The filibuster disproportionately benefits the GOP anyway. Their MO is status quo, prevent reform, do nothing, dismantle. They will always use it more. It’s why we have no public option for Medicare. And it’s been used excessively since Obama.

How wonderfully reductive!

I’m rewatching The Newsroom right now and weeping at the state of journalism.

I thought states are in control of elections?

I’m sure diabetics would love to hear your opposition. Why should diabetics care about trans if you’re opposing their insulin?

I’m surprised someone wasn’t assassinated to prevent us from getting this.

Ah yes, the radical left that has mysterious control of 3 branches of government even in the minority. Is it possible to learn these powers?

Yeah that’s not hyperbolic at all. Congrats, you’re the reason support for trans issues is waning. Newsom wants to exterminate Trans/Gay/Poors? Citation needed.

It’s a statistical fact that JD Vance is a moron.

I think it’s more that people think winning is more important than performative losing. It’s not pragmatic to promote talking points that hurt your own cause.

For example, I’d wager that cutting hundreds of billions from Medicaid will hurt the general population AND the trans population far more than gender affirming care for kids or trans rights in sports would benefit trans people.

And consider this, every time we lose, it’s going to get worse and worse and keep shifting the Overton Window to the right.

Are we supposed to pretend that strategy and tactics aren’t applicable to politics? Winning the broader war wins many smaller battles by default.

Primaries are where we can fight. Every DINO needs to be primaried, and we need to start fucking showing up to primaries. IIRC primary elections are voted in by only like 10-20% of eligible voters.

JUST DIE ALREADY

You can’t talk about gun control. You just have to do it. Talking about it is a political death sentence. Similar to trans issues on the left. It galvanizes more opposition than support despite being supported by the majority of people.

It’s like handing free Red Bull to the NRA.

As a leftist I’m getting so sick of listening to leftists tear down any opposition to trump because it’s not some mythical unicorn candidate. It’s crabs in a bucket. It really is.

Speak for yourself. I’ve been saying Dems should be mocking his stupid speech patterns and hyperbolic nonsense since 2016. He is ripe to be mocked, and our greatest failing has been treating his stupidity and absurdity as valid stances worthy of being debated in earnest.

By taking a high road against him we’ve basically destroyed ourselves and legitimized his positions via the gray fallacy.

Coulda won the election by just going around making fun of him for being dumb enough to think injecting bleach was a solution to COVID.

It’s pretty hyperbolic to say Newsom’s stance is “the same as the far right.” The far right is pushing outright bans on gender-affirming care, forced outing of kids, bathroom bans, and even criminal penalties. Newsom, by contrast, has signed laws making California a trans sanctuary state, protecting student privacy, expanding gender-neutral IDs, and safeguarding trans prisoners.

You also said he went on Charlie Kirk to talk about how much he hates you. You never said which part. Did you just hear about the interview and jump on some anti Newsom band wagon or what did he say specifically that you construe as hatred?

I’m saying you are unreasonable based on the things you said. Not about what conservatives are doing. It’s based on you spouting far right talking points about Gavin Newsom as if he’s Trump’s right hand man. Your main justification was he went on Charlie Kirk, and you didn’t even cite specific policies or statements to justify your statement that he hates trans people. How is that reasonable? I’m literally asking for your reasons. It’s the definition of being reasonable.

https://youtu.be/F0kYLPr92z0

Where did Newsom support a policy of forcing people to identify as birth gender?

As for sports, you don’t think sports should be biologically separated by gender? Nor did he support a ban. His policy is to leave it up to the local governing bodies and communities that involve the people in question. It’s a FRACTION of a percentage point of people. That’s a very complex issue, and no I don’t think it’s hateful. If you think it’s coming from a place of hatred, I would definitely call that hyperbolic as I originally stated. I know trans people that understand sports are a more complex issue that involves fairness and biological advantages. Everything in life that doesn’t let you do whatever you want whenever you want is not the same as hatred and persecution. And this mentality is exactly the victim mentality that people are driving people towards the right.

Like by your metrics, I would be labeled as a transphobic hateful non ally, despite being a lifelong progressive voter with a trans gf all because I think you should make pragmatic voting decisions and understand that whether or not a fraction of a percentage of people can play some dumb games with a ball while they and far more people lose access to Medicaid.

This is exactly what people talk about when we say the left fights amongst itself, has no solidarity, no strategy. If you think trans sports affects trans people more than hundreds of billions being cut from healthcare, than hundreds of billions being redirected into a personal army that will hunt them, then I’m going to disagree.

Your fear is making you see everyone as an enemy, and if you want to get meaningful things done, it requires communicating and organizing with people, and communicating requires a bridging of minds. Not stubborn projection.

Ok, finished watching the entire interview. Didn’t hear anything that would I would classify as a hatred for trans people. What part did you find hateful?