• GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    Call me radical if you want but, I don’t think Subject A of our cause should be rights for a minority of our citizenry.

    Those rights should be unspoken truths we uphold regardless.

    The common man will walk by TRANS RIGHTS 4000 times before they walk by UNION STRIKE.

    The left needs to go back to focusing on workers, unions, labor, taxes, fairness and sense. Trans rights are important, and topical, but I feel the sjw yelling pushes a lot of people away from what our side of politics is actually about.

    There isn’t a single person I work with that wouldn’t toss a flier with ‘trans rights’ written on it in the trash the second it was handed to them.

    • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      I think you’ve misinterpreted the picture. These are supposed to be domino bricks. “trans rights” isn’t the first brick because it is the most important - it’s the first brick because it’s the first that’s going to fall.

      • GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        I’m taking points by consensus. Luckily, Lemmy has those built in and the congregation ain’t with you, dog.

    • 7toed@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      MSNBC agrees with you that the Democrats went too “woke”… while repubs dumped millions into trans panic ads. If “left” Democratic leaning media is willing to throw principles under the bus to capitulate on hand waving economic yabbering, then we need to stop associating them with leftist principles.

      Again, repubs did all the sjw yapping about trans people, and other than the bare minimum the dems pretty much kept quiet while also not making moves on unions or anything the like. Shouldacouldawoulda, but they didn’t. And trans people should not be brought to take the brunt of what lies ahead because of that.

      I know its easy to say the dems should have done different, but DO NOT let rightwing narrative lead to you lapse in your principles, we’re here because the Democrats couldnt stick to theirs regardless.

      We’re here now, so all you can do is protect your trans neighbors and friends. I, for one, certainly wouldn’t want to be told my rights as an individual were focused on TOO MUCH by the only people willing to represent me.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        by the only people willing to represent me.

        Make more political parties viable by enacting state level electoral reform.

      • mystique@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        Seriously, we got one line of support from Walz and Harris’ offer to follow the law, which is a far cry from supporting trans rights when you consider the laws being passed in many states.

        Democrats who were pressed on trans rights this election cycle consistently backed down and conceded and moved towards discriminatory Republican positions.

        I wish Harris had won, I would feel much more comfortable with the future prospects of my rights the next 4 years. But anyone who views the Democratic party as truly supportive of trans rights, certainly in any kind of national sense, is sorely mistaken.

        • 7toed@midwest.social
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 month ago

          But anyone who views the Democratic party as truly supportive of trans rights, certainly in any kind of national sense, is sorely mistaken.

          It’s ironic if we were to say this before the election, there would be a very different response. Now the ship is sinking so to speak, critique is more receptive… just not when it counts.

          For a split moment I figured the whole “weird” rhetoric would expand to actually describe how people are legitimately being discriminated against with legislation, but yeah just follow the laws… even if they mean parental rights for rapists and fucking windows on school bathrooms. Never hoping for a political outcome again.

    • PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      I am someone who wouldn’t give “T people” rights the time of day. It’s absurd. If they’re American, and a legal citizen, then they have the same rights as me. I don’t have the time or patience to focus on a group that makes up a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population. We have real problems.

    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      If that’s how they feel about basic human rights, then they don’t deserve to have support for their union, either. They are both about respect, and if you’re not willing to give it then you don’t deserve to get it, either.

      • GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        I’m just tired of our side attempting to appeal to basic human decency when it’s been more than proven that there isn’t any.

        Regardless of what you think about my or their vote, you need it. You don’t have the luxury of being exclusionary when you’re on the losing side and bleeding support.

        • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 month ago

          Republicans were (in theory) on the losing side in 2022 - there was supposed to be a “red wave” that never materialized. They won (again) this time around by fully embracing being exclusionary. Seems to me Dems need to stop trying to attract those people (I think I read that Harris managed to get less than 5% of them, while losing something approaching 15% in Democrat voters), and instead focus on being an exclusionary antithesis to them. If we’re going to be a two party system, then make them polar opposites rather than just a lite version of the same side (within practical limits, of course).

      • bss03@infosec.pub
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        Ah yes, the leftists mortal enemy, the less-idealogically-pure leftist.

        Of the people that care enough to vote, leftists are a clear minority. We need to find people to work with on specific, community-building goals, even if we can’t agree with them on everything (or anything!) else.

        • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 month ago

          Democrats are not leftists, as you yourself admit with this sentence here:

          Of the people that care enough to vote, leftists are a clear minority.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafe
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 month ago

      that’s the importance of countermessaging. harris and walz had it right for 0.0076ms with their “weird” direction, like “look how fucking weird jd vance is for wanting to do genital inspections on every kid in order to make life harder for like 40 kids nationwide, what a freak!?!” and even some conservatives were like “yeah that’s a little far we don’t need to be doing all that.” that was a really successful strategy that had great potential.

      …and then they dropped that like a month before the election in favor of courting suburban conservatives. from “weird” to “follow the law.”

      • 7toed@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        Sorry now every time I see someone mentioning the “weird to follow the weird laws” pipeline I get unduly agitated at how fucking hard the DNC dropped the ball this cycle. Now I’m more than surprised as ever that Hilary won the popular vote with campaign managers like these.