I agree with that for the most part, but the conversation was Simp posting stuff about how Dumbocrats lost because they let trans people participate in sports based on how they identify. I was just saying, no, that had nothing to do with it and Kamala was not popular.
I don’t know who would have won. Kamala has certainly demonstrated that she’s not popular more than once. But, a lot of it is just Trump won because so many people are terrible and dumb.
I mean, look at how bad Trump is. There’s plenty of lol Dumbocrats to go around, but it mostly begins and ends with 77,303,568 assholes.
That thread was closed.
I think Kamala was fine for CA but she should have never been VP. She always seemed like a lightweight compared to Hillary (most politicians are). While I was on board with her replacing Biden I was hoping for a truncated primary.
Can we please have the mods contain simps low intellect hate mongering to his own thread so we can all ignore it? @moderators
I am honestly asking.
Why do we let him continue to bring the same idiotic bigotry up in thread after thread? He has been warned. He has been banned. He knows it is not going to garner real discussion.
He just wants to be hateful and to harm members of this community.
jesus man have you had a traumatic brain injury recently
Simp wants the US military to be even more lethaler than the most lethalest force in human history, and he wants single moms in prison
I promise that if you go back through the last 20 years you’ll see that you just missed him being exactly this way on everything he’s ever talked about
This is what the left has been doing. Actually, it’s what the center-left has been doing. The notion that the left/Dems are somehow focusing on social issues and not economic ones just doesn’t hold up –I think Harris mentioned trans issues literally once during her campaign. Fully the only people talking about trans issues are Republicans and their fellow travelers like Yggy, who think it’s a useful wedge issue and bring it up nonstop.
Trans rights is just the most recent example of the bedrock difference between progressives and right wing idiots like simp and MAGA.
Like suffrage, civil rights and gay marriage, trans rights is really just one side saying they care about all people and want to lift all people up and the other side saying they don’t care about groups of people without power and in fact they see those groups gaining power only as diminishing their own power.
People like simp could not care less about trans sports or bathrooms. Their entire worldview is based on fear of losing their own cis white privilege. That is it. That is all that matters to them. Everything about their politics stems from that one fact. It explains nearly everything happening with global politics today.
A campaign so bad you had to vote for Trump.
Or… and hear me out on this one… they see someone being wrong on the internet and they enjoy arguing on the internet.
I remember my grandma talking about logging in to debate suffrage in 1918 then my dad spent hours in online forums fighting about civil rights in 1963.
This is impossible, you wouldn’t have been alive.
Uh, I’m obviously talking about the people on here but okay.
Yeah, I was just thinking earlier today about how the entire “but we can’t win elections if we support trans rights” is so obviously wrong and echoes the same stupid arguments that were made about gay marriage earlier in my life. Republicans push this stuff, not Dems. They know that they will a) take up all the oxygen in the debate by distracting people from their other catastrophic policies by making them argue about stupid and abritrary social constructs and b) they know they will find some otherwise reliable Dem voters that will be uncomfortable with black or gays or trans people or whatever and then they get those people to either go down a rabbit hole of hate or at least get them starting stupid debates between subgroups of Dem supporters.
Exactly. And people like simp fall for it over and over and over again.
We tried that but as NotBruceZ points out
Maybe someone else can step in. I haven’t gotten caught up on whatever the most recent transphobic nonsense was posted because I only came to this thread from your moderator tag then scrolled up a post to go to simp’s profile to find that containment thread and saw NBZ’s post right above that one saying the thread was closed. If it’s still an issue in an hour or two when I get home from work I’ll try to figure something out.
Trans stuff had nothing to do with Harris lost.
Harris didn’t run a bad campaign either.
Harris lost because of a historically bad media environment that both hid Trump’s inadequacies while convincing people the best major economy in the world was bad.
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-not-to-defeat-authoritarianism/julia-serano/
In mid-September 2024—a month and a half before the presidential election—Gallup asked registered voters how important twenty-two different issues were to their vote, from the economy and democracy to immigration, taxes, abortion, and crime; “transgender rights” ranked dead last on the share of people who considered it extremely, very, or somewhat important. In other words, voters are not casting their votes based upon their opinions of trans people. Furthermore, the small minority of voters who do consider transgender issues to be a high priority undoubtedly fall into both the pro-trans and anti-trans camps.
Which brings us to the third mistaken assumption: that abandoning trans rights will have no negative ramifications for Democrats. Popularists act as though Democrats can excise trans sports or trans rights from their agenda without impacting other people and issues. This is extremely naive.