• CMonster@discuss.online
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    2 days ago

    You arent going to win any elections catering to 1% of the total population and alienating a large part of it. I would say that is just common sense politics at this point.

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      2 days ago

      Protecting the rights of individuals is not catering to 1% of the total population. Its the bare minimum in a supposed civilized democracy. You can never, ever, compromise on protecting individuals that are causing no harm to others and just trying to navigate through the world.

      Do we need to showcase the trans issue? No. We need politicians that are better at navigating the media environment and can effectively strategize against the GOP propaganda machine.

      If you do that first, you wouldn’t have an issue with trans people. For fuck sakes make an attempt at it even and if they are capable and what I say is wrong, fine, expel the trans people from the party. Except, accept you will never be a party of values only one of opposition, so be cautious of ever trying to claim morality after that point.

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        20 hours ago

        In this case at this point in time it is. Progressives built their entire hosue of cards on trans and lgbtq rights and then popular opinion swung the other way and the little support they had evaporated in conjunction with their political power.

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          15 hours ago

          If its true their support has waned then the people in power are the exact people who deserve to be. You want to vote for dems because they wear blue not because you give a shit about principles.

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            5 hours ago

            I’m so glad your privy to my private thoughts. People like you are why everyone thinks progressives are fucking nutters.

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                  5 hours ago

                  Your problems not with me then. What principles do you stand for? Is it, “do what ever it takes to win” or “reason and compromise can be used to benefit all people”? Ideas that win are ideas that deserve to win. While this might not always be true its a principle you can stand by.

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                    5 hours ago

                    What the fuck are you talking about? It’s 8:30 in the morning here. I haven’t had enough coffee to even keep up with your golden retriever energy.

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      Our current system is predicated upon catering to the wealthiest (0.)1% which keeps winning them elections. Abusers of power get to frame their own opposition, and so you have things like poor people being blamed for the excesses of the rich. So you have people start swearing off avocado toast they never bought in the first place instead of proper italian plumbing.

      Trans-rights have never actually been an issue. Anti-trans people are the issue because they made their issue everyone elses.

      Abusers deflect and redirect onto their targets so they never have to defend themselves. It isn’t that trans people want to survive, it’s that there’s motherfuckers that don’t want trans people to exist.