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purity tests like, "take a stand against genocide"?

why do ya'll never show up to tell democrats to stand for human rights and trans rights, stand against racism, against genocide, etc you ONLY show up to tell marginalized people to accept inhumanity and brutality or else we're somehow helping republicans

In which RoxyDog pledges to never use a public bathroom or seek medical care if a blue team politician demands it.

what gave us trump is to normalize fascism

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"I understand you're upset in our proposal to throw you into a woodchipper if elected. But why can't you look past that to see the good things we plan to do? Besides, you can't let those other people win, can you? They'd put you in a woodchipper."

what the fuck? human rights are a purity test? what a pos you are

What rights are you personally giving up or is it only 'those people' that should do it to keep you cozy

Okay, we'll pursue impurity then. You want to see trans girls getting their entire lives fucked over by this candidate, you're more than welcome to burn along with her.

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Let me help you out If the things you require me to sacrifice "for the greater good" are my healthcare, my safety, my bodily autonomy and my right to exist as an equal human being in your society, then it's not the good at all, and your party can burn to the ground and the nation along with it.

But it's important to have standards. We need to make it clear that this candidate isn't acceptable and the party has to do better to get votes.

"Purity Test" is such a bullshit phrase. Be honest and just say "Being a bigot is not a deal breaker for me". People aren't asking for purity, they are asking for their leaders to support their basic human rights.

is your identity considered "too much purity" to expect

If its a purity test to demand that politicians actually defend my rights, then purity tests all day every day. You don't get to demand fascism for me just to save your own skin and "that was the status quo" is irrelevant.

Hey how about we take away your human rights and throw you in prison for no reason and then call it a "purity test" when you want out

Honestly between Platner & Acton, I think y'all need more purity tests. Can't the Democrats just agree some basic ground rules? Like, 'no Nazi tattoos' or 'no insulting children'. Would that really be so terrible?

May extremely bleak thoughts dog you between the hours of midnight and 3am.

Recognizing people's basic humanity is an OK purity test

shut up bigot, you have 0 skin in the game and even less ppl than that want to hear your projective whining

Why do you want to undermine my mineshaft by pointing out that I’m digging directly beneath it?

why'd she undermine herself by embracing the right wing stance on my civil rights (e.g. that I shouldn't have any) and then suppress the speech of Democrats who called her out on it? seems like she doesn't want people to vote for her, which is a bad thing in a candidate

We get it, you are a republican.

I’m fairly certain it’s the lack of purity tests causing Dems to be completely ineffectual

Actually, signaling to voters that you don’t believe in anything other than following opinion polls and consultants is a pretty sure route to losing!

Is it a purity test or is it people’s lives at stake?

Lol you have all this shit so backwards. It's insane.

Fuck off.

>purity tests You mean not wanting to do genital inspections on children? You mean not being caught in the lies that a world wide pedophile ring spread about trans people? Yeah, I want my politicians to not be science denying idiots co-opted by pedophile conspiracies. You don't?

hey, guess what: if you throw an entire category of person under the bus, that entire category of person may no longer vote for you. if you want our votes, don't throw us under the bus. if you want to throw us under the bus, don't blame us when you lose. you could have instead formed a coalition.

“Hey trans people, there’s two candidates here that are attacking you, why won’t you vote for the one that isn’t attacking me?l

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eat shit

If a candidate won’t defend trans people they’re a republican

Your *failure* to purity test is what got us Trump & his Supreme Court. If you had purity-tested your candidates & got someone in 2016 whose platform was anything other than "not quite as bad as Trump, not quite as quickly as Trump" that candidate might have inspired people to turn out, & thus won.

Did you not read the bit about the bigotry? Why do you want to vote for a bigot?

What rights will YOU give up to win? I bet Dems could win some votes if we banned abortion

>purity tests alright then, what something that affects you *personally* that you'd give up if it meant democrats won?

why do you think trans people deserve to suffer but not you?

She's an anti-trans extremist and we don't want that cancer to advance.

Why do trans people have to take the hit? Why is it so hard to stand up to Actons shitty statements? Why are we allergic to demanding better.

Maybe the trans community should get a choice that isn't one candidate who hates them and another who also hates them.

actually being centrist fence sitters and trying to appeal to republicans is what got you trump why do liberals simultaneously call themselves the left while also ignoring literally everyone who is to the left of fuckin reagan

Ah yes. Throw more trans people in the pyre

What no lmao Fucking bigot asshole

Abandoning my community members is not an option. We need better Democrats.

what gave us this supreme court was ginsburg not retiring when she should have and democrats nominating shit candidates for president

Seems to me like the Democrat is undermining themselves

Democtatic bigots ultimately do more damage than republican ones. They make it acceptable and stop the 'left' from fighting it.

If this is how you think about this issue, you are a bad person.

Bluntly, if y'all (i.e. Dem partisans) are gonna fuck us (trans people) over, you can burn with us. Why the fuck should we care what happens to you?

Nobody wants Republican lite

This is what Democrats like you said when people tried to point out that it's a mistake to vote for a Nazi. It's a mistake to vote for any kind of bigot. They are only on your side so long as you don't stray off the narrow path they're willing to accept.

You people really need to stop using the purity test bullshit, it makes you look like the monsters you are. Genocide? Purity test. Rape? Purity test. Anti-trans and anti-homeless? Purity test. Please fuck all the way off, and when you get there continue fucking off some more.

every transphobe in the world undermines themselves and yet you morons blame it on others

The reason we have trump and this scotus in the first place is white people voting for trump. All the people loudly shouting "we won't vote for a lite fascist" have been voting for lite fascist dems for decades and only seen their rights trampled as a result

Who told you that calling people's rights "purity tests" is persuasive to those people because I would get my money back

Is Acton theoretically better than Ramaswamy on many issues? Yes. But if she's willing to capitulate on trans issues, what else will she do? It's not a purity test to ask for a politician to protect their constituents from persecution

You're the guy in this meme now

"please don't kill me" is hardly an unassailable purity test

What gave us Trump and his Supreme Court was people not understanding there were huge differences between the parties. Abandoning trans rights means those people were right.

Any other minorities you think aren't worth defending, or is it just trans people?

If she said an anti-Semitic thing would you be asking Jewish people to hold their nose? If she was racist would you tell black people to suck it up? Of course not. Why are trans women different for you

She’s the Dem candidate. Instead of endorsing, they could’ve held back the endorsement as leverage to get her to change her position and walk back her statement.

Amy Acton's the only one undermining Amy Acton. If she doesn't want to lose support by throwing a key constituency under the bus, she doesn't have to do it. Nobody is responsible for her doing that but Acton herself.

Would you sacrifice your own children for this cause

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HISTORICALLY, left-of-center political groups and legislative blocks unite to oppose Republican policies that attack minority rights, but LOOK THE OTHER WAY when members of the same party do so. It would literally be better for Ramaswamy to be gov and hated by ALL Dems/etc. than for a

Democrats when a minority wants a candidate that supports them and doesn't want to kill them: PURITY TEST!!!! YOURE ASKING TOO!!!! MUCH LIE DOWN AND DIE ALREADY. Fuck you. Fuck you and your thinly veiled transphobia.

Purity tests my hole, darling. Even as you're clearly willing to accept trans people as an "acceptable loss," they've proven the trans + ally community right by showing their whole arse & going after women's health and even sports now. fekn cop on, you don't have to act the thick shite.

Accepting our existence is not a "purity test" so stop actung like it is.

fuck off

"If you don't accept having your human rights stripped away, you'll have your human rights stripped away" is not the argument you think it is.

Absolutely false. What gave us Trump is the Democratic Party's violent push to the right and its abandonment of principles. When Democrats stopped standing for human rights and equality (to the extent they ever did), people stopped voting for Democrats.

no, these "purity tests" (aka respecting the rights of people that aren't the same as you) arent what gave us the supreme court. in fact, THAT mess is due to one specific schrodinger's senator being a hypocrite about swearing in new justices close to/after the election.

Fascinating how the problem here is people pointing out that the democrat is doing a bad thing and not the democrat doing a bad thing.