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just a tiny minority of Nazi’s holding us back…AGAIN!
And then a whole bunch of them will turn around and vote for anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans because “They’re for the economy” (please ignore how the economy actually performs under Republican control)
When Republicans talk about woke, they mean the LGBTQ community and other minorities. That is why they are anti woke. They are anti LGBTQ. It is a word bigots use to hide behind. “Woke, you know what we mean” wink
Exactly. They’re scared to use the meaning and use woke instead. Scared frogs.
Gay frogs
Lee Atwater would be proud.
American Indians knew all about this even before white men invaded. They were called two spirit people and had different functions in the tribe. They’re just people. Quit the BS.
White Europeans already knew about lgbt too, especially during the time of the Romans. It is because of the homophobic influence of Abrahamic religions that lgbt have been suppressed, and later on European and Islamic empires spread the bigotry into their colonies through religion.
Rome wasn’t some gay paradise.
And yeah lgbt people filled special roles even in societies like the Sumerians and Scythians
Remember, you’re not gay if you are on top according to the Romans!
Incorrect. According to the Greeks.
Pretty sure the Romans held the same belief.
But that’s assuming Romans didn’t import all their culture.
It used to be considered manly to be at least bisexual, because a real “man’s man” would of course prefer the company of men.
It’s too bad US politics won’t represent US voters, or this would be good news.
Too bad voters don’t matter half as much as much as land and money in the US.
Good for US voters.
wish people in the uk felt the same instead of being hit upside the head every day by the anti trans media :(
Yeah the difference is that over here academic feminism lost a lot of influence to its less Ivy Tower sisters. Also feminist theorists didn’t gain quite the same institutional power. That’s bad in many ways, but it does mean that our face of feminism isn’t some professor.
Meanwhile, support for stronger LGBTQ+ protections was more highly favoured by Democratic voters (82 per cent) than Republican voters (32 per cent).
Surprised 32% of Republican voters support. This shows, as I’ve felt for a while now, yet another example that we aren’t as separate as we think.
The big problem is that while many Republican voters might be more moderate, Republican politicians absolutely aren’t, and the Republican voters keep voting in the extremists. It doesn’t matter if 32% of Republican voters support LGBTQ+ protections when the Republican politicians they’re voting in are busy passing anti-LGBTQ+ laws, and they’d never willingly vote for anyone else.
Absolutely. Moderates are completely unrepresented by our government right now.
Democrats are the moderate party right now. It’s actually very frustrating for progressive voters because they keep voting in Democrats that talk a big game while campaigning and then the moment they’re in office that all goes out the window and they go back to supporting the same moderate policies they always have.
That’s the real difference between the Republicans and Democrats, the Republicans talk about moderate policies but then actually enact extremist policies, while the Democrats talk about extremist policies but then actually enact moderate ones.
This is so well put. Like each party represents itself more left than they really are.
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Biden is a moderate, as is the overwhelming majority of democratic members of Congress in both the house and the senate lol what are you on about.
If you mean moderate Republicans are unrepresented, then yes, but you have Republicans to blame for that by their refusal to stop supporting extremists.
I think of “Moderate” as a slightly right-wing position. I think Biden is mostly a Liberal, maybe even a Social Liberal. I agree a lot of Democrats are Moderates.
Nah I won’t blame voters for not being able to get a great result out of this system. We have so little power at the moment.
Biden is literally a conservative by most non-American standards. Even in the US, he’s still significantly more conservative than moderate left-leaning people here.
But I want to use the labels in less of a comparative and relative way. Match the policies to the political ideology.
Is one of those laws a “Drag-race”-style competition to pick the president?
Because I would be on board for that.
I would definitely watch Trump in sequins and padding try to belt out Cher.
This is one of the worst mental images I’ve ever had.
American law isn’t about what Americans want. How long will it take for people to understand this?
It’s almost like people shouldn’t care what they do and give them the tools/laws to just live their lives. Crazy concept that I’m glad to see most people are on board with. Just a few crazies stopping progress
Won’t somebody think of the children!?
/s of course
The sample size for these surveys is FAR FAR too small to be able to come to the conclusion you can write such a sensationalist headline like “MOST US VOTERS” anything.
As long as your sample represents an even cross-section of the population then it can be quite small, just about one order of magnitude larger than the result you’re reporting. For instance, if you’re reporting a percentage (i.e. a result out of 100) then you only need to poll about 1000 people, since cutting off one decimal place will be enough to account for any weird clustering in your sample. The total population being represented doesn’t matter; as long as your sample is truly chosen at random then all that matters is the sample size relative to the precision of the result.
The sample size was 1229 people for this “survey”. With something as polarizing as this subject is, I HIGHLY doubt that 1200 people accurately reflect the attitude of the ENTIRE country. but think what you want, free country and all.
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“Help help, I’m being oppressed! I’m not being allowed to oppress others!”
The same reason the polls were so far off leading into the 2016 election. People who were going to vote for Trump weren’t admitting it publicly, for fear of backlash. There were videos of people leaving a rally or with a bumper sticker who were having rocks thrown at them and their car surrounded. If people are going to act like that, other people who disagree are going to lie for their own protection, which makes polls meaningless.
I agree.
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