[-] darq@kbin.social 68 points 11 months ago

Wild how he doesn’t even mention the possibility of voting for a third party.

Why would he? The US voting system makes third party candidates an impossibility. It's not a viable option.

[-] darq@kbin.social 189 points 11 months ago

Japan has been in the year 2000 for the past 50 years.

[-] darq@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago

And how do you differentiate between this and say, a shop, or a doctor? Do LGBT people not "have the right to the labour" of those services?

I disagree with that framing entirely. But I'm curious to know how you would differentiate.

[-] darq@kbin.social 78 points 1 year ago

Because conservatives do not actually care about reducing the number of abortions that happen. If they cared about that, they would be all-in on affordable access to contraceptives and comprehensive sex education. Which they also, as a movement, oppose.

Conservatives do not care about reducing the number of abortions. They care about punishing the women who get them.

[-] darq@kbin.social 98 points 1 year ago

I'm a leftist precisely because I started paying more attention and listening to both sides.

I was a centrist before I started doing that.

[-] darq@kbin.social 93 points 1 year ago

These are critical chemistries that enable modern day life

Then maybe we need to examine "modern day life" with a more critical eye. Some sacrifices may need to be made, because they are worth being made.

There are also measures that lie between "ban" and "use freely". If we cannot eliminate the use of these chemicals in chipmaking, then we need to reconsider the disposability of these chips, or we can even consider if less effective processes result in less damaging chemical use, and accept a bit of regression as a trade-off.

[-] darq@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No. It isn't on the table. This is another in the long line of scenarios that only exist in TERF imaginations.

[-] darq@kbin.social 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh it did make everything crystal clear. If one isn't gullible.

[-] darq@kbin.social 176 points 1 year ago

Because it's not actually about the pronouns. These people aren't actually angry about pronouns.

They're angry about trans and non-binary people. They're angry that people are growing to accept these people, who they do not think should be accepted. They are angry that a group they don't think is normal, is being accepted as normal.

[-] darq@kbin.social 88 points 1 year ago

The line dividing working class from owning class is not their monthly salary. It's their relationship to capital. Do they work for their living, or do they own for their living?

[-] darq@kbin.social 71 points 1 year ago

This is good advice. But I also wouldn't downplay the actual hatred of LGBTQ+ people either. For many conservatives, the identity politics are a distraction to mask their real goal of putting more money into wealthy pockets. But for a very large contingent of conservatives, it really is all about eradicating LGBTQ+ people.

[-] darq@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago

But let's be bluntly honest, people's behaviour has nothing to do with the efficacy of masks. They won't wear a mask, regardless of efficacy, because they simply do not want to. And they do not care if they spread disease.

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