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The MAGA resistance thread

This judge wasn't having it.

“Would you agree that if the military is negatively impacted [from the use of pronouns], we all have a lot bigger problems than pronoun use?” Reyes asked. If that is the case, “our military is incompetent,” she said.

“I can’t agree with that,” Justice Department attorney Jason Lynch said.

“Do you think usage of that preferred pronoun by that small group of people is going to impact our ability in combat situations?” she said. “Explain to me how pronoun usage impacts [military readiness].
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The order also claims that the “adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life.”

“A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member,” the order states.

Reyes repeatedly asked whether that language is “demeaning” to transgender people.

“The government is not willing to take a position [that] to categorically call a group of people selfish is demeaning?” she said. “The answer is ‘yes it is,’ ‘no it isn’t,’ or ‘I can’t say.’”

Lynch said he could not speak to it in a “constitutional sense.”

“I want to know from the government, whether that language expresses animus,” said Reyes, suggesting that she could strike against the executive order to prove that it was motivated by prejudice.

“This is the policy of the president of the United States that is impacting thousands of people,” she said. “Calling an entire group of people lying, dishonest people with no integrity … how is that anything other than showing animus? … You have an answer, you just refuse to give it.”
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Trump’s order also rails against what the president and his allies have labeled “radical gender ideology,” which government lawyers could not define in court.

“If you can’t articulate what radical gender ideology means, how is the defense secretary going to know what it means?” Reyes asked.

Lynch said he is “loathe to speculate” what Trump meant.

“It’s not like I randomly picked you off the street,” Reyes fired back. “You’re the government’s representative here.”
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www.independent.co.uk

Judge torches Trump lawyers over ban on trans service members and pronouns

Judge Ana Reyes grilled attorneys over ‘demeaning’ language attacking pronoun use and trans Americans
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The nerve of the DOJ for investigating a death threat! What has become of our Republic when you can make death threats and waste 100 of billions of dollars on useless slush funds?
 
Hulk said:
The nerve of the DOJ for investigating a death threat! What has become of our Republic when you can make death threats and waste 100 of billions of dollars on useless slush funds?
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How is showing a picture of someone and calling it a dick pic a death threat?
 
pete6032 said:
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Text of Kluwe's statement before the council in Huntington Beach:

“MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for resegregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans. MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal. MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide. MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children. MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy and most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is.”

"I'm now going to engage in the time-honored American tradition of civil disobedience."
 
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A rather interesting article that asks: Should we welcome ex-Trumpers into the resistance?

skepchick.org

No, I Will Not Welcome Ex-MAGA to the Resistance

As I’ve mentioned here before, I am on BlueSky, and overall I quite like it. Friendly interface, effective tools for curating your feed and/or blocking and muting people, and most of the people I l…
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Amused said:
A rather interesting article that asks: Should we welcome ex-Trumpers into the resistance?

skepchick.org

No, I Will Not Welcome Ex-MAGA to the Resistance

As I’ve mentioned here before, I am on BlueSky, and overall I quite like it. Friendly interface, effective tools for curating your feed and/or blocking and muting people, and most of the people I l…
skepchick.org skepchick.org
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Use their support to flip others away from Trump, but ex-MAGA should be barred from government service, 14th amendment style.

I think people can change, and we should give them space to change. But we can also hold them accountable for the choices they did make.
 
Brainonska511 said:
Use their support to flip others away from Trump, but ex-MAGA should be barred from government service, 14th amendment style.

I think people can change, and we should give them space to change. But we can also hold them accountable for the choices they did make.
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Yeah, ya say ya fuckin hate Trump now, do ya MAGAT? Prove it, motherfucker! Cry me a river!
 
Amused said:
A rather interesting article that asks: Should we welcome ex-Trumpers into the resistance?
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There is a time and a place for that.
I reflect upon Germany's Hate Speech laws following WW2.
We will need to enact something like that to outlaw their MAGA religion. It is going to need to be extreme compared to traditional American law.
They need to support the effort to dismantle MAGA from root and stem. No half measures.

But first, they will need to take cover... I am not sure what sort of resistance people are imagining. But MAGA Nazis will turn to violence real fast.
 
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