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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago

Cool. Then the Ohio Dems can suck an unwashed ass.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Infringing on free politcal speech is one of those few truly bipartisan issues, along with separating kids from their parents, protecting and participating in kid fucking, going after whistleblowers, allowing law enforcement to have no accountability and free reign to do whatever they want, and of course, supporting and sponsoring genocide against anyone israel says is scary or amalek this week.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Wait what? How would dems ban criticism? Full internet control?

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

Sternly written letter?

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Just one more reason why I left Ohio, and why I'll never live there again. Absolute shit hole.

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 7 points 9 hours ago

Streisand effect goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Seems there's always a line with the holders of conservative values of how far they'll go. Used to be it was black people, then it was gay people, now it's trans people.

[–] Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world 20 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Every day I hope the Democrats grow a pair and do better, and every day they not only find the bottom of the pit but proceed to start digging.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

The people digging that hole arent going anywhere. Our tent needs to have some rules, or we need to toss people out when they wont align. "Big tent" hasnt been working. Things like genocide, allowing birth control and womens right to choose, universal human rights, etc arent negotiable and if people dont like that they can get tossed from the tent and lose that D near their name. Right now the "D" means next to nothing.

You'll never get better from neo-liberals. They are essentially mercenaries for change, if you want something to change they have to be paid first or find a way to monetize it so they can make a buck off it.

[–] TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I've been accused of transphobia in the past (wrongly, I should add), and even I understand that you are talking to the mind not the body. How is this such a hard concept for these people?

[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Honestly they don’t even care.. theyre looking for power and trans people are an easy target due to people’s look against us and how small a minority cant fight back alone. Just as easily, once they claim that they can in fact hold power against one group of people- they’ll go to the next, then the next, then the whole shebang.. That’s why trans history is so short, people love to delete history to make themselves look better and trans history and trans rights are always the easiest one to erase due to us being the smallest of minorities, but the most abnormal to conservatives. Once they finish demolishing trans rights/hostory/activity, they’ll go for the gays, the bi, the lgbt as whole, they’ll go for smaller non christian religions, disabled people, immigrants, people of color, they’ll go for women, the poor, until only those in their ideal like mindedness are in power.

Then again they do love attacking all of us illegally, putting a little bow on it calling it democracy or justice or whatever. Idk if that makes us sound like a doomer but that’s just got they operate. We can fight them in legal court all day, but honestly we wonder how long it’ll take till the people snap.

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 134 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Banning criticism is nazi shit and so is transphobia. Fuck these assholes

[–] BadmanDan@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You’d be surprised how much Ohions prefer this

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I'm not surprised but I also think most people with these ideas don't actually believe them. They've been fed a line of bullshit about people with differences being their enemies. It should be our job to push back on it.

We should NOT pander to regressive bigoted bullshit for a crumb of power. It doesn't even work! These weak democrats sell out their people and lose the election anyway because they're spineless wimps. They don't stand for shit and that's why they lose. Shame on them.

[–] BadmanDan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I 100% agree. Dems don’t have to do this. Kamala literally gained more white support than Biden, Hillary and Obama 2012. Suburban White voters aren’t fleeing over trans stuff the way the media is trying to portray it.

But they’re winning the messaging battle.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago

“Banning criticism”???

FFFFffffuuuuuuuuuuuck that.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good! The LAST thing we Want is to Listen to our Constituents!

-Democrats who DONT UNDERSTAND why they Keep Losing to Socialists!

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“We can’t be the party of pronouns!”

Then what, the fuck, are you? Certainly not the party of the working class.

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

And why CAN'T we be the party of pronouns? What the fuck is wrong with respecting people's identities and pushing for positive change. I've had enough of this regressive bullshit from these losers.

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 28 points 1 day ago

Barbra Streisand has entered the chat.

[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Can the democrats stop worrying about shit like this and actually govern?

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

We don't call them the Texas of the Midwest for nothing.

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