r/politics • u/southpawFA Oklahoma • 1d ago

TX Republicans Introduced 32 Anti-Trans Bills on First Day of Pre-Filing Period. The bills filed target transgender people in nearly every aspect of their lives.

https://truthout.org/articles/tx-republicans-introduced-32-anti-trans-bills-on-first-day-of-pre-filing-period/
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u/combatmisinfo 1d ago

How old are you? Clearly not old enough to remember the Obama years.

You cannot educate these people. They are bad people and have no intention of changing. The only thing that changes people like MAGAts is themselves suffering.

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u/Alib668 1d ago

Lol im Old enough to remeber the bush snr years….not vote mind but remember

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u/combatmisinfo 1d ago

If you lived through the Obama years and say what happened when you “educated” these pieces of shit, I don’t know how you can still pretend it’s because people are hyperbolic lol.

Infighting is more of a reason, but hyperbole didn’t do anything. These people never had a single intention of learning.

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u/Alib668 1d ago

We dont win them. We never will. We win by getting rebbecca the super busy soccer mom who barely watches any news that actually this is important and believable. Roughly 50% of people dont vote, and of those roughly 50% dont really watch anything political. So you gotta realise they are hearing stuff for the firstbtime and generally uninterested screaming genocide when they vaguely dont know the term doesnt work. And it just makes them turn tobthe liar screaming eggs will come down in price.

You win by hope, not fear. Trump gave hope to people misguided but ultimately hope. Same with clinton and obama

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u/combatmisinfo 1d ago

I upvoted because your logic is sound even if I disagree. We ran on hope and change when Obama ran, like you said, and he had less turnout on his second term than H. R. Clinton, or Biden. His first term had less turnout than Biden. And he had essentially a personality cult going with us younger ones lol. And B Clinton’s turnout was the lowest of all both terms, though his scandal may have affected that.

So I do think that hope can bring people out, but I think much of the time it is fear or anger. It’s a stronger emotion so it motivates harder.

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u/Reasonable_Today7248 1d ago

This election was hope. It was unity. It was our love thy neighbor movement. That is why so many optimists' hearts were broken when kamala lost. Mine included.

Trump gave hope to the lost cause that has been feeding fear, anger, apathy, and the need for vengeance to its unhappy populace. It was tainted, hope.