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The Democrats must become an anti-establishment party | Robert Reich
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No, I'm one of the trans people you use in your pursuit of moral victories over the Democrats.
Or you are the wealthy but new hotness in oppressed to the DNC to hook into to prove they care about something while it only amounts to culture identiry. But it allows them to take in heavy donations to further enrich themselves by pretending to fix things.
It's clear that the trans community is still far to small a percentage of the populace to focus on as the main backing and asking other people to care about you and members of your community above their own well-being will not work because people are as selfish as everyone else.
I'm sorry but I really don't care what happens within 2% of the population as long as they aren't being killed compared to workers who make up the most of us.
So you won't see me as a leftist using Trans as any kind of grandstanding cause I really don't care or think you matter other than a funding source for pretend caring wealthy.
? edit: I mean, I gave 70 dollars to Harris' campaign this year. I spent more on the Eldrazi Incursion commander deck at my LGS which was like 90 dollars. But I gave about $300 to Warren and $300 to Bernie in 2020 and none to Biden.
People are self-interested in that they care about themselves and the people in their immediate social spheres. However it is in the interests of people to vote for Democrats and against fascists.
Well it's good of you to be honest, but fascists do want to kill us. Trans people and lots of other people are going to die as a result of fascist policies.
At least you're honest about using trans people in pursuit of your moral victory over the Democrats.
You admit you have spare money to spend and use as donations to politics. Which is my point as most members of the Trans community does when they consider gender identity to be their biggest issue to deal with.
It's not true for all trans people but the ones I hear from tend to have cash and I have known plenty of the LGBTQ community to be the most conservative because of their wealth. So are they willing to use themselves in their pursuit of moral victory?
It's an identity. I literally said I don't care and then you went and repeated your line about how you are more important. As if people are using you or spending you like currency for the election. It wasn't about you.
Lots of people will die. Yeah start being part of the larger topic then and get your head out of your own fart box. Most of them won't be upper class American trans people. And it certainly wasn't about morals it's about other people struggling that you demand agree with you in votes because you get better treatment under one party.
Maybe get with the people who care about not dying and show you do as well. As if saying, ask the DNC party to care about more than the trans community and specific shades of minority to get behind large populace movements for support is some kind of deep moral victory at your expense. Boo. Bad take.
Yeah, I had a job and disposable income before the company I worked for went out of business because of Trump's covid policies.
Me spending that $70 dollars isn't the win for your argument you think it is. Harris got to a billion dollars because millions of people donated to her campaign. People solved a collective problem by working together collectively, not by being rich.
For me it was stopping fascism. $70 seemed like a small price to pay to stop fascism for four more years. I care about trans people but the Harris campaign barely talked about trans issues so that wasn't really a motivating factor. If they had talked about trans issues favorably I might have donated more. I gave $10 when Harris announced her run, I gave $20 when she picked Walz, I gave $20 when Harris debated Trump, and gave $20 when Walz debated Vance.
I made $100k working at my job for a little over two years plus over $30k in my 401k after gas, tax, and rent. I'm not rich by any metric. Do you prefer if I can't afford to communicate over the internet so you won't be inconvenienced by my voice? You argument conveniently ignores I donated to Warren and Bernie. Are they not morally pure enough for you?
I don't want a moral victory. You clearly do. Don't quit on the honesty while you were ahead.
People are more important than your moral victory.
Please do that for everyone's sake. Thanks.
Refusing to vote for the Democrats until they are perfect on every issue is the pursuit of moral victory. It makes minorities the cost of doing business and isn't a useful strategy for helping anyone. We didn't get the right to marry who we want because people refused to vote for Democrats. Minorities strategically voted for Democrats for decades to get them and the US Overton window to shift to the left on that issue.
more like you are just selfish and rich.
Me not going quietly to the death camps is me being selfish and rich according to you, got it. Real ally. =P
death camp ? you should have said you were in gaza or westbank, my bad. yeah being rich there aint gonna help. if you were here in us, you would atleast be able to work 16 hours to be one paycheque away from homelessness.
thoughts and prayers. best we can do as we don’t care about poor brown people irrespective of gender, age or still in womb.
I live in the US where fascists have put targets on the backs of trans people.
The same fascists have also pledged to let Israel finish their genocide. Weird you don't care about that.
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