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[–] 63 points 1 month ago (32 children)

Oh look. Yet another article post primary election to convince people not to vote so the Republican wins the general election.

If you don't vote you're a moron.

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    [–] 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    So tired of seeing my congressperson on every one of these lists. I voted against them in the primary, but in the general election my other choice will be someone who openly supports Trump.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That is, alas, the way. Support better candidates when you have the chance, and vote against fascism and genocide when able.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago

    Fact. Not voting might succeed in teaching Dems a lesson about how important it is to vote for bills that contain pro-trans legislation and against bills that contain anti-trans legislation.

    But do you want to know what not voting is far better at? Giving Republicans the power to end us.

    Early election begins in two weeks. Not voting Democrat = voting to exterminate trans people. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either confused or wants us to die.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    As a trans person I beg you, do not listen to my sister, Erin. She is not thinking clearly or responsibly about what will happen to us if Democrats lose.

    If you would like to protest on our behalf, please don’t do it by not voting.

    A Republican victory costs the community one seat for one term

    No. Republicans plan to “end” us. Letting them win costs us our very lives.

    Even if that weren’t the case, we are not so selfish as to sacrifice other people, and our planet, just to prove a point.

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    [–] 27 points 1 month ago (16 children)

    Many, myself included, have argued against voting for the worst offenders on this list even where it means a Republican takes the seat.

    Fascists love your strategy and support.

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    [–] 23 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    It’s not an anti-trans Democrat. It’s a Republican who ran as Democrat

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    [–] 23 points 1 month ago (75 children)

    Stupid advice. Post primary season, vote for the democrat, no matter who, because as hideous as some of them are, they're better than the republican alternative, and we're voting to take back the majority.

    Think of the big picture.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    Think of the big picture.

    This is the big picture. If we allow them to capitulate on human rights, there is no coming back from that.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (12 children)

    The VBNMW crowd got us to where we are. Despite liberals wildest fantasies the DNC is a right wing party that continues to shift further to the right with every VBNMW vote. You've taught them they can do whatever they want, pass the most opppressive laws, and you will keep coming back

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    The VBNMW crowd got us to where we are.

    Common opinion, but incorrect. The longterm near-complete lack of voter turnout in primary elections, especially Democratic primaries, especially outside presidential election years, and especially by all but the elderly, is by far the greatest predictor of the rightward political shift of the DNC, because it essentially abdicated agenda-setting power over which candidates end up on the ballot to DNC elites.

    General election voter turnout has almost zero effect on the policies adopted by future candidates. Not voting in a general election, especially if you did not vote in the primary, is quite likely the worst possible way to communicate your preference as a voter.

    If you didn’t participate in the primary, attempting to “take a stand” in the general by not voting is utterly ambiguous. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. There are any number of reasons you might have stayed home. The primary election was your chance to say why.

    But let’s say you did participate in the primary, and can safely assume your reasons were recorded. It remains that, by not voting, you join the elgible-non-voter category of the population (majority of the electorate in most US elections) for an election cycle. Since those who don’t vote in one election are more likely to not vote in the next, future candidates have less incentive to consider the non-voter’s political concerns.

    All to say, the general election is not the place to communicate your values, especially if you do so by not voting, and especially if you didn’t participate in the primary election. It works against you, against those you care about, against our planet, and may god have mercy on your soul QED

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    [–] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Democrats only care about the marginalized as far as it keeps them in power. They say idle while Republicans passed over 500 anti trans laws across the country. They talk a big game while they throw the game to Republicans

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    I’m seriously considering moving to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez‘s district and challenging her seat. She’s part of the “Blue dog coalition” and votes like she’s MAGA, she’s not any more qualified to do the job than I am, frankly I’m more qualified because she has no actual qualifications.

    Edit: I’m from her state just an hour north, not just some rando

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    [–] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I live in a Republican state (trying to get out), and I just had to watch 3 anti-trans commercials in a row. Hating trans people is fucking catnip to these people.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Yeah it feels like most states it's VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO, and a few are so safely Blue that you can vote for like Communist Party and still not have the GoP win

    When it's a choice between "might try to kill trans people" and "Definitely will try to kill trans people" then you have to pick the lesser evil.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

    hate looking at the comments for these pieces, its always full of people that think me and my sisters exist to farm votes and telling us to enjoy the camps when we dont want to associate with people that betray and genocide us

    edit: real curious what the people who are pissed at me for these comments thought about the women who came out with the accusations against Platner

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    [–] 6 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    The number of people arguing trans people should compromise and vote for people who actively take away their rights is disturbing

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    I get it, but most of us here from the US are not single issue voters. From my viewpoint the democrats controlling Congress stops or at least slows laws harmful to the trans community, plus a lot of other harmful things compared to republicans.

    Or people sit out and you get the republican agenda all the way. No good options.

    I see many commenters wishing to accelerate the decline of the US (understandable but also fuck you) but it’s also a good reminder that the fights for gay rights, worker’s rights, and more took decades.

    Shit even MLK day took near 20 years to be recognized and his family had to fight tooth and nail for that.

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