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"It is a complicated issue. It is truly a complicated issue, with a wide range of views, truly a wide range of views," Jean-Pierre said. "There is no 'yes or no' answer to this, it is complicated. There is a rule that the Department of Education [DOE] has put forward, and we're going to let that process move forward, and again, we want to make sure that while we establish guardrails with this rule, we also prevent discrimination, as well, against transgender kids. But again, a complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that."

"Absolutely no reason for the Biden admin to do this," New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote. "It is indefensible and embarrassing. The admin can still walk this back, and they should. It's a disgrace."

"Honestly, this move by Biden to push a rule on trans kids in sports is not only a backwards betrayal, it [forces] us to have to spend our time dealing with god d*** sports instead of criminal bans on our healthcare," Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate, wrote. "He could have just done nothing. This is legitimizing transphobia."

The mOsT PrOgReSsIvE Administration in History™ funny-clown-hammer "A complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that" funny-clown-hammer Fuck off out of here with that "centrist" nonsense. There's nothing complicated about it, and it's not an issue unless you want to turn it into one and want to appeal to people's emotions like Republicans are doing. It was only a matter of time before they'd start throwing trans people under the bus. I guess with the coming elections it's as good a time as ever.

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[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 86 points 2 years ago

adding this to the long list of reasons im not voting for biden again when libs ask. my go-to is always “that fucker still owes me $600!”

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

So, you think voting for a Republican or not voting is going to get the job done?

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 61 points 2 years ago

no, democrats have demonstrated repeatedly that they are unwilling to do anything. you would be a fool to vote for them over and over again after seeing their incompetence and unwillingness to even slightly push back against the reactionary policies being enacted under biden

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

The Democratic Party has room for improvement, sure, but it's also the only party with room for improvement. On this issue, not voting is the same as voting for a Republican. That surely won't get you any improvement.

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 53 points 2 years ago

The Democratic Party has room for improvement

Yes and this it the room barbara-pit

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago

no, not voting is just not voting. voting for the republican party is voting for the republican party. and from where im standing, the difference between dems and republicans is negligible. the dems arent offering any “improvement”

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

The Republicans are salivating over the prospect of you not voting. Exactly what they want.

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 53 points 2 years ago

further exploiting and oppressing the working class is exactly what the republicans want. and the dems are united w them in that

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Thise two parties are nothing alike.

[-] robinn2@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago

Both support US imperialism, both support killing homeless people, both support exploiting workers, both support and uphold slave owners (our great founders)/American history which inspired Nazism, and clearly neither genuinely support LGBTQ people.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1912/nov/09.htm

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago

You're right

Conservatives stab you in the face

Liberals slip it into your spine

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago
[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Screw the Poor and Old

Hey now, they screw the young too

didnt-kill-himself

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

how are they different when theyre both capitalist neoliberal warmongers

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Who broke the rail strike? Who bombed the Balkans?

[-] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Except for the acknowledged bipartisan policy consensus

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

there's a famous line that the US is a one party state but in typical American extravagance, we have two of them. both parties serve capital. you are not the core demographic of either party. they can and will fuck you over if it makes their benefactors a quick buck. the Republicans move the political needle rightwards and the Democrats act as a ratchet to prevent any kind of real left politics in this country. both parties must be destroyed.

[-] GrumpigPoopBalls@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago

the dems are salivating over the prospect of useful idiots like you voting for them election after election after decades of failing to deliver on any of their promises because "it's complicated." Exactly what they want.

[-] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The dems also. The less voters they less they have to spend on marketing. Imagine if they proposed one popular thing. They would have the election in the bag. That is all it would take, one broadly popular position. They are so opposed to democracy that people generally being in favor of a thing is not reason enough for them to enact a policy. They would rather spend donation money proping up GOP candidates than legalizing weed nationally or whatever.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago

The Democratic party doubled Trump's deportation numbers, gave the police record funding and has now ceded trans rights to the right

There is no room for improvement and no point in voting in national elections, we warned you motherfuckers but you didn't listen, now eat shit dem

[-] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 2 years ago

Ah yes, not voting for fascist Zionists is the same as voting for fascist Zionists. There is no real difference between the two parties

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Actually since the democrats are republicans, by not voting for democrats I'm voting for democratsthink-about-it

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I hear the same thing from both parties, therefore not-voting must be the same as voting for both parties, which counts as voter fraud.

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