God, I hate "RIP". Take something already performative and divorced of meaning, and turn it into a tacky acronym, a verbal tic to be belched into comment threads, standing in for an emotional expression of respect and recognition, but doing the exact opposite of that.
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Well, mission accomplished.
Isn't the obvious answer to, "Why?" that he is trying to end the era of American global dominance? He comes right out and tells us that on his hat when you consider everything he says is either a projection or a lie.
I'd also add that posts like this are not how a person effectively supports their friend through Internet drama. Actually, it's extremely counterproductive. Rather, this is how someone addicted to the drama behaves.
If people cannot understand your experience, it's not because you are trans and they are cis. There is no universal trans experience and you still need to work to make yourself understood to other trans people, who have entirely different experiences from your own. People have the capacity to understand things outside their direct experience. Some people go 40 years thinking of themselves as cis, and then change their mind!
oh god, NO, it doesn't make sense to be building a fucking nuclear bomb shelter in fucking Waterloo because I'm afraid of Trump. That is time and energy that is wasted, and if there is genuinely a threat, that means I've just made the threat more dangerous.
Even when your heart is in the right place, even when you are motivated by genuine threats, you can still make things worse by being stupid and getting manipulated. And even if the threat is real, it doesn't mean people aren't taking advantage of it to manipulate us into doing things that are not in our own self-interest.
What does "taking it seriously" look like when Joe Shmoe does it? Am I building a bomb shelter? Am I printing copies of (some less discredited edition of) the Anarchist's Cookbook and leaving them at food banks?
Well, let's look at a case. The Ontario Teachers Union is a major political force. But somehow, it doesn't go to improving affairs for Ontario teachers and certainly not for Ontario students. Rather, I think the bulk of their political influence comes in the form of their ungodly massive investment in BCE, which perverts their interests and essentially makes their interests the same as the incumbent ruling class. All our power somehow seems to get turned against us.
Edit: Excuse me, I misremembered. It's the pension plan that invests in BCE. Not sure if my point stands.
Whether or not what you are saying is literally true about the value of voting, you are certainly expressing the very feelings that our disenfranchised and disengaged electorate feel. But it's self-fulfilling. PC voters don't feel that way. They never feel that way, even when they are certain to lose. I think that says something about why things go to shit so badly, so quickly.
Voting is literally the least you can do to have political influence in a democracy. In a lot of ways, it exists to alienate people from power by subtly discouraging them from seeking more direct and meaningful forms of political action. But it's also vital.
I told my partner last week, "I predict the lowest ever voter turnout, and a larger PC majority." It's like the worse things get, the less people fight it.
Honestly, therapy is an almost necessary part of gender-affirming care. It doesn't just prepare you or help you go through it, it's fully part of it.
The Ontario Voter is a pickup driving asshole who only cares about seeing the right people get hurt.