#ban guns not drag queens

[hungergames2023]

TW: Mass Shooting, Again

Another mass shooting.

Allen, Texas. Mall. Not a lot of details out yet but there’s deaths, including children.

Thoughts and prayers are useless.

THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE USELESS.

[aunti-christ-ine]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[geezerwench]

Not just a lie, a damn lie.

[contemplatingoutlander]

This is one of Alexandra Petri’s best columns. It is satire in its most heartbreaking form. The column is so good, I am using a gift link, so anyone can read the entire column, even if they don’t subscribe to The Washington Post. Below are some excerpts from this column:

I can think of nothing worse than children — in school, sitting at their desks, reading banned books. A horrible thought, all those children solemnly holding books in their hands and reading them and putting the thoughts in those books into their minds. Learning the wrong lessons and growing up — the wrong way. Growing all the way up. Getting to grow up and think thoughts about those improper things they read in unsanctioned books, their whole lives, maybe. Horrible. I can think of nothing worse. Children who get to be 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and beyond — children who get to grow and have children of their own, and call their mothers or forget to call them, children who get to see the places they always wanted to see and children who get to be the best aunts in the world, but one afternoon in 2023 they read a book I didn’t approve of. I can’t imagine anything more horrible. Something must be done. To protect the children, we must stop at nothing. [...] I can’t think of anything worse than children reading history and feeling bad. Imagine, children, going home alive to their parents and complaining that they were made to feel bad by reading about the horrible events of the past. Can you think of a worse thing? Imagine that happening to a child. Imagine being a parent, and seeing the door open, and your child come through it, unharmed, with a complaint about a textbook. Unthinkable. Awful. Frightening. We must pass legislation.

I can’t think of anything worse than children going to a library to hear a drag queen read a story. Children sitting there alive in a library, hearing a story, surrounded by books and glitter, laughing. Children having a pleasant time, feeling as though there was nothing to be afraid of and going home happy. Can you think of anything worse? No, no. We must stop this at once. There must be laws. We must take action. We must protect the children from this awful fate.

Can you think of something worse? Are you thinking of something worse? Don’t worry: I will not think of it. I will not legislate about it. I will not give it a moment’s concern. To protect the children, I will stop at nothing. At absolutely nothing.

[tomorrowusa]

Tennessee’s descent into far right extremism probably began gradually a while ago but didn’t get much notice until the late 2010s.

And it wasn’t until 2023 that things became so hideous that the state began to attract worldwide attention.

Any sane person or business thinking of relocating there is probably having second thoughts.

[nerdykeith]

Matt Ford is correct, the reckless support for guns is indeed the cause of children getting hurt & killed. Conservatives need to stop blaming Drag Queens and trans people, it's only a distraction from the real issues. Gun violence and mass shootings in the US is off the charts. 

I'm not saying ban all guns, but some sort of ristrictions need to be put in place. As Ford says “When did it become OK to love our guns more than our children?” 

#GunControl #SchoolShootings 

[wilwheaton]

The GOP wonders why young people (and others) don't want to vote for them. Some wise scribe assembled this list.

1.) Your Reagan-era “trickle-down economics” strategy of tax breaks for billionaires that you continue to employ to this day has widened the gap between rich and poor so much that most of them will never be able to own a home, much less earn a living wage.

2.) You refuse to increase the federal minimum wage, which is still $7.25 an hour (since 2009). Even if it had just kept up with inflation, it would be $27 now. You’re forcing people of all ages but especially young people to work multiple jobs just to afford basic necessities.

3.) You fundamentally oppose and want to kill democracy; have done everything in your power to restrict access to the ballot box, particularly in areas with demographics that tend to vote Democratic (like young people and POC). You staged a fucking coup the last time you lost.

4.) You have abused your disproportionate senate control over the last three decades to pack the courts with religious extremists and idealogues, including SCOTUS—which has rolled back rights for women in ways that do nothing but kill more women and children and expand poverty.

5.) You refuse to enact common sense gun control laws to curb mass shootings like universal background checks and banning assault weapons; subjecting their entire generation to school shootings and drills that are traumatizing in and of themselves. You are owned by the NRA.

6.) You are unequivocally against combatting climate change to the extent that it’s as if you’ve made it your personal mission to ensure they inherit a planet that is beyond the point of no return in terms of remaining habitable for the human race beyond the next few generations.

7.) You oppose all programs that provide assistance to those who need it most. Your governors refused to expand Medicaid even during A PANDEMIC. You are against free school lunches, despite it being the only meal that millions of children can count on to actually receive each day

8.) You are banning books, defunding libraries, barring subject matter, and whitewashing history even more in a fascistic attempt to keep them ignorant of the systemic racism that this nation was literally founded upon and continues to this day in every action your party takes.

9.) You oppose universal healthcare and are still trying to repeal the ACA and rip healthcare from tens of millions of Americans and replace it with nothing. You are against lowering the cost of insulin and prescription drugs that millions need simply to LIVE/FUNCTION in society.

10.) You embrace white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and other groups that are defined by their intractable racism, xenophobia, bigotry, and intolerance. You conspired with these groups on January 6th to try to overthrow the U.S. government via domestic terrorism that KILLED PEOPLE.

11.) You oppose every bill aimed at making life better for our nation’s youth; from education to extracurricular and financial/nutritional assistance programs. You say you want to “protect the children” while you elect/nominate pedophiles and attack trans youth and drag queens.

12.) You pretend to be offended by “anti-semitism” while literally supporting, electing, and speaking at events organized by Nazis. You pretend to hate “cancel culture” despite the fact that you invented it and it’s basically all you do.

13.) Every word you utter is a lie. You are the party of treason, hypocrisy, crime, and authoritarianism. You want to entrench rule by your aging minority because you know that you have nothing to offer young voters and they will never support you for all these reasons and more.

14.) You’re so hostile to even the notion of helping us overcome the mountain of debt that millions of us are forced to take on just to pay for our post K-12 education that you are suing to try to prevent a small fraction of us from getting even $10,000 in loan forgiveness.

15.) You opened the floodgates of money into politics via Citizens United; allowing our entire system of government to become a cesspool of corruption, crime, and greed. You are supposed to represent the American people whose taxes pay your salary but instead cater to rich donors.

16.) You respond to elected representatives standing in solidarity with their constituents to protest the ONGOING SLAUGHTER of children in schools via shootings by EXPELLING THEM FROM OFFICE & respond to your lack of popularity among young people by trying to raise the voting age.

17.) You impeach Democratic presidents over lying about a BJ but refuse to impeach (then vote twice to acquit) a guy whose entire “administration” was an international crime syndicate being run out of the WH who incited an insurrection to have you killed.

18.) You steal Supreme Court seats from democrats to prevent the only black POTUS we’ve ever had from appointing one and invent fake precedents that you later ignore all to take fundamental rights from Americans; and even your “legitimate” appointments consist of people like THIS (sub-thread refuting CJ Roberts criticisms of people attacking SCOTUS' legitimacy).

19.) You support mass incarceration even for innocuous offenses or execution by cop for POC while doing nothing but protect rich white criminals who engage in such things as tax fraud, money laundering, sex trafficking, rape/sexual assault, falsifying business records, etc.

20.) You are the reason we can’t pass:—Universal background checks—An assault weapons ban—The ‘For the People/Freedom to vote’ Act or John Lewis Voting Rights Act—The ERA & Equality Act—The Climate Action Now Act—The (Stopping) Violence Against Women Act—SCOTUS expansion.

21.) You do not seek office to govern, represent, or serve the American people. You seek power solely for its own sake so you can impose your narrow-minded puritanical will on others at the expense of their most fundamental rights and freedoms like voting and bodily autonomy.

22.) Ok, last one. You are trying to eliminate social security and Medicare that tens of millions of our parents rely on and paid into their entire lives. And you did everything to maximize preventable deaths from COVID leaving millions of us in mourning.

Source: https://imgur.com/gallery/e8DBZLH

[casbeeminestiel]

my school just banned the clock app (the one I don’t actually use frequently) on university wifi so the first thing I did was switch to cellular and scroll through it for hours

[nathanleemustdie]

they want to ban lgbtq people from public spaces, but they still wont do anything about their precious guns.

apparently we’re more of a threat to people than an ak-47.

when was the last time an lgbtq person just existing killed 200 children in school in 10 minutes? esp 200+ times per year.

america has at least had 250 mass shootings by april every year. at the end of every year in america, mass shootings average 450+.

in the past 5 years or so, america has had over 5000+ mass shootings, canada has had 2, and mexico had 3, every other country has had 0.

parents also fear us around children, but let their child aim an assault rifle at a target and take them on a hunting trip (with loaded guns). so you cant trust a drag queen around your 5 year old, but trust them with a loaded gun? kids are reckless, they could shoot the wrong way and k*ll or injure themselves or another person. and ik theyre being supervised, but still, why trust your child with a fuckin loaded gun???

[sophieinwonderland]

That moment a TERF shows up in the Syscourse tag...

I think I need ayahuasca to recover from seeing their blog.

First, just A+ response there from @rainnthefrog!

Just love how they completely shut that down!

When the people banning drag queens (who have never harmed in children in these schools) from performing at schools are encouraging guns to be brought in, you should heavily question how committed people are to the safety of children.

As for @femaledracula, there is so much wrong with this. First, again, zero incidents of drag queens preying on children. It's not a thing. You're talking about a problem that doesn't exist. Second, how do drag queens performing in schools have power over students?

Teachers are in a position of authority. Religious leaders are in a position of authority. Drag queens in schools just... are there. They're just an adult who happens to be present. And if this hypothetical problem were so important, why not take issue with every instance of guest performers and speakers? A police officer or fireman speaking at a school will be seen as more of an authority figure over students than dancers.

Wait... it's the transphobia and homophobia, isn't it? That makes sense.

Oh, and did I mention the sheer audacity of comparing LGBT people to the Catholic Church?

The next post wasn't on femaledracula's blog, but was another reblog of the OP from @aftonfamilyvalues. And I just absolutely love @benkybot's take on the whole dumpsterfire of a post.

🏆

Thank you!

And finally, as a tulpa, this especially caught my eye.

No. We're not our bodies. We're our consciousness. Our bodies are vessels our emergent consciousnesses ride around in. An amputee doesn't cease to be themselves because they lost their leg. A blind person doesn't cease being themselves because they lost their eyes.

Seeing your body as your whole self can be an extremely unhealthy outlook, especially when it comes to beauty standards and their affect on people's self-esteem.

I realize this is primarily about transness, but the mentality @talktomydoctorate is pushing is something that is also incredibly dangerous to the plural community where multiple people share a single body.

With that in mind, I'd like to take a moment to spout off a bunch of stuff to scare some TERFs! 😁

Let me start with an introduction! Hi, I'm Sophie, a cis girl tulpa riding around in an AMAB body!

Our tulpamancy practices can reliably make people of the opposite gender inside people's brains!

Tulpamancy, over time, is generally regarded as functionally irreversible, with one psychiatry professor likening getting rid of a well-developed tulpa to trying to will yourself to forget how to read.

Every new tulpamancer who creates an opposite-gendered headmate will be a brand new non-binary/genderfluid system in the world.

And tulpamancers tend to be creative people. I know many who are interested in animation and writing, where we can influence pop culture for future generations. Others are studying to be psychologists and psychiatrists where they can be influential in other ways.

And the best part is that there's really nothing you can do to stop it. 🤷‍♀️

Please, chew on that for a while.

And stay out of system tags. You and your kind aren't welcome here.

[emeraldbabygirl]

I fear for the future of everyone I care about in america. I fear for my family and all the women in my family I fear for my friends that fall into minority communities weather they are poc or part of the lgbtq community because I don’t want to lose them. I heard that on Tuesday the city of Chicago is going to do ICE raids. What the actual fuck is happening why wasn’t a law put in and passed and inforced to stop evil monsters like trump from being the president this is scary and Idk what to do. My home doesn’t feel safe, my neighbors are all orange felon supporters and I can’t sleep and I fear the people working on our floors come Tuesday will try something evil and my mum and I can’t fight. I can’t fight, my family doesn’t know a thing about self defense, these are like 4-7 men big guys coming in and working on the floor I am scared, my thoughts are immediately going to horrible situations because Monday marks the ‘no rules nothing matters’ day. They ban tiktok and books and drag queens reading to kids but kids are getting shot by guns and that’s still legal? Why can’t we have nice things, why does the world have to go to shit.

I know I constantly say “history repeats itself” but I don’t want to live through another holocaust, another world war, who knows how horrible it will be I am scared for myself and my friends and family and idk what to do. This is really scary and I know people are marching and protecting and trying. To speak their minds on other apps but everything is being taken over by horrible people in power and I wish trump would just go die and then maybe we’d have a chance. I wish he was never born I wish he was never put in office the first time. I wanted a woman president it’s not fair it’s not fair the hell that we will go through. How many people are going to be attacked and assaulted and killed lie I don’t even want to think about it. I wish I lived in an underground bunker safe from the crazy people.

I talked to my mum about this and she said even our shadows will hide and be scared like she doesn’t have the answers to this no one does I can’t stop having horrible thoughts about what will happen and I don’t like it. Not even god can save us

[lavendercrow136]

I am so sick of living in the United States.

I am saving to move to be with my fiancee, but I work a part time in job in retail, working for basically pennies and work basically paycheck to paycheck.

The economic climate of the us, is atrocious, companies don't pay people what they are worth. And raise the taxes on everything so people are constantly financially struggling.

Health care system is outrageously expensive for most Americans even with insurance. And most insurance companies don't cover mental health services, and then we wonder why the suicide rate in young people is so high.

People seek joy in social media and the little silly videos and things on apps like tik tok and our government officials find false problems, instead of solving real issues like gun control regulation, or trying to repair the economy and make it so american people can afford to live. Or even ensuring people have the right to bodily autonomy.

You can be broke bordering on homeless,

You can encrue debt in a hospital if your sick and dieing- without help or assistance.

Your children can be violently murdered in the safety of their schools, because drag queens and the gay community are percieved as more of a threat to public safety, then violent individuals, that gain access to guns do to improper regulation.

You can battle for a life time with your mental health before you can't take anymore because you can't afford to get the help you need anymore.

Young trans individuals are left with no choice other then to end it, or suffer in a body they don't belong in because the government deems the gender affirming and life saving care they need unnnecessary.

That young woman who was violently raped and impregnated, is forced to carey a baby because she can't get an abortion.

That woman whose suffering a miscarriage can risk bleeding out and dieing because doctors risk losing their licenses if they help treat her medically.

People are dieing, people the us could help both in and out of our country, but No, our elected officials worry about a fucking app.

I am so blessed to have people in my life that make life worth living and make me want to continue to fight my own mental battles.

I am lucky to have something to work towards and strive for to get the fuck out of here, someone I love that loves me and wants to build a life with me and a future, outside of the dystopian hellscape myself and other fellow americans lives in. Because if I did not have her, I don't think I would be here.

This is so much more then an app being banned, its about the government controlling people, and making life so much harder.

[merverb]

What are your thoughts on the attempts to ban drag in some states?

“Well, I mean, come on, America is a hot fucking mess, a real hot mess. I recently saw Wanda Sykes’ stand up special, which was genius. First of all, Wanda is one of the funniest people I’ve ever witnessed perform and she’s also a very nice lady. I’ve met her many times in New York and Fire Island. We’ve hung out a lot and she’s wonderful. In that latest comedy special, she summed it up best when she was like, “until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, I think you’re focusing on the wrong shit.” That makes total sense to me. We’re in this country with gun control issues and all of the madness going on, the number one killer is guns, and they’re worried about a drag brunch for fuck’s sake?! You know, if you don’t like it, don’t go.”

“To be fair, I don’t know any drag queen that likes children! I am not that person. I am not interested in performing to children. I’m not interested in that side of it at all. It’s pretty insane that this is where we are in this world, that this is the top topic of discussion because none of it is true. Every day on Twitter, I’m seeing news about some youth pastor who has been molesting children. That’s the problem. Organized religion is a problem. Guns are a problem. No one’s educated, that’s a fucking problem. So it blows my mind that this is a hot topic. The fact that everything is run state by state, is so insane too, so just when you think you’re in the clear, you take 10 steps back with another state. I’m amazed and yet appalled by it, but this is where we are in the world. This is what’s dominating the news right now, which is completely insane to me.”

-- Exclusive Interview: Bianca Del Rio dishes on Hulu’s Drag Me To Dinner for The Queer Review

[mychal-is-fed-up]

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[eaudrey35]

I don't want to see another conservative anything say crap Abt ban books drag queens trans bathrooms CRT the fake boggy man if u r not going to put that same energy into protecting our children against gun violence the real boggy man.