like, in the grand scheme of things do i think electeds should avoid jargon? yes. but like, has anyone actually found an example of *electeds* using this language
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there was a thread going around that actually tracked political comms and most cases were republicans feeding the outrage machine lol
aug 24, 2025, 6:02 pm • 4 1 • view
.3 seconds google search produced this and many other examples of “birthing persons” used by elected bodies and then weaponized by the Right wing to paint Dems as out of touch weirdos that you can’t vote for x www.health.ny.gov/community/pr....
aug 24, 2025, 6:10 pm • 1 0 • view
This isn't an elected body? It's an administrative office?
aug 24, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s an administrative body appointed by Democrats. Here’s an example of elected Democrats doing the same. An equally short google search could show you have the Right effectively weaponized it. council.nyc.gov/press/2022/0...
aug 24, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Tom has devolved to complaining about it appearing occasionally in legislation now.Caring about how something gets phrased in a bill that no deciding voter in an election will ever read is just looking for something to be mad about
aug 24, 2025, 5:56 pm • 5 0 • view
You’ve all gone to “it isn’t happening” to “ok, it gets used in law, but Democrats aren’t saying it and voters aren’t hearing it” in record time.
aug 24, 2025, 6:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I do think that the distinction between rhetoric and the wording in laws is an important line to draw. Voters care about what a law does and how it is sold. I do not think how something is phrased in a law or policy proposal matter unless it changes what the law actually does
aug 24, 2025, 6:17 pm • 2 0 • view
They care. Democrats would be wise to stop handing effective weapons to the propagandists who use that phrasing to effectively portray Dems as weirdos that shouldn’t be near power.
aug 24, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Supposedly he has a clip of AOC saying "birthing person" once, but I think that says more about literally everybody else in the world than her.
aug 24, 2025, 6:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Warren is the easy one here? Got dragged for it at the time
aug 24, 2025, 5:55 pm • 5 0 • view
Big Structural Bailey. Third Way determined the lumpens HATE big structural Bailey
aug 24, 2025, 6:06 pm • 8 0 • view
Yes! And they found exactly what you’d expect. It’s republicans dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/was-it-som...
aug 24, 2025, 6:53 pm • 5 1 • view
who gives a fuck? like actually who gives a fuck aside from outrage merchants and their marks? anyone else politically engaged enough to hear politicians say these things occasionally is not going to care
aug 24, 2025, 5:58 pm • 2 0 • view