Rightists need vulnerable minority groups to demonize to keep their base together. They are united only by fear and hate, so fabricating a common enemy out of a weak group of victims is the only way they can gain or hold power.
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Theyre hardcore xenophobes. If it looks different , its bad
It’s all they talk about. Truly is transgender for everyone’s.
I got a violation on reddit, on a sub someone posted about how there were 50 genders and he only slept with one, and had symbols for all the genders.
I just posted he seemed to be spending a lot of time thinking about transexuals banging.
Who knew triggering conservatives was against the rules? The ones crying the loudest about being cancelled see themselves as victims and justified in flagging everything that triggers them, that they don't like.
Just like vote theft. Convinced by their influencers the other guys are cheating they feel justified cheating to even the score. Unaware, or not caring that they were never the victims but the perpetrators, projecting on their victims.
Their politicians and media rail against moderation and put pressure on social media when their people get moderated against. Meanwhile the democrats are conservative and want the left cancelled as much as anyone. They have nothing but contempt and spite for the left, and crave the approval of the right. So social media ends up discriminating against the left.
Who knew triggering conservatives was against the rules?
A. Mitchell Palmer, for starters.
Conservatives don’t cancel, in their minds, because being cancelled is inherently unjust according to them. It’s unjust because it pretty much only happens to them as they’re the ones doing heinous shit to people, and they don’t pay attention when someone who isn’t openly conservative gets cancelled for bad behaviour.
They live in the alternate relaity built for them by their media and they lack the ability to pause when they hear something a little crazy and check it out.
Ok but why in the name of whatever, have they voted an male person that is a heavily makeup user. That is something that is normally only associated with transpersons. Where is my mistake...
They have Trans Derangement Syndrome. Most of them have never actually interacted with a trans person in their lives, but they’re fucking obsessed.
My aunt has a weird obsession with trans people. She told me in graphic detail how the surgeries work, apparently trying to argue it's gross and therefore morally wrong (even though all surgeries are gross) and I was just like "why do you know this?" Why did she go out of her way to research something she's so disgusted by? I don't even remember the details she told me.
And she is also distraught by the hypothetical idea of having to call her mother her father or call her father her mother. Neither of her parents have ever expressed any transgender tendencies and they never will because they're long dead now.
They spend a lot of time thinking about transexuals having sex. Perhaps ashamed of their own predilections I suspect. Just like we have seen time and again with these preachers railing against gay people the most, come to find out many rail the gays in more ways than one.
There just aren't that many trans people compared to how often conservatives make a big issue of them. And the number of times that a trans person has actually caused a tangible problem for other people in a way that is related to their being trans is even more rare. Not that it doesn't happen, but it might as well be a unicorn.
That's an easy way to tell for sure that they are using the issue as a distraction.
It's not really a distraction, IMO. The enforcement of gender norms is kind of essential for conservative ideology. The idea that someone can transgress or opt-out from the enforcement of their rules is anathema to them.
If people assigned female at birth can become male and vice-versa, then all of the biological essentialism they believe in, that women are one way and men another due to their inherent characteristics, is proven false. It's an important part of their ideology and without it a lot of other enforced heirarchies they care about inherently fall apart.
Sadly, a lot of the left is really naive to just how fucking evil these kinds of people are.
They worked hard to craft the narrative around trans people as the new sub-human scourge trying to destroy our nation etc. It was deliberate from the start, they picked a group that has low representation and low population, whom average people don't understand or connect with.
You don't fix this kind of thing with education, outreach and lecturing. You fix this with regime change. All of the transphobic chuds and all of the terfs have the attention-spans and emotional consistency of toddlers, that's why they were vulnerable to the narrative to begin with. If we had new leadership who, no matter what ideology they represented, said "trans people ain't a big deal and we ain't going after them" you would see vast waves of people lose interest and start looking for the next target to hate and scapegoat.
I dunno. Personally, I think both can be true. Project 2025, for example, was published in 2023 and went largely under the radar for months, likely making the rounds at CPAC. It wasn't until discovered a year later that the GOP was forced to go into damage control. It's obvious no one was supposed to know about it. So, yeah, all that transphobic hate they spew is no doubt genuine but it's probably hiding something more sinister as well.
The sinister part is control. They discovered long ago that giving people something to hate can bind them. The people pushing this agenda could give a shit either way about the people they designate as the enemy. It's why they so easily jump from one to the next. As soon as the current boogeyman isn't boosting their numbers enough, move on to the next boogeyman. They did this for years while slowly degrading education until people were too stupid they were being handled. It's structured evil controlling the cultivated stupid.
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Not distraction, scapegoat. Fascism needs an "others" demographic to blame for citizens' hardships, and they have realized that it's more effective to have multiple of them so voters can cherry-pick whichever they feel more strongly about.
Straight, cis men cause a hell of a lot more problems statistically than any trans person, yet we don't see Republicans calling for them to be banned.
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Well, "Americans" are right about that.
Fuck, I barely hear anything from Democrats or the left about trans except to A) acknowledge they exist and B) they have that right to exist.
Nearly every conversation about trans seems to be something initiated by the crazy, unhinged out of touch right wing. Same thing when it comes to things like furries and supposed litter boxes in schools....
It seems they moved on to feverishly thinking about trans nearly 24/7 now that gay marriage is no longer as politically divisive as it once appeared...they keep on trying to cast everyone else as being weird with dumb phrases like "what is a woman? can you define what a woman even is?" and other such tripe, trying to paint Democrats as being out of touch.
Fuck, I barely hear anything from Democrats or the left about trans except to A) acknowledge they exist and B) they have that right to exist.
I seem to recall a bunch of conservative Democrats insisting Transgender voters cost the party the 2024 election.
Do Republicants spend any of their waking hours not fretting and obsessing over the genitalia of strangers?
I feel that conservatives catch so much flak about all the child fucking that they think we would judge them for their non-destructive sexual interests. And that drives them to act out against things the pique their interests. Like, it's okay... no one cares. Except about the whole child fucking thing... stop doing that.
Gotta hate someone if you're a conservative.
Black people. Hispanic people. Immigrants in general (unless they're white). Gays. Trans. Furries. Doesn't matter. And they'll cycle through them too. Come back around a few years later to one they haven't focused on in a while.
Because they lead pathetic lives that aren't interesting enough, so they have to force themselves on other's lives.
Truly, they are wastes of oxygen.
Conservative mindset is that everything is in a hierarchy, the hierarchy is a Good and Natural thing to exist, and therefore even if you're not at the top, there Must be someone beneath you. And then trying to make their lives better puts the wrong people in the hierarchy, so they must be stopped. It's miserably sad I assume.
You don't need to assume. It's pretty obvious how pathetic it is even from the outside.
I have a trans younger sister and one of my brothers is dating a trans woman. My dad is pretty MAGA and I have to hear about my sister "deciding they were trans" after going to therapy at every family get together. Yes, they are definitely way too obsessed.
Only 32% of respondents said it wasn’t a problem.
I'm getting so sick of seeing that same number in every "Do you hate thy neighbor?"-type of survey
That's my go to response with anyone saying "you aren't conservative/republican/christian/religious" to me. No, sorry, I have better things to do than hate people I don't know.
I felt one huge let down when a parent told me that they voted for Trump because of trans athletes in school sports.
That was when I knew that they had another person in their life other than my other parent. They are still married. And this outside person is influencing one of them. I had suspected it, but now I see the influence this person has over my parent is scary.
Seriously! My wife and I are both very Pornographic when naked. We touch and lick each other's genitals frequently.
I've never brought any of this up to anyone at work. They don't know which way my penis curls or which of my balls may be larger than the other.
One thing I often never talk about with anyone at all ever is the fact that both my wife and I pee and poop from our genitals. We don't discuss or find it necessary to explain the size of our genitals to anyone or how big oir poop is or how far we can shoot our pee. None of this is public information.
Just imagine knowing if I shave my crotch or not. And if I did shave my crotch, what would you do differently with your life? Wouldn't you have to move states? How do your genitals affect your Life? How do other's genitals affect your life.
Its one of the smallest group of people they can demonize. They wouldn't want a large group that might demonize them. They've got that now too but it wasn't what they wanted.
I figure most of them will never cross paths with anyone LGBTQ+, and the rest are too dumb to realise that their best friend is.
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and others. get your own concerns and lives you sad, weird, boring fuckers. and by god, the dumbest mother fuckers who can believe in magic sky men and trickle down economics shouldn't have their greasy fingers anywhere near the controls of the ship I'm on
Republicans: Groceries are too high! Let's blame it on the trans!
conservatives are notorious for under reporting prejudice in surveys and also not responding to surveys
even if this article is right, Republicans still use anti-trans rhetoric and anti-trans policy to appeal to ignorant uneducated males of low socioeconomic status, and it works...
if you go far enough down on the totem pole of socioeconomic status and education, you find people who genuinely think that Democrats are trying to give all the money to the elites and don't understand that proposals for trickle down economics mean they, the lower class people, are going to get fucked. Because so many of these low education and low intelligence people can only vote emotionally, because they actually can't understand the economic issues, they get tricked by conservatives every time with emotional ploys about trans people and other bullshit...
Because if you're some tractor driver who went to Bob Jones university and can't understand things like monetary supply and federal interest rates and crowding out of private investment by government bonds and real prices and the problems of the CPI, you still may understand the myths of the Bible and that trans people "don't seem quite right" and you may laugh at "trans-insanity" insults and other things enough to connect with super rich people out to fuck you as hard as your ignorant brain will allow. And so if you're that type, you're going to vote Republican and then 2 years later complain about how it's unfair you're losing the farm and tractor.
It's not about how people rationally feel, this is about rhetorical mendacious trickery to confuse and dupe the stupid plus rage-bait wedge issues so that enough poor people vote with the rich so that both the lower and middle classes get fucked.
EVERYONE is too obsessed with trans folks on both sides. There aren't enough people in that bucket to have an ideology against OR build a political identity around. We got bigger fish to fry no matter what side of the aisle you're on. It sounds crass even to say and it doesn't feel like it's the case on Lemmy, but it's true. Less than 3 of 100 people.
Amen.
I hate how trans people have become a hate football for the left and the right to lob at each other. It is also utterly irrelevant to the broad issues in our society. It's just moral grandstanding for the vast majority of people and used as a moral purity test for either side. YOU ARE EITHER FOR TRANS PEOPLE OR AGAINST THEM. No, I am not for or against them anymore than I'm for or against anyone else of any minority, gender, race, or sexuality.
If we really want to make their lives better... well shut up about them and let them get stable jobs and housing. Fix the massive economic problems affecting 90% of the population. Something literally everyone needs and that's been hoovered up by the top 10% rich assholes who think nobody who isn't already rich should ever get a chance at having.
Ironically it's these same 10% who have made trans people the 'social issue' of our day. To distract us while they hoover up even more of the economy for themselves. Rich liberals and rich conservatives alike.
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You have a bad read here. It isn't you are either for trans people or against them... rather, it's you are either against trans people or against being against them.
No one is saying trans people need special treatment, just equal treatment. Sadly, the status quo isn't trans people being treated equally. "Shutting up about it" means you aren't against being against trans people. That people being treated as less than is fine in your eyes. It's not a social issue of the day, it's equality for human beings... I am sorry if that offends you.
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This is bad news for the Republicans, because all this hatred is intended to distract attention from how shamelessly the elite is enriching itself at the expense of the country - and also from other crimes, such as those documented in the Epstein files.
If their voters also realize that hatred of foreigners and the wars waged by the regime are one and the same thing, they will really have a lot to explain...
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