In the face of ‘eradication’, one trans activist is preparing to fight – and she’s sick of silence and neglect from her supposed allies. Raquel Willis tells Io Dodds why Republican bathroom bans are everybody’s problem

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    18 hours ago

    Democrats were pretty cool about protecting trans people. But thanks to non-voters and $hill Stein voters (along with tens of millions of “low information” Trumpledorks), Trump has all three branches of government at his disposal.

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        17 hours ago

        What did they get in return?

        It’s politics, they got something, what was it?

        It doesn’t say? Huh. I wonder why.

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            16 hours ago

            then double fuck them, how about the military passes an audit before they get more tax money to hand over to billionaires.

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      18 hours ago

      The problem with democrats is that they always hold progressive action overhead like a carrot. “Vote for us, we’ll establish trans rights/universal healthcare/codify roe v wade!”.

      Then they don’t do it because they want to use it as a fundraising and election platform next go around. If they just did things when they had power people would be more willing to vote for them.

      And yes, I know that there are Republicans and independents blocking progressive action. But that doesn’t excuse the DNC from doing what I described above as well as constantly shitting on popular progressive candidates.

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      18 hours ago

      Not really, like their supposed protection of black people their protection of trans people is contingent on how the minority behaves.

      That’s not support, that’s blackmail.

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        17 hours ago

        Username checks out

        Not really, like their supposed protection of black people their protection of trans people is contingent on how the minority behaves.

        “Behaves”?? You mean votes? Yeah it is contingent on how people vote. See gestures to everything

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          No, behaves. Liberal darling Tim walz called the national guard on the Floyd protests long before any semblance of violence happened.

          If any minority protests a Democrat, they go back to their kkk roots faster than you can say southern strategy.

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            17 hours ago

            What the governor called out the National Guard to protect bystanders and property? In case things went south fast?

            Fascists, obviously. Well now I’m glad we lost. Whoever won will surely be much better for that.

            Speaking of - since they lost, why the long face? Shouldn’t we be celebrating? Hooray the sucky Democrats lost! They’re the worst! Down with the Democrats! Yaaaayyyy

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              11 hours ago

              Hey, thanks for proving my point, you’re the type of person I was talking about.

              I mean, yes massa, sorry massa, I won’t be voting for my interests any more massa, you get my votes now massa.

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      17 hours ago

      Were they, because they were a heck of a lot more anti-trans campaign ads from Democrats then some of y’all want to admit.