• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      I believe that the popular vote isn’t sufficient to win, as it wasn’t when Clinton lost with the popular vote.

      I believe Democrats won’t protect trans rights, either.

      You’ve chosen to be dishonest as fuck about my positions.

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          She didn’t get the popular vote where it mattered, popular vote is still what is needed

          Trump won without it.

          So you think it’s just as likely they won’t protect trans right as it is likely the Republicans won’t?

          I don’t trust either of them at all on this issue. I think they’re just itching to throw another vulnerable minority under the bus like they did with the undocumented immigrants you’re using Republican talking points about.

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        Have you spent any time in right wing spaces, or listened to the new generation describing themselves as “classical liberals”. They’re swing voters and it’s pretty important to them.

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          Have you spent any time in right wing spaces

          Yes, let’s just do everything we can to abandon every last minority centrists consider expendable in order to peel off a total of zero votes from fascists.

          They’re not going to vote for you, no matter how many vulnerable minorities you throw under the bus. You’ve had fucking decades to figure this out, and it looks like you’re just throwing people under the bus because you like the thumping sounds.

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            All powerful me who you can attack rather than try to convince. A microcosm for your general approach of yelling. Your goals and demands, kept vague at best.

            I doubt you even know what you’re asking for.

            There’s a timeline to installing trans rights, it requires adjustments to the Supreme Court.

            But I’m aware that you’re not thinking that far ahead in a planned or tactical manner, and your plans are: be loud, make demands, be radical.

            But you’ve not actually outlined much more than that, so there’s nothing to debate with you.

            Good day, good luck with your imaginary bus, and me as the all powerful deity controlling who gets pushed under.

            No idea what you’re on about unfortunately, but you seem very vocal about whatever it is.

            [Edit: No, I get it, you want to create a polemic against Trump’s obvious lies, treating them as if they’re worth addressing rather than let him melt under the scrutiny of the general population https://i.redd.it/m2pzcfjk77md1.png… But that’s not necessary. Let’s not make his lies into a false balance situation. Just let him look foolish instead.]

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              There’s a timeline to installing trans rights,

              Still settin’ timeframes.

              But I’m aware that you’re not thinking that far ahead in a planned or tactical manner, and your plans are: be loud, make demands, be radical.

              I’m aware that you’re stalling until the party can abandon trans people like it abandoned undocumented immigrants.

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              If your goal is to not let the Republicans win?

              A. The goal should be to achieve progress, not win elections

              B. That involves making the case for that progress, not capitulating to popular opinion that’s been fabricated by conservative media

              But that’s only if you’re not operating on a dialectical-materialist political analysis, because if you were you’d understand that real progress can’t be made through simple electoral victories. Abandoning minority protections in exchange for electoral power is how America has operated since its founding.

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                  cater the minority of the 1% of the population that is tens and doesn’t understand that open support for their cause might lead to a Republican instead

                  I’m sorry, their ““cause””? Is “we have a right to exist” the ‘cause’ you consider to be the thing alienating ‘a big part of the electorate’?

                  Why are you here? Go back to reddit, jesus christ.

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                  “A big part of the electorate” doesn’t care one way or the other about trans rights. All throughout centrist apologists have been saying “most people don’t care about Palestine enough to affect their vote”, they just want kitchen table progress. But somehow when the issue is trans rights, you people think it’s some vote-defining issue that will sink the election if there’s a single trans speaker in a weeklong convention.

                  Just the same old fucking white moderates doing the white moderate things King talked about.