I keep having this conversation with straight white men that they are somehow perplexed by:

pteryx@dice.camp

@ariarhythmic @danirabbit
Allegedly, by gaining the votes of people who want rights taken away from people who didn't use to have them, as though *reasonable* people were voting for the fascists and wanting every human being to be treated like a human being were "unreasonable".

dresstokilt@mastodon.social

@danirabbit imagine telling them "if we want to beat Biden, we're going to ha e to concede on gun rights."

davew@mastodon.online

@danirabbit Where there is no vision the people perish

tadbithuman@mastodon.social

@danirabbit same when people questioned the Democratic party not responding to attacks on trans people or attacking people against genocide and demonization of those very people.

paco@infosec.exchange

@JessTheUnstill I don’t understand why white men are afraid to be a minority. Does this country treat minorities badly? I’m pretty sure the white guys said we don’t.
@danirabbit

cdunnpasadena@sfba.social

@danirabbit For some reason, republicans see the path to power as always demanding what their base wants. Democrats, though, think that their path to power is betraying their base. It is infuriating

grumpybozo@toad.social

@JessTheUnstill @danirabbit I don’t think it’s even that. Maybe 30% tops. White people are 62%and that implies about 27%…

The idea that we are The Norm is bonkers.

jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange

@grumpybozo @danirabbit They're not even a plurality. There's more women than men.

grumpybozo@toad.social

@JessTheUnstill @danirabbit Exactly. That’s even counting all the closeted eggs as men.

jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange

@grumpybozo @danirabbit Yeah but that goes both ways, both closeted trans men and trans women.

purplerabbit@goo.dgirl.gay

@danirabbit it's so fucking easy to say when it's not your rights or the rights of anybody you actually care about on the line. Because nothing is going to change for him, he feels like nothing is going to change at all. He doesn't live these things, so they are all just little variables to him.

rozeboosje@masto.ai

@danirabbit

Please don't get me wrong. I agree with how you feel. 100%

The problem is that come election time you are presented with two choices. One is fascist. The other is really, really bad. And you WILL get one or the other. So you use your vote to limit the damage.

It's shit. It's utter fucking unacceptable CRAP. But on voting day your vote is your weapon of choice. On the other 1430 days between votes, do everything else you can to get better politicians.

I'm glad I'm not in the USA

rantingcanuck@mstdn.ca

@sstendahl @danirabbit

The same phenomenon exists in Canada as well; although I don't feel that it's a mater of can't win elections, because polls constantly point to wide spread public support for politically left policies, but more a matter of those who seek political power adopting the name of a political philosophy that can get them that power without actually believing in that same philosophy.

Thus when they do gain power they never implement the philosophy in question, revealing their true beliefs, and then as a consequence the philosophies in question become viewed in negative lights.

robinadams@mathstodon.xyz

@danirabbit Heard it put "How can you possibly vote for the Republicans who actively want to screw you over, instead of the Democrats who have no choice but to screw you over?"

pawsplay@dice.camp

@danirabbit If someone is selling away my rights, I want to know what I personally am getting out of it. Compromise yes, surrender no. Negotiation yes, capitulation no. Progress, yes, appeasement, no. If you can get me one more inch in the trenches, I'll take it. If you ask me to go back, I will never.

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I keep having this conversation with straight white men that they are somehow perplexed by: