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South Jersey. Likes tech, Trek, music, urbanism, craft beer, and other random things.
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@seanferrick.bsky.social I'm hoping you get the chance to make it out here, you deserve the opportunity to experience it in person. Appreciate everything you do!
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To make things worse, the right jumps on the bad behavior of the online far left to try to paint some sort of "both sides are bad" argument geared at suburban moderates, and sadly, it works. Meanwhile, even the most progressive people in Congress are not even close to the badly behaving far left.
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I have had some friendships get strained because they themselves have to reckon with MAGA people in their families. Some have weird takes and/or downplay issues, almost as a defense mechanism to the realization that their parents, that they love, lack critical thinking and got lost to the cult.
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I'm trying to figure out if they don't understand the difference between gender and sex or if they chose to never learn the difference because it's easier to just be ignorantly hateful.
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If her goal is to better educate democrats so they can properly speak on trans issues, then I support that. Many people truly don't know the differences between sex, gender, and sexual orientation, etc. Ignorance can lead to conclusions and misunderstandings that inadvertently hurt trans people.
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What democrats/liberals need is a better education so they themselves can properly speak on trans issues. I don't think people truly understand the differences between sex, gender, and sexual orientation. Lumping things together can lead to assumptions and misunderstandings that hurt trans people.
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My thoughts exactly. Just like what DeSantis did with New College of Florida, this is just going to make this school no appealing to many people.
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Of course he does! They want a repeat of the protests during 2020. They loved that chaos; it was fuel that let them talk about "crime ridden cities" all the way through the 2024. Not to mention the ugliness of the protests turned off a lot of suburbanites from progressives. It sucks but it's true.
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It's a real gut punch and so sad to be living in the US knowing how manipulated people so much of our population is. Not the majority by any means, but [thanks to gerrymandering and voter suppression] enough to elect the people that are taking us down.
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I don't think he is completely correct here, BUT the perception among some people is that he is correct. Particularly with crime in cities, which is down (the article is incorrect). The media misleads people, so when dems say things aren't that bad and getting better, they are made out to be liars.
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This is reassuring but still concerning. Who decides what is unlawful? What happens if someone's commanding officer is a Trump loyalist, who do they listen to?