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Iowa Dem Josh Turek Releases Anti-trans Ad Calling For A Federal Funding Ban On Trans Care
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Oh go fuck yourself accelerationist. Go back to ml ya fuckin cartoon.
Bro I just want to turn the car around. You're the one arguing for the cliff.
Vote in the fuckin primaries you asshats. But you don't fuckin vote. Goddamn tankies on this shit platform.
I have voted in every election I have been eligible to vote in for the last 24 years. Including multiple primaries, caucuses, and every general, midterm, and special election.
The fuck are you smoking?
Explain how your solution doesn't just give power to the republicans.
Explain how voting for policy that would have been at home on a Republican ticket 2 years ago isn't just giving Republicans exactly what they want?
It's fucking ugly to demand that anyone vote for their own oppressors. Would ask a black person to vote for a Jim Crow candidate just because the other guy was a known Klansman? We are a cycle or two away from elected officials pushing for votes on legislation to chemically castrate trans people, and you're saying voting for oppression is OK as long as the oppressor's got the right color pin on.
If a politician makes it far enough along in the process to the point where we're only discovering he's a bigot the week before the election, my guy, the Republicans have already won. They either get the gal they want, or a guy who won't stand in their way.
To be extremely clear, we're specifically taking about Josh Turek verses Ashley Hinson, who's platform pages might as well be copy pasted from one another. The only difference being that Hinson actually shows up to vote sometimes.
Listen asshole I didn't give a fuck. This is Iowa. You vote against the republican or you support the republican. It's not my fault none of you fuckin people understand grade school civics. Our system sucks. Unless you want republicans to kill all the trans people, don't let them win any office anywhere. But none of you fuckers can understand any of that much less the concept of harm reduction. But you're not an ally if your principles give power to republicans. You can enjoy your principles while I'm being bussed to the camps. So go in motherfucker, explain how what you're doing doesn't let republicans win and then explain how that's the better turnout. Fucking idiot MAGAt traitors. Fucking morons thinking the parties are the same. I hope you're not too privileged to be insulated from the consequences you're insisting the rest of us feel. Fucking idiot both sides lemmy fuckin losers. You die like right away in your stupid fantasy revolution you know that right? Accelerationism just kills us all. And here I go wasting time with another fucking lemmy both sides bot. I hope you live in a deep red area in a deep red state and get exactly what you're asking for. Stupid fucking children.
How do you plan on doing that by Tuesday?