• yesman@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    I suppose refugees and trans people don’t figure into your equation because erasing them is the only way to make it balance.

    It confuses me when people who argue “both sides” claim to support all those left policies when they don’t appear to have empathy or awareness of the marginalized. I’m left to conclude that this brand of leftism must be based on vanity, because the only thing it protects is the ego of those who promote it.

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      17 days ago

      It confuses me when people who argue “both sides” claim to support all those left policies when they don’t appear to have empathy or awareness of the marginalized.

      They don’t even really seem to support left policies that go much of anywhere outside the scope of not voting for Democrats.

      They’re not advocating for RCV, supporting protest movements or local races with prominent lefty candidates, or harping on critical climate issues or actions that fall outside the scope of electoral politics completely let alone the specific action of who you’re going to vote for in November. They care a lot about politics. But mostly, what they want you to do is not vote for Democrats.

      A very cynical person could draw a particular conclusion from that, but I’m not that person, so I won’t.

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      17 days ago

      You mean like the refugees being chased down on horseback? Or the ones at the border being subjected to Trump style immigration policy? Dems use trans as political pawns as much as Republicans