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LGBTQ+ rights are under attack across the world.
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With the rampant increase of Anti LGBTQ+ hate crimes, speech and laws internationally, the LGBTQ community globally no longer feels safe.
We refuse to stand by while injustice against our community reigns.
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Calrification, this comment is for general readers, not targetted to the person I am replying to. It is meant for additional context and vocalizing my opinion of Graham Platner.
There was also him being on a podcast interview hosted by a questionable channel. But my thinking is Platner is not a career politician, and is just kinda ignorant politically speaking. People (particularly media and establishment Dems) keep trying to paint him as a nazi. Which yeah, if you only looked at the tattoo and podcast I feel that would be a reasonable conclusion to make. But Platner is also outspoken about queer rights (including trans rights), supports universal healthcare, and other very progressive views and actions (if I remember correctly he was/is a DSA member). No nazi is going to be supporting those actions, particularly supporting trans people. My personal analysis of him is he is an average blue-collar working class Mainer, and that comes with a lot of complexity and nuance that career politicians do not have, and that voters are not used to seeing in political candidates.
Now that being said, I am an anarchist. I do not vote for people, I only vote on individual issues. Whether or not I like Platner, I am not likely to vote for anyone in the first place. Even if somehow I do end up voting for him, I would quickly accept my wrong doing if it turned out he was an anti-semite or nazi. However I do not think that is the case. I think he is a complicated and nuanced person with a complicated and nuanced past that he has grown and learned from. Its pretty clear from his past that he has undergone a pretty radical shift in his beliefs and politics and that growth should be applauded. He should be held accountable for his mistakes, but they should not permanently brand him.
You should definitely still vote regardless. You don't get to have an opinion, no matter how thoughtful and nuanced, if you don't participate. It doesn't matter if you morally object to both candidates, if one is clearly fucking worse you vote for the lesser evil. How have you not learned this lesson by now? That shit is why we have fucking fascism today. You're part of a collective and you need to do your fucking part or fuck off.
It's funny. This last election cycle I thought exactly like this, but Trump changed it all. I'll never vote for another liberal or Zionist again. Establishment Dems are just the slower poison, not less evil, just less carcinogenic. Both of these parties are funneling away our futures and our children's futures for a quick buck. I'd rather the entire system crashes and we rip this band aid off quickly. I do have a voice and it's been ignored my entire life. Corruption has completely enveloped our government and it needs to be fixed from the top down.
So you voted for the most corrupt person and party? That isn't particularly logical
I did, lifelong straight-ticket Democrat voter that won't be blindly making that mistake again.