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Oh come on. If people vote on either side because of discourse from random internet strangers, that’s ludicrous. On this thread, we’ve asked for statistics and exact reasons why feminists should vote Republican. The reasons have been because they believe in a fetus’s rights > its mother’s rights, and abortion division is a given. Then we heard that imprisoned women have to room with trans women. But, we haven’t seen any data about how widespread this is. They haven’t been able to articulate why this issue is the most important feminist issue over say improving maternal health including mental health, fighting for equal wages and equalizing wages for Black women, more money for medical testing on women, better access and affordability for childcare, and on. |
I never say unhinged on these threads, but saying that Biden helped Hamas attack Israel on 10/7 is truly the most unhinged thing I’ve ever read on DCUM. And that’s saying something. I’m a Dem and definitely not a Biden fan or religious, but to say that Trump is greater than Moses is blasphemy. |
She didn't say how he helped Hamas. But it's difficult to argue that all the money we sent to Iran probably helped. |
And we told you that we don't care if you think we are feminists and we don't care what you think we should limit our attention to in terms of issues. We've repeatedly told you what issues matter to us. The issues that you listed are nice to have but right now, we don't even have basics like security and economy working well. I also don't agree with "equal wages" when it's just a euphemism for socialism. |
Some points of correction and clarification: A.) It was Iran's money to begin with. Contrary to Republican claims, it's not US taxpayer dollars. The US had frozen Iranian assets. B.) Also, the Iranian money was unfrozen but it wasn't sent to Iran as a lump sum of free money, there are still strict conditions: The money is only disbursed with approval and can only be paid out on orders of humanitarian-related items, such as food, medicine and medical equipment, and anything with potential dual use for military weaponry is forbidden. C.) I think the only argument that could be made is that Iran could divert existing funding for food and medicine to military purposes - however there's never been any concrete or specific evidence that this has happened, and D.) Not all of the funds were disbursed and the funds were frozen again as Iranian hostility resumed. https://www.factcheck.org/2023/10/republican-claims-on-hamas-attack-and-iran-funds-distort-the-facts/ And as usual this is yet another example of how Republicans have distorted and misrepresented the facts in order to sway the opinions of people like the PP. (enter stage left the person who will say "and this is exactly why you are pushing people into the arms of the GOP" - by correcting the record. 🙄) |
Let Fox and OAN continue to do all your thinking for you. You haven’t had an independent thought since your father started brainwashing you as a child. Oh no! I was mean online (unlike Trump who is mean online, in person and in policy)! Now you’ll have to go make a donation to Trump in retaliation!
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It’s always remarkable to me how freely leftists engage in explicit sexism when they encounter a woman who doesn’t fawn over them. |
Love how you’ve decided that women need to subvert all their issues. As usual, men are more important to you. Grotesque. |
It sounds like we don't agree at all. You are dense or something. |
The conservative machine and media brainwashes everyone who's exposed to it for long enough, regardless of gender. Weird that you are making this about "sexism" - probably the same poster from above who was randomly accusing people of misogyny upthread, without any sound basis for doing so. I have plenty of relatives male and female alike who spout the FOX News and other right wing talking points with zero self-awareness, zero critical thinking, zero logic applied, and not a single millisecond devoted to fact checking their talking points. I call that brainwashing. |
DP... I don't understand this response at all. How is the PP saying men are more important? I didn't see anything to warrant that in the comment you are responding to. The PP was merely asking how issues should be prioritized. Should every other issue of concern to women be completely subverted and be subordinate in order to deal with trans people in prisons? Another woman's interest in womens health, maternal health, access to affordable childcare, equal wages for women, access to contraception and reproductive health, paid family leave, support for women-owned businesses, anti-discrimination laws against women, addressing domestic violence, human sex trafficking, improved political representation by women, and all of these other issues need to shut up, sit down and take a back seat because you demand the issue of transwomen in women's prisons be the top priority? |
Aren’t you the poster who told the female PP who had the temerity to disagree with you that she had been brainwashed by her father? And yet you simultaneously believe you aren’t a raging sexist? Man, the lack of self-awareness is quite something to see. I realize that you don’t believe women are capable of independent thought, as that is currently the position of the progressive left and you just freely demonstrated that, but that can’t stop everyone else from seeing your deeply patriarchal and anti-woman world view. |
Nope. There are multiple posters in this thread. How about responding to comments based on what they actually contain on their own, rather than trying to conflate with what someone else said or what you imagined they thought while posting? Your entire retort completely missed the mark for that reason. |
Do you even understand how DCUM works. |
All of those other women's issues being deprioritized is exactly what would happen if large numbers of women agreed with the PP and made their sole focus to be outrage over trans women in women's prisons and as a result, voted a straight R ticket. Thankfully most women don't agree with the PP. While sure, they don't want to see other women being abused in prison, they have the sense to not throw away everything else that has been so hard fought over their lifetimes for that one issue by voting R. |