• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Members of Higg’s cabinet have resigned. In their resignation letters they say they reigned because he’s an authoritarian.

    This is liberals or leftists saying this. This is lifelong conservative saying he’s an authoritarian.

    All my life there have been trans people. Trans people have been around for a long time. They aren’t anything new.

    What is new is this panic over trans people. At least it’s the first time I’ve seen it in my lifetime.

    Where is this panic over trans people coming from? We see it in NB. We see it in Florida. We see it in Russia.

    Wait why are they passing anti-trans laws in Russia? Don’t they have bigger problems?

    The problem they’re trying to solve isn’t the trans people. They need to tighten their control over people. What’s the easiest way to control people? Make them hate.

    Hateful people are easier to control. So focused on their perceived enemy they can’t think about anything else.

    But to make people hate you need a target for that hate. What is the most convenient target? Trans people. A groups so small, most people don’t know any of them. So aren’t as likely to stick up for them. Besides that, people changing gender is confusing. It makes people uncomfortable. Makes them feel icky. Makes them feel like they want it to go away somehow.

    Trans people are the canary in the coal mine. Because the bastards always go after them first. Because they’re the easiest target. But the monster down in that mine doesn’t just eat canaries. It eats everyone.

    So why is it for the first time in my life I’m seeing this panic over trans people? Because authoritarians are running a play out of a play book. And while it’s the first time in my life I’m seeing this happen, it’s not the first time it’s happened in history. Trans people have been around a long time. They were around in Germany in the 1930s. Until they weren’t. And the monster that killed the trans people didn’t stop there. It just kept on killing.

    We shouldn’t have any illusions about what’s happening.

    “The cultural marxists are promoting deviancy to weaken Western Civilization”

    “The Jews are promoting deviancy to weaken the Aryan Race”

    Same shit different century. And a lot of these bastards aren’t even bothering with code words like “cultural marxist” or “western civilization”.

    Blaine Higgs is an authoritarian running a play right out of the fascist play book. These bastards always go after the trans people first.

    My Grandfather was a New Brunswicker. Fought in a brutal war against the axact kind of shit Blaine Higgs is about. Higgs is disgracing my grandfather. He’s a disgrace to all of us.