiring me to subscribe to FT. I wonder if it’s related to being in a GDPR-abiding country.

Unless you think the point of feminism (for example) is to make men second class citizens. That’s just not a thing. It’s a rhetoric created by assholes to get ignorant people on board with their continued grossness.

I think there may be some radicals who genuinely wish for that, but those don’t represent the entire movement and usually only pay lip service to the cause where it aligns with their personal beliefs. They should be ignored.