Sorry if this is the wrong community for this. Not sure where else to put it.
I hope that stays there. I don’t want him to want to persecute me
Identity politics exists to divide the working class. Keeping us all poor and fighting with eachother is the only outcome.
Far as I know, and correct me if I am wrong - identity politics can take two forms: There’s “individuals are different [in terms of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, …] and that’s great” and there’s “all preferred people must now unite against specific [ethnic, religious, sexual, …] minority group”. Not sure if you mean both kinds.
Well yeah.
It’s also the reason he told Republican in Congress to tank the strongest Border Security bill in decades in 2024 after Republicans realized, “Oh crap, Democrats are actually going to vote Yes on it!”
And then what will they campaign on next time! They all secure their jobs by not doing them
Right. As it was, the entire party almost imploded following their commitment to overturning Roe. They learned their lesson that can only dangle solutions to the fears of their base, maybe address a symptom here and there, but never provide true solutions to the root problems.
It didn’t nearly implode.
The south saw roe as the first step, but what they really care about are obergefell, loving, and everything else since the end of Jim Crow.
They’re already reversing brown v Boe by eliminating the DoEd and re-enabling ‘Christian segregation academies’.
They thought there would be more pushback, they were shocked to learn there isn’t.
PP has changed his ideologies recently, too. Don’t be complacent Canadians! Make sure you get out and VOTE!!
Absolutely, fuck maple millhouse.
Damaging the lives of minority groups has been the game of evil people for ages now.
These are human lives, but to people like Trump they are just lubricant to throw in front of his trolly to grease the tracks.
It’s disgusting, and he is disgusting.
“The Democrats are for They/Them, not for you.”
Disgusted that shit worked
The problem is that it works. It shouldn’t work but it does.
“I love the uneducated”
And people happily declare voting for him it’s extremely confusing
I have family that are fully on the maga train. There is no coming back from that. Will a few snap out of it every now and then? Sure. But there will be no way to unbrainwash them on a massive scale.
How deep these people are down the rabbithole… and they have zero desire to listen to anything else. Trump could physically punch them in the face and they will find a way to avoid blaming him.
They are losing most of their social security and had their snap benefits decreased by almost 50%. Their faith in trump is all they have. Their faith in Christianity. Trump is another god to them and there to save them. And nothing you say or do will convince them otherwise.
It’s wild. I’ve lost relatives to this nonsense and I don’t even live in the US.
I’m currently fighting it with some friend’s family members that aren’t complete lost causes yet, but it seems to take a disproportionate amount of effort to disarm the programming, and then they just go back and their algorithms which are happy to spoon feed them more view confirming nonsense to regurgitate.
Is it though? Maybe this is just a reflection of our society if we’re able to be baited so easily?
I don’t like the guy but he did what he knew would work and now he’s president.
It’s our fault for voting like this and for being idiotic easily persuaded masses.
Let’s just hope that better education can fix that
This is like me admitting to wiping my ass after I’ve taken a shit. I mean we all know what they’re doing, they know what they’re doing, their supporters knows what they are doing. There’s no point in pretending that not almost everyone realize this. The tiny minority that are too stupid to know that Trump is full of shit is completely inconsequential.
Well fuck me, I recently said that trans in women’s sports was a complicated issue. This is straightforward anti-trans propaganda. I also looked at some peer reviewed studies that showed there is no physiological advantage for trans women.
We all make some assumptions based on anecdotal evidence, and the best we can do is learn from our mistakes.
thank you for interrupt my doomscroll to remind me that people out there are still empathetic and capable of learning/admitting to their faults.
If a person goes through testosterone puperty there are undeniable advantages over everybody that didn’t, in sports where physical strengths matters. I’d really love to get my mind changed on that, could you please name the study and/or journal where it was published.
If a person is born with an abnormally large wingspan there are undeniable advantages over everybody that wasn’t.
We don’t limit abnormal body types in sports competitions, we elevate them. Wingspan in swimming, height in basketball, muscle in football, etc. It’s already genetics, there’s nothing inherently “fair” about athletics. Abnormally - but “naturally” - high levels of testosterone literally already give people an advantage in sports.
There’s nothing more or less unfair about giving normal - but “unnatural” - levels of hormone supplementation to people for legitimate medical reason, especially when there’s so few transgender athletes in the first place, and no evidence whatsoever that they are particularly dominating a given sport.
I think I know what you mean and it’s true if you look at world class. But that’s the reason why sometimes we use those properties to cluster people into groups to make it more fair. A lot of fighting sports are split into weight classes. We have paralympics, and we split many sports into male and female. Even in chess where almost everybody agrees that there is very likely no performance difference between man and women, but there are so many man playing chess that statistics alone tells you that most outliers (best and worst players) are also men.
But with “fairness” you have to draw the line somewhere or the groups that are able to play against each other would be too small. In the extreme it would mean that it’s only fair if you compete against yourself, like in trying to break you own personal records.
Even paralympics aren’t fair. It makes a difference to shoot with a bow if you are missing a leg, or an eye or an arm. Getting too specific will certainly make it fairer but would result in more groups and less people that would be allowed to compete against each other.
I’m personally not interested in watching any form of spots, so I couldn’t care less about who’s allowed to compete against whom, but I think it’s only understandable if people that went through puperty without testosterone would complain if they would have to compete against more and more people who went through testosterone puperty.
But with “fairness” you have to draw the line somewhere or the groups that are able to play against each other would be too small.
Exactly. You shouldn’t draw arbitrary lines to split up groups of athletes such that one of the groups literally has nobody to play with.
I think it’s only understandable if people that went through puperty without testosterone would complain if they would have to compete against more and more people who went through testosterone puperty.
“More and more” people is doing some real heavy lifting here. Every statistic - every statistic - agrees that this is not a common situation at all. We don’t hear the voice of a lot of transgender athletes because there are not a lot of transgender athletes. There’s barely any. And many of them - like many cisgender athletes - aren’t even good athletes.
I think its only understandable if people that went through puberty without growing 3 feet taller would complain if they would have to compete against more and more people who naturally became 7 feet tall from puberty… but that’s not happening. It’s not common. It never will be common. And many people who do become 7 feet tall will never become competitive athletes.
It’s so uncommon to find a 7 ft tall athlete that when you do, you often find them dominating the local sports teams. They’re allowed to play. Why shouldn’t they? Recruiters follow them around the country. Colleges give them scholarships and national leagues give them millions of dollars.
Their peers - the poor high schoolers that have to play against future national pros and olympic champions - they understandably complain that they don’t have a chance of winning. They are upset when they lose, or never get to touch the ball, or get benched. And yet no national campaign. No public outcry against giantism. No superpower writing half-baked oppressive laws “protecting” short people. Nobody vilified Andre or Shaq for standing out and flexing on everybody. (Edit - and for the record, no transition by default gives athletic ability, or ever gives such a significant advantage as for e.g. height does in basketball)
Why should we treat transgender people differently?
raging is who they are. it’s what they do. he’s been doing it since obama, the far right since rush and fox ‘news’ each launched. it’s basically all they have. it’s not like they have policies or a platform to benefit the people, the nation, the world, the planet…
Anger is an easy emotion.
The fact that this works just shows that most Americans are idiots and probably deserve what they voted for: policies that will put them further in poverty and loss of their rights.
The fact that this works just shows that most
Americanshumans are idiotsFTFY. If you believe that people in your country would be different when put in the same situation then I’m sorry but you are one of the idiots.
I am American. I’m fully aware there are idiots in most countries. However the ratio of idiots to non-idiots is what really matters.
But, it matters less in a FPTP election than in most other things.
If anything, it matters more.
It’s more of a problem because it takes fewer idiots to wreck things with FPTP, so the ratio is less important. Even a small amount is a problem.
Your statement basically proves the ratio is even more important in FPTP.
Not just Americans. Wedge issues have been a political tool for a while now.
The Velveeta treason weasel is probably too dumb to realize it’s not even his idea.
Why would anybody deserve to loose their rights? Because they were gullible? That just seems like cruelty…
Because it is your democratic duty to inform yourself about who or what you are voting for. Otherwise the system does not work and will eventually get rid of itself. Use it or lose it.
So by your logic… just the Trump voters deserve it and the rest of the country doesn’t? But everybody is being affected by it…
Sounds about the same as blaming the Jewish people in Nazi Germany for Hitler.
He’s not stupid. He knew that’s how he’d win the election. Take complete advantage of the uneducated.
He is stupid, but he’s also an expert at appealing to the lowest common denominator. Partly because he’s so stupid.
He’s not stupid
Do you have a source for that? /s
Yeah politicians have been doing this since the dawn of time. Trump is not particularly unique in this.
Yeah, politicians have been manipulating rubes forever. Nothing new.
Admitting it is kind of unique though.
