It goes further than that. They’re straight up protecting anybody who has committed any form of SA long enough ago that they can only be charged under “lookback window” laws, because they think being tried after such a long time frame violates the right to due process.
Some of them are chuddy merch grifts specifically intended for fundraising. Now, you could argue that printing shirts and stickers and posters and flags in a co-op is something leftists have done forver, and you’d be right about that, but when you start a store for thin blue line merch or an agitprop site selling reprints of public domain theory or a food supplement grift or whatever these bozos are doing, it makes a difference when you have the funding to start out with several full-time employees, can afford advertising to make yourself known, can data mine information on potential donors and get additional funds if it takes longer to get everything going. It’s much easier to scale this kind of stuff up when you go in with more capital than a used screen printer.
He’s already announced that Tesla will fire 10% of its workers and will chop down a forest to needlessly expand the factory near Berlin that keeps polluting the local water supply, so the stonks should be fine.
i am suddenly getting a very detailed idea of how these people behaved during the lockdowns
Wait, that deer population has been known to have CWD and they were still like “hey, i guess these are good to eat”? tf is wrong with carnists?
The cops actually claimed to prevent antisemitism by clamping down on hate speech. BTW, they, among other things, did that by laughing at Jews with quippahs in Palestine colors who were present at the congress. The cops also later admitted that there was no case of hate speech at the conference. But surely there would have been one if it would have gone on for the planned three days instead of the actual two hours after which it was shut down, i can’t imagine German cops being in the same room with a bunch of leftists and Arabs for three days without the cops using any slurs.
Sahra Wagenknecht read the Stalin quote about social democracy being objectively the left wing of fascism and unironically decided to become a social democrat because of it.
Spoiler: These laws did not prevail. “Reunited” Germany continued under West German trans laws, which meant that pre-existing marriages of trans people where unconsensually divorced until 2008 and made either bottom surgery or forced sterilization a mandatory prerequisite for name and gender id changes until 2011.
Yeah, Olaf Scholz tweeted yesterday about how progressive and important this is and the mfer didn’t even bother to be present for the vote.
Now, don’t get me wrong, this is a massive step forward, it has saved me a ton of money and a lot of … it’s hard to say if it would’ve just been cringe and weird or some humiliating white-knuckle ride for me to go through the TSG procedure instead. I seriously can’t tell. I have a lot of friends who are like “it wasn’t that bad anymore”, but i don’t know how well i would’ve handled the interviews and reading through several pages of being misgendered and deadnamed (they continue doing that in the very documents that legally confirm you are actually the gender you say you are).
So yeah, the trans people i’m in community with have been celebrating yesterday when this passed, but we’re not forgetting what led up to this and we’re not forgetting the battles ahead of us.
You seriously do not want to know how much pain and fear and rage the process to get to this point caused in the German trans, inter, nonbinary and agender community (CW for transphobia and humiliation, obviously). It was a complete shitshow, every step was flanked by fearmongering from all the political and media pundits you’d expect, and a lot of it directly found its way into the new law, which has a ton of questionable passages, many of which appear outright unconstitutional. I expect this law to be constantly revised and harmful paragraphs stricken from it in decades of court battles, with exceptions for open and blatant discrimination in public spaces and in sports being especially sore points. Like, this law that is supposed to allow me self-determined gender id suggests (not outright states, but very strongly suggests in a legally ambiguous way) that it would be ok to kick me out of a public toilet, dressing room or sauna if i do not pass. In Germany, the country known all over the world for mixed gender saunas. You can’t make this shit up.
Up to a week ago, the draft for this law even included a paragraph that would have outed everybody changing their name to every single state and federal police and intelligence agency, customs, immigration offices and the central weapons registry, based entirely on the spurious cis fantasy that trans people are spies and infiltrators (you can thank the SPD for that). Up until yesterday, i still considered using the old, humiliating, expensive and openly unconstitutional legal process to change my name because of this threat, a process which involved not one, but two independent psychiatric exams you had to pay for yourself, exams which traditionally included highly invasive questions about your sex life, early childhood and gender presentation. Like, there’s people who’ve been asked to show off their underwear in these trials, and were then asked to jump up and down to prove they do not have a boner from wearing women’s panties. These are actual procedures German trans people have been put through to not get deadnamed anymore.
And because the process to get the new self id law took so long, was so traumatizing and included so many threatening regulations, i know tons of people personally who’ve opted to go for the old TSG process to change their papers. It’s less traumatizing today than it used to be because people exchange info about good or at least not that bad psychiatrists for the exams online, but i still know somebody who got denied his name change this year because the psychiatrist in question thinks that “nonbinary is just a phase.” Dey ended up paying almost 2000 € to get to hear that.
So yes, this new law is a huge step forward for our gender diverse communities, but it was war to get here and there’s a ton of other, equally necessary changes in Germany’s legal treatment of trans, inter, nonbinary and agender people that have been postponed because of this, may be met with comparable transphobic outrage campaigning, and may not pass the parliament anymore before the next election, which is almost guaranteed to lead to an even more transphobic government again that will do fuckall for us. For example, health insurance covering gender affirming surgery is entirely up to goodwill at this point and needs entirely new legislation to be guaranteed again. Health insurerers are letting this slide for the time being, i get my bottom surgery payed for in spite of this problem and that seems to generally hold true, but it’s an extremely precarious situation when trans healthcare is under attack worldwide and your government drags its feet on providing a solid legal framework for it.
Giggle for Girls’ legal costs are being covered by a crowdfunding campaign which as of Tuesday morning had raised $471,300.
Wonder where that money came from.
Here one finds journalists like Singal, Matthew Yglesias, Matt Taibbi, Andrew Sullivan, Helen Lewis, Meghan Daum, and, of course, former Times staffer Bari Weiss. Many of these writers live in self-imposed exile on Substack, the newsletter platform, where they present themselves as brave survivors of cancellation by the woke elites.
What a list of ghouls. There is no crime of the empire these creatures will not praise.
Can’t do a coup when Biden is determined to lose anyway