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If you're a republican or a conservative or otherwise support the current administration, then you're a bad person. If you don't think trans rights are human rights, then you're a bad person. If you treat anyone in such a fashion that you would not want to be treated you are a bad person. This easily eliminates two thirds or three quarters of my countrymen. Americans are largely the problem with America, our whole culture is built around effectively anti-social principles and it fucking shows. We pour bleach on dumpster food instead of distributing it to homeless or needy even though we have legal protection from liability. Throwing away excess food costs more than redistributing it to local shelters, so we are intentionally cruel just for love of the game. Americans are bad people, nobody needs to think about it.
It's not just the US though... the rest of the world is following the same path. You're just winning by a good margin.
This is the social attitude that forces of capital want every human on Earth to share, and it's spreading like fucking fire through dry brush right now. It knows no borders, it's just the the USA was the big dog on the block that everyone looks to, so we see it here first. It's wrecking many other countries as we speak in the exact same way.