• LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world
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    It’s so nice having my rights be shat on on such a high profile stage. They really can’t handle that trans people exist and have always existed, and they might even find some of us attractive.

    I also really appreciate the article talking about the bullshit myth that trans athletes have some kind of advantage in sports. I don’t usually see that.

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      Advocate doesn’t pull punches. They’re here to shit on conservatives and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community

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      I also really appreciate the article talking about the bullshit myth that trans athletes have some kind of advantage in sports. I don’t usually see that.

      Sadly that really is note worthy.

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      I think MTG is deeply jealous and threatened by the beauty of trans women and is drowning in a pool of her own internalized misogyny.

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    They’re such losers… don’t they have something positive they could do for their constituents? I’ve never heard of these people actually doing something to help their voters. It’s just attacks.

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      But I’m also a spiteful, mindless piece of shit who has to be told what should make me mad, especially when it does not impact my day to day life. I enjoy joining the conversation when I hear people complain about our rights being stripped away because although my party has never once been “for” anything, only against progress, I need to pridefully let people know that I have absolutely zero critical thinking skills.

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    A quick note on this thread:

    The transphobic comments are getting out of hand. Lots of reports and lots of removals.

    Now here’s the thing…

    The #1 thing I hated about fucking reddit were the mods who would go “we’re locking this thread because it’s too much trouble to moderate it.”

    My opinion then, and now, is “Oh, your volunteer gig is too hard? Go do something else then!”

    So, no, I’m not locking the thread. At the same time, I’d advise against mocking the trans community.

    I get it, back in the day, I thought all the “Dann Coulter” jokes were funny too. And assholes like Coulter and MTG deserve to have their own hate reflected back on them.

    But when you do that with trans issues, you’re making those issues a weapon and saying they’re a weapon because of the negative connotations and that’s just not cool.

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    "…because Donald Trump is the leader America deserves.”

    unironically, this hateful village idiot may be right.

    gonna sign off for a while. I just cant stomach looking at the festering, gangrenous wound these people have opened up when I know it will destroy the lives of so many I care about.

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      No, he is not, because most of us hate him, but are at the mercy of a super broken electoral system. Only the assholes who support him deserve him.

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        you are absolutely right.

        I just wish more of us did not allow ourselves to be purposefully distracted from our own self-governance

        please stay safe.

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    So, those of you not voting for Biden because “reasons,” thanks for condemning to death the LGBTQ+ community. And don’t tell me that is hyperbole.

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    She’s so pathetic. Her little giggles between sentences were just… wow. She just loves getting praised

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      It was like watching a more evil version of Dolores Umbridge in the flesh… Which is fitting, because the woman who thought Dolores up is also a hateful, anti-trans biggot.

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    “If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”

    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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    Here’s is my agenda as a trans person: I want to have a job and live in a house. In my state, there are no legal protections for either of those two things. I have been fired from a job when it was discovered I was trans; I was unable to access any form of dv shelter when my ex took advantage of that to financially control me.

    I don’t want to trans your kid. I don’t want to gawk at dudes in the loo. Just let me take my T and have a drivers license that won’t get me lynched if I’m driving through fucking Bokoshe.