Literally I'm shaking with anger two days later over Independence Day. It breaks my fucking heart over and over to see my parents heaping praise on the people who want to kill their children because they still operate under the delusion that we're the lucky few who won't get fucked by the system, despite the fact that 2 of the 3 kids would be fucking homeless if we weren't living with them. My siblings and I basically trauma-dumped for several hours after dinner and...look I read a lot of stuff from LGBTQ communities on Lemmy, I've talked to a lot of LGBTQ people on Lemmy, I lurk in some of the trans subs...I knew it was bad, really bad, insanely bad, but still...

I think what really shocked me is just how much of their time and energy the system and the bastards who support it are sucking out of them, how many basic things I (white cishet) take for granted that are fucking gone. It feels like they're shells of the people they used to be even within the past year.

My heart hurts.