Trans journalist Erin Reed has published a list of Democratic midterm candidates with anti-trans records, and the question she is forcing is one the party would rather not answer: if trans voters keep rewarding Democrats who harm them, what signal does that send? The calculation is real, the stakes are high, and there is no clean answer.

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[–] 4 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I agree with you! To quote myself from another, now deleted thread:

You gotta get the pro-trans candidate in the primary. If you wait to look up if your candidates are anti-trans until right before the general then you waited too fucking long.

Waiting until after the primary to realize that both candidates are anti-trans is like waiting until your house is already on fire to consider if you should buy fire extinguishers. Voting for the shitty Democrat is painful but letting the even shittier Republican who also hates immigrants too win is like adding gas so that your neighbor's house will burn too.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Talarico changed his position after the primary.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (4 children)

    Talarico wasn't properly vetted before the primary.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (3 children)

    How convenient. There's always an excuse. Anything to avoid the conclusion that sometimes you need to be willing to vote against traitors in the general.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (2 children)

    Last time you posted for that you got clowned on so hard that you deleted your whole post.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    "Mod deletes article."

    Mouth-breathing liberal: "you ran away like a coward!"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Credit where credit is due, I went through your moderation history and you are correct and I apologize. Furthermore I think a bunch of the other stuff that got deleted is actually pretty cool too. I really wish you would stop effectively suppressing trans and progressive votes. I know your heart is in the right place (and same for TRAHR, the OP) but at the end of the day when fascists disenfranchise trans people (gerrymandering, ID troubles, mail in suppression, etc.) and when you tell trans people not to vote the result is still the same: trans people have less of a voice and worse fascists getting more power with less pushback.

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