medgremlin

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[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that's a really good point.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If it was actually anthrax, it has an incubation period of 1 to 3 days and a prodromal phase that can last anywhere from 1 to 6 days. Their exposure would have been inhalation which does carry the worst forms of the illness and the worst prognosis, but they'd have at least a couple days before symptoms start showing up and there are antitoxin and immunoglobulin treatments available. There's not really a post-exposure prophylaxis, per se, and giving someone the treatments unnecessarily would be incredibly expensive.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 3 points 8 months ago

My money would be on Truth Social or a QAnon/Maga facebook group.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 3 points 8 months ago

Change it to Alice Paul and we might have something going there. (But housing, job training, and education are some of the most needed things in low-income communities.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Paul (Of note, Alice Paul was against abortion as were many of the suffragettes as they viewed it as a form of exploitation. However, her legacy as a leader in the women's rights movement and in nonviolent protest are very important to world history as a whole. There is some debate about this, but it has been claimed that Ghandi kept correspondence with her and learned from her example of nonviolent protest.)

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago

They could fund the community college in perpetuity if they auctioned off all his gaudy crap to his cult.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago

What do you think would be a good use for the buildings they are almost inevitably going to seize?

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 65 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I want them to seize the Trump tower and turn it into low-income housing and a job training/community college with whatever liquid assets they do squeeze out of him. Use the disgorgement to help the people of New York have better lives.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It's rather hard to push someone further away than them wishing for your death because they don't agree with your identity or ideology. There are people closer to center that I have had successful conversations with, but the ones that firmly believe that leftists or LGBTQ+ folks are subhuman are too far gone. I don't want those bigoted people gone, but I do think that I am not responsible for putting myself in the position of being the target of their ire. I can't change their minds and subjecting myself to their hatred only serves to harm me.

I don't want them dead. As awful as they are, they are still human. I just don't want them to have any power or influence over my life or anyone else's. They can live their lives in accordance with their beliefs, but the second they try to apply their beliefs to anyone else, they have gone too far and need to be stopped.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The "average" ones that I've encountered don't endorse outright violence, but they would very much like for all the "undesirables" to just disappear somehow...they're just not too troubled about how that happens, so they turn a blind eye to the more extreme/more violent ones.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago (5 children)

We/they (I'm a leftist, but not really LGBTQ+) don't think they want to eradicate us, we know that they want to eradicate us. Their penchant for violence and bigotry was the initial violation of the social contract and our rejection and intolerance of their hatred is the consequence. I can present a polite face to someone and hate them without wishing for their death or attacking them directly. I attack their ideology, actions, and effects, but I do not attack individuals, physically, verbally, or otherwise.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Yeah, this is a baffling take. LGBTQ+ folks and lefties are not actively using legislation and direct violence to eradicate the conservative bigots. I'll call them bigots and detest their existence and fight against their power grabs....but I'm not actively trying to commit ethnic/societal cleansing.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago

I would start with checking out your local health department, or potentially even Planned Parenthood or similar community clinics that offer low-cost primary care services.

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