A trans person shares their thoughts on Democrats and the corporations that are leaving them to fend for themselves.
A trans person shares their thoughts on Democrats and the corporations that are leaving them to fend for themselves.
If only we could have prevented this somehow.
51The imoetant part is that we've found a way to entirely blame the democrats while ignoring the realities of the policial process.
I expect much more of this as we move to government controlled by republicans.
Every grievance will be the democrats fault. Every triumphant will be of the republican's crafting.
21Not voting in protest???
2Voting may "materially affect" the "political landscape", but not voting in protest allows you to feel smugly superior to voters at the low low price of making life worse for yourself and the people you express alliance to.
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The moral here is that individual ppl need to stand up for LGBTQ ppl as much as possible, b/c political realities of Dems being a minority party right now means that they don't have the ability to stand up for trans rights while also making sure that critical things like funding the gov't happens
6And? Trans is even more cooked under Rs what exactly can an ally do politically until next primaries anyway?
14Yeah, there isn't really much you can do to "prepare." Ds would pass campaign finance reform and singlepayer if we gave them the 60 senate votes, so that seems like the only option for anybody even remotely concerned about these issues.
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The republican party hates things that will never affect their lives and hates people that they will never meet. They get votes by fear mongering and hate.
The democratic party doesn't care about the things that will never affect their lives and only care about people they will never meet because it's convenient. They get votes by trying to disingenuously pander to everyone.
Whether you are left or right, we are all being manipulated. We're taught to hate each other for our differences instead of finding common ground. Whether it's propaganda from the news or Russian bots, they are all trying to make us hate each other.
This is why the two party system is completely fucked. It's what makes all this even possible. It makes people have to choose a side in a "us vs them" scenario. When in reality the only people that are truly represented are the extremes of either side. Because of this people have to choose what's most important to them and take sides instead of trying to find a compromise in the middle. I don't believe every Republican is a fascist and I don't believe every Democrat is a communist. The majority of people I've met lean either way depending on the issue because it's not a black and white and never has been. If you made a list of every problem in the entire world and told me you were splitting them into two categories, I'd say you need more fucking categories.
All I know is my dad is a hardcore republican and he was perfectly fine with LGBTQ+ people before Trump came around. He even voted to legalize gay marriage back when it first started showing up in states when I was a kid. Now he goes around with a t-shirt of the American flag that says "this is my pride flag."
17The laws should have already been written in a way everyone is protected equally. Not leaving trans people to worry about where to piss. This is intentional. Democrats and Republicans ARE the problem.
2but the trolley problem...
1Genocide Joe moment.
-21If only we could all be as morally pure as you
14Maybe we can show Joe what we think by supporting the most damaging politicians with even more heinous ethics.
That'll show him.
0I supported Biden and Kamala and if I was american I would've voted for them but since the election season is over, we can be more critical of their characters.
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This is why people need to !resist@fedia.io
0It never ceases to amaze me how much of a piece of shit Biden is.
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