just a tiny minority of Nazi’s holding us back…AGAIN!
We need to stop voting them in to office. That or pull another WW2 where it’s legal to end Nazis… They are quite literally the perfect example of the Paradox of Tolerance. They are EXACTLY what should NOT be tolerated.
They technically aren’t being voted into office. They use tactics such as gerrymandering and voter suppression to get elected. If everything was “fair” and “balanced” they would be a tiny minority in our government
They technically aren’t being voted into office. They use tactics such as gerrymandering and voter suppression to get elected.
I see no evidence that a sizable percentage of Republicans is crying for more moderate candidates nor refusing to vote for these racist, homophobic, transphobic shitbags. They aren’t being voted in by the electorate as a whole, but they absolutely are being voted in by Republicans, those other problems notwithstanding.
I agree with you, their choice to turn a blind eye to the actions of their peers is abhorrent. My point was that in a large chunk of these places they wouldn’t be elected into office if they didn’t cheat their way to get there.
Apologies my comment wasn’t intended to counter yours if it sounded that way. I agree with you too. It just popped the cork on a hotbutton topic of mine. 🙂
I totally understand ♥️
And then a whole bunch of them will turn around and vote for anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans because “They’re for the economy” (please ignore how the economy actually performs under Republican control)
When Republicans talk about woke, they mean the LGBTQ community and other minorities. That is why they are anti woke. They are anti LGBTQ. It is a word bigots use to hide behind. “Woke, you know what we mean” wink
Oh no, it’s much more than that. Remember when DeSantis told a judge that he defined “woke” as anything that acknowledged the existence of systemic racism?
Right, it doesn’t even stop at LGBTQIA+ anymore. Anything short of the perfect bigot can be put under a microscope and declared a “sympathizer” to the “woke agenda.” Heck, cis people that aren’t conforming to their gender well enough are acceptable casualties, as we saw in the Philadelphia deli case a few days ago.
Something fascism, something McCarthyism.
Woke was specifically a term used by black activists that was, as always, co-opted by racists and turned against them with the help of “centrists.”
And now even the well meaning white nerds are ignoring that it has always been about issues of systemic racism in America.
Nah, woke just means, “anything republicans don’t like”, it’s not LGBTQ specific.
Yeah it’s often used about race issues too
Exactly. They’re scared to use the meaning and use woke instead. Scared frogs.
Gay frogs
Lee Atwater would be proud.
Too bad voters don’t matter half as much as much as land and money in the US.
Good for US voters.
American Indians knew all about this even before white men invaded. They were called two spirit people and had different functions in the tribe. They’re just people. Quit the BS.
White Europeans already knew about lgbt too, especially during the time of the Romans. It is because of the homophobic influence of Abrahamic religions that lgbt have been suppressed, and later on European and Islamic empires spread the bigotry into their colonies through religion.
Rome wasn’t some gay paradise.
And yeah lgbt people filled special roles even in societies like the Sumerians and Scythians
Remember, you’re not gay if you are on top according to the Romans!
Incorrect. According to the Greeks.
Pretty sure the Romans held the same belief.
But that’s assuming Romans didn’t import all their culture.
It used to be considered manly to be at least bisexual, because a real “man’s man” would of course prefer the company of men.
It’s too bad US politics won’t represent US voters, or this would be good news.
Well, the cons - who have far too much power in relation to their actual numbers - won’t be having any of that “what US voters want” stuff, thank you very much.
This is why they’ve been messaging - for years now, decades, even - that this is “not a democracy” and, more recently, that there is not even a Constitutional right to vote.
Happening is Canada right now. The minority in our racist provinces are passing anti gay legislation.
wish people in the uk felt the same instead of being hit upside the head every day by the anti trans media :(
Yeah the difference is that over here academic feminism lost a lot of influence to its less Ivy Tower sisters. Also feminist theorists didn’t gain quite the same institutional power. That’s bad in many ways, but it does mean that our face of feminism isn’t some professor.
Meanwhile, support for stronger LGBTQ+ protections was more highly favoured by Democratic voters (82 per cent) than Republican voters (32 per cent).
Surprised 32% of Republican voters support. This shows, as I’ve felt for a while now, yet another example that we aren’t as separate as we think.
The big problem is that while many Republican voters might be more moderate, Republican politicians absolutely aren’t, and the Republican voters keep voting in the extremists. It doesn’t matter if 32% of Republican voters support LGBTQ+ protections when the Republican politicians they’re voting in are busy passing anti-LGBTQ+ laws, and they’d never willingly vote for anyone else.
Absolutely. Moderates are completely unrepresented by our government right now.
Democrats are the moderate party right now. It’s actually very frustrating for progressive voters because they keep voting in Democrats that talk a big game while campaigning and then the moment they’re in office that all goes out the window and they go back to supporting the same moderate policies they always have.
That’s the real difference between the Republicans and Democrats, the Republicans talk about moderate policies but then actually enact extremist policies, while the Democrats talk about extremist policies but then actually enact moderate ones.
This is so well put. Like each party represents itself more left than they really are.
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Biden is a moderate, as is the overwhelming majority of democratic members of Congress in both the house and the senate lol what are you on about.
If you mean moderate Republicans are unrepresented, then yes, but you have Republicans to blame for that by their refusal to stop supporting extremists.
I think of “Moderate” as a slightly right-wing position. I think Biden is mostly a Liberal, maybe even a Social Liberal. I agree a lot of Democrats are Moderates.
Nah I won’t blame voters for not being able to get a great result out of this system. We have so little power at the moment.
Biden is literally a conservative by most non-American standards. Even in the US, he’s still significantly more conservative than moderate left-leaning people here.
But I want to use the labels in less of a comparative and relative way. Match the policies to the political ideology.
It’s almost like people shouldn’t care what they do and give them the tools/laws to just live their lives. Crazy concept that I’m glad to see most people are on board with. Just a few crazies stopping progress
Won’t somebody think of the children!?
/s of course
American law isn’t about what Americans want. How long will it take for people to understand this?
Is one of those laws a “Drag-race”-style competition to pick the president?
Because I would be on board for that.
I would definitely watch Trump in sequins and padding try to belt out Cher.
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