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8 Democrats Help Pass GOP Bill Forcing Teachers To Out Transgender Students (www.huffpost.com)

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[+] sunrisepirate@piefed.social -5 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 hours ago

I was afraid you’d killed yourself since you’re so upset about genocide [as long as being upset about the genocide is politically helpful to Donald Trump]. Glad you managed to soldier on!

BlueMaga scum are every bit as loathsome and deplorable as the regular kind, holy shit

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Oh shit, it’s ensign crab. I was afraid you’d killed yourself since you’re so upset about genocide [as long as being upset about the genocide is politically helpful to Donald Trump]. Glad you managed to soldier on!

Got under your skin by saying that your only policy is bad, huh?

And unfortunately yes, that does mean in some districts you can’t expect to support trans rights and win.

You will abandon any constituency not named netanyahu.

Its unfortunate you don’t have any solutions other than shitty devise commentary and voter suppression in leftist spaces.

It's unfortunate that you demand solidarity while simping for bigots like these 8.

[–] Cherries@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The solution is easy. Offer progressive policies. The most transphobic piece of shit still wants healthcare. If offered universal healthcare, their opinion will be along the lines of, "yeah, I don't like them trans people, but if I can afford to see my doctor then I don't give a fuck".

We see progressive policies win over folks all the time. That's why people like Bernie Sanders can go on Fox, sit in front of a live audience of Fox supporters, and get that entire audience to support him and his platform by offering healthcare or affordable housing or any other progressive policy.

Establishment Dems know this but refuse to support progressive policies because then they'd actually have to do something beyond using the Republicans to scaremonger. If establishment Dems would just listen to their constiuents, we wouldn't be in this mess. A majority of the blame lies at the feet of the Democratic Party.

[+] sunrisepirate@piefed.social -4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Besr case scenario the most transphobic piece shit is going to say “I don’t care if I can afford health care, I don’t want my kids getting molested by trans people”. More likely they’re going to say “Fuck off with your socialism, I don’t want your well fare and stop trying to sell my kids to trans pedohiles”.

You can just say what you mean about trans people without ascribing it to one of the bigots you admire.

[–] Cherries@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

If the world truly worked this way, then the Trump administration's disparagment of the new Iranian Ayatollah being gay would work. Nobody gives a fuck if the new Ayatollah is gay because gas prices are ballooning out of control. The Right Wingers are trying everything to pin high gas prices on Iran, but people aren't eating the shit they are serving. Sure there are a few crazies out there saying, "High gas prices are worth it to defeat the gay communist muslim terrorists", but those people are a minority who do not need to be catered to.

You should not cater to the worst dregs of our society because they are an inconsequential miniscule outlier. Sure, the transphobe might claim that they hate trans kids getting healthcare, but they'll still go to the hospital and get treatment when they fall ill, just like those vaccine conspiracy nuts who died of covid in the hospitals. Trying to appease them is stupid, especially when it costs you the majority as it did with Kamala Harris.