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Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025

melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s great to have got the libs out.

But I still feel uneasy. In addition to Cheeto Chaplin’s attacks the UK recently ruled that trans women legally aren’t women and are banned from women’s bathrooms, and in Australia there have been recent protests against trans people and against anti-hate speech laws protecting LGBTIA+.

Regardless of laws Australia picks up culture wars like a sponge.

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Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Go through life trying to be decent to people. That’s within your reach, and is an excellent start

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- melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m trying. It doesn’t seem to do much.
  
  Edit: There’s also the additional bonus of it marking you out as an easy target
  
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  - Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It helps more than not doing it would.
    
    As for belonging to multiple marginalised groups…Melbs, so do I
    
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    melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It sucks arse. I have so little structural power and ability to advocate for myself - it’s a struggle to survive. I have no idea how to help anyone else.
    
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