"Minorities who hold politicians to basic standards are all bots."

"influencer" is actually manipulative here. One side is a fascist campaign and the other is people who want a good candidate who will not lead to Keir Starmer style decay. Minorities who disagree with you are not a conspiracy.

Leveraging one's vote to improve a platform is basic electoralism. He can gain those votes back by reaching out to his base and being a good candidate. Frothing rage at the concept of basic standards is a failed strategy.

And by your own evidence that awful stuff didn't work and was meaningless cowardice.

He said he would vote for an anti trans healthcare bill under the right circumstances. Cruel, unacceptable and unpragmatic.

Talarico and his apologists took the bait on the wedge issue. Imagine if you stopped screaming at trans people and put that energy towards asking for basic standards from Democrats running for election.

"Trans people don't sincerely care about transphobia and are just being mean to be mean." Great voter outreach!

Do those crazy pills make you omit that this was twelve years ago ?

this is what we're all telling you. a democratic majority that includes talarico and others like him is more dangerous to us. because the 'reasonable' versions of anti-trans bills will get written and passed and you all will go back to brunch and not care. you don't care what happens to us.

Honestly between this take and the anticommunist slop article about revolutions I think it's less about literacy and more about hegemony. A D candidate must never be held to any kind of standard, a white cis moderate must never be criticized, and the only transfem voices must hate their own people.

(OOC: you don't need to agree with Reed or Caraballo or whoever else to recognize that they're very dedicated, very informed, that they're immersed in real trans communities, and they're trying to help trans people. Suggesting that cohort is motivated by cynical clout chasing is bigoted conspiracy)

(OOC: Stancil is functionally akin to a Gamer Gater, but his "ethics in games journalism" is "the TRA extremists are silencing the good transes". His view of trans politics totally revolves around his conspiracism towards civil rights activists and journalists, his belief that they're sinister)

Yeah, listening to self-debasing trans transphobes who present themselves as one of the good ones and pretend to be victimized because their Zionism made them personally unlikable is listening to the wrong person. The Caitlyn Jenners and Blaire Whites of the world do not matter.