‘Oh well I just don’t believe it could happen’ is the extent of the evidence you’ve given, while I’ve shown violent hate crimes are rising against transgender people in CA and that this specific woman had a murder attempt made against her. Stop wasting my time unless you have something more substantial to say than ‘well it’s not Saudi Arabia you know.’

Right now, it sounds like your are saying sending this person back to SF and sending the person next to her back to Saudi Arabia is the same.

No, you are demanding that I say that in order for her to ‘deserve’ asylum. I’m saying ‘are they literally in Saudi Arabia?’ is a shit standard.

If someone’s life is threatened because of where they live, they should be able to apply for asylum.

Its a shitty system but how likely that person is to die or worse if they go back should definitely be part of the thought process.

Again, do you believe that someone is likely to survive being run over by a truck? Her life has already been endangered, you just don’t take that danger seriously because it happened in San Francisco.

In hindsight it’s a small miracle neither I, my siblings, or my cousins ever got ourselves or someone else hurt with the guns that were casually left out at my grandparents’ house. It was drilled into me to never touch them without someone watching me first, but what if I’d just not given a fuck, you know? I can’t imagine doing the same with a kid today. Different times.

Didn’t realize you were less dead if you’ve been killed by roving fanatics on the street instead of the government. Clearly less deserving to live.

PS: ‘it’s only asylum worthy if the government is trying to kill you’ would invalidate a gigantic number of legal asylum claims in the US and Canada from people fleeing gang violence made worse by US intervention in the Central and South America. So that maybe isn’t the best line of reasoning to go down to determine who is ‘deserving’ of asylum.

Sandy had never seen such bullshit in her life.

but I have trouble imagining it being that bad in SF.

Why? Los Angeles last year had the largest number of hate crimes reported against trans people since they started tracking in 1980, and 90% of them were violent. California isn’t a queer utopia with no bigots.

and some people applying are actually expecting death or worse if they go back.

You would expect to live if someone succeeded in running you over with a truck, as was attempted on the woman the article is about?

we aren’t at that point yet, at least not in San Fransisco.

Unless you’re trans and in SF, you’re pulling this out of your ass.

Look at how long fucking Kissinger lived.

If 90% of the interaction comes in the first day and they leave it up that long, then they’ve basically achieved whatever goal they have. Even if the only goal is evading a ban.

Damn, I wish I’d known about that when I was writing a paper about Paulo Freire last semester! It sounds, if not identical to his problem-posing education, very much founded in the same spirit.

I assume it’s ban evasion related, and they just don’t care if it ruins anyone else’s experience.

Remember: abolishing ICE is the compromise position. Never start negotiating with your end goal.

Lizardman constant?

In a new survey conducted by YouGov amid the latest controversy surrounding the xAI chatbot, a staggering 97 percent of respondents said that AI tools shouldn’t be allowed to generate sexually explicit content of children, and 96 percent said they shouldn’t be able to generate “undressed” images of minors only wearing clothing like underwear, either

Lizardman constant!

A sea of blood with a giant dead angel (?) in the distance is a killer aesthetic. Love the guys standing around like ‘well goddamn, this is gonna take some cleaning up.’

A sedan struck Underwood when she was crossing the street just before 7 a.m. at Pitkin and Mother Gaston Blvd., and she was then dragged for nearly two blocks, according to TMZ

Jesus Christ

It’s just your brain warning you about bad things that could happen. Only brains don’t give a pop up notification, it’s just streams of thoughts and sensations. That’s how I’ve chosen to interpret my intrusive thoughts, anyway.

A practice that has never gone wrong or been misused in American history! 👍

I’ve done an outdoor heated pool at around 50F/10C and nearly shook myself apart in the time it took to get the short distance between the pool and inside. I’m pretty sure going from hot tub to -20C would actually kill me, lol

I can’t believe that making a joke about a privileged majority is different than making that joke about a persecuted minority. I want to speak to the manager!

I think it was cable TV.

People really need to start treating these people like they’re fucking ignorant jackasses for bringing it up in the first place. Oh, you need it explained to you that only transgender men can get pregnant, not cisgender men? Okay, we can sit here and explain to your utterly mushy peas for brains ass that some transgender men still have the parts they were born with and still need gynecological care.