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[Uncle]

Thanks for asking and sorry this was long.

not at all, thanks for sharing

I don't think I agree with all of that perspective but that's fine, it SHOULD be fine in society to just disagree and not scream and freak out on each other

I think a lot of these executive orders/changes and outreach these past few days have been surprisingly good, I don't know about the long term but we'll see

I have family who are those panicky types just grunting out "eeeeevil, it's so eeeevil, I'm so scared for those poor trans folx" but we aren't the type to cancel each other or stop speaking, and we try to be well-reasoned and not be pure emotional reactionary

what you describe about how you have to act is terrible, the extent that people have to hide their true feelings on this stuff is extremely damaging, and it's also what's catching people by surprise when votes turn out the way they do

the basic trust that you can hold an opinion, one which doesn't imply any real world action on your part, and not suffer for that opinion, is just entirely gone

it's probably worse due to economics, where you really can't afford to get fired (he supports trump -> he supports his ideals -> he supports the trans genocide -> he will mistreat trans customers -> he must be fired)