Is it right, no. If it’s choosing between the lessor of 2 evils please choose the lessor. Sane men can be swayed. Insane ones want all LGTBQ dead.
Is it right, no. If it’s choosing between the lessor of 2 evils please choose the lessor. Sane men can be swayed. Insane ones want all LGTBQ dead.
That "equal rights for all" in your bio is just complete bullshit ain't it?
No I absolutely believe that but you tell me then, how do we get there? The GOP no way, some Dems are okay. I don’t know anything about how to fix this, it was just my observation that one may be less evil than the other
How's about we push for someone OTHER THAN the transphobe to be the Dem frontrunner? Pritzker? Beshear? Walz?
That would be fantastic. We have to get thru mid terms somehow or there will be no more presidential elections.
You think letting Trump-in-a-blue-tie launder transphobia into Democratic party policy is going to help us get through the mid-terms? You're gonna have to explain that one.
Are you focused on Newsom running for prez? I am just glad he is standing up against the GOP gerrymandering. That is the battle at hand. And if we still have real elections after the midterms there are much better candidates. I guess I commented without having all the context. My apologies.
BTW, some more context, since cis folks rarely know... If post-op trans people lose our HRT... we die.
Am I a cis folk? I don’t know what that means but I don’t want you to suffer or die, no way no how. It was never my intention to disrespect you.
"Cis" is the opposite of trans. It's Latin. I'm saying you're not transgender and people who aren't trans rarely know how important our medicine is to us. You need to understand that Newsom isn't going to help stop Trump. He wants to become the Democrat version of him, bigotry and all.
And I appreciate you explaining that. I am learning every day and I know I don’t know a lot except things are really really bad right now. Thank you for having a conversation with me. I have no ill will towards you or the trans community. We all need to be educated on what we don’t understand
Apology accepted, thank you. The gerrymandering fight isn't the only thing he's doing. The rest is why we oppose him. It's like how I approve of Trump stopping the wasteful minting of pennies, but that pales in comparison to the rest. Yay for more CA blues in the House, yeah, but the man's vile.
Easy: Stop supporting fascism-lite, and back a dem that won't throw marginalized communities under the bus, like Pritzker.
Damn that comma is doing a lot of assumed work. You mean don't support someone like Newsom, do support someone like Pritzker, right?
Correct.
So, suppose you had two Hitlers...
Then I guess buy a lot of firearms and stay home. Do you really think it’s gotten that bad? I still see some hope
Newsom is "completely aligned" about trans rights with Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk says we don't exist and are mentally diseased. Gavin opposes HRT before 25, Trump, 19. Gav's actually worse If both oppose essential, life-saving care for my community, do you really think I should be quiet about it?
We are three years out. We can do better. Much better. Newsom: Repeatedly supports anti-trans positions Personally cleared homeless homes w/ a bulldozer Killed off rooftop solar in California Increased oil drilling Having his staff post AI "in the style of Trump" is not enough!
this is also what his team posting ai slop does to other communities: www.bbc.com/news/article...
sacrifice yourself you disingenuous coward
How?
fucking stand up for us or at least accept we’re not going to lay down our lives for the greater good
It is not the greater good if you have to lay down your life. My life is no more important than yours I am on your side and I mean you no disrespect or harm.
you called the abandonment of the human rights of everyone like me a lesser evil, don’t you dare say you’re on my side
Not true. I just thought Dems were more for equal rights than GOP. Apparently Newsom is an exception but how would I know that if u hadn’t pointed it out?
Trans rights are human rights. If you oppose one groups’ right to exist, you are a fascist. There is no such thing as “less fascist”.
So what is the solution? I do believe in equal rights for all, but how do we get there if everyone in power is against?
We're trying to STOP everyone in power from being against us by STOPPING Gavin Newsom before he gets presidential momentum
Pick a candidate who isn’t a transphobe who bulldozes homeless tents. It’s pretty simple. If you choose Newsom, you are declaring that you’re ok with a little bit of fascism. And there’s no such thing as just “a little bit of fascism”.
I understand. I learned a lot today. My thought when I commented was mostly what if we had to choose between someone like Greg Abbott or Newsom? But you are telling me both choices would be equally bad, that there is no lesser evil. I pray that we get better choices.
Pritzker and Mamdani are better options.
There are plenty of possible Dem presidential candidates that aren't transphobes, push for them instead instead of demanding everyone he ok with Newsom throwing trans people under the bus
I am absolutely not ok with that but if it were him vs trump for instance who would we pick? That was the thinking behind my comment. I don’t support any type of discrimination.
We don't let it GET to that point in the first place by stopping Gavin NOW That's why we're telling you to stop telling us NOT to tear him down Do you understand?
If you want a democrat to win, as I do, you need to ensure that Newsom isnt the candidate. All the demands for everyone to shut up and get in line behind a transphobe aren't gonna help you
Which human rights will you permanently sacrifice to ensure Newsom wins
Well? Having a hard time deciding?
To ensure he wins what? I wasn’t endorsing him for anything. I’m sorry you are so angry but that is not what I meant at all.
Answer the question. If you're comfortable sacrificing others' human rights to win an election, you better be lining up to permanently sacrifice your own human rights.
I don’t want anyone to sacrifice their rights. Where is this coming from? All our rights are equal as far as I’m concerned. Will we have anyone running that feels the same? How do we fix it?
IF it is. Hopefully it will not be. That’s all I was saying. Take it at face value. But what is the alternative? Look what happened when so many people didn’t vote in the last prez election?
IF it is, which civil rights will you gladly permanently sacrifice to ensure the "lesser evil" wins. How about your right to vote ever again? Your right to own property? To travel? To medical privacy and your own medical choices? What are you willing to let a "lesser evil" take from you?
So what is the solution? My rights are no different than yours. It was just a comment and apparently it was not well thought out but I can’t edit it. Tell me what you think we should do?
Which rights are you willing to sacrifice to the "lesser evil"? Answer the question.
None. Absolutely none. But will we ever have a candidate who will fight for us all? You make a good point.
And I meant lesser sorry for the misspell, but we have to start somewhere, right?
voting for "the lesser evil" has brought the weimarer republic hindenburg instead of hitler, yet hindenburg appointed hitler regardless You see how "lesser evil" is a logical fallacy?
Why would you consider a person who doesn't belive in basic humans right to even be eligible?
if it's between 2 evils people are just going to choose neither again, find a better candidate
can you stop your nazi saneism shit?
What does that even mean?
You're "lesser evil"-ing peopke's dehumanization. It's ghoulish.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanism
also newsom opposes lgbtq people bsky.app/profile/blos...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/ca-gov-gav...
So like, are the democrats choosing to be as evil as they are, or do they just have to be that way? Is it naturally occuring, or what?
Nobody has to be that way! I don’t know a damn thing about anything except this evil shit has got to stop! I am open to any suggestions and my comment was not meant to excuse anyone.
So the democratic candidates are evil by choice, there is some incentive or desire that they have to do evil, possibly a fincancial desire or an ideological one, yes? But they know if they're too close to the Republicans, they're no longer the lesser evil, are you following so far?
So it logically follows that it's within the best interest of the democratic party for the republican party to be as hitlerian as possible, so that the dems can still look decent in comparison while being reactionary and evil themselves, just you know, less.
So, then, just how the hell do you expect to push the democrats left, like so many of you insist we could do if we only voted for them? It seems to me like they're content wasting away where they are, an inferior reactionary party, a vichy puppet of fascists
My thinking is more simple than that as in don’t you think we would of been better under Kamala?
You didn't answer or address a single thing I just fucking said. Are you gonna answer my question? Did you even read it at all? Maybe take the time to actually read it this time
Please restate the question and I will try and honestly answer. I truly am not picking up what your putting down and I’m sorry if that makes you angry
You know you can just read it again if you want
I did and I don’t know the answer. If you have an idea please share it. Although i made some people mad, I did learn a lot today so thank u for that.
Given what I said in the first two comments(which I assume you have actually read and understand), How do you expect to push the democrats left? What would incentivise them to do that, since they make more money being right wing?