• jerkface@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I don’t accept that defending trans SAFETY is a losing election issue.

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      2 months ago

      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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      2 months ago

      It is when that’s considered woke and you’ve got a ton of your own electors that have been brainwashed into thinking woke bad

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          2 months ago

          If your goal is to not let the Republicans win? Just look at what the Democrats at the various levels of government are actually doing even though they never make it a point to talk about it while they’re campaigning and understand that there’s a fucking good reason why they don’t.

          Hell, you need to be pretty self centered to believe that trans people are the only repressed people that don’t get talked about but still benefit from having the Democrats in power vs the Republicans. They can’t cover every single group.

          • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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            2 months ago

            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.