This got removed from politics because “Video links are not allowed” apparently? Pretty weird considering that most politicians say stuff on video nowadays and not really writing articles anymore since the invention of the radio pretty much lol. Hope it’s a better fit here, this is the kind of stuff people should be aware of.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/73859928
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/13118934
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet.
Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well.
No, we got dems like this on on the ballot by people not voting in the primaries. If people would get off their asses and participate and vote in the primaries, we could have good candidates. Since it’s too late to change that, though, the only choice now is to vote for the lesser evil. Anything else means letting the greater evil win by default.
Now is not the time for a moral stand. Now is the time to be pragmatic. Don’t vote for what is effectively a Nazi just because the other candidate isn’t perfect.
Maybe you should just accept that this candidate has lost the trans vote and move on instead of demanding trans people and their allies support their demise. It’s not trans people’s fault this candidate is anti-trans. Don’t go after trans folks just because their voting decisions aren’t “perfect”. When a candidate says he is anti-trans, it seems absurd to castigate trans allies for believing him.
Sure, it’s too late to get a different Dem candidate, but that just makes it more important that the Dem candidate doesn’t make dumbass decisions to needlessly throw away voters for zero benefit. It seems like a bad use of your time to go after the many people in the voter base this candidate is alienating. It would be more efficient to rebuke this single candidate and demand he apologize.
No no, because that would mean we actually have to take responsibility instead of blaming minorities, and we’re too busy waiting in line for brunch. /s
As far as I know, there was no indication that this dude is a massive transphobe prior to the primaries. This needs to lose him votes. I’m not encouraging anyone to vote for what is effectively a nazi, I’m encouraging people to vote for someone who isn’t a transphobe.
I am so sick and fucking tired of you people acting like we want perfection. I’m not saying not to vote for him because he isn’t perfect, I’m saying not to vote for him because he wants to harm trans people. The DNC supports candidates like this because they appeal to the right, and that’s the only demographic they need to earn votes from. Make them earn your vote.
Nah. I’m trans. If the Democrats are going to abandon me and my people, then I think every queer person should just stay home and not vote at all. I will not vote for the promise of “we’ll save democracy but also liquidate trans people.” If you’re not willing to stand up for minorities, then we can all go to hell together.
Are you even from Iowa? Either way, you are screwed. If you don’t see the benefit of voting for the lesser evil, you do you, but all that does is make when you do have to choose the lesser evil be in even more dire circumstances.
I’d rather choose a ban on federal funds being gaslit as “liquidating trans people”, which is no different to Republican candidate Ashley Hinson’s position, to go through the majority least likely to allow it to go through, Democrats. Meanwhile, a MAGA dominated senate has allowed actual liquidation of trans people from serving in places like the military and other federal agencies.
A ban of federal funding for gender affirming health care, i.e. denying health care to a marginalised group of people who can’t otherwise access it, is quite literally a genocidal act in a way that a ban on serving in the military doesn’t even come close to.
It’s actually not, and that’s crazy talk. People still being able to perform gender affirming health care on their own dime is much more ideal than being liquidated from even being part of major aspects of society.
You mean their own dime that they don’t have, hence qualifying for federal assistance?
Buying HRT of the internet and self-medicating without medical supervision (which does have serious risks) is relatively affordable, and the fact that it isn’t outright banned (yet) is something, but without insurance that covers it, medically supervised HRT is out of reach of many, and any kind of surgery is out of reach of the vast majority. Need I remind you that every serious medical association considers these things to be essential health care?
The denial of specifically this health care, which is essential to trans people, is a deliberate infliction of living conditions calculated to bring about the destruction of trans people who have no other means, as a group.
The US has been gearing up for a trans genocide (per the The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention) for a long time, and you are proving your willingness to be a collaborator in it.
“Welp, I guess we better empower the Trump administration more because the alternative has someone who said something nasty!”
No, the alternative in this instance is someone who is fully onboard with the continuation and escalation of those anti-trans initiatives. Proposing a ban isn’t just saying something nasty. It is active participation in the early stages of a genocide. Why don’t you just come right out and say that you think trans people owe it to you to vote in your interests without any expectation of any solidarity in return?
You are free to vote against your own interests just because you don’t live in an ideal world.
By not voting, all you do is empower the vote of those who do. Hope they are the least harmful for you, because a couple of billionaires are doing everything to get their voters to vote and slant the vote towards their interests.
Don’t lie to yourself. What the candidate is advocating for will result in dead Trans people. With 100% certainty. If you are okay with dead Trans people as long as it furthers your aims then be honest at least.
But telling Trans people they have to vote for someone who wants them to die is simply evil.
Then don’t, and be worse off for it while you fantasize about the ideal solution.
Some of you may die but that is a sacrifice we are willing to make.
You are the peasant that’s about to get trampled because they never played politics, you do you. One bad Iowa candidate doesn’t make the entire party, that gaslighting is literally on you.
Yes we get it. We are peasants. You don’t value us or are lives at all. Message received loud and clear.
The allyship ends as soon as there is any disagreement.
Hold them both accountable, do nothing Democrat.