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Help me out here. Are you suggesting that I’m having an irrational response to Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric? Should trans people - for example - not be afraid of a Trump presidency?
Please be specific. What threats has Trump made against trans people?
Nearly half of Americans think members of the opposing political party are evil
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#32No surprise here, I think this trend started with Clinton and got worse and worse. I also think it was kind of "planned" by the 2 political parties. They discovered contributions from the "regular folk" would increase if they demonized the other side. Because they like money more than people, the demonizations got worse and worse. As time went on, some politicians got very good at this and some started to believe the…
I think it started further back - with Democratic attacks on Reagan.
(Nixon was a whole different deal. Yes, the Democrats - among others - attacked him, but that wasn't just party politics.)
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https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-trump-transgender/
Policies, laws, and funding changes they definitely do not want, agreed. I thought you were talking about threats of violence.
You don’t see how those changes backed up with eliminationist rhetoric might be considered threatening?
Ok then. Enjoy your life.
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#36With both sides being deeply corrupt, I'm supersized that number isn't higher.
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We can agree that Trump lost the election. But there are some additional facts that apply to the sentiment that the election was, at least, unfair. The suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, which demonstrated influence peddling (at best) on the part of Hunter and Joe, had it become widely known before the election, would likely have influenced an estimated 1 million votes. The Google suggestion and search man…
And on the topic of lost votes and such, maybe also abandon first past the post principle and make every vote count? BTW: Trump lost not by 88 thousand votes but by 7 million votes and almost managed to manupulate himself into office. Talk about unfair.
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Policies, laws, and funding changes they definitely do not want, agreed. I thought you were talking about threats of violence.
You don’t see how those changes backed up with eliminationist rhetoric might be considered threatening? Ok then. Enjoy your life.
Males might feel threatened while imposing themselves without consent on women's and girls' spaces? Sounds great to me. Hope it scares them off even trying.
Re: Nearly half of Americans think members of the opposing political party are evil
#39No surprise here, I think this trend started with Clinton and got worse and worse. I also think it was kind of "planned" by the 2 political parties. They discovered contributions from the "regular folk" would increase if they demonized the other side. Because they like money more than people, the demonizations got worse and worse. As time went on, some politicians got very good at this and some started to believe the…
Look up the powell doctrine...it created neoliberalism and the idea of using fringe issues to divide the country so they could hold control.
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#40Eh, there's worse then thinking the members of the opposing party are evil. I think there's a view common to both sides that the says the people voting for the opposition are something like indoctrinated dupes.
Nominally that should be a more charitable view but I've seen enough of it in practice to think it more toxic.