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    ITT: A whole lot of piefed, .word, and .ca accounts just go and completely mask off. They hate trans people and they want you to know it.

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      Ummm actually acknowledging reality is russian propaganda and youre only allowed to say anything mean about Democrats for about two weeks after the election. As we all know if you dont say anything negative then republicans aren’t allowed to do it either. My strategy of voting for democrats and never making any demands of them is incredibly realistic, just look at how much we’re winning and all the progressive genocide we’re doing!

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        Akshually, If all the genocidee had died quietly instead of moaning and crying so loudly, Democrats could’ve wrapped up the genocide quicker.

        Also, the anti-genocide (aka aunty-semites since Gazans are semitic people) didn’t listen to the orders of The Party. Vote Blue No Matter Who! Which is how you got Donald Trump. Donald is Not an ally of the trans people. By extension, all anti-genocide aunties of semites automatically hate trans people.

        Basically, the anti-genocide protesters are transphobic for refusing to vote blue unconditionally.

        Vote Blue No Matter Who otherwise you’re a transphobe.

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    it’s a big tent. being open to many ideas is a good thing. being so open minded your brains fall out, not so much. finding that sweet spot where they can be inclusive, but not allow the bigots and asshats is harder than just going with bigotry as your standard - see the GOP.

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    The BEST way for Democrats to Gain Power is to Cater to People who LOVE voting Democrat! Cater to People who want to MURDER DEMOCRATS!

    -Literally Democrats!

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      Sad thing is, it’s kind of true (or at least was). In a two party system, its not a bad strategy to try gain electors from the other party, as the ppl more radically from your side will vote for you rather than the other party. Now then, the political spectrum and Overton window shifted so much to the right that it is not sufficient to just exist and be the “lesser evil”.

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        It depends on how they gain people from the other party. The Democrats could gain them by giving them better health-care, or fewer wars, or by making the rich pay taxes, or by providing affordable housing, or by improving their jobs.

        But the Democrat strategy is to gain them by supporting genocide, and attacking marginalized groups.

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        Less than half of the electorate votes, yet the democrat strategy is to try to appeal to the one group of people who make it very clear they’re going to vote for the other team.
        This is not a good strategy, as can be seen by how rarely it works (and even when it works it is by a slim margin)

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        No. It’s literally a bad strategy. Elections are about to turn out. The best way to win elections is to get your base to come out to vote. When you literally threaten their lives and threaten the lives of people they care about they’re going to stay home.

        You know why you preach to the choir? Because that’s how you get them to sing.

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          Their brilliant strategy is to come to a black church and arrogantly tell the choir “if you don’t vote blue no matter who, then you ain’t black!”

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    1. FInd a Democrat who hates trans people.
    2. Turn that into The Democrats are trans-hating fascists!!
    3. Airtight rationale for not voting!

    Well alrighty then.

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    Yeah, so compromise is a two way street. If you’re position is that you want to burn down everything and implement a system that’s failed every time it’s been tried, and you’ll label everyone that doesn’t agree with you as a fascist, there’s not much anyone can do.

    Nobody is compromising with the fascists, they are compromising with the center right though. Of course if you see everyone as a fascist… well see the first sentence.

    If you’re going to retreat back to “well I just want healthcare!” that’s what liberals have been trying to do for decades. You’re too busy being uncommitted and going on rants about how everyone that disagrees with you is a fascist for you to notice. And you’re not reliably voting against fascism, because you don’t even know what fascism is.

    To avoid fascists remaining in power, the only option for the political opposition to fascism is to compromise with people that reliably vote. That isn’t you. If you’re uncommitted to democracy, don’t cry when democracy has to move on without you. You chose to turn your back on democracy because corporate social media told you authoritarianism is better than democracy. Communists and fascists are just drinking a different flavour of authoritarian kool-aid, but you’re all drinking the authoritarian kool-aid.

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      fuck off. you say this as we live in the reality of no progressive representation, and the world is currently burning. the current “center” is so far right, that there is debate over whether it’s legal that renaming minorities as “enemy combatants” removes their rights as humans in our society. to compromise with this “center” is compromising with fascists, period.

      you lie that liberals are fighting for universal healthcare, we have fucking eyes and memories longer then a 6 month campaign cycle, and a campaign promise is worth jack

      you say we don’t know what a fascist fucking is, and here you are running interference for a candidate openly erasing trans identity! fuck you, and your masters! crawl back to your echo chamber you absolute slime

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        you lie that liberals are fighting for universal healthcare, we have fucking eyes and memories longer then a 6 month campaign cycle, and a campaign promise is worth jack

        Can you also count? These things aren’t happening because not enough people vote for it. Too many pricks on the internet telling people not to vote because everyone is a fascist.

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        Yeah you’re telling people to not vote because everyone is a fascist other than you. You’re carry water for the fascists, the only question is whether you’re aware of it or not. But the answer to that question is irrelevant.

        To everyone who’s not a “leftist” propagandists, you should vote. There will never be a candidate that exactly matches your views. You vote to remove the fascists from power. To make sure there is no confusion here: The Republicans are facists, the Democrats are not fascists. Vote for Democrats if you oppose fascism.

        Ignore the memes, they could be coming from Russia or who the fuck knows where. Vote out the fascists out. It may be your last chance to do it.

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    Compromise is when there are two equally valid ways, but this is never that. One set of policies benefits the majority for healthy people and high quality of life. The other is meant to benefit the wealthy and keep the majority subservient to the owners, and worse health and life outcomes.

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    Ooh I hope she loses her election in 2 days. That way, the Republican will win and vote to amend the constitution so Trump can run for a third term and put all trans people in concentration camps! /s

    Non voters are all emotion, no strategy. They’ll let us all die so they can feel like the purest ally.

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      Do you think telling the overwhelming majority of people who might vote for you to go fuck themselves is a winning strategy?

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          Fascists will never vote for fascist-lite when the real thing is available.

          Triangulation doesn’t work. There’s a reason the republicans never try to triangulate themselves to be 1% to the right of the democratic candidate, it’s because it’s always been bullshit and just a pretense for democratic politicians to support policies that are bad for their voters and good for their donors.

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    Transpeople are all biological males? The trans men will be pleased to hear it.

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    “doctor”

    EDIT: Uh-oh, she’s a pediatrician who hates trans people? I don’t like where this is going. Probably an island somewhere.

    EDIT 2: This “doctor” is almost tied in the polls with Darlene Graham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_South_Carolina#Polling_5

    EDIT 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Andrews_(pediatrician)#Policies_and_viewpoints "In an October 5, 2026, Truth Social post, Trump used anti-LGBT slurs against Andrews, calling her “Annie Trannie”. Andrews is not transgender.[31] The post was widely condemned.[32][33] Several days after Trump’s post, Andrews released an ad saying that she opposed “biological men playing women’s sports” and would not allow “gender surgery for minors”.

    This is fucking crazy. I’ve seen others do this before. Trump threw a slur at her and she basically said “Actually, thank you Donald, I’m on your side!”

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    Folks can we please treat “trans” like the adjective it is. I’m not a “transwoman” or a “transperson” I am a woman and a person, and I am trans, I am also tall. A trans woman, a trans person. A tall woman, a tall person.

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    This is something I’ve always felt should be studied.

    I’m a centrist, I believe in Bernie Sanders and AOC. Socialism is actual centrist beliefs.

    America is so far right they think healthcare is far left… it’s just barely left of centre.

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        I get called out by neo-liberals for using “terms incorrectly” all the time when I’ve learned their actual meaning and political positioning. Where as they still think they’re part of the left and get mad when you tell them NO.

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        I mean technically social democracy is kinda center. Liberals totally invert reality and believe that the symptoms of oppression are actually their cause, like being lazy = poor.

        Social democrats are weird because they use idealism sometimes, but are capable of using materialist analysis other times. They’re like philosophically half-socialist half-liberal. They will never turn materialist systemic critique against questioning the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, though.

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        Its semantics but please elaborate on what you like done. Just so I know what we are talking about.

        Trans rights is clear to me. Trans people are afforded the same rights as everyone else and cant be discriminated against base on their gender identification.

        Are we saying, no funding for any country that participates is genocide? No trade?

        What if we just said america shouldnt make weapons of war? Do you even know who the neo-libs were?

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          No weapons of war, no support for any country that commits genocide. The U.S won’t ever do that because it’s an imperialist country, so the their government should be hindered in their foreign policy at every opportunity.

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            Ok, but america isnt the only country to participate in imperialism. How do we protect our sovereignty from hostile imperialist countries?

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                Fuck my sovereignty… ok nm, Im not interested in your opinion.

                Anarchists arent delusional. Sorry someone gave you that impression.

                "The thing that I thought might be good for starting it off is to talk about one of the most pervasive beliefs in the general society about the nation of Islam. And that is that it is an organization dedicated to the use of violent means to attain its goals. The question I have is how true is this? And why do you think it persists in society?

                Well, the Muslims who have accepted the religion of Islam and follow the religious guidance of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad have never bombed any churches, have never murdered any little girls, as was done in Birmingham, have never lynched anybody, have never at any time been guilty of initiating any aggressive acts of violence.

                During the entire 33 years or more that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad has been teaching us, the charge of violence against us actually stems from the guilt complex that exists in the conscious and subconscious minds of most white people in this country.

                They know that they know that they have been violent in their brutality against Negroes. And they feel that someday the Negro is going to wake up and try and do unto them as they have done unto, do unto the whites as the whites have done unto us.

                We aren’t a violent group. We are taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to obey the law, to respect everyone who respects us. We’re taught to display courtesy, to be polite.

                But we’re also taught that at any time anyone in any way inflicts or seeks to inflict violence upon us, we are within our religious rights to retaliate in self-defense to the maximum degree of our ability. We never initiate any violence upon anyone. We never initiate any violence upon anyone. But if anyone attacks us, we reserve the right to defend ourselves.

                So to accuse us of being violence is like accusing a man who is being lynched, who is being hung on a tree, simply because he struggles vigorously against his lyncher. The victim is accused of violence, but the lyncher is never accused of violence.

                And I only point this out because the various racist groups that are set up in this country by whites and who have actually practiced violence against blacks for 400 years are never associated or identified or made synonymous with the term violence. But whites speak of Muslims almost synonymously with violence. Whenever Muslims are mentioned by them, violence is brought up.

                But not, but it’s not connected with any other group. This is a sort of a propaganda tactic or what I would call psychological warfare to in some way make the image of the Muslims in this country be a violent image rather than a religious image."

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    When this bitch lose the first voting block theyll throw under the bus is transfolk.

    I used to get so angry that minorities would vote against their interest in dems, but then I started to work towards becoming a better ally and realized how infuriating it must be for these privileged fucking centrists constantly vote against minority group interests and then beg minorities to show up when Trump started negatively impacting everyone’s way of life. When will the lesson be learned that we all do better when we all support one another?

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      I am a little frustrated, because I’ve been saying for like 3 years. If they didn’t stop at genocide than they’ll be nothing they won’t compromise on. Back in 2023 I was arguing with other trans people saying that the liberals weren’t on their side and they would throw them under the bus the moment it became politically acceptable to do so. Being dependent on a liberal party is more like being held hostage instead of gaining actual power.

      Constantly chastising people that they have to support liberal politics anyway, even if they’re doing imperialism (which isn’t at all new), just normalizes that those horrible things will always happen and cannot be changed, they’re just politically acceptable. Like it actually makes me feel like I’m going insane that genocide has become a normal, acceptable position, that we’ve realized after Palestine that most of the entire establishment are a bunch of Holden Bloodfeasts and things just keep going. Like, no, we’re frogs in a pot of water being boiled. Imperialism isn’t normal or okay.

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        the liberals weren’t on their side and they would throw them under the bus the moment it became politically acceptable to do so

        So you decided to ally with Trump instead?

        US elections are a zero sum game with two sides and only two sides

        That means all anti-dem propaganda in the election is pro-rep propaganda

        If you’re saying to support socialists like Abdul in the primaries, I agree with you. But you’re not saying that. You’re saying not to trust Dems to be any better than Reps. That’s Rep propaganda. The rules of the game say you’re accidentally helping Trump.

        There will never be a third party, the maths on FPTP don’t support it. And you’re not campaigning for voter reply reform. You’re campaigning for people to abstain and let Trump have two more years of supermajority.

        You’ve already had a chance to educate yourself on the maths of FPTP. Whether your bad faith is moral or intellectual doesn’t matter, you’re a fascist collaborator and you’re attacking our rights as trans people. I have family in America and I don’t want them to die, so be quiet.

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          This is liberal yaKKKubian tricknology make people believe that advocating for dual power is a bad thing. I’m not impressed that you’re quite literally trying to emotionally manipulate people into thinking that if you don’t support the Dems they’re murderers or some shit. That only makes sense if you collapse of all reality into two outcomes “democrats win” and “republicans win.” That’s like absolutely defeatist, believing the only options that exist are government approved ones. that kind of attitude will let horrors go on forever without ever being challenged, I would genuinely rather die than just lie down and accept that. I support worker power so that both parties can’t oppress us and we can stop them from terrorizing the rest of the world.

          Shut up about your votes, I know you’re being manipulative. You say that they’re the lesser evil, but I guarantee you actually like liberals and just want people to stop talking about how they also kill people.

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            Mutual aid is great! But we’re talking about an election in two days. If you write the name of the mutual aid group on your ballot, you’ve abstained.

            People with the vision and strategy to do the right thing at the right time do mutual aid. People like us distribute hormones. People like you just complain on the internet. I’m glad that we strategists got you those hormones, but it doesn’t make you a warrior. It just makes you alive.

            So if you’re not going to attend a protest or paint a crosswalk or run in a primary or get an over prescription, please be quiet and let the strategists work. We don’t need you making our work harder. It’s not gonna be as easy to distribute hormones if Trump declares martial law, and that’s what you’ve been helping.

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          These are midterms. Every election is local. Every district has different candidates. Unless you have points about a specific race, you’re not discussing the election, just partisan vibes. FPTP is applied to each individual race, not the aggregate that make up legislatures.

          A transphobe is not on our side regardless of their listed party preference. In my experience, bigots never pick party over prejudice. I live in america and care about my own safety. FPTP is an insidius system that forces us to pick the least bad option.

          I don’t think its a good thing to be accusing other politically engaged trans people of being fascists for making the best choice they are able given the specifics of of their ballot just because it goes against your broad strokes view that ignores them.

          Have some sympathy for your siblings these are bad times for us.

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      Trans people ain’t abstaining on Tuesday, it’ll be the cis people who are willing to let us all die so they can feel like the purest ally.

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        There’s going to be a lot of people that don’t vote for various reasons, and while I want them all to vote, I understand that the opposition isn’t doing enough to make encourage people to vote.

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          I believe in free will. People are responsible for their own actions. Joe Biden is a shithead, but he doesn’t have a mind control beam to force people to stay home.

          That’s why I believe trans people will vote in greater proportion than cis people.

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      Ever stop to think that maybe she’s not a Democrat but running as one? Do you seriously think MAGA and the republicans are above planting their own amongst us??

      Divisionism is what wins them elections. And divisionism is what is preached here every fucking day. That’s what I’m fucking tired of.

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          There’s not even a little problem with not voting for her. The point is that people are holding her beliefs against the entire party like idiots.

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        If you think this bitch is a republican plant based on her transphobia then whewwwww buddy are you gonna be shocked when you discover how many top ranking dems are actually Republicans.

        Calling out bigotry is not divisionism. The big tent party has enough room for everyone that wants to join, the only problem is there are too many empty chairs reserved for moderate Republicans that don’t like trump, as a result, there’s no seats for trans folk.

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    Okay, pal, what’s your solution? You gonna get them defeated in their primary that ended 5 months ago in a 2:1 Margin?