How you could hate him? I understand. I have a nonbinary kid, and I'm against what he stands for. But advocating for political assassination is just wrong. We don't punish people for crimes they haven't yet committed, and we don't support vigilantism.

We need to vote out fascist Republicans, not kill them.

[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You know Trump was already president once, right? It's not like it's a secret that he's anti-LGBTQ people.

We Made A List Of All The Anti-LGBT Stuff Trump Has Done As President from 2018, it includes

Saying it’s legal to fire workers for being transgender.
Arguing that it’s legal to fire workers for being gay.
Making transgender female prisoners live with male prisoners.
Telling the Supreme Court that shopkeepers can turn away LGBT customers.
Withdrawing protections for transgender students.
Refusing to investigate anti-transgender discrimination complaints in public schools.
Trying to kick transgender people out of the military.
Issuing a religious liberty policy.
Starting to rescind protections for transgender patients.

and their list goes on.

The Trump administration on Friday finalized a rule that would remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people when it comes to health care and health insurance from 2020

A controversial new rule that could allow homeless shelters to turn away transgender people based on physical appearance is the Trump administration’s latest attempt at restricting trans rights. also from 2020

I'm not sure it's possible to get a full picture of everything Trump did wrong, even if you narrow it down to specific topics like LGBT rights. A lot of these things aren't crimes, but that's only because he was the one writing the laws and policies.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And the solution to this problem is to murder him? That is not how democracy works. Besides, the problem is not Trump per se, but the people voting for him. That won't change just because Trump is dead. They will find some other bigoted candidate that will be just as bad if not worse.

People need to be educated and informed and know why it's a bad idea to vote for someone like Trump - that is the only sustainable way to fix things if you ask me. Murder and violence will only entrench people further on either side and drive people to even more extremes.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I honestly understand all that, and believe it's vitally important that he's defeated. But assassinating political rivals is literally a characteristic of fascism.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

It literally isnt: fascism is capitalism in crisis and assassinations have gone on for most of human history, before the development of capitalism in the first place

[–] EchoCT@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah ok trolling. Nevermind. Move along.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trolling?

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is sad to see this state of the divide in the US. Even if you are against Trump, you're not against him enough unless you want him dead. If you don't want him dead, you must be a troll. What a sad state this debate has reached.