Class warfare

21% of American adults are illiterate (54% read below a 6th grade level)

17% of Canadian adults are illiterate.

I keep coming back to these points as it's important context when understanding the news.

It looks to me like it's ordered from more progressive to more fundamental, so literacy should be the last one, really. Trans rights is the newest major one, so it's the first to fall.

Although you don't like religion, it's one of the dominos that fall in the line of authoritarian control. When it falls, other dominos fall with it.

I agree, but how?

1. Trans rights
2. Gay rights, Freedom of expression
3. Women's rights, Free love
4. Free speech, Democracy
5. Freedom of religion, Modernity
6. Literacy

Entenmann's donuts were buy one get one free right after the election. Bless Trump for turning donuts to twice as many just by thought alone!

You could not have missed the point harder

What do you think of Sanders, he has spoken out in the past about how putting identity politics with regards to gender, race, etc ahead of economic issues isn't helping Democrats. That doesn't mean he's not staunchly in favor of supporting rights for those minorities though. Are you coming down on that side of the issue or are you saying eliminating the hard line on rights for minorities of all sorts as a party position/talking point would be favorable, and then once in power maybe resume supporting them?

Do you think Republicans using trans rights/bathroom bills as a wedge issue was effective in the last decade? There is something to be said for putting your best foot forward, using your most widely popular policies to run on being a strong winning strategy but I'm not sure how I feel about it. Is this another example of the new "when they go low, we go low" thought that's happening this week? Yeah weird times all around, my trans friends are looking a little scared.

I am someone who wouldn't give "T people" rights the time of day. It's absurd. If they're American, and a legal citizen, then they have the same rights as me. I don't have the time or patience to focus on a group that makes up a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population. We have real problems.

I think you've misinterpreted the picture. These are supposed to be domino bricks. "trans rights" isn't the first brick because it is the most important - it's the first brick because it's the first that's going to fall.

I see your point but when basic human rights of a minority group are threatened, there is a moral imperative to organize to protect them, regardless of their popularity. There’s really no way around it. I think a framing that includes trans rights as only one aspect of a larger struggle for human freedom and dignity is the best strategy. Because there will need to be some discussion of trans rights if fascists continue to attack them. The alternative is to abandon a part of our community to violent oppression, which to me is unthinkable.

that’s the importance of countermessaging. harris and walz had it right for 0.0076ms with their “weird” direction, like “look how fucking weird jd vance is for wanting to do genital inspections on every kid in order to make life harder for like 40 kids nationwide, what a freak!?!” and even some conservatives were like “yeah that’s a little far we don’t need to be doing all that.” that was a really successful strategy that had great potential.

…and then they dropped that like a month before the election in favor of courting suburban conservatives. from “weird” to “follow the law.”