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[+] -22 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Thanks for telling me, a trans person, how I should feel.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

    If that's how you interpret my comment that's on you. I feel Talarico will do more for marginalized communities than anyone TX had on the ballot in 50+ years.

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  • [+] -24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Oh, sorry that I don't have the appropriate enthusiasm for being thrown under the bus.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    You've misinterpreted 2/2 of their comments and misinterpreted Talarico's beliefs about trans people.

    Editing your comment to add twice the content as well as chants we both agree with in massive font does absolutely nothing to contribute to this discussion and distracts from what you said.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    He won the primary by being an unapologetic ally, and then decided it was a losing strategy.

    It's the same shit CEOs and bad management throw QA, IT, low level programmers, nurses, teachers, or any other frontline workers under the fucking bus. I see right through it, and object to it.

    Trans Rights Are Worker's Rights

    Trans Rights Are Indigenous Rights

    Trans Rights Are Minority's Rights

    Trans Rights Are Women's Rights

    Trans Rights Are Human Rights

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    Most Democrats in contested areas are actively disconnecting from engaging in Culture War talking points.

    One can quietly support and vote for trans rights while not openly engaging in arguments about trans people which scare off moderates/fence-sitters/"I'd vote for that Democrat because Trump is terrible, but I'm afraid of trans people" types.


    FYI to the user who replied to me below, I blocked you a while back when you were doing a bunch of bad faith arguments. I can't recall if you were one of the people straw-manning western liberals or one of the ones that tagged in to start the name-calling sideshow.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    If the best defense you can make about a person is that they're lying to the voters, then how can we know if their real stance is actually better and not worse? How do you know that you're not the one being deceived as opposed to the "moderates" and "fence sitters?"

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    Am I not allowed to be disappointed in a candidate? Is the only option unrestrained enthusiasm for a candidate that isn't interested in protecting my rights?

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

    You can be what ever you want, but trump might not be in office right now if the same thing wasn’t going on with people condemning Harris for not being anti Israel, loudly, when there were only two options left.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    So we just have to keep ceding human rights to fascists until the marginally less fascist party wins?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    In the american system, yes. Do that and pray it works out, since the only other option you have is get one of those bajillion guns and do a revolution thingy.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

    Far easier to complain that the situation isn't perfect on the internet than either of those, hence their and others' constant droning on about it.

    As a bonus, it's exactly what someone trying to ruin our democracy would say. Funny that there's no shortage of those on the internet, a place where it's much harder to tell that you're a Russian bot.


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    As the votes come in to indicate most people are misinterpreting this comment, it's now more of a writer issue than a reader issue. I'll clarify:

    The constant droning I was referring to above is the voter apathy encouraging "Democrats suck too, therefore I'm not voting for them either," not the valid complaints that Democrats aren't doing enough for trans people.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    Trans people are not Russian bots because we care about our rights being stripped or being insulted to our faces by our representatives.

    It’s gone from restrooms and sports to denying federal funding for our healthcare. Each one of these concessions to anti-trans Dems has only seen escalation in their attacks on us.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago*

    Trans people are not Russian bots because we care about our rights being stripped or being insulted to our faces by our representatives.

    That is absolutely not what I was saying, and I recommend you re-read it.

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