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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.

Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.

America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.

America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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8 Congressional Democrats Vote To Defund Schools That Support Trans People (www.erininthemorning.com)

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On Tuesday, May 19, the U.S. House passed H.R. 2616, the "Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act," by a vote of 217-198. The bill would hand the Trump administration enormous leverage to strip federal funding from any school that “teaches or advances concepts” related to transgender people, codifying into federal law the anti-trans definitions from Trump's executive order 14168, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism." It would also require public schools to forcibly out transgender students to their parents before using their pronouns or chosen names. The bill is significant on its own terms for the harm it would inflict on transgender youth if it became law. But what made Tuesday's vote especially notable was the eight Democrats who joined every Republican to pass it—the largest Democratic defection on any standalone anti-trans bill of this Congress.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I don't think I can justify donating time or money to the Democratic anymore, there are few indicators the party is interested in winning and wielding power except under strict continuations of the status quo, and the status quo is now fascism so.... I think pretending like the DNC will ever behave in our collective best interests has become a dangerous impediment to actually building a true resistance to fascism/rightwing extremism.

I will absolutely support individual candidates especially if they are progressive but every single damn time I see that something is associated with the party leadership of the DNC or any kind of broader national level Democratic party DC thinktank crap I immediately delete it and become just a bit more unwilling to ever, EVER give the Democratic party a dollar or a minute of my time damn it all.

For me something being willingly associated with Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries is equatable to something exhibiting the signs of plague, I know the thing is already brutally dead just from that indicator.

I know I am not alone on this.

The Democratic party terminally refuses to get the hell out of the way, so if we have to move it out of the way to make progress, that is what we have to do.