THIS, Butching on the interneet or social media alone is a easy out.
...and about 10,000 a few hours previously in Greeley, which is a deep red town. AOC taunted the town's House Rep (Gabe Evans) as too cowardly to do a town hall, so she and Bernie had to show up and do it. My parents were there (and I'm super proud of that).
Not to address the whole thread here, but I just read that there are now more children in Texas with measles than there are transgender college athletes in the entire country. It might behoove you and your colleagues to consider whether your priorities are in order.
Nothing quite like a plan to intentionally put a hundred thousand people out of work. Yay for progressivism!
Did you know that it's proven to be entirely impossible for anyone to simultaneously support female rights to male-free spaces and sports while also supporting vaccination?
I consider that an unnecessarily silly response. I am talking about the current administration and its vociferous supporters - the administration that is making a big issue of transgender sports, among other relative non-issues, while appointing measles-promoting science-hating crackpots to positions of power and endangering the health of an entire nation's children. I would have thought it obvious that not every person who opposes transgender athletes in college sports must also be an enemy of vaccination, and would presume (I would have thought without having to say it) that you, not having given any indication that you share in the folly and insanity of our current president, are not, therefore, the subject of my statement. I was addressing an outright supporter of the administration that is now in power and who, as far as one can see, supports its choice of issues and priorities.
It's not punishment. It is stripping him of the wealth he uses to influence politics. His power comes from his wealth.
So you favor collective punishment.
Well, given that you responded directly to @mikegriffith1, and you specifically said that they and their colleagues should consider their priorities... it seems abundantly clear that you were implying that mikegriffith1 is anti-vaccinations in general*. Furthermore, it insinuated that anyone who opposes male-appropriation of female spaces, or opposes the permanent maiming of youth in the name of gender identity must also necessarily be opposed to vaccinations.
Have you really thought this through? There are a lot of very wealthy people who influence politics - and a rather large number of them influence Democratic policies. Would you be supportive of efforts by wing-nut conservatives to destroy the businesses of those leftist wealthy folks, especially if it meant destroying the incomes and retirement savings of hundreds of thousands of people in the process? Would you be so sanguine about a concerted and organized effort to destroy Microsoft and all of its employees and customers just to remove the ability of Bill Gates to influence politics?
Sure, and if Bill Gates would simply divest themself of Microsoft, they wouldn't have to worry about organized efforts to set PCs on fire and harass anyone who purchased MS Office.
The pearl clutching that this might put 'a hundred thousand people out of work' (how?) while supporting a government that's actively tearing down the US economy is rich, too. Every accusation really is a confession.
And yet when it's federal employees being put out of work, that's just fine!
The issue of putting people out of work is not entirely irrelevant, but it cannot stand alone. By itself the argument can be used to defend against closing concentration camps and the factories that make land mines.
How is it collective punishment?
Republicans have been calling for boycotts of every company doing anything vaguely DEI under Biden, and yet you were not at all concerned then about their employees.
I personally don't support arson, but you're being pretty disingenuous comparing a hypothetical harm to the "livelihood of 100,000 employess" when 25,000 federal employees were definitely and absolutely harmed and fired by Musk. (illegally of course, which is why the result is still being disputed). And then to draw a false equivalency between him and Bill Gates, who spent less than 1/5 of what Musk did, had no major social media platform to continuously promote his candidate, and has zero actual involvement in government. Could you seriously imagine Gates being given the kind of power Musk was given if Harris had won?
Boycotts are not vandalism.
