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Kansas, Texas, Iowa again.
Who voted for and against in a Mississippi bill that treats incarcerated trans women like men:
https://legiscan.com/MS/rollcall/HB188/id/1485160
New York:
North Carolina:
Ager says he gets “frustrated with the Democratic Party because they spent so much time focusing on identity politics and not on everyday people”
I guess I’m not an everyday person then? He’s really almost saying the quiet part out loud.
Everyday people are literally not LGBTQ to them. They think we’re a fringe group.
Same with “issues that don’t affect people’s daily lives.”
I’m scared
This is why I don’t support liberals. You cannot rely on the United States government in general. They came for the Palestinians first, that became like a fixed constant that both parties do, now they’re going to throw trans people under the bus along with immigrants.
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One of said Democratic ads was advocating for cutting medicare, medicaid, and any public funding to gender affirming care. It was never about sports and it will never end with sports
I hope one day when you least expect it, your shoelaces are undone and you trip on them, falling under an oncoming bus. Chuds like you are a net drain on society and we’d be better off without you. Fix your heart or die, you victim-blaming piece of shit.
You’re a dumbass.
This is not the type of compilation I enjoy watching.
Canada is bad, but not to this extent. Democrats are about the same as Canadian Conservatives, it’s unreal.
Absolute hypocrite.
“I oppose discrimination for all Iowans… anyway, here’s why I support being worse than the Republicans here currently are for trans people.”
Worse is arguable, but definitely not better
Worse is what they are doing. Republicans won in Iowa last election and they didn’t / couldn’t get rid of all trans healthcare, now this guy and his vile fellows are campaigning on actually getting rid of it this time, being even more anti-trans than the previous Republican government of Iowa.
So Iowa Republicans are pro trans? Or did some other arm of the government block it being worse?
Edit: just to clarify my frame of reference, this guy is pursuing a federal senate seat. So he won’t get a say in what Iowa does, but could impact at the Senate for EVERYONE.
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Iowa Republicans were anti-trans, but didn’t bother with doing much about it because it would require effort to do something like completely defund trans healthcare. You can’t just declare something like that and make it so, even if everyone agrees on it. Endocrinology is tied up in non-trans healthcare so you’d have to figure out some complicated bill on what the ban actually entails, similar with GRS but that one might be easier to define a trans ban on. Democrats are promising (and the new Republicans) that they are going to try to get that done.
Basically, Iowa Republicans before the election were anti-trans, but didn’t go out of their way to devote real effort towards dismantling trans healthcare. Both parties had put off actually doing that so it can be used as a promise to gain popular support in this election.
The information I can find has Dems split on the issue, whereas Rs are staunchly anti-trans.
Not trying to argue, just trying to understand. It’s a shituation either way. Wish there were more progressive candidates in Iowa.
A minority of Democrats seem genuinely pro-trans (and only in places where that is popular), while the majority either doesn’t care or is transphobic. All Republicans are transphobic because they know it’d never be popular with their voter-base.
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Genuine question: How would this be better? Isn’t the choice essentially choosing a larger evil to prevent a smaller evil, and all the consequences that brings, in hopes that the options will somehow be different in the future?
What about the people suffering in the meanwhile who wouldn’t have been otherwise? What if it results in further voter suppression so that an ally candidate has a much harder time actually getting elected?
I genuinely understand that it absolutely sucks when the options are awful or even worse, we should demand more from our representatives and we should do everything we can to remove those who refuse to represent all of their constituency, but I can’t see how letting the worse option win is better.
These are very reasonable concerns to have. It’s true that advocating against the Dems for this term may correlate with (not cause) more immediate suffering for vulnerable groups whose wellbeing the Party has been holding hostage for the better part of three decades now.
The problem with liberalism, and particularly neoliberalism in this case, is that it very effectively assimilates, appropriates, and disarms dissenting politicial or social justice movements through attritional tractics like marginal concessions aimed toward longterm erosion. Liberal institutions like the US Democratic Party succeed with those tactics because attrition is most favourable to the party with the most resources, and with a substanital amount of power over the US state they have, they naturally have access to immense resources.
On the other hand, we do not. Few trans people are in positions of power, our population is small, and most of our value to something like the Democratic Party is performative righteousness that comforts privileged liberal voters. The current moment of trans genocide and racial inequity in the US is very much a consequence of liberalism’s appropriation and subsequent disarmament of these respective social justice movements. These people are not our friends, and they clearly believe that they have exhausted our resources enough to more aggressively target us as they were always bound to.
Like actually relieving to read. I need to stop reacting, like I was calm about this kind of stuff once, now my responses are degenerating into thinking the average working class people who support liberals are the living embodiment of the ghoul politicians.
I honestly don’t think it’s unfair to react that way, and I don’t think we can reasonably ask members of vulnerable groups to respond with patience when respectability is so obviously not relevant to the people who wish us harm – even if just passively. As patient as I may be here, I have this outlook not out of sympathy for the groups that support the Democratic Party, but due to the practicality in empathizing with other subjects of this oppressive system in order to discern between active and passive threats.
Apathy is the engine of liberal oppression, which is why privileged groups like middle-class working people can be placated by so little when their own way of life is both precarious and compartmentalized from the violence this system requires to exist. Liberals use social justice rhetoric the same way they used labor and suffrage rhetoric; it works because most people are indeed uncomfortable with human suffering, but do not have the perspective or political literacy to understand when that suffering is arbitrary or what is actually required to end that suffering. I don’t think it is unreasonable to be frustrated or angry at people who do not develop that understanding at a point in time where so much information is literally at their fingertips, and I couldn’t in good conscience say that I don’t habour a deep resentment for people who can’t be bothered to try. Of course, I extend more sympathy to factory workers who work 50+ hour swing-shifts while raising children than I do white-collar suburbanites who feel entitled to define morality around the profitability of their rental properties.
Another form of violence inflicted on vulnerable groups is the expectation of respectability or candor as they defend themselves, as though that is required by anyone who argues that their privilege should exist. If you feel uncomfortable with that anger, that’s also completely valid since, again, most people don’t like hating others. It does feel gross, even when it’s warranted.
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Because it normalizes our oppression as a constant reality supported by all sides, like how it is in the UK. It’s defeatist, because it’s basically conceding that trans rights aren’t politically viable and all we can choose between are different degrees of subhuman treatment.
You shouldn’t rely on the US government for your rights in general. We need to oppose the state by building our own power to prevent both parties from being able to fuck us over.
I think the US is fucked, possibly Canada too, we need to protect each other. I wish there was HRT mutual aid in my area, since I can’t get adequate medical treatment.
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I don’t know many.
Are these politicians who are not out and still only consider themselves MAGA-curious?
Most white and non-lgbtq liberals seem maga curious.
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idk about that .ml account, but having interacted with OP a few times in the past week or so: if they’re a bot, it would mean the bots have gotten convincing enough that we’re all fucked and i may as well throw myself out the window right now.
Bot = anything I disagree with.
This is how the internet is. Those who engage in namecalling are rarely doing so with a factual basis.
It’s real stuff I’m bringing up. This isn’t fake news, it’s their own ads.
OP is def a real person, ive talked to them
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Could you remove the embedded images? We have a rule in the community about not reposting bigoted content.
Absolutely think its fine to discuss here, but people have expressed in the past some discomfort with bigoted media being shared.
Why, it’s evidence of things going on? It’s not even bigoted media either, just screenshots of news articles reporting on it and most of the articles described it in a very negative light.
I think it makes more sense bearing in mind that this is first and foremost a supportive community for transfeminine people. Like the point is to give transfeminine folks a space to talk and share things with each other. What theyre going through, what joys and struggles theyre having, things that they value or are interested in, ask each other questions. That is the point of the community.
I think its important that you be able to talk about things like this that are going on and affect our lives, but I dont think its necessary to share individual pictures of this bigoted asshole or his campaign here. There are other communities more oriented around trans news where I think that makes more sense.
I dont think asking specifically for images to be removed is too much. The rule is in the sidebar and was created with this kind of thing in mind.
I’m mostly referring to the image of the post itself. The screenshots of news sites are fine.
Oh the image of the post itself, okay.
Thanks :) fuck that guy i can’t believe the amount of people advocating for him elsewhere
I fell under the slight impression that maybe liberals wouldn’t be that bad, but the amount of people willing to fully back people like that almost seems to be a majority.
It’s actually despicable, it’s like some people only support trans people or just human rights in general if its popular and then abandon it when it isn’t.
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to all of you wonderful people out there posting about how horrible the democrats are on the eve of a monumental election, I’d like to remind you that voting day is not the day to be nitpicking. If this stuff bothers you (and it does me too), you have 364 other days to grab a gun.
Voting day is about choosing the lesser evil for just a couple damn hours, and if you think the republicans would be any better for you, I have a beach house in Idaho for sale.
if your options are “person who wants to kill you” and “person who wants to kill you”, you are going lose no matter what
I’m thinking… $990,000 is my asking price. it really is such a beautiful view
Nooo my voterino!!! Vote blue no matter who!!!
*minutes pass*
makes fun of the death of a teenager
Yeah, that tracks for you lot.
makes fun of the death of a teenager
i couldn’t make heads or tails of their comment, is that what was going on? now i’m not sure if i want dig around for more details or remain in the dark for the sake of my own mental health :/
Honestly no idea whatbthe 900k part is, probably something messef up but…
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“It’s a beautiful view” part is to me an identifiable anti-trans dogwhistle/euphemism quoting the last words of a young trans girl who tragically took her own life :(
wait what?? I wasn’t trying to quote a dogwhistle, just riffing on “selling a beach house in Idaho” cause I figured noone had read what I said anyway
ig be careful about the things you say?
what I meant was that if someone believed “if I have problems with the political climate, I should roll over and give up”, then they’re probably out of touch with reality enough to be willing to buy oceanfront property in a state with no connection to the ocean.
I respect trans people, and am willing and ready to fight for trans rights, but doing nothing on voting day is almost as bad as voting for the fascists.
Something about these people makes me want to fucking, just, I can’t say what I want to do.
I remember 2 years ago when I was speaking up about Palestine that the same fucking types of liberals were talking about how they’d love to hear about people like us getting raped to death in a male prison because we supported the conservatives (aka. criticized the liberal policy of genocide). I remember it. Someone said it to my fucking face. They’re snakes, literal vipers. They just pretend to be allies. Fuck their votes. They’re actually just snakes, like if they believed it was the lesser evil they wouldn’t be posting blue hearts everywhere. They just switch up their mask and act all pained about the situation to fucking manipulate us. It fucking sickens me, they don’t give a shit, I’m pretty sure they actually like that trans people feel forced to support liberals out of fear.
They think that LGBT people are either captive or disposable.
“Who cares what I say, those rubes will vote for me anyway because I want them to suffer in a more polite way!”
Kim, there’s people that are dying.
I would like to remind you that if you vote for genocide, you don’t deserve to have your democracy saved. You’ve proven yourself too irresponsible to handle the franchise.
Exactly, fuck America.
it’s two bedrooms, two bathrooms, with a beautiful view of both the Pacific and Atlantic out the east and west windows. such a beautiful estate for a low price!
Fuck Amerikkka. Marg bar Amerika. Marg bar Amerika. Marg bar Amerika.
This message brought to you by the moral cowards happy to cosign on a genocide as long as they can go back to brunch after.
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Clocked that less than halfway through the comment, well before looking at the username. Crazy how easy it is to find these types of people. Blocked!
This message brought to you by the cowardly amoral ghouls who actually get off on the genocide and use the brunch crowd as cover.
Free Palestine
Its evident the democrats are bad, and getting worse with trans rights and we must point that out. I would vote democrat if i was in the US, but you cant blame any trans person/any other minority for not voting for the democrats given this. Saying “vote for the lesser evil” isnt going to change anyones minds. The only thing that will, is a change on the democrats position, which is how a democracy is meant to function.
The lesser evil is becoming greater each time they use this tactic. Palestine, immigrants, now trans people, but we gotta still support Democrats, I guess, because they’re killing us slower than the Republicans.
You sily billy, you don’t understand the trolley problem. If you don’t support the party that kills 15% less people then you’re responsible for killing those extra people! All we can do is pull the lever, there is no other option. You’ve just gotta lie down on the lesser evil track and take one for the team to delay fascism.
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It is the time, because they’ve only started on this stuff now.
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