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ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

But maybe you’re just one of those Blue MAGA types that assumes Dems can do no wrong.

Far from it. After Kamala, and the Senate cave-in last year, and all they have NOT done, I’ll never vote non-screamingly progressive Dem again. The Dems are not even remotely sin-free here. And thank you for the additional information; you’re right, I did not know that.

But it’s not as black and white as you paint it. As tired as you must personally be of not having the supposedly good people do enough, I am tired of seeing people who are actually – “umm aktually” in your parlance – constantly shat upon for not doing it ALL, while the people most guilty of all these egregious errors get a complete pass, or just a passing nod, as if it is up to the genuinely well-intentioned among us to corral all evil and somehow not up to the evildoers themselves to cut it the fuck out. I don’t know what kind of shit this governor has gotten for her pro-trans actions, including vetos, but it’s definitely non-zero in a red state like Kansas.

Driving an infinitely fine line between good and perfect helps no one. The governor was at least working a veto, or trying to. Did she even know what her appointed secretary was doing? Was it really the governor herself? Is she truly that malign that she’s knowingly having the lists compiled even as she takes whatever heat for openly vetoing anti-trans law?

Or is it possible that it takes more than one person to get that kind of thing going in government and it was already started when she took office? One thing that blog post left out were the exact dates, and I wish they had not, because then we’d know for sure. But until then, if someone’s openly on my “side” I’m not going to shit on them for what they might not even personally be aware of, especially when death threats for being pro-trans have become the norm.

As for me, my own personal “side” is not MAGA or anti-MAGA, though these days it works out anti 100% of the time. My own personal “side” is 100% pro-people living the way they want to live, loving the way they want to love, inhabiting the bodies they want to inhabit. But hey, keep conflating those who are against you with those who aren’t, and make sure you drive as many as you can over to the fuck it, I can’t fight 'em all “side”. That’ll surely teach us.

And no. The current hostility toward anyone of a different identity is NOT bipartisan. It is primarily GOP. And while not all Dems are on board, that’s where the majority of your supporters are, because they sure as fuck aren’t on the GOP side, and as you have read, it is still the Kansas GOP supermajority that is rolling this shit out for Kansas like a monster truck without brakes. For all the hairs you’ve so carefully split, you still haven’t convinced me otherwise. But again, thank you for the additional information: on that I do stand corrected, and I do appreciate it.

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