To clarify: I am emphatically not engaging in the classic 'Nazi gun control argument'. What I *am* saying is that what they are proposing is indicative of their ultimate intent (to remove trans people from existence) and will be used to further that horrifying goal.

Anyone who doesn't get why this is bad needs to look up the 'Decree against the possession of weapons by Jews' and what followed. Would the Jewish populace being armed have stopped the Holocaust? No. Is telling a minority 'you specifically don't get to be armed' a huge red flag? Absolutely.

These assholes act like it is better to have a dead child than a disabled child. They act like it would be better to visit their child's grave than to raise an autistic kid. Let me tell you from personal experience. It isn't.

It would be worth any cost to have your baby be alive again.

Anything is better than losing your kid and once they are gone you would do absolutely anything to bring them back. Even if it meant that they would be so profoundly disabled that you had to go into horrible debt and exhaust yourself by giving them 24/7 care for the rest of your life.

He was autistic, he was full of joy, he was made of love, he was a challenge to parent, he was a blessing, and I would give anything to have been able to save him.

I had an autistic kid. I had a vaccinated kid. He was one of the small percentage of people where the vaccine didn't work. We had no way to know that. He got sick with a common bacteria that he was vaccinated against. He died.

I mean, he's not wrong about what the framers intended. But just because they were racist, sexist, assholes doesn't mean we should be now. They weren't gods writing down commandments, they were wealthy white men writing the foundation of a (changeable) government.

They hate immigrants more than they love having food

I have to think that deep down we all knew this was coming. The violent dehumanizing language used toward anyone who doesn't wholeheartedly support fascism has been going on long enough that it was almost inevitable.

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but they don't need an excuse and it's too late for one anyway. This is part of his ongoing process of building a dictatorship. It's not going to stop until someone stops it. I'm hoping his handlers realize that if they don't stop it someone else will.

Yes.

The word peacefully is load bearing in that sentence. And I would bet that it has a very narrow definition.

Haven't you noticed that we live in an authoritarian state? I feel like you should have seen it coming since your party just sat back and watched it happen.

It's not about converting the Nazis, it's about welcoming them so the Dems can get the Nazi vote. Because who needs principles when you can win an election, right?