I think I have to admit it, I have an internet problem. Every day, I am inundated with bad news in email and BlueSky due to the messed-up politics of the United States. I even only refer to it as the United States, because the term "American" should no longer be monopolized by that country, it is a sign of our head-up-our-ass arrogance to assume the United States is the only America, forgetting that many other countries exist on North and South America. I often hear the many international laws and statutes Trump is breaking as he sends civilians to be tortured in El Salvador from voice actors, plus his funding of Israel's genocide and the ongoing voice acting strike against the video game companies, who seek to replace them with AI by having access to their performances and feeding them into the program to read lines, saving the CEOs and no one else money and forcing the voice actors to be homeless or work minimum wage jobs. Elon Musk has targeted Social Security for dismantling and I get told if the election tonight doesn't turn out right, it is likely the program will die within 82 days.
I was hoping my last weekend at my brother and sister-in-law's place would calm me down, but they put on Ms. Rachel, who has a singing guitarist named Jewel who looks like Brandi Carlile. Mom has been trying to figure out the Trump voter's mind, since she knows they aren't bone-stupid, and outright said "I think Trump voters see what I see in this show. Do they have to have someone who looks like a trans woman with a nose ring?" I replied she looks like Brandi Carlile and that Brandi was on Sesame Street and she said, "Oh, Sesame Street--" about to disparage it before my brother lampshaded her. It stuck with me because this is the kind of stuff I hear on the internet from transphobes and homophobes, the belief that LGBTQ+ people are literally everywhere and only get to be so because the media is specifically hiring them for their orientation, not their relevant qualities. This "agenda mentality" is present in people who have made my life Hell online, using the term "woke" and thinking these people lack appropriate talent. I've always seen it as when being gay or otherwise interested in the same gender comes up in entertainment writing, it is because the company wants to reach out to the community, maybe bandage the long-time wounds they've gotten at home or school. Sometimes, LGBTQ+ people help them make these decisions, the voice actresses of Sapphic couple Yang and Blake in RWBY are interested in both men and women. These people are oppressed, Amanda Winn-Lee pointed out the United States' treatment of trans people fits all the qualities of genocide, there is statements of "straight power" and other barbaric behavior online, especially corrective rape and murder of lesbian and bisexual characters. DeviantArt continually draws Yang being raped or as a servant of Deku from My Hero Academia, even taking her screenshots with Blake and redrawing them with him. I also believe Edelgard from Fire Emblem; Three Houses is mostly not on that website because they hate her for being an icon for lesbian/bisexual women.
I have spoken in an annihilistic fashion, but it is only because I see this when it did not exist 10 years ago, which says to me we are on a path to killing these people en masse, especially with the downfall of democracy in the States. I can easily see this country building Auschwitz-style death camps in the coming months to wipe this community and its allies out, especially because even if a Federal Judge will say "no," Trump and Musk will simply say, "I'm not going to listen to you," do it anyway and get their minions in Congress to criminalize all Federal Judges. This country has the potential right now to eclipse Nazi Germany in expansion and genocide under the current mentality, ignoring policies built to say "don't let this happen again." It infuriates me so much I want the Republicans to see who they are, monsters who are destroying the world, but they will feel nothing if Seattle or Los Angeles is destroyed, rather, they will laugh in triumph. If another nation is to strike militarily on the United States, strike Washington DC to try to kill the politicians, Nashville for being the right's Hollywood, and Dallas for being another key right-wing city. I don't like talking like this, but I can see the hate, the arrogance, the bigotry and the prejudice in what they say and would not hesitate to say it is worse than the Nazis thanks to their ability to infiltrate every safe space thanks to the internet. Since we are such a danger to the world, I genuinely think a solution would be to annihilate the entire United States, just to declare this attitude has no place on this planet anymore and to keep it from spreading.
