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Don't worry, the people who need to listen to this will take one look at this and say "Well, I'M voting with my HEART", because their heart tells them to do everything they can to enable fascism in the US.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2024
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This will also work for conservatives, though. They will imsist that the most vulnerable people are unborn children, therefore they should vote anti-abortion
Will = have been for decades and will continue to do so. Up next is contraception because they will act like unfertilized eggs are children next.
If every gamete is considered viable, then a wet dream is a catastrophic loss of human lives, so puberty blockers should be mandatory before marriage
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Idk.
On the one hand Trump might go to prison for the rest of his life if he loses this election.
On the other hand most of my policy goals are at least considered by Biden.
So I think I'll ignore you and happily vote to send Trump to prison.
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The struggling landlord who isn't even being tipped 😭
"I'm sure letting the fascists win chasing the rapturous dream that this time surely it will teach the DNC "its lesson" is 100% in the interests of that trans kid! And I get to make that judgement call because the list the fascists put out says how much further down the kill list I am from them!"
Children in the foster care system. Absolutely the most vulnerable. So few care. No parades. No flags. No days, or weeks. No corporate acknowledgement, sincere or not.
Go ahead and downvote me. They're used to it.
Go ahead and downvote me. They're used to it.
I was fully with you until this bit.
Go ahead and downvote me. They’re used to it.
When you downvote me, this is who you're really downvoting
One of the news stations in Texas has a "foster kid of the week" kind of article on their FB page. It's so sad, these kids just want a mom and dad that love them. Always a bunch of thoughts and prayers in the comments section.
As a person who participated as a parent in the foster system in Texas, I'm here to say that its about as abusive and dysfunctional as you could possibly imagine. Kids get shuttled between foster homes at the whim of state administrators. The entire focus of the program is to minimize how much they spend. The well-being of the children is an absolute afterthought. You can and will be sued by the agency if you voice any kind of complaint or try to act in the best interest of the child in your care. And even in the middle of said lawsuit, they'll try to assign you another kid, because their left-hand doesn't know what their right-hand is doing.
Its a physical, financial, and emotional pain machine for everyone involved. Absolutely nightmarish.
On the other hand, you have "domestic adoption" which amounts to a bunch of expensive private agencies doing all the things CPS is supposed to be doing while CPS officials provide a rubber stamp. Significantly less traumatic for the people involved. But because the private system is entirely funded by the adoptive parents, you're talking about spending $50-80k to cover the budgets of all these little independent agencies tasked with finding candidates, vetting households, and caring for expectant mothers.
The Texas model for adoption is the closest thing you can image to a full privatization of social services. It exists by, of, and for upper class predominantly white childless adults. I feel slimy every time I have to interact with it, and the only thing that keeps me going is the idea that I might be keeping some innocent kid out of the clutches of the disastrous public system.
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Them too! Absolutely.
IMHO foolish to focus on the most vulnerable rather than how most people are vulnerable in some way or another and putting foremost in policy messaging changes that would help large numbers of people.
I sympathize with the plight of trans folks and other smaller disadvantaged minority groups but half of Americans are barely making ends meet, and America is falling further behind in manufacturing, infrastructure and technology/research, all while bathroom bills and grooming narratives are decade+ old very effective wedge issues.
Help the most vulnerable certainly but put front and foremost how the vast majority would be helped if you want to motivate voters and win converts.
The most vulnerable people I know are being targeted by a campaign of genocide. How do I vote in their best interests?
Assuming you're talking about Palestine, probably the one that hasn't told donors that he plans to crush protests and deport demonstrators on the matter
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And disabled or chronically ill people!
I can't wait to be on the chopping block!
I mean, almost unironically, except that I would hate to give fascists any satisfaction.
Uhm...yeah. Everybody is against gender affirming surgery for minors.
Contrary to what right-wing media likes to claim, it doesn't happen.
What does happen for transgender youth is puberty blockers. That allows them to delay the hormonal changes of puberty so that they may make an easier physical transition, if they so choose, when they are an adult. In the meantime, trans girls can more easily tuck and won't develop a 5 o'clock shadow or deep voice, trans boys will not be growing breasts or menstruating, and both retain more a more gender-ambiguous frame.
But puberty blockers have other uses besides gender-affirming care, and they've long been proven incredibly safe and non-permanent.
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Literally nobody is performing gender-affirming surgery on minors. It's difficult enough to get as an adult lmao
I think they're vastly less than perfect and I don't want any of this for Americans but I want outright fascism less.
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Ever heard of Project 2025?
It calls for barring transgender people from the military and to stop what it considers the “toxic normalization of transgenderism” across the government and American society. It seeks to abolish the president’s Gender Policy Council, “which it views as promoting abortion and the ‘new woke gender ideology,’”
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The most vulnerable person is a black trans woman, she is also a conservative, I did not think people like her existed until I met her.
She's in the sunken place.
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The most vulnerable would probably be some kid in Gaza without access to clean water.
But I haven't met them.
Can I vote for them and, if so, who do I choose?
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