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No, it's not suspicious to make a new account and then use it. Especially when there are many new accounts being made on the website. Attack the merits of the conversation, don't default to this lame routine of "you are doing something which I have decided resembles the actions of a widely disliked group despite you having very clearly different values from that group".
Your exact quote was "I vote for democrats because they’re not actively working to take my rights away". You have rights besides the right to express your gender identity as you please. Those other rights, as I have very clearly expressed, have been and still are being taken away by Democrats. I don't need to know what you've been through to talk to you about the reality of police brutality in the world and the way which Democrats enable it.
Yes, the progress towards a third party would not be instantaneous. So we shouldn't bother starting anywhere, and should just concede defeat to the oligarchs who demonstrably own both parties?
What I'm doing is deciding that I'm not willing to endorse, by vote, continued murder both overseas and at home in the name of possibly preempting further persecution of a marginalized group. I believe the greatest "net good" for humanity should be the priority (second only to the preservation of nature), not a localized "net good" for communities I identify with or for my nation.
It's not performative lol, you don't even know who I am, what could I possibly have to prove here? Don't assume to be able to ascribe motives to me, and don't tell me I don't care about helping people just because I've decided bullets and bombs and for-profit murder are the more urgent evil than laws and vitriol and bigotry.