This isn't just about Laverne, this is a story of trans people being purged from all facets of employment. The functional unemployment rate for trans people is roughly 30% or higher. Trump has made it convenient for companies to not hire trans people at all.
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It's happening in tech. Several trans people I know with substantial cyber security and software engineering credentials have been pushed out and then blacklisted from employment. Trans people are being purged from the military and federal government. It's a full on effort to push us out of society.
As bullshit as the SpaceX IPO clearly is, I feel it necessary to remind everyone that the asterisk at the end of Musk's 'trillionaire' title is the size of the moon.
He is a trillionaire in the hypothetical scenario where he could liquidate all his comically overvalued stock.
If you help fuel one of the right wing's moral panics, *even if your own motives are pro-social*, you really should take some responsibility, especially since you can see the catastrophic consequences all around us. There's no plausible way to claim innocence any more. The dynamic is very clear.
This is modern conservatism in a nutshell -- it's OK if Americans have to pay a lot for this stupid war of choice, because the people that Americans hate will have to pay even more.
No amount of suffering is bad as long as we know someone else is suffering worse.
Not expecting much in the way of engagement, but I'm bored and running down the clock until bedtime.
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Laverne Cox says the Trump regime's attacks on gender ideology and DEI has cost her speaking engagements and teaching jobs.
Rep. Brian Mast: "Ok, maybe they do end up getting $20 billion, let's say. Let's say we're still $300 to $500 billion ahead considering we destroyed their navy, destroyed their air force ... "
(So American taxpayers paid both to bomb Iran and then for Iran's reconstruction ... )
