Thank you. It’s so legitimately frightening and trying to plan to move across the country is not easy.
Are you able to put in a transfer request to be stationed somewhere else? I never got transferred while I was in but I heard about some soldiers that did that back in the day.

The best <3

I don’t get people like this. I’m currently underemployed and it’s one of the worst feelings in the world. It’s almost as depressing as being unemployed for me. I’d much rather be productive and have something to actually contribute instead of wasting my time and my life away.

I’m in Texas. I’m trying to leave

I’m also a trans veteran deeply worried about losing benefits. It’s such a horrid situation

I am terrified at them defunding the VA. I’ve had a much easier time getting good medical care from VA doctors than I ever did going private and I’d be bankrupt without the VA. It’s because of the VA that I have any savings at all

Is there anything I can read about how we’re moving away from everything being a class?

They were protesting before the election. You just weren’t paying attention

Zinnia is the best <3
She runs an amazing blog with a focus on gender dysphoria its links with dissociation https://genderanalysis.net/amp/

I mean if they gut the regulatory agencies the companies will probably just remove the ingredient list altogether

They don’t care about total enforcement. They’ll just use it against their enemies and people they want to take down while protecting their own. Rules for thee etc

They don’t need the military. The police have already been militarized and have zero issue using violence against the populace as has been demonstrated time and time again.

Also respectfully, as a vet, the military is not homogenous and Trump will absolutely find the people in the military that will listen to him and put them in charge

I desperately need to get out of this state

We can’t ignore it when they’re constantly passing more and more draconian laws that make our lives infinitely harder all across the United States.

We have innocent men being lawfully executed by the state in the current year. How many people in total were involved in those processes without a single one standing up for justice? Our current “liberal” presidential administration hasn’t uttered a single word in opposition to their murders

You don’t think Trump will find people to do the job for him? Do you remember them black bagging and abducting people off the street in Portland during BLM? While the NG’s performance was commendable during that turbulent time, I wouldn’t rely on that fact staying true. Also I’m a vet and at least when I was in when we were given orders we weren’t told why we were doing them or given any context for them so in the heat of the moment that’s all you’re going to have to go off of.

Unfortunately people as a whole tend to follow orders regardless of their political party or legality. It’s been studied and observed all throughout history

The supreme court decided police are under no obligation to serve or protect

This country is pure evil and rotten to its core. There is no redemption for us. No one will come to save us. It is only going to get worse.

And that’s not even getting into how flooded the sector is with the hundreds of thousands being laid off for the past few years