extremely revealing of the centrist brain that anyone could frame this as a “compromise.” with whom? it’s an executive agency. democrats control the executive branch. you’re ceding power to people who have no leverage.
They have the Senate and the Presidency. How is this not just flat BLOCKED from ever getting to Biden in the first place?
Then these Democrats have the nerve to brow beat progressives who won’t :vote: for them.
This type of waffling from “The Top” weakens any Democrat down the line trying to protect trans rights. It throws red meat to the fascists and signals it’s open season on the queers right when 2024 campaign season starts getting in gear.
Then you got the DSA simpletons that try to hand wave away and play “harm reduction” with the libs by being a de-facto arm of the DNC to prevent progressive escape to other more welcoming parties.
After years of hateful barrages from republicans that seem to have surprisingly little traction, republicans seem to be doing surprisingly badly running for office on this. So republicans haven’t been able to win political power to do something like this. So Biden’s just going to give them something anyway? This is fucking stupid. Can you imagine a republican just giving the left something we want? Fuck, can you imagine democrats giving the left something we want?
It’s who he’s always been. He’s the dipshit behind many of the most pressing domestic crises facing the US right now.
I mean he surrendered fucking Roe v Wade, trans rights are so far off his radar lol
You don’t understand. By throwing more than half the country under the bus they toxified the republican brand electorally, which will allow them to win more marginal seats in order to get important legislation passed like compromising with fascists on only the partial eradication of minorities from public life.
Yeah it’s still very :doomer: that they didn’t even try to fight for Roe. Like… holy shit.
fucking WHY?! do you think you’re gonna earn any kind of respect from the fucking NAZIS? who are you even trying to please, you fucking morons! GODDAMIT, being the lesser of two evils isn’t supposed to be your explicit goal, you pieces of garbage! just do something good, just once, as a goof. jesus christ
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“If we give Hitler power in government we can control him” is literally how we got Hitler. Libs never learn a goddamn thing.
Social Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of etc etc. And you can’t even have that.
Democrats are more like Catholic Centre Party.
Man, can you see all this harm reduction?!
THE VOTING, IT’S DOING NOTHING!
That means you didn’t vote hard enough 😤😤😤
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What’s weird to me is how overall unpopular alot of the anti trans and general anti LGBT shit is for regular people. This seems like a very bad move politically on top of morally. I don’t really get it. I mean I guess trying to rationalize libs is a losing battle tho
Is it unpopular? I’m witnessing a huge increase in ambient transphobia. I think most of it is unexamined and doesn’t have real commitment behind it, but that’s not any different than most peoples’ political inclinations.
I’ve seen some polls suggesting it is pretty unpopular. Lots of blue seats were won againdt major transphobes these last two years in some surprising places. I also think anecdotally having to hear anyone irl harp on about trans hate or LGBT hate is extremely off-putting for everyone. Most of my family is right wing and there is only 1 person in my whole extended family that will randomly bring up trans issues and everyone tells them to shut up lol. It’s just not a real concern for a lot of people.
The thing is too is this type of hate is way more prevalent online, we’ve been bombarded with it. But when the right has actual sieg heiling nazis showing up to rallies/protests against drag its an extremely bad look for even the less moderate right wingers.
I think it depends too on where you live. Some places are definitely just always going to hafe anyone not cis
In my experience, Boomer libs (the only base democrats actually pander to) are pretty transphobic.
Criminalizing gender affirming care seems to be crossing the line for them, but they’re pretty TERF-y about inclusivity.
