Why is the focus always on blaming other people for problems instead of fixing the problems?
Trans people this. Gay people that. Brown people. Immigrants. It’s somebody else’s fault. We’re doing it right, but those other people are ruining everything.
If it smells everywhere you go, it’s time to look under your own shoe. No plans. No policy. The party of hurting Americans.
Because they have no solutions.
They prolong the problem and obstruct solutions because they benefit from hurting people and don’t want that to end.
So they became the problem.
Because if they actually tried to fix shit, they'd have to recognize there are systemic issues that they benefit from. And then they wouldn't be the GQP.
Conservatives are fundamentally incapable of governing, because they have no ability nor interest in improving society. So they just make up problems to get elected, then steal anything not nailed down once in office. Well, that's the normal conservative aim, Trump also wants to make all of his legal problems go away.
Because their only real interest is funneling wealth upwards. Very few Republicans in power genuinely give a damn about any cultural war topics. No Fox News gasbag is choosing to live in Alabama lol. But the only way they can build a viable electoral base that supports stealing from the working class is by inventing and/or exacerbating working class divisions.
"Oh no, you're not unemployed because your boss outsourced your job, it's because, uh, that gay brown migrant took it!"
It's basically the aristocracy maintaining their old life style in a new disguise.
Fascism 101. Give the people a scapegoat to blame all their problems on.
Because if they pointed at the problem they wouldn't get elected. Any republican that points out any problem that isn't "minorities bad" swiftly retires or is primaried on the right.
I just want to go get a cup of coffee with another dude without feeling like I'm gonna get shot or worse.
It's so nice having my rights be shat on on such a high profile stage. They really can't handle that trans people exist and have always existed, and they might even find some of us attractive.
I also really appreciate the article talking about the bullshit myth that trans athletes have some kind of advantage in sports. I don't usually see that.
Advocate doesn’t pull punches. They’re here to shit on conservatives and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community
I also really appreciate the article talking about the bullshit myth that trans athletes have some kind of advantage in sports. I don’t usually see that.
Sadly that really is note worthy.
I think MTG is deeply jealous and threatened by the beauty of trans women and is drowning in a pool of her own internalized misogyny.
They're such losers... don't they have something positive they could do for their constituents? I've never heard of these people actually doing something to help their voters. It's just attacks.
But I'm also a spiteful, mindless piece of shit who has to be told what should make me mad, especially when it does not impact my day to day life. I enjoy joining the conversation when I hear people complain about our rights being stripped away because although my party has never once been "for" anything, only against progress, I need to pridefully let people know that I have absolutely zero critical thinking skills.
When your whole base is full of reactionaries, making attacks is actually fulfilling your voters’ desires.
Exactly, the modern R base wants cruelty from their representatives more than anything.
A quick note on this thread:
The transphobic comments are getting out of hand. Lots of reports and lots of removals.
Now here's the thing...
The #1 thing I hated about fucking reddit were the mods who would go "we're locking this thread because it's too much trouble to moderate it."
My opinion then, and now, is "Oh, your volunteer gig is too hard? Go do something else then!"
So, no, I'm not locking the thread. At the same time, I'd advise against mocking the trans community.
I get it, back in the day, I thought all the "Dann Coulter" jokes were funny too. And assholes like Coulter and MTG deserve to have their own hate reflected back on them.
But when you do that with trans issues, you're making those issues a weapon and saying they're a weapon because of the negative connotations and that's just not cool.
"...because Donald Trump is the leader America deserves.”
unironically, this hateful village idiot may be right.
gonna sign off for a while. I just cant stomach looking at the festering, gangrenous wound these people have opened up when I know it will destroy the lives of so many I care about.
No, he is not, because most of us hate him, but are at the mercy of a super broken electoral system. Only the assholes who support him deserve him.
So, those of you not voting for Biden because "reasons," thanks for condemning to death the LGBTQ+ community. And don't tell me that is hyperbole.
"But genocide palestine"
Im so tired of these people
It’s so frustrating that people can’t see this event would have been the same or worse under Trump.
Biden is in a no win situation on this one and he just happens to be the president on Oct 7
She's so pathetic. Her little giggles between sentences were just.. wow. She just loves getting praised
She looked like she'd been Joker gassed every time she smiled.
It was like watching a more evil version of Dolores Umbridge in the flesh... Which is fitting, because the woman who thought Dolores up is also a hateful, anti-trans biggot.
Vote every single transphobe out
Republican states are the worst states to live in, and instead of trying to improve their life and get nice things, they resort to attacking people for their problems. They want to remove and tear down agencies, the balances of power, and other programs and regulations because they are not happy with their own state governance. Instead of reflecting on their own cooked ideas, they are violent, hateful, and destructive, and don't realize without the nice things that took a long time to implement, they would have a dystopian hellscape. They would rather blame anyone other than themselves. And no strong leader figure promising a paradise is going to give you the solution, he's just Hitler, and history remembers how that turned out.
Why do they care so much? Like really, who gives a shit. A human is a human. These people are just assholes.
They don't. They full know well they're just saying what rubes want to hear. If a hell existed they're going to it for demonizing innocent people for profit.
The religious people think it’s their duty to prevent trans people from “sinning” and are likewise terrified their kids will become “trans sinners”.
I’m not kidding. It’s all religious based hate.
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Party of blind hatred spews blind hatred, more at 11.
Here’s is my agenda as a trans person: I want to have a job and live in a house. In my state, there are no legal protections for either of those two things. I have been fired from a job when it was discovered I was trans; I was unable to access any form of dv shelter when my ex took advantage of that to financially control me.
I don’t want to trans your kid. I don’t want to gawk at dudes in the loo. Just let me take my T and have a drivers license that won’t get me lynched if I’m driving through fucking Bokoshe.
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