• fluxion@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    All this brainstorming for a offensive nickname and they end up with one that points out his efforts to help school children afford essential medical products. Well played GOP.

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      1 month ago

      This is literally just telling people about a cool thing he did. Like, how many people wouldn’t have known about this if not for the GOP?

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      1 month ago

      The issue is they are twisting it and saying they forced schools to put them in boys bathrooms to ramp up the transphobia.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      The name isn’t to point out his efforts but a way to signal to conservatives that, because he cares about tampons, he cares about girls in a way that is “unnatural”.

      The goal is to try to label him, put him in a box that the right can point at and say, “SeE?! He MuSt Be A PeDoFiLe!1”

      The people who are building the narrative are trying to paint him as worse than “Hide your sofa” Vance, which is a tough sell right now.

      I’m actually sort of proud of the Democrats right now. They have, effectively, pulled the mic from the hands of Trump and Fox, name called them to the point that the Republicans are scrambling, actually panicking, about the election.

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      1 month ago

      It is basically a bad faith argument.

      Tampon Tim is the name he got because he put tampons IN THE MEN/BOYS bathroom. Men don’t need tampons Snapz.

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        1 month ago

        Many men have daughters and wives. Men need tampons. It’s a good idea to keep a tampon or two in your emergency/first aid kit.

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          1 month ago

          Stop being so ignorant. The high school boys bathrooms aren’t for men with daughters. He did this for a very specific reason.

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            1 month ago

            Sorry i didn’t mean to be ignorant. I was just using this as an opportunity to promote men carrying tampons. I guess it’s probably a good idea to provide tampons high school boys too. I didn’t think about that.