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  • RedSeries@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Democrats would get nothing for throwing trans Americans under the busEnglish
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    4 days ago

    But trans rights weren’t a big focus for Dems. In fact we were routinely dismissed or outright thrown under the bus. The article talks about that, the GOP completely outspent on trans rights by 9x. At best, Dems promised to simply keep our existing rights. We showed up despite that, so they managed to reach us and our loved ones by virtue of promising not to try to kill us.

    Your suggestion that Dems should focus on jobs and stuff is valid. How does supporting trans folk have anything to do with that? And, considering how rock-bottom the response was against these anti-trans ads, why is this even being discussed as part the problem?

  • RedSeries@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•The Poison in my LifeEnglish
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    16 days ago

    No. Clearly the solution is to continue to abandon anyone outside the US because they don’t matter. /s

    Good to know our American citizens mean fuck-all to you then.

    But more directly: HOW are you going to work on it? Who is gonna do that? The capitalist/imperialist who you’ve pledged your vote to unconditionally?

    It’s not unconditional. If you root yourself in reality for a few minutes, you’ll see we have three choices:

    • Mask-off Fascism
    • Imperialism/Neoliberalism that appears to at least kinda court progressives.
    • Burn it all down, fucking the most amount of people in the process.

    Which are you picking? I don’t see any actionable grand solutions or saints coming from you and your ilk. I do not have answers on how to fix it, and I doubt :checks watch: 6 days before the election is enough time to figure it out.

    To be abundantly clear, I do not like these choices. None of them. The only one I can stomach is the second one, and there does not appear to be any viable alternatives right now.

  • RedSeries@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•The Poison in my LifeEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Ask me more about my life story! So far you have this:

    • I’m a trans woman.
    • I engage with trolls.
    • I like sarcasm a lot.

    As for your sports team context, if I played this like sports, I’d turn the TV off. Unfortunately, I was kidnapped and placed on the field in a cage, and if one side wins I get shot. The other side wins and I get to hang out in the cage some more. There’s a small contingency in the crowd calling to burn the stadium down with everyone on the field (including me) and half of the crowd going down with it. /m

    Oh, also, apologies about missing all of the tone tags. /gen

    Then I guess a bit of critical thinking will need to be applied. My comment was very obvious sarcasm.

    /nbr, /ay but also /nay

    Are you worried because someone might think me, a trans woman, is advocating for the internment of everyone who is not a white cishetero male Christian nationalist in favor of trains running in time? Cause… Me too honestly.

    /gen

    I get that the state of the US is abysmal, but if anyone is taking that comment seriously I hope they choke on a shotgun. /srs

    /nay

    Do you honestly think people would take my first comment seriously? /gen A simple perusal of my post history shows how much I fucking loathe Trump and republicans and I’m starting to get sick of hearing solutions to our government that amount to “stop compromising and burn it to the ground” without any regard for the consequences or reality. /lh

    EDIT: That last portion after my question was /nay, just to be clear. There’s others in these comments who are basically saying that because everything sucks or kinda sucks we need to end it, even if it hurts other people. /gen