Former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who is also the current Democratic Senate candidate for Ohio, found himself in hot water in a past campaign over his response to anti-trans attacks from Republicans, and now he appears to be taking a different approach. 

Instead of trying to defend or explain his views on trans rights, Brown released an ad last week slamming Republicans for focusing on trans people at all, when there are so many bigger challenges facing the state.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago* (23 children)

    That's right! Allowing the GOP to win will greatly speed up the, uh, "pacification" of the natives! Time is money, after all. Plus, you won't have to feel bad anymore when they're gone.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago* (21 children)

    Truman. Everybody.

    Who just shipped Israel 2.8B in bombs with zero controls on who they are used against?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (19 children)

    Lol Biden didn't send 2.8B worth of bombs to Israel with no strings attached. That would be your daddy trump, who you helped elect.

    Good job!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    I hate Lemmy right now so much. The shills are out in full force. Half these accounts are a month old.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (8 children)

    I said half. Meaning this is a trend I'm seeing. I did not say it applied in every case.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    Unfortunately for you I tagged you as someone who does this same shit long ago so I don't have to wonder if this is a one off

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Yes I'm familiar with these theatrics. You aren't unique

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    See, this is how I know that you don't genuinely give a fuck about Palestine, or genocide. You just want Republicans to win, and Palestine is a good enough token for today.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Hey, they updated the script!

    It's funny that one can claim to be anti genocide, while being against any sort of attempts to stop it as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    The reality is that stopping the genocide is not possible right now. That is why the GOP picked that as the culture war talking point: it's a situation where there is no winning scenario for Democrats, and they can either call them the genocide party or the hitler party.

    The options are: less genocide (Democrats) or more genocide (Republicans). Refusing to vote for less genocide because they're pro-genocide just means that the more genocide side wins. And that's what happened. And that's why Israel is now actively pursuing the greater Israel project, because they know the GOP is fully on board with it.

    And now the measurably worse outcome for both Americans and Palestine has taken place as a result.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago*

    I'll never understand why y'all libs love genocide so much

    If you were arguing in good faith, you'd never say something like this. Your anti-democrat, pro-republican talking points sound super familiar though. Pretty much just like an account that did all these exact mental gymnastics leading up to the 2024 election and finally got permabanned for it.

    Your whole schtick is "you cannot care about outcomes, that's evil. You have to care about PRINCIPLES instead. Don't hurt Palestinians by voting in a manner that will hurt them less, that's evil, because you're still hurting them! You must instead use your vote to empower Republicans!"

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (82 children)

    Dont let perfect be the barrier to progress. Easier to primary him out next time, but stick it to the republicans for now

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Don't. Don't ever let the size of the group determine your support. All people deserve to live without fear of persecution (real persecution, not modern Christian persecution, mind)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Thank you for saying this.

    Why would anyone think it’s okay to compromise with a fascist agenda or genocide because of the cost of gas? First it was eggs. That’s insane. That’s what led to the rise of Nazism.

    Does anyone take the magnitude of evil going on seriously? We should be fighting it every step of the way, instead of being hyper focused on some goal of maintaining our consumer index to feed more money to an evil ruling class.

    I know it’s difficult because the thought of going through some sacrifice is difficult for people living with first world problems in a materialistic society built upon economic imperialism.

    Only support politicians who have to courage to be down with the struggle and walk their talk. I’ll vote blue when it serves the good of humanity to do so.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago* (9 children)

    I'm not disagreeing that genocide is bad but the other guy probably supports Israel as well since they're Republican. It's your right to not vote but anyone else reading and not voting is the same as supporting the other person by allowing them to be voted in. By not picking a side, you're picking a side and giving the other side a free pass. You're basically saying that you are ok if the opposition who supports Israel gets elected because you didn't use your vote to cancel out a vote. Either way you're supporting Israel.

    The choice here is to vote for a candidate that supports Israel and the rights of Americans or someone that supports Israel and opposes American rights or not vote and let someone else decide for you. You can wait for your perfect candidate while the opposition votes in theirs. It's your right.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Nope. If both candidates are Israel supporters then no matter what Israel will be supported regardless of how you vote. What you are saying is that the person sitting next to you doesn't deserve rights because you failed to vote against the opposition because the Democrat candidate isn't perfect. I'm not excusing the Dem candidate for supporting Israel but I'm saying that all Americans should enjoy the same rights and the voters options are limited. You disagree and that's your right, but I hope that you aren't going around advocating for human rights while also strengthening the position of those that would take those rights away. This is a fight won in inches not miles.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    The irony of being a fascist and doing their dirty work for them. No thanks for your support of fascism.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (22 children)

    I get it, but that's not how elections under FPTP works. If you want to be single issue about this, you have to vote for a candidate aligned with your choice on this. If such a candidate doesn't exist, you have to vote for the least repugnant one.

    If you don't vote, you're cosigning whatever choice everyone else makes. You not voting isn't telling anyone that they didn't get your vote, it's telling everyone that you didn't care about the outcome of that election.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    Many population overthrow their dictatorship and risked being kidnapped, tortured, starved and killed but you idiots have fair elections and still making excuses to vote for murderers and terrorists

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    Tell me what you learned from the 2024 presidential election.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

    I learned that a significant majority of the US voting population will torch the country if the candidates in our inherently flawed voting system are not good enough for their moral or ethical standards. Status quo vs driving the country off a cliff are not the same thing.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Do you honestly think that if harris had one, ice would be going around the country and detaining immigrants and putting them in concentration camps?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Or do we forget who created ICE to begin with?

    I think you "forgot". Because it was Bush. Not a Democrat, which you intend to lie people into believing created it.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Yes that was the status quo. And now we have the status quo times 1000 worse. Democrats have not been shocked into compliance either. A systemic overhaul is required and it’s bigger than one person.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    I can't help this situation in any way if I'm struggling because transphobes make it difficult for me to exist. Your pool of allies against Israel decreases because I'm too busy trying to survive.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    There's a reason a lot of us trans people are moving to blue states. The Democrats aren't trustworthy but staying in a red state is hell. It still makes a difference so spare the bullshit. Not voting is helping Republicans more than it's helping trans people.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Completely missed the point of what I said. There's still a massive difference between the Republicans and Democrats. This isn't about local communities. Don't both sides this.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    The difference is far less than you make it out to be.

    Did you . . . did you really just tell a trans person with lived experience that they don't know the political landscape they are physically having to move to escape? Someone paraquat your weed?

    This is the epitome of bad faith argument. Blocked.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Marcy Kaptur, James Talarico, Sarah Trone Garriott, Lindsay James, Blake Gendebien, JoAnna Mendoza, James Turek, and Rob Sand to name a few are all running on platforms attacking trans people ranging from bragging about keeping children from accessing medical care to arguing trans women should not be allowed to play sports with cis women.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    A ton of them are turning their backs on trans people and moving to the right. Google is free.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    A "ton", but zero examples. I generally know what you're saying is somewhat true. Some are. But you seem to want to imply Democrats are overall no better than Republicans in this regard and that's patently false.

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