cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/54506028
cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/politics/p/1270828/iowa-dem-josh-turek-releases-anti-trans-ad-calling-for-a-federal-funding-ban-on-trans-care
On Saturday, Oct. 24, Josh Turek, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Iowa, released a new ad targeting transgender people—perhaps the worst anti-transgender ad of the entire election cycle to come from a Democrat. The ad begins with Turek talking about his disability and the importance of not discriminating, before immediately turning to adopt discriminatory policies toward transgender people. One such policy is a sports ban, a position sadly becoming increasingly common among high-profile Democrats in competitive races, and one that alone would have made this yet another newsworthy anti-trans ad. But Turek then goes further, advocating for a new policy: a proposal to ban federally funded gender-affirming care in the United States, one that would impact a substantial number of transgender people and make their care difficult to impossible to receive.
One wants to take your rights away, the other one wants to take your rights away.
That’s not one less bad for the people who’s human rights are being taken away.
One side unanimously wants to take your rights away and have sworn unquestioning fealty to their dear leader who stokes their hatred every day.
The other side has a few spoilers who are willing to break with the party line on a few critical issues and join the side that hates you.
Is that what being “the same” looks like?
A candidate that wants to take your rights away compared to another candidate that wants to take your rights away is what I’m seeing here and those two candidates, on this issue, there is no difference and that’s what we’re talking about here with this particularly shitty centrist Democrat.
We can talk about those “few spoilers” and how shitty they are but that’s a different thread and conversation.
Okay but how many comments here are pointing to the democrats as a party and saying “see, we knew you were all the same as republicans”?
Call out turek for being an out-of-touch bigot, sure. He brought it on himself.
But when has making sweeping generalizations based on a few examples ever been the thing a rational and balanced person concludes?
I’m one of those people. One is less bad.
You do you, I mean if you’re okay with it and think it’s one less bad, that’s cool by me, no skin off my back.
One is demonstrably less bad, and only MAGAt trash are stupid enough to think in such stupid simplistic and false paradigms.
You do you. I don’t give two fucks if you think one person who hates trans people is better than the other person who hates trans people is better, who am I to argue with your opinion.
I simply happen to think the person who hates trans people is no better than the person who hates trans people when it comes to not hating trans people as the baseline.
But thanks for the nice ad hominem attack, great conversation.
You’re an idiot that can’t tell the difference between parties. You work for MAGA.
More ad hominem attacks! A person disagrees with me! Oh my, I must insult them by calling an idiot and MAGA!
Oh my fee fees! Whatever will I do?
Great conversation there bud! Such a wonderful and intellectually stimulating online discussion of ideas being put forth by you!