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KwarK
United States43987 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45916 Posts
On August 08 2025 23:34 KwarK wrote: I wasn’t aware of Sydney Sweeney. I’m still not but presumably she’s some sort of celebrity/Kardashian. She's an actress. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26790 Posts
On August 08 2025 20:17 GreenHorizons wrote: "Nazi!", "Kill em [cops]!" Old quotes of mine? Inner monologue escaping? Reddit comments about Sydney Sweeney? Maybe, but definitely a new hire at Trump's DOJ. www.npr.org + Show Spoiler + *spiderman meme* If society survives globally, they will have to include so many "This isn't an exaggeration, this actually happened" disclaimers in the movies about the fall of the US. But yeah, Sydney Sweeney amirite? I don’t even have a huge issue pardoning some rioters, but a blanket one? Preposterous. Or entirely plausible within the parameters of a completely broken system. To clarify, I’m not saying hey, coup attempts are a-OK. But such disturbances are often very volatile events, that change on the ground as it were. If you prosecute people simply for being at such events, you defang all kinds of legitimate forms of protest. In the ‘good old days’, if some left-leaning political leader in central or South America had incited such an event, and pardoned perpetrators subsequently you can bet your house that nation would be conferred banana republic status, and no doubt have the CIA knocking on their door imminently. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26790 Posts
On August 08 2025 22:56 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Clearly, politicians and investment bankers like Rahm Emanuel are the authorities on sex and gender studies. They don’t have to be to be fair, they are however expected to be good at politics. It’s unpalatable but it doesn’t really matter what academics or science says if a giant chunk of the population currently just think trans people are weird. Which I dunno if they are, at least currently time will tell. Their prescription is basically the same as Blackjack’s, Dems are too woke, if we cut out the ‘woke nonsense’ we’ll win’, and they’re clearly banking on that as a component of their platform moving forwards. The problem with that is you have to exactly find the Goldilocks zone. Which is fucking hard. You need to grab more of the ‘I’m OK with x, but some wokeness is too far’ group, while not being seen to throw groups under the bus and lose support elsewhere that wipes out those gains. You’ll also struggle to flip any actual bigots without going extreme enough to lose the aforementioned groups. You also, IMO need some other big wins to run in parallel. I’m actually seeing such a process play out over here in real-time and it ain’t especially pretty reading for Labour, our Dem equivalent (especially now they pivoted centre). They don’t have the big popular policy wins to offset doing things that are unpopular with a lot of the left thru centre left in terms of being ‘anti-woke’. But they’ll also never be anti-woke enough for the right of the country. Because they’ve got a similar problem to the US Dems, in that any random Twitter user is evidence of ‘this is woke Labour Britain’ even if the party itself is pushing in the opposite direction. | ||
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LightSpectra
United States2576 Posts
There's no point in Democrats throwing minorities under the bus to strategically appease some bigots, those morons are going to vote Republican anyway. | ||
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Legan
Finland577 Posts
On August 09 2025 00:35 LightSpectra wrote: Kamala Harris barely ever talked about trans people during the 2024 election but Republicans just lied and said "she's for they/them, we're for YOU" and won anyway. There's no point in Democrats throwing minorities under the bus to strategically appease some bigots, those morons are going to vote Republican anyway. Or maybe those demanding to throw minorities under the bus are not actually satisfied with silence but want Democrats to be openly bigoted, like most Republicans. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45916 Posts
On August 09 2025 00:11 WombaT wrote: They don’t have to be to be fair, they are however expected to be good at politics. It’s unpalatable but it doesn’t really matter what academics or science says if a giant chunk of the population currently just think trans people are weird. Which I dunno if they are, at least currently time will tell. Their prescription is basically the same as Blackjack’s, Dems are too woke, if we cut out the ‘woke nonsense’ we’ll win’, and they’re clearly banking on that as a component of their platform moving forwards. The problem with that is you have to exactly find the Goldilocks zone. Which is fucking hard. You need to grab more of the ‘I’m OK with x, but some wokeness is too far’ group, while not being seen to throw groups under the bus and lose support elsewhere that wipes out those gains. You’ll also struggle to flip any actual bigots without going extreme enough to lose the aforementioned groups. You also, IMO need some other big wins to run in parallel. I’m actually seeing such a process play out over here in real-time and it ain’t especially pretty reading for Labour, our Dem equivalent (especially now they pivoted centre). They don’t have the big popular policy wins to offset doing things that are unpopular with a lot of the left thru centre left in terms of being ‘anti-woke’. But they’ll also never be anti-woke enough for the right of the country. Because they’ve got a similar problem to the US Dems, in that any random Twitter user is evidence of ‘this is woke Labour Britain’ even if the party itself is pushing in the opposite direction. I don't even know if there is a Goldilocks zone anymore, because the goalposts move so frequently and because the most extreme "woke" takes are generally fabricated by Republicans anyway. For example, BlackJack just made up a ridiculous list of things and projected them onto Democrats, and apparently also found some Reddit users who are mad at Sydney Sweeney. Neat. On the other hand, there are actual conservative talking heads with millions of followers, like Ben Shapiro, flipping out about how woke Superman is. Extremely-devoutly-Jewish Ben Shapiro is flipping out about the Nazi-fighting superhero. I don't know if there is room for a Goldilocks zone or a sweet-spot or a "middle" in between being for or against Nazis, or being for or against fighting for people's rights. Even if you found some non-committal non-opinion on something that's worth taking a stance for, the opposition will just make up a stance for you. And when all else fails, they'll just paint/photoshop "MS13" on your knuckles or claim that immigrants are eating your dogs, so it's not like trying to take a measured stance on "being woke" is even possible*. *I also still maintain the fact that being woke means being aware, educated, and compassionate, and Republicans who mock people for being woke are actually conceding their own shortcomings. I think charismatic and believable platforming that appeals to both the left-wing progressives and the moderate Democrats needs to happen, and not all issues will necessarily be as important in courting those votes or finding useful overlap. For example, I think economic issues and taxes are relatively universal to discuss, and some strong platforms that help the working and middle classes could resonate with a large number of voters. On the other hand, I don't think that Kamala Harris would have magically won the popular vote if she had talked about trans issues even 1% as much as Trump did. (Hating trans people may have mobilized some MAGA voters, so demonizing trans people might have been a good move for Trump, but I don't know how galvanizing or tie-breaking of an issue being pro-trans is for non-voters who lean Democrat, so I think it was a fine decision for Harris to stay pretty quiet on that issue too.) | ||
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oBlade
United States6123 Posts
On August 09 2025 00:35 LightSpectra wrote: Kamala Harris barely ever talked about trans people during the 2024 election but Republicans just lied and said "she's for they/them, we're for YOU" and won anyway. There's no point in Democrats throwing minorities under the bus to strategically appease some bigots, those morons are going to vote Republican anyway. That clever tagline with a low hanging pun (which totally swung the election) - that was a lie how? Is Kamala actually anti-trans? | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45916 Posts
On August 09 2025 01:50 oBlade wrote: That clever tagline with a low hanging pun (which totally swung the election) - that was a lie how? Is Kamala actually anti-trans? Because Republican leaders are probably not interested in helping most people included in the general "you" label (most Americans). | ||
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Mohdoo
United States15743 Posts
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LightSpectra
United States2576 Posts
On August 09 2025 03:06 Mohdoo wrote: Does this "banking freedom" thing accidentally help hentai games fight against visa? lol Nope. Also, Russ Vought is orchestrating this to be done on a massive scale by repealing Section 230. | ||
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BlackJack
United States10574 Posts
On August 08 2025 22:40 LightSpectra wrote: What did trans people ever do to you dude lmao? I will never understand* why conservatives are so wildly obsessed with gender. Is it because it gives you an excuse to assault people trying to go to the bathroom, or are you just giddy about mandatory genitalia inspections of children that Republicans tried to implement in Kansas? + Show Spoiler + *I lied, I do understand, it's because trans people were one of the first minorities the actual German Nazis attacked and conservatives can't help themselves but steal from their playbook. Right... conservatives are wildly obsessed with gender... Not the non-binary gender-fluid transmasculine person with they/them pronouns that sometimes uses the neopronouns of ze/zir or fae/faer depending on when they feel more masculine vs when zir feel more femme. It's definitely the conservatives obsessed with gender. On August 08 2025 22:40 LightSpectra wrote: are you just giddy about mandatory genitalia inspections of children that Republicans tried to implement in Kansas? CLAIM: A new law in Kansas authorizes genital inspections of children in order to play sports. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The law, which bars transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports from kindergarten through college, doesn’t mention anything about genital inspections. I think you're getting too much of your news from social media. | ||
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KwarK
United States43987 Posts
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LightSpectra
United States2576 Posts
On August 09 2025 04:13 BlackJack wrote: Right... conservatives are wildly obsessed with gender... Not the non-binary gender-fluid transmasculine person with they/them pronouns that sometimes uses the neopronouns of ze/zir or fae/faer depending on when they feel more masculine vs when zir feel more femme. It's definitely the conservatives obsessed with gender. Yeah, so how many of those people have you ever actually met? I mean, it's really not any weirder than conservatives putting truck nuts on their cars, but at least the folks with the exotic pronouns aren't the ones assaulting people trying to use their preferred bathroom. I think you're getting too much of your news from social media. The irony of you saying this having just finished your mouth frothing about the supposed left-wing meltdown about Sydney Sweeny that you learned about from reddit. Perhaps you could quote the very next line in this AP article you decided to omit: "It remains unclear how the law will be enforced in different age groups." So, how will it be enforced? Maybe Republicans have an answer for that one? "During a February session on the bill in February, Republican Representative Barbara Wasinger, who introduced the legislation, was asked how the law would be enforced. According to Buzzfeed, she said it would happen during a student's "sports physical." When queried by opposition lawmakers on whether this amounted to a genital inspection, she reportedly said she couldn't recall." https://www.newsweek.com/kansas-republicans-pass-bill-genital-examinations-schoolchildren-students-transgender-1792954 And here's a more in-depth look at it: https://kansasreflector.com/2023/04/09/kansas-anti-trans-sports-law-opens-door-for-genital-inspections-of-kids-thats-the-simple-truth/ | ||
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Luolis
Finland7170 Posts
On August 09 2025 04:13 BlackJack wrote: Right... conservatives are wildly obsessed with gender... Not the non-binary gender-fluid transmasculine person with they/them pronouns that sometimes uses the neopronouns of ze/zir or fae/faer depending on when they feel more masculine vs when zir feel more femme. It's definitely the conservatives obsessed with gender. I think you're getting too much of your news from social media. So you deny that republicans are hardlining on trans people hard as fuck? Are you being obtuse on purpose? Sure we can talk about some random tumblr enby being cringe, but how about actually talking about legislation that harms trans people? | ||
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BlackJack
United States10574 Posts
On August 09 2025 04:34 LightSpectra wrote: Yeah, so how many of those people have you ever actually met? I've met dozens. Not sure why that's particularly relevant. | ||
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LightSpectra
United States2576 Posts
Things that are a higher percentage of the population: Holocaust denialism (15% in the Americas), functional illiteracy of adults (21%), children without health insurance (5% as of 2021, is projected to skyrocket after the BBB Medicaid cuts are enacted), hungry children (17.9%), police officers who have admitted to domestic abuse ("actually 28%"). But sure, it's the first thing here that's a national crisis. On August 09 2025 04:51 BlackJack wrote: I've met dozens. Not sure why that's particularly relevant. That's actually amazing, I participate in local queer rights organizations and protests and I don't know that many. Statistically speaking if you know 100 random people then between zero to one of them is likely to be transgender (see above). Are you stalking nonbinary people or something? | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45916 Posts
On August 09 2025 04:13 BlackJack wrote: Right... conservatives are wildly obsessed with gender... Not the non-binary gender-fluid transmasculine person with they/them pronouns that sometimes uses the neopronouns of ze/zir or fae/faer depending on when they feel more masculine vs when zir feel more femme. It's definitely the conservatives obsessed with gender. How on earth could you be sarcastic about this? Are you saying that the 10 or so random Americans who fit that profile ("non-binary gender-fluid transmasculine person with they/them pronouns that sometimes uses the neopronouns of ze/zir or fae/faer depending on when they feel more masculine vs when zir feel more femme") or even - to give you the most leeway possible - the ~1% of Americans who identify as trans, *outnumber* the extraordinarily disproportionate amount of Republicans who obsess over transgenderism, including Republican politicians and literally the leader of the Republican party? Trump talked about transgenderism during the election way more than Harris did, and he still does, and Republicans as a whole talk about that demographic (and their related issues) way more than Democrats do. It's not even remotely close. Yes, the right is obsessed with gender, especially compared to the center or the left. Just because trans people are more likely to be on the left doesn't mean that the left talks about that demographic (and their related issues) more. | ||
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Sadist
United States7328 Posts
Dont be specific or get into the weeds on scientific names, policy, whatever etc, everyone knows what you mean when you tell them not to be a dick. And guess what? Its broad enough people cant box you into nonsense, just tell them to stop being a dick. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45916 Posts
On August 09 2025 05:06 Sadist wrote: Id say the dont be a dick policy is the way the democrats should handle the whole trans policy. Continuously calling people outside of their name or preferred gender, stop being a dick. Hating immigrants and minorities, stop being a dick. Forcing your religion on someone. Dont be a dick. Etc. Dont be specific or get into the weeds on scientific names, policy, whatever etc, everyone knows what you mean when you tell them not to be a dick. And guess what? Its broad enough people cant box you into nonsense, just tell them to stop being a dick. In before Republican headlines read: "Democrats insist on nobody being a Dick... or a Richard... in fact, Democrats think all men's names should be replaced with women's names!" | ||
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