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Gavin Newsome said yesterday that we should stop using pronouns btw. None of these people care about anything and would throw any marginalized group under the bus if the were told it would bring them a polling bumpFocusing on solutions to the issues that affect most people is what wins elections. All the pronouns in the world and leftists still won’t vote for Democrats in national elections because they can feel more self righteous by endlessly purity testing them over 2% differences in opinion. Please just go make your own party.
Nothing I do is performative and everything is focused on actually improving outcomes. This is why you didn’t see me doing completely ridiculous things like voting for Jill Stein over Gaza. The only people who think Democrats are adopting far right policies are commie fucking losers. Which, I reiterate, need to fuck off out of my party and go be worthless somewhere where they aren’t influencing liberals goals.
You’re hallucinating my positions, for one thing. “Don’t make this a banner issue because it’s unpopular enough to decide national elections” does not mean “Abandon the issue and the people it affects.” It means “Do not constantly screech on every platform imaginable about trans rights to the detriment of literally every electoral goal you have including trans rights.”
I’m genuinely not sure what makes you believe this aside from just being a brainrotted tankie who pays no attention to polls. Abolishing ICE is a mainstream/majority position among Independents and Democrats. But it’s easy for you to say “Democrats support this” when you engage in the exact sort of aim-gun-at-foot politics that prevents Democrats from ever gaining the margins that actually let them implement their agenda.
This is pretty precisely what I mean. You have zero capacity for strategic political thought and your priorities do not include harm reduction. You would rather accomplish nothing when you don’t have the power to accomplish everything you want, let Trump rule by edict so you can sit on YikYak and say “Well, I didn’t vote for him.”
There is very obviously a training issue. That is not the larger issue, but the larger issue can’t be solved right now. Seven Democrats (six of you don’t count Fetterman) broke with leadership to fund DHS/ICE and were lambasted by the entire party, primary challengers are not letting them forget it.
I can’t tell if this is a bit or if you’re genuinely this fucking stupid, neither would surprise me, but since I have zero incentive (in fact, a disincentive) to you participating in Dem primaries, I will not try to convince you that there are current Democratic primaries occurring. Good day.
It *is* a mainstream position against democrats and independents. It’s also a position utterly rejected by Democratic politicians like Newsom, Schumer, Jeffries etc. The people want to abolish ICE (or even the whole DHS) and conservative Dems say “uhhh let’s give them $75b dollars if they pinky promise to wear body cams.
There was a primary prior to the 2024 election, which Joe Biden won handily, and when he dropped out of the race the options were open convention or align behind a candidate. The DNC chose the latter. It may piss you off to realize that you’re literally playing into the literal stupidest conservative talking points imaginable, but party processes were followed at every step whether you want to admit it or cry about it.
“When the sitting incumbent was given the primary win” You mean when anyone who wanted to run against him ran and failed to break 10%? If he’d died in May 2024 none of you would be saying shit, stop doing the GOP’s propaganda work for them and shut the absolute fuck up if you don’t even know the party’s nomination procedures.
He didn’t define culturally normal but the example he gave was focusing less on pronouns. If I had to guess he’s saying most Americans don’t engage with the dynamics of non binary or trans pronouns. They do engage with table top issues which is what he said we should focus on. Idk why we would think that’s supposed to be a dog whistle.
Why are you assuming he’s referring to your rights. We’re assuming so many weird things to make this statement bad. He said nothing about your rights when he elaborated on the phrase. It’s fine to say a thing is a dog whistle but you have to contextualize why you think it’s a dog whistle otherwise probably almost any statement could be construed as a dog whistle.
How am I supposed to prove a negative lol what? I’m supposed to prove his statement isnt coded language to anti trans people how would I possible prove that? I already told you what it probably meant. No he didn’t when did ever say his support was a mistake? pls show me. He’s not making homophobic comments the burden of proof for that is on you not me.
It’s literally just a factual statement? Biden was clearly unfit for office, and yes the DNC keeps pivoting to the right. For fucks sake the heir apparent of the DNC (Gavin Newsom) is literally saying that his early support for gay marriage was a mistake, that we need to abandon LGBT rights to be a more “normal culture”, and let us not forget that his son “loved” Charlie Kirk, arguably the most famous white supremacist of the 21st century.
He was literally expressing that he gets why other politicians waited to support gay marriage (i.e. that it was a bad move on his part, but which fortunately worked out). The man is a sociopath, he makes it extremely clear he believes in absolutely nothing. In the same interview he said we’ve gone way too far with transgender equality for instance, referring to his song bringing certain instances to his attention. Watch the interview. Oh and also watch the Charlie Kirk interview, where he says
I voted for Kamala Harris. I will vote for Gavin Newsom if he is the nominee. If Gavin Newsom is the nominee we are almost guaranteed to lose and I will end up in a concentration camp, so unfortunately I won’t be able to say “I told you so” when running an amoral, sociopathic neolib fails once again, because the average voter is basically cattle, and will always prefer sincere evil over evil insincere good.
No he’s not I can send you an interview where Gavin clarifies his statements during the Charlie Kirk interview and explains that his son isn’t a fan he’s just familiar with him. Literally this “his son was a fan” talking point came from rightwing podcasters who reacted to the interview.
Blatant lying is when you analyze what people say and what it means instead of twisting yourself into knots to give them an unearned charitable interpretation. Explain to me how calling LGBT equality not a “real issue” isn’t reactionary, in a climate where the other side literally talks about “eradicating” them and gets applause for it?
Literally google it, I just pulled it up in a clip from WAAY 31 News and it’s right at the start of the video. He literally describes his son jumping up and down excited about the prospect of Kirk coming, and then insisting he has to skip school to be there for his interview with Kirk. And then after that Newsom claims he was “just familiar”. Does that sound like just familiarity? Afterwards news continues to marvel at how much his son “knows” about a bunch of other far right media figures.
You can’t send links here dumbass. We’re talking about the ABC interview. “we need to be less prone to spend a disproportionate amount of time on pronouns… identity politics. more focused on table top issues. *things that really matter*”. Democrats literally don’t talk about pronouns or identity politics, basically at all. These issues are in the current discussion politically entirely because Conservatives are obsessed with them. Why is he embracing the far right’s framing of the issue here?
Two separate issues? You’re on the wrong chain. He literally presents “identity politics” (the right wing’s term for any sort of social progressivism) as opposite to “things that really matter”. You don’t see the significance in saying this when the entire GOP platform is based on racism, homophobia and transphobia? There’s no value in refuting that nonsense or more importantly in protecting the rights of the millions of people that are affected by those issues?
Do we seriously think a 12 year old is hard core conservative? Couldn’t he just see Charlie Kirk memes and want to see him bc of that or his friends know Charlie or some bs bc he’s 12? And even if we grant that he was a fan, does that mean Gavin is pro conservative bc his 12 year old son is a fan of Charlie Kirk? Ignoring the fact you just blatantly lied.
because that’s what it means in the current political climate? he’s literally using right wing language to describe what he objects to about purported democratic stances, what does he have some special unique definition of his own? when conservatives cry about identity politics that’s what they mean.
Ok so we don’t know what identity politics mean. Identity politics is usually when your policy or rhetoric is aimed at a specific identity group instead of broad political body of some kind. You can have identity politics that’s trying to appeal to white cis people it’s not exclusive to progressive things.
So one important human rights issue that is kind of politically irrelevant (bathroom bills aren’t particularly popular, they’re literally a losing issue for the GOP because their voters are bored of it), and two nonissues that exist entirely in the minds of mentally ill conservatives? Why is he ceding ground like this? You don’t see any issue in him confirming the false picture of the DNC that Republicans present, because that’s basically what he’s saying.
Nope I said the bathroom debate is a stupid culture war issue that no one gaf about. You literally said it was non issue. I’ll pretend to be you so you understand how much of a dipshit you are “so you think trans rights are a non isssue??” You have to try so desperately to find evil intent in every statement so you can keep living in this wacky world You live in.