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"What could Trump do to lower grocery prices?"

Apparently either increase oil production which biden has already done and Harris also talked about continuing, or do two other things that Harris promised to do.

So essentially Trump could have done one thing to lower prices. Lose the fucking election.

Ah yes, because we all know someone worth at least 30 million is a "working person."

People say they care about climate change but don't vote to help mitigate it. People say they want the rich to pay more in taxes but they don't vote to implement it. People say they support queer rights but they don't vote to protect them. People say they support abortion rights but they don't vote to protect them federally. People say they want social security to have payments increased but they don't vote for people that want to do that. People say they want to lower medication costs but they don't vote for people that are actively doing it. People say they want a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants but they don't vote to provide it. People say they support weed legalization but they don't vote for someone who wants to do that federally. People say they want lower grocery store prices but they don't vote for the person who would help break up the megacorporations driving up prices or who is also talking about punishing price gouging. People say they want help with housing costs but don't vote for the person who wants to put limits on rent increases and punish landlords who have been driving up the prices. People say they want net neutrality but they don't vote for the person who would defend it. People say they want better broadband but they don't vote for the person who could actually fight for it.

If People don't vote for their beliefs or for the person closest to their beliefs who actually has a chance at winning and instead vote based on propaganda and against the very policies they claim to support then things will never get done and all that will happen is economic collapse and fascism.

All people had to do was vote for Harris. Was go out and do their civic duty for living in a society and vote for the person who would at least fight to implement or provide so many of the policies above.

It's absolutely terrifying. I'm in a red state and every single trans person I know has been devastated and wanting to at least leave the state. My partner and I are intending on moving to a blue state as soon as possible. Can't really leave the country since no place will likely take us since we are both disabled.

It's incredibly hard and depressing to realize that the vast majority of people might care about us as trans folk and believe we deserve our rights to exist and be ourselves and even support trans kids, but that enough of those people either were willing to sacrifice our rights for the price of eggs, or stayed home or voted third party for some bs reason that they wanted to "punish the democrats" for. Enough people caring about us doesn't matter anymore if they don't vote to protect our rights.

It's really fucking hard to exist right now.

going on Fox News to defend the usage of "female" and "male" as categories of biological sex in medical classes.

Yeah no one is saying to use different terms when it comes to biological sex. It's not happening. What they're likely doing is simply saying there's more complexity to what defines biological sex. Going on Fox News and saying that is showing who she is. A believer in the far rights talking points when it comes to trans issues. She went on Fox News to defend something like that when that thing just isn't happening is why she was likely pushed out. Because shes parroting far right talking points.

And as we've seen recently with a handful of Democrats throwing trans people under the bus, her being a lifelong Democrat means nothing here.

Not all gender affirming care is surgery. In fact, almost all gender affirming care isn't surgery. He wants to restrict all of it so that as few people as possible can get on it, then eventually it'll be an entire ban because he doesn't want trans people to exist at all. While it might not initially be an entire ban, its pretty fucking close and will be expanded upon eventually.

This is the worst article about the reasons she lost I have seen. I've read a lot of them and just. Fuck dude this is awful. Transphobia particularly is just reprehensible. I mean. Look at this shit.

Trans women are people and should have all the political freedom of people. But to say that they are women—and that making any distinction between them and biological women, for any purpose, is a thought crime and an act of bigotry—that is the precept of a new religion.

He's literally not getting the point. No one is saying that trans women and cis women aren't at all different. We are just saying that trans women are also women and that simply calling us "people" as he does is fucking shitty. We aren't cis. No shit. We know that. None of us are making that claim. This fucker is just completely ignoring so much of the core of trans issues. And to call it a new religion. Like fuck man this guy is awful. Also he literally italicizes women and people. Fucking insane.

When talking about trans kids he says he's sure there are "real" cases of gender dysphoria but that some kids are just convinced to be trans by fucking tiktok.

Then says

Where, due to the influence of trans activists on our institutions, these kids are effectively in a cult, being brainwashed by a new orthodoxy.

Saying that trans activists are sneakily converting kids into our cult and brainwashing them. Fuck dude. He insists he's not transphobic then goes into the worst transphobia I've seen in a while.

Another:

Whereas it is obvious that, for millions of Americans, it might as well have been the only issue in this election. Not because they are transphobic assholes, but because they simply do not accept the new metaphysics, and even new biology, mandated by trans activists and the institutions that they have successfully bullied and captured.

Saying that trans people are bullying doctors into changing biology and that we captured it like a fucking capture the flag match and that us as trans activists are changing science as a whole. Us trans folk have only ever said that simplistic biology is just that, simplistic, and that there is far more complex biology that exists so maybe biology isn't super important when it comes to gender expression and trans identity.

This one is a long one:

Having the thought police suddenly proscribe the use of the term “woman,” and demanding that we speak instead of “birthing person,” or “menstruators,” or “people with ovaries,” or some other Orwellian construction designed to test everyone's patience and sanity… the sight of people being deplatformed on social media or fired from universities for merely stating that there are two biological sexes—I actually know a professor who lost her job at Harvard over this… witnessing an epidemic of gender confusion spread through our schools, when people with their own eyes could see that this was a social contagion being encouraged by the schools themselves—the ultimate fruition of which, in many cases, is irreversible medical procedures… We've got an epidemic of teenage girls wanting double mastectomies—snd some are actually getting them, based on ideas being spread on TikTok—and any parent who resists this trend gets demonized and, under certain conditions, could lose custody of their kids? Congratulations, Democrats. You have found the most annoying thing in the fucking galaxy and hung it around your necks.

People don't lose their job for saying "there are only two biological sexes", they lose their job for refusing to respect trans students by not using their preferred name or pronouns. Saying it's just about speaking truth to biology is misunderstanding everything. And then saying that using inclusive language is Orwellian? This fucker is a far right fascist piece of shit and this article should be fucking removed for how absolutely awful it is.

All trans people are asking is to just fucking respect who we are. None of us are arguing for rights that others don't have, none of us are arguing biology doesn't exist, none of us are arguing we are cis, none of us are converting kids into our cult through tiktok, none of us are apart of the "trans religion", none of us are bullying doctors into respecting our existence, none of us say there's no difference between us and cis folk (thats the entire reason there are cis women and trans women, because there is and always will be a distinction).

This was a terrible article to read so early into my day and I didn't even get into the immigration part because now I'm gonna have to go wash my fucking eyes out with bleach.

Edit: he's also at the end of the trans section using Elon Musk as a reason for how bad trans people and trans activists are because if the richest and smartest man in the world can see through the cult, then we should all be aware that trans people are a cult.

Absolutely. But didn't ya hear? Abortion rights are now also identity politics. So running on protecting them isn't okay and is running on identity politics, but running on restricting them or banning them isn't running on identity politics as long as you lie about your true goal.

Anyone who didn't vote for Harris but would have if one reason or another was different and who will soon lose their right to an abortion nationwide, if we have a next time you better fucking vote so shit like what's about to happen doesn't happen again/continue to happen.

I get what you're saying. And agree somewhat. But I think you don't have to be mentally ill or an idiot or whatever to be brainwashed. But being brainwashed is 100% what a lot of people on the right are and refusing to use that term might make sense in some regard, but it also doesn't properly address how we could go about fixing things. While I don't fully know how to fix this, treating it like brainwashing is the only way we can address it, as long as we also approach these people with patience and compassion and try to show them why what they spout is brainwashed.

It's a cult ya know? And cults are brainwashed. And calling people mentally ill or idiots for falling for it will definitely just make them double down. But it's still brainwashing.

This is fucking nuts. Some of those answers are people being so uninformed and then acting like they're the ones that are informed. Some even voted for Trump because they think he's anti-war and will stop the Genocide in Gaza despite him wanting to turbocharge it. It's just. Fucking depressing. I don't know how to counter this. The far right has created a media ecosystem that allows them to feed trash into their viewers brains even if it's a blatant lie and those people will go from voting for a blatant racist and fascist who thinks people of color are not real Americans, to voting for a left leaning woman of color.

It's almost like they don't have any actual morals or beliefs and only care about being anti-establishment. Some say they'd vote for Bernie but instead voted for Trump despite them being completely opposite people. These people don't have media literacy. They've been brainwashed, and I don't know how to fix it.

But I was informed by some Lemmy users that Project 2025 was nothing to worry about and that if we were worried about it we were believing the propaganda that it was a boogeyman. And that Project 2025 was Harris's plan if she came into office too. And that it had also already been partially implemented under Biden as well. Is it possible that maybe that was wrong? That the Lemmy users saying that were actually the ones spouting the propaganda to not be scared about it? The propaganda that says that it's just a new iteration of the Mandate for Leadership and nothing to worry about?

No that can't be true.

I mean. It's a stupid fucking suggestion so in this one singular case, I don't see a problem with people making fun of it on CNN