2026-09-09 06:39 UTC
And that’s why Democrats who want to win will lean in on differentiating issues like this and do the fucking work to make cis people care about it.
Pulling out my evergreen A R Moxon quote…
The way out of our present age of political violence is not scolding “we have to live here with one another,” at those who are not threatening anyone’s life, at those whose very existence supremacists refuse to accept. Rather the way out is standing between supremacists and their targets and telling them “no, you have to live with them, just like we live with you, and if you can’t do that, then you have a problem with us, too.” It’s turning to those who just aren’t comfortable with trans people and saying "we don’t negotiate about people’s rights over here, and if you want to see how hard we’ll fight for you against the billionaires and bosses who are robbing you blind, watch how hard we fight for them. If hating trans people is so important to you that you’re willing to get robbed to death to secure it, we aren’t the party for you.
You know what? I think that message might just build a coalition.
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@story@lemmy.zip 2026-09-09 07:45
this would be so cool if we didn’t all have to die. i hope this catches on. we are really good programmers and storytellers so i think losing us will make you sad
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@Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-09 09:17
I feel like making cis people care is probably not the angle. I think that making cis people not afraid is the angle. Put out ad campaigns directly countering the anti-trans fearmongering, showing how wrong and ridiculous it is and how trans people are actually not scary at all. It’s difficult to make people care when they feel threatened, which is why their campaigns focus on fear, but the truth is against them because there truly is nothing to fear.