In the continuing race to see who can throw transgender people under the bus most quickly, South Carolina Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Annie Andrews has released a new direct-to-camera campaign ad in which she states that she does not support trans athletes playing in sports that affirm their gender identity.
I never said that not voting Dem is the same as voting Republican. In fact, I hate that sentiment. And it is again irrelevant to this point.
“there are better candidates than the Democrat” ≠ “the Democrat is worse than the Republican”
Sure sure, you never said it but you 100% framed it that way. If you hate that sentiment you should know full well how your comment comes across. If it’s irrelevant then why did you bring it up?
What??? I never framed anything that way. I also didn’t bring it up, you did. I’ve only been responding to your points.
My stance is that the Republican winning is worse than the Democrat winning. Not that the Democrat is the best, not that voting for anyone else is the same as voting Republican, none of these stances you have placed in my mouth.
This was you. You brought up voting Republican. No one here was at all suggesting voting Republican. And you framed it as what someone is doing if they are not voting Democrat. I don’t understand lying about this when it’s right there?
My guy and/or gal, this entire conversation is about framing the Democrat vs the Republican! It began with me saying this:
So, the original commenter compared the Dem to the Republican, said the Dem is worse, and I called out that specific stance. That is why me later pointing out the two is on topic, and you bringing up other candidates is irrelevant.
But they didn’t say to vote for the Republican. You did. I don’t even think it’s a subtle distinction but even if it is, it’s a crucial distinction that cannot be as hard to understand as you’re acting like it is.
You chose that framing, stop pretending you didn’t.
I certainly didn’t say to vote Republican, but you’re right in that I should have said “Democrat wins =” and “Republican wins =”. I think I used the word vote because your comment said Democrat voters, and I was replying to that.
I did not, at any point, tell anyone how to vote or who to vote for. Nor meant to imply that I was.
To clearly reiterate: my only stance in this conversation is that the Republican is worse than the Democrat winning for Trans rights, and pretty much everything else too.
I hope that confusion has been cleared up and maybe we can find common ground in that.
You’re right, I didn’t finish that sentence. I should have said “They didn’t say to vote Republican. You said that that’s what we were saying.”
And now to get back to the argument: We both strongly disagree with you that the Republican winning is worse for Trans rights than this specific Democrat. That’s the entire point. This specific Democrat winning erodes the only source of trans rights in our government.
It is better for the known anti-trans Republicans to continue to be anti-trans than it is for the supposedly pro-trans Democrats to become less pro-trans. One continues the same level of anti-trans government action, the other actively increases it by normalizing the reduction of pro-trans support.
I think the disagreement is in the assumption that Republicans will continue to be anti-trans in same way or that it will be some status quo. That is why I made my comment that Dems = long destruction, whereas Republicans will be immediate destruction. And for what it’s worth, I think more complete destruction. There may not be future elections with Republicans in charge.
Now that we’ve cleared up the confusion in our comments, I’m happy to agree to disagree.
Have a good day.