• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    20 hours ago

    Republicans must be scared of Talarico. His message seems to resonate with his base. He’s a white christian man, so in other words “Just a great guy!” in their view.

    Also, he’s not afraid to call out the establishment. The republican base likes that kind of stuff, they’ve just been misled into believing that “the establishment” means jews and diversity hires instead of corporate-financial oligarchs and their political lackeys.

    Talarico has been pretty effective at meeting these people where they’re at and redirecting their ire towards the oligarchy where it belongs.

    That must terrify republican politicians.

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      If he can’t win, I don’t see how anyone could. Like Paxton is so blatantly corrupt that it’s laughable he was even allowed to run in the primary.

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      eventhough currently , jewish people are currently in control of the GOP/us government, BIBI is currently tyring to buy the favor of evangelicals, because they dont wan to be the next target of the neonazis.

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      17 hours ago

      Keep that going, please?

      Take Texas. Then take Florida. Then take Ohio. (That last once can either flip or secede, I don’t care).

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        First we need to stop chasing cishetero white men out of progressive politics. There are some districts where they’re the only ones who stand a chance, unfortunately. We don’t have to like it for it to be true.

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          Full stop: no one is chasing out cishetero men. We need them to make more gaybies.

          What’s happening is conservatives are convincing voters they are the only ones that accept them. That needs to stop. Fuck, let’s just add a grey strip to the pride flag.

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            Conservatives wouldn’t be able to convince them of that if there wasn’t a part of it that rings true with their personal experience.

            And I can tell you that as a cishet white guy I’ve found it extremely difficult to participate in progressive spaces. It often feels like I’m not welcome at all, or that I’m only welcome as long as I keep my mouth shut. I’ve felt like I was being used as a punching bag by people who didn’t have anywhere else to direct their misplaced rage, and no one has ever cared that I experience problems too. If I even so much as mention a problem that I face or the fact that I face problems, I get absolutely trashed for it.

            Pretending no one is chasing cishetero white men out of progressive spaces is not going to solve the issue. We’re not welcome on women’s spaces. We’re not welcome in BIPOC spaces. We’re not welcome in queer spaces. What’s left? Cause I guarantee you if someone tried starting a progressive space specifically for cishetero white men, then everyone would be furious.

            And even if there were spaces that encompassed all identities under a common progressive umbrella, cishetero white men would still be the red-headed step child of those spaces.

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                Sure, just dismiss the personal experience that I’m relating to you just because you don’t believe it. I’m sure that’s just just prejudice talking. Oh wait.

                Propaganda is a part of it, yes, but if it didn’t have a kernel of truth that people felt then it could never take root. It takes advantage of a critical exploit, which is the disillusionment and rejection that many of these people already face.

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          they seem quite uncommon, most of them are conservative are pretty center right like newsome, and biden, part of it likely has to due with mysogyny and status quo of men over women in politics. and added some gays that some straight men are very afraid of being hitted on.

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            Gee I wonder why they’re not more common. I guess you can continue making the same generalized assumptions that you already held, even though I literally just explained why many of them who are progressive don’t feel welcome in progressive spaces.