I’m not sure I buy the apathy contagion theory, I have a hard time believing anyone is actually swayed by me.
frankly the comment about not caring about getting sent to the camps was mostly being edgy to the guy doing the vote scolding like it even makes a difference now. maybe the Democrats would have been less bad overall, but after their past actions I have no reason to expect that Palestinians would be any better off under them.
my vote is a no-confidence vote in this shitty system and I have zero confidence that if supporting trans people becomes no longer politically expedient that Democrats wouldn’t cut us loose too.
People can be swayed by you without you ever knowing it, or even without them really even realizing it.
We can’t ever know if dems would’ve been much better because we lost that chance, but the GOP literally campaigns on being pro-genocide, so we knew where they stood on the issue beforehand. And we got even more confirmation of that now.
Similarly, we knew that the GOP would do everything they could to villify and condemn trans people. At least the dems didn’t fully campaign on it. Since you’re in a blue state, I wonder if you have protections that trans people in red states do not? I sure do, in my blue state. The dems here didn’t just talk about improving trans rights and protecting us, they actually did it, and have continued to do so. They did the same thing for abortion rights. Of course, not without massive complaints from the local GOP.
We can’t ever know if dems would’ve been much better because we lost that chance,
The democrats ran on a year+ of genocide, I have no confidence that they would suddenly have a change of heart afterwards.
The democrats in my state do in fact pass some protections, but do basically nothing about the fundamental economic and housing inequalities that make it almost impossible for red state trans people to safely relocate there. If you’re someone who can hustle enough to afford to live here it’s relatively safe, but despite all that we still have plenty of right wing democrats triangulating over things like womens sports.
Also Democrats have had their share of military interventions, and countries they destroyed. Their whole issue with Iraq at the time wasn’t that the invasion was wrong, but that they would run it better. The genocidal warmongering is established bipartisan consensus.
Well, yeah, obviously I would prefer that, too. But we don’t live in that country.
And maybe, but one of the two is definitely more “blow up the entire middle east, fuck all of them, turn it to glass” than the other, which is my point.
They are, and if I was in a position where my vote could actually influence things I would probably vote for democrats over that, but that’s not the country I live in either.
I’m not sure I buy the apathy contagion theory, I have a hard time believing anyone is actually swayed by me.
frankly the comment about not caring about getting sent to the camps was mostly being edgy to the guy doing the vote scolding like it even makes a difference now. maybe the Democrats would have been less bad overall, but after their past actions I have no reason to expect that Palestinians would be any better off under them.
my vote is a no-confidence vote in this shitty system and I have zero confidence that if supporting trans people becomes no longer politically expedient that Democrats wouldn’t cut us loose too.
People can be swayed by you without you ever knowing it, or even without them really even realizing it.
We can’t ever know if dems would’ve been much better because we lost that chance, but the GOP literally campaigns on being pro-genocide, so we knew where they stood on the issue beforehand. And we got even more confirmation of that now.
Similarly, we knew that the GOP would do everything they could to villify and condemn trans people. At least the dems didn’t fully campaign on it. Since you’re in a blue state, I wonder if you have protections that trans people in red states do not? I sure do, in my blue state. The dems here didn’t just talk about improving trans rights and protecting us, they actually did it, and have continued to do so. They did the same thing for abortion rights. Of course, not without massive complaints from the local GOP.
The democrats ran on a year+ of genocide, I have no confidence that they would suddenly have a change of heart afterwards.
The democrats in my state do in fact pass some protections, but do basically nothing about the fundamental economic and housing inequalities that make it almost impossible for red state trans people to safely relocate there. If you’re someone who can hustle enough to afford to live here it’s relatively safe, but despite all that we still have plenty of right wing democrats triangulating over things like womens sports.
And republicans have run on decades+ of warmongering and genocide. Invading other countries directly.
I know which one I prefer.
I would prefer they both lose, tbh.
Also Democrats have had their share of military interventions, and countries they destroyed. Their whole issue with Iraq at the time wasn’t that the invasion was wrong, but that they would run it better. The genocidal warmongering is established bipartisan consensus.
Well, yeah, obviously I would prefer that, too. But we don’t live in that country.
And maybe, but one of the two is definitely more “blow up the entire middle east, fuck all of them, turn it to glass” than the other, which is my point.
They are, and if I was in a position where my vote could actually influence things I would probably vote for democrats over that, but that’s not the country I live in either.