LadyAutumn

You are welcome to your opinon, and I agree that support for Trump is itself an act of violence against trans people. I have not seen anyone on the left besides accelerationists, of whom there are very few, arguing in favor of voting for Trump. I have seen many people on the left criticizing the democratic party. Critcizing the DNC is not one and the same with supporting Trump.

You aren't being excluded here, you are welcome to voice your opinion, but you are not welcome to turn this post into a platform to call for users to view some other communities on lemmy in a particular way. There are lots of communities you can request brigading from, this just isn't one of them.

Couple things. For one, don't tell queer people how to feel about political changes that result in negative consequences for us. Secondly, this post is literally about accepting the reality of the world that we now exist with in and focusing on how to support the trans community as the state becomes actively hostile towards us. Not about how to carry out revenge against "left communities who enabled trump." By which I take it, you're referring to anyone who criticized the DNC. We are not political pawns in a game between the right and the left. We are people deserving of human rights and safety. It is neither centrists nor the political right who offer us those things.

This is neither the time nor the place to promote a view of antagonism towards leftism. I was going to time you out for a week, but will abstain from doing so for now.

75% of white men voted for Trump. It was categorically not the fault of people criticizing her support of genocide, her militarization of the border, or her continued appeal to conservatives. Your failure to recognize this is exactly what theyre counting on to continue with the exact same platform. No, they do have to change. If a future world where fascism is defeated is the goal than either the democratic party has to change into a party that will actually challenge it, or else the system of politics in America itself must be dismantled.

That's what I'm saying, though. Incredibly justified criticism of her did not lose the election. She chose to ignore criticism and focus on appealing to conservatives.

This election was lost in every measurable way. She did not lose because of leftists who didn't vote on principal. She lost because the working class overwhelmingly chose not to vote for her. Many of them voted for Trump instead. Many first-time voters voted for Trump. She thoroughly lost to him in every possible way.

Life under Trump in 2024 will be orders of magnitude worse than life under him in 2016. It won't take long for Americans to begin to feel strong consequences of the election result.

So what do you propose should be done to combat the rise of fascism? Nothing? Roll over and die? If the popularity of fascism continues to rise you're saying the democratic party should continue doing the same thing that they've always done? Your defense of fascism is to continue the same political strategy that keeps losing to it?

It's not punishing anyone as much as asserting our bodily autonomy, but go off. Targeting Republicans means no pressure is applied to anyone else to change society. Not every woman will participate in the strike. The effects of it have to be wide reaching.

It's a widespread denial of the institutions behind gender relationships. Saying that the system is dangerous for women and refusing to participate in it.

To Trump. Her platform was essentially a "stay the course, maintain the status quo" platform which has been terrible for a lot of people.

The average voter doesn't know or understand what the word fascism means, what project 2025 is even if you explain it to them, or what trans rights are. They don't know whether illegal immigration is a problem or not. They live within massive propaganda machines that often confuse them and are taught to believe anything else is wrong on principal.

For many of those people, including many minorities and many women, the status quo has not treated them well. And someone who's entire campaign was built on maintaining the status quo was deeply unpopular with those people. Trump offered a radical restructuring of society. He offered a dramatic shift in status quo and a government with entirely different priorities.

That appealed to those people, who both do not understand politics and are confused about what any of it really means anyway. All they know is that life under Biden saw their lives get much worse and the other guy says he's going to change that and says he knows how. He doesn't, of course. But they don't know that. They don't live in the echo chambers we do discussing these problems. Their primary use of social media is sharing pictures with friends and family. They're annoyed by their friends who keep talling politics online, politics confuses and frustrates them.

Obama's campaign was built on change and it's what one him 2 elections. The first one by a landslide. Lessee of two evil politics, staying the course politics, is never going to drum up support enough to defeat fascism.

I think I better explained my response in my other comment.

All very true.

I do think it's worth mentioning that the "lesser evil" politics that she ran on has never worked for anyone, not even once? She aligned herself with several popular conservatives positions (deportation, stronger border policy, continued financial and armaments support to Israel). But conservatives had no reason to vote for her over Trump. This swath of voters who wanted what she offered does not exist. The ones who want those things want other things too, things that Trump offers them.

So her best position was being the lesser of two evils, being better than Trump but still not a progressive candidate. That political angle failed the DNC in 2016, and it failed them again. This is entirely the failure of the DNC to be a progressive party. They chose neoliberal conservatism to the bitter end and threw us all under the bus with it.

The number of leftists and muslisms who didn't vote for Harris on principal is far lower than any amount that would have saved her. She resoundingly lost this election in every possible way. Blaming people who didn't vote for her on principal is ridiculously misunderstanding what happened here. The majority of America is okay with bigotry. The majority is fine with violence against women and minorities. Either that or they have constructed conspiracies that Trump hasn't actually said or done those things. Either way, they are unbothered by the things he has said and done.

I don't understand why you believe the DNC is deserving of some measure of protection from criticism.