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Hexchan tankies are voting Trump?? 😳 (lemmygrad.ml)
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I’ve been having a number of conversations on Hexchan recently trying to make sense of their politics. The most common instance of their hateful hypocrisy I’ve encountered is this constant assurance that they support trans people while immediately attacking and dog piling and trans people who point out that the situation would be much worse under Trump.

The hexchanners who aren’t actively Russian trolls seem to be little more than useful idiots for conservatives, minimizing the damage they do to vulnerable populations and engaging in high school level pettiness and hate.

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

All these anti trans laws are already happening under DaBiden but yeah flattened-bernie vote maybe-later-kiddo most important harm reduction of our lifetimes. maybe-later-honey

let's keep doing the same porky-happy thicc-trump biden-troll thing over and over wall-talk

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

All these anti trans laws are already happening under DaBiden

The best summary looks to me like:

  • State-level Republicans are aggressively passing anti-trans bills
  • State-level Democrats are occasionally passing trans protection bills
  • National-level Republicans are banging the table for anti-trans bills
  • National-level Democrats (collectively, at least) are unable/unwilling to pass national trans protection legislation
  • A rabidly reactionary judiciary (certainly at the federal level) is eroding protections that exist, and salivating at the prospect of more damage; Democrats have no answer to this
  • Rank-and-file Republicans range from making attack helicopter jokes to genocidal jokes
  • Rank-and-file Democrats range from making attack helicopter jokes to doing meaningful work supporting trans people

You could say much the same for abortion, too.

There are some differences, but not nearly enough, and it's easy to see how one person can look at this and say Dems are obviously better (focusing on state stuff, rank-and-file attitudes, proposed national legislation) while another can look at this and say whatever Dems are doing (focusing mostly on national politics and losing the judiciary) is not nearly enough.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i would just order the military extrajudicially execute transphobes with drone strikes, because i was legally authorized to drone strike US citizens that are part of terrorist movements shrug-outta-hecks

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"BUT BIDEN CAN'T JUST MURDER THE SUPREME COURTERINOO!"

rage-cry

Why? Why not? No one gave a shit when Obama was hunting down and murdering American children, why do you care when it's a bunch of crusty old fascists?

"BIDEN CAN'T JUST BLACK BAG MANCHIN AND SHOW HIM LIVE FEED OF HIS DAUGHTER'S CAR FROM A PREDATOR DRONE!>!!>!!"

Why not? He can drop hellfire missiles on weddings and ambulances, slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians in Yemen, and god knows what other atrocities, but one pharma crook is off limits? Why?

We're going to vote Blue in '24, and Blue isn't going to do shit. The Democrats have always had options.

[–] jabrd@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

A country that took itself seriously would’ve lined up and shot members of the GOP after Jan 6th just to prove a point

[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

The difference is us-foreign-policy

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's a good bit, but presenting "drone strike the Supreme Court" as a legitimate option is silly.

If you want a take along those lines but realistic, ask libs why Biden hasn't nationalized the Texas National Guard and torn down the horrific shit we're doing at the border.

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[–] duderium@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Whatever support Democrats give to trans people is nothing compared to the money they dump on the transphobic fascist police and military. The Democrats and Republicans represent the same class interests. They might sometimes talk a different way, but the policy outcomes are indistinguishable.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Every Republican nominee is going to be a knock-off Trump, and every Democratic nominee is going to be a knock-off Obama.

That's just how it's gonna be from here on out.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Throwback to when Hillary supporters accused Bernie voters of switching to Trump in the general, and when they ran the numbers, finding that Bernie primary voters had one of the highest party loyalty rates, and that an alarming number of Hillary primary voters backed McCain in the general in '08.

Edit: Wait, this is the comment I make that ratios the OP and becomes my most upvoted comment of all time? How does that make sense?

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

To be fair '08 was her turn planet-hillary

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[–] DroneRights@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Voting takes one day every 4 years. It's the bare minimum. Anyone who spends their time explicitly telling leftists to alienate themselves from that decision making process is a loser. That's what the Nazis want you to do, that's why they're trying to stop black people from voting. You could be out doing praxis instead of helping out the Nazis. Go arm your comrades, go paint a bike lane, go bring a gun to defend a drag queen storytime.

I have no problem with people who say that voting isn't enough and that we need to do more, or that the liberal parties are responsible for the conditions that lead to fascism.

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I sure as shit don't feel any more safe than when Trump was in office, almost like there's a larger societal political thing going on that's not contingent on one person. Thanks to Biden for...

checks notes

saying he supports us.

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[–] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Russian trolls

useful idiots

minimizing the damage they do to vulnerable populations

radlib democrat NPC dialog lol

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[–] MCU_H8ER2@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Gimme your toothbrush, libs

chavez-guns

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Why do people act like they need to "make sense of our politics?" We're open with our politics and we never shut up about it lol.

We aren't hiding anything about us being communists, anarchists, and other socialists. As much as we have divergent view points in this non-sectarian space, we're pretty cohesive and coherent on the broad strokes.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children) 
'ate capitalism
'ate NATO
'ate the libs
'ate the chuds

luv communism
luv trains
luv me global proletariat
luv me trans comrades

Simple as
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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

trump would be a distant memory and his political project would have imploded in 2016 if not for the massive support he receives daily from... online fake leftists.

since the world is ruled entirely by a High Court of Ideas in the Mind Palace of America, when these FAKE leftists shit on biden with their memes, it's the same as sponsoring state violence against minorities. actually it's worse.

biden-troll
Biden-Harris 2024:
Everything Else
Is Literally A Pogrom, JACK

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I voted for Trump in four different states

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

they literally hear criticism of the left wing of capital as support for the right wing of capital lol hopeless

[–] Spike@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

seem to be little more than useful idiots for conservatives

Says person who does nothing to oppose conservatives

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"voting blue won't save you from fascism"

"OH SO YOU'RE SAYING TRUMP WILL??!?!?!?!?!!?!"

:this: is what liberalism with bazinga brain characteristics does to a mf

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

for some reason only republicans and democrats exist in their brains

[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

i wrote in hillary in 2020 what more do these people want from us

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