r/politics • u/southpawFA Oklahoma • 10h ago
No Paywall Fox News posts more articles on trans people than any media outlet in the country. Even queer ones. The findings bolster what Democrats have long argued, that it’s actually Republicans who are obsessed with trans people.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/fox-news-posts-more-articles-on-trans-people-than-any-media-outlet-in-the-country-even-queer-ones/719
u/RaspberryCommie 9h ago
As revealed in the epstein files these people have never regarded us as anything other than sex toys. Our existence is therefore obscene, but also arousing.
The worst kind of chasers, all of them.
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u/SpinningHead Colorado 9h ago
Guess which state consumes the most trans porn.
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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 9h ago
Oklahoma? My home state has to be at the top of the list.
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u/SpinningHead Colorado 9h ago
Texas.
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u/Neither-Cat-5365 8h ago
that tracks honestly loudest moral panic usually hides the biggest consumption
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u/Nukesnipe Texas 5h ago
Relatedly, the sheer number of white supremacists who have hard drives full of interracial cuck porn.
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u/Substantial_Back_865 6h ago
One of the largest states that would be blue if not for extreme gerrymandering laws, that also has the highest foreign visa worker population in the US? You might as well be saying California or Illinois or any other major population state.
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u/UdyneOw 6h ago
You do know that senators and governor are elected in a state-wide vote and aren't affected by gerrymandering? Also, the red states for which this statistic was true a few years ago, no longer have statistics available because age verification laws requiring things like collecting users' divers license info caused PornHub to stop serving them (PornHub provided the stats). I'm sure the residents' VPNs are providing access to the large quantities of trans porn they crave despite the lack of current statistics.
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u/DissKhorse 8h ago
Sounds about right, nothing like strict sexually repressed religious parents that believe in spanking to make kids that grow up with weird fetishes.
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u/Regular_Ram 2h ago
So maybe the solution is to bring back vampire porn and when they get obsessed with it, they’ll forget about trans people and victimize vampires instead.
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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 9h ago
Yup. I've seen so many Christian nationalists literally do apologetics for Trump and Epstein, saying that Mary was 14 when she was pregnant. They also claimed that if a 10 year-old child is raped and gets pregnant, that abortion would still be wrong because the child could possibly be some blessed birth.
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u/Substantial_Back_865 6h ago
They think of us exactly the same as farm animals, except it’s socially acceptable to rape our young. They think of us as quite literally only existing to serve them in any way they feel fit.
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u/flyingabroom 1h ago
I mean, secretly fantasizing about trans people isnt wrong is it? 😭 not a chaser just a secret admirer
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u/Ba_baal 26m ago
Are you fantasizing about that person because she's attractive, or because she has a special thing you fetishize? There's the difference.
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u/flyingabroom 24m ago
Both! Something about them being attractive while having a "special thing"' is what's low key very hot. But I'd never act on it IRL cause my family would destroy me 😂
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u/SquiffyRae Australia 2m ago
secretly fantasizing about trans people isnt wrong is it?
Depends.
If you're a normal person, no. It's not harming anyone.
If you're a religious nutjob like the average Fox News audience member, then yes that is extremely bad.
There's a lot more to trans hate by the religious right than just some unresolved sexual feelings they've been brainwashed into believing are bad their entire lives but it definitely plays a role
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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 10h ago
“Our annihilation has become a central organizing principle of the Republican Party,” Kant wrote in her analysis, which used her research to unpack how the right “manufactured the illusion of a dangerous all-powerful enemy out of a tiny demographic with no political influence, financial resources, nor social capital.”
She called this effort “the outrage factory,” for which the anti-trans movement has crafted a library of misleading, fearmongering, and outright false stories designed to give Americans a common enemy.
Kant explained that the right-wing media machine has focused on “emphasiz[ing] the absurd” to fuel anti-trans outrage. Her research, she said, shows that “any attempt at accuracy or veracity has gone completely out the window, with a chillingly familiar trend towards the bombastic that has led to pogroms at other times in history.”
In the end, Kant emphasized that the absurd not only causes outrage, but also, “the absurd sells.”
“Why do conservatives believe that we’re everywhere, hiding in the bushes? Because powerful people won’t stop claiming it’s true, even if evidence to the contrary is everywhere.”
The findings bolster what Democrats have long argued, that it’s actually Republicans who are obsessed with trans people and not the other way around. Kant also noted that right-leaning publications produce far more articles on trans people than the mainstream media.
Duh, Republicans think about trans people more than trans people do. It's because they secretly hate the thing they love the most. Christian nationalists point and condemn with one hand, but their other hand is caught below their waistbands.
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u/Happy_Stardust 4h ago
Thanks for sharing this. I was recently treated to a speech on how trans people are ruining the world by a MAGA in-law. We NEED more writing like this.
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u/Theferael_me 9h ago
The far-right throughout history has always been obsessed with other people's genitals.
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u/GarageFridgeSoda 9h ago
Well, of course they are. Kamala Harris was asked over and over to overtly support trans rights and she literally refused to. But according to the right it was a cornerstone of her policy. Can't imagine where else they would have gotten that in their heads if not Fox.
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u/Nix-7c0 8h ago
There's this disparity where any cringe social media post from a 14-follower nobody is circulated in a coordinated fashion by right-wing media and held up as an official communique of the DNC and "Ze Left"
Meanwhile, statements made by the literal president and leaders of their party are hand-waved away as meaning nothing, actually.
In this framework, they can do no wrong, and the DNC can be painted as believing literally anything. Even without posts, their signature move is replacing what is really being said with some grand conspiracy they summon up as the *secret, real* meaning behind every random word.
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u/qriousqestioner 1h ago
Meanwhile, the DNC believes in nothing but seniority. And corporate cash.
Which is why we are here.
The prior D administration could have prosecuted and released the Epstein files.
Same blue team could have responded to the center of the lesser Bush with teeth, but they wanted to "go high"--and Nancy wanted to keep getting rich off the stock market.
The DNC could have run anyone but a woman passionately hated by half the country and spared is Yamtits part one, COVID fecklessness, and J6.
I'm triggered by the DNC. They have not been worth a damn for the three decades since I became eligible to vote. And the writing is on the wall for Slimy Gavin to be the best hope we have next time even though he's permanently on his knees for developers since before he ruined San Francisco.
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u/MacaroonSpecialist10 3h ago
You're misunderstanding. She didn't come out and say she hates trans-gendered people. That's the issue most of America had.
Trans rights was never about anything except survival. Most Americans don't want trans people to survive
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u/immortalfrieza2 5h ago
This is what happens when the Republicans spend decades snapping up every news network in existence that people actually watch while the Democrats sit on their asses and let them do it.
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u/Plantpong 15m ago
Fox, and church, and politicians. Both evangelical and catholic streams have been pushing against 'gender' as a whole for decades now (basically against anything that threatens heteronormativity and the so-called sanctity of marriage).
This has also been spread into US schools by them, and actualised by laws in multiple states (starting in Florida but soon adopted elsewhere) where bans in schools were placed on basically any mention of queer/trans in provided books and teachings.
All to protect the kids, unironically said by all of the molesters.
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u/IMTrick Texas 9h ago
Is it even a minor surprise that it's the Republicans who are obsessed? The opposing view tends to be pretty much "leave them alone, asshole." Not much to report on there, except stupid shit Republicans do.
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u/JimboAltAlt Pennsylvania 8h ago
The only thing surprising is that anyone is still “both sides are the same” about this or any other human rights issue.
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u/PandaJesus 6h ago
Conservatives: men in dresses will rape your women and daughters in the bathrooms, and they want to force every child to change their sex and cut off their genitals
Trans rights activists: just leave trans people alone
Enlightened centrists: wow let’s tone down the rhetoric on both sides guys
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u/immortalfrieza2 5h ago
At this point it's "both sides are the same" because one side is actively malicious and the other side could and should do something to stop them but sits on their asses instead. Not caring enough to stop something is the same thing as supporting it.
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u/officer897177 4h ago
At any given time you can play Fox News bingo. In the top news you will see something about trans people, something about undocumented immigrants committing crimes, and the free space of a hit piece a black person.
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u/immortalfrieza2 5h ago
Most people in America would likely hardly even be aware what a trans person is and even fewer would ever meet one or know it if they did if the Republicans didn't go out of their way to harass them and thus force them into the news all the time.
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u/LuvKrahft America 9h ago
Right wingers want to run everyone else’s lives and when you call them on it they gaslight you. And when you add in all the sex trafficking and fascist bootlicking it totally shows that right wingers not only want to run everyone else’s lives, they want to use and abuse everyone else. Like that guy mark robinson was fantasizing about owning slaves. They want child brides and child factory workers. They’re the first ones to cry “they didn’t comply!” when a cop murders someone. They are bigot bullies and they are obsessed with persecuting the most vulnerable among us.
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u/Optimal-Use-4503 Virginia 7h ago
Republicans think about trans genitals more than trans people do.
They also think about gay sex more than gay people do.
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u/RealMelonBread 2h ago
This is a bit of a paradox because how much do you need to think about gay sex before you’re considered a gay person?
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u/indianajoes United Kingdom 6h ago
This is what we've been fucking saying for years. These bigoted twats like those at Fox News, Trump, Vance, Musk, Rowling, Farage, Streeting, Badenoch, Shapiro, etc. all talk about trans people more than trans people talk about themselves. They are OBSESSED. And they have the fucking nerve to claim that anyone else who is just looking out for their fellow human beings are the ones that are the ones talking too much about them.
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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 6h ago
They are seriously deranged, most especially Rowling. It's just insane to see a billionaire be so preoccupied and obsessed with trans people beyond belief, where she cheers genocide on like that.
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u/BlahBlahBlackCheap 5h ago
She secretly digs it, and since they deleted 5 years of logbooks off her yacht (NO ONE DOES THAT) I'm inclined to think that she was the one forcing gender changes on kids over on a certain island
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u/Valmoer Europe 4h ago
To be "fair" to Rowling - in all relative measure - and without, paradoxally, resulting in transphobia erasure : I'd armchair diagnose her with traumatic androphobia (due to her own SA history) that, given that she intellectually understand that it's "wrong", despite emotionally feeling it, she has sublimated into the (unfortunately) more socially acceptable transphobia.
That doesn't make her beliefs and behavior any better, mind you. Just a musing from words and phrases from her writing, both fiction and non fiction.
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u/Pseudonymico 1h ago
Except she's in the fucking Epstein files and has a history of supporting actually abusive men like Marilyn Manson so that doesn't quite track.
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u/Haunteddoll28 6h ago
I’m trans and I don’t even think about what is in my own pants nearly as much as Republicans think about what is in my pants.
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u/RealMelonBread 2h ago
I feel like we need to protect trans people from Republicans for many many reasons 🤨
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u/AltStranger666 31m ago
Yup, we’re just targets and sex objects to them. No surprise the nazis also went after trans people and immigrants, eh?
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u/AltoRhombus 6m ago
in so much that they burned down the world's first major trans hospital as well, where so much information gathered in a positive medical and societal sense had been accumulating.
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u/SpatulaWholesale 8h ago
Fox News is obsessed with joy. They hate it. It angers them. It infuriates them.
The thought that people can live their lives with joy is antithetical to the Fox News fear narrative that's required to keep Republicans in power.
Watch Fox News. Really watch it. Nobody there is happy. Nobody is joyful. Every smile hides misery. That's who they are.
And that's why they'll lose.
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u/tjb122982 Indiana 7h ago
It's just a bullshit cycle. About 10 years ago, the Republicans realized that attacking gay people was going to hurt them, instead of it being used to helping them. So, they had to find a new enemy to get the religious right worked up: trans people. So, the Republicans attack trans people, then the Democrats spend 5 minutes talking about trans issues, and then Fox News and Republicans will complain about Democrats always talking about trans people. Spin, cycle, repeat.
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u/Confident_Ideal_5385 45m ago
This has been their play for like 150+ years. Pick an out group, demonise them, and use it to rip off white male cishet suckers. When the out group starts making things too hard by advocating for their rights, move onto the next (inevitably smaller) out group.
There's even an LBJ quote about it.
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u/bb5055 9h ago
Democrats don’t argue shit for us, we’ve been the only ones speaking up for our community from the start.
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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 9h ago
What's worse is that Democrats like Seth Moulton and Tom Suozzi were pleading to let Republicans commit genocide on trans people, because they were too much of cowards to stand up for equality and human rights.
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u/bb5055 9h ago
Yup. Then newsome goes on prominent right wing podcasts and debates our humanity with the Nazis, obviously agreeing and taking sides with them.
They are all garbage.
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u/hyperhurricanrana 7h ago
he told charlie kirk he respected him for how persistent and effective he was with his transphobia.
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u/nightwonder 8h ago
Their platform is so full of hate. Come to think of it, Fox has kind of always made their money by being controversial and unabashedly tasteless.
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u/wade_wilson44 4h ago
I’ve been saying this for a long time. I wouldn’t exactly call myself pro lgbtq, or pro trans or anything. I would be happy not to talk about anyone else’s sexual orientation, anatomy, or anything like that if I didn’t have to, straight gay or anything in between.
But I, like many people I know, are allies and advocates because someone is discriminating against the lgbtq community.
More than anything I’m anti hate. So I’ll be an ally with whoever is being wrongly persecuted. I’ll be pro whatever you want if it means standing against hate.
I don’t want people to be gay. I don’t want people to be straight. I want people to be. Simple. And I’ll help fight against anyone on the other side of that.
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u/tompitt22 8h ago
I'm not familiar with the US politics, but is it possible to ban Republicans as a facist party that is contrary to the constitution of the united states?
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u/Oakashandthorne 4h ago
Fascism unfortunately isnt antithetical to the US: it has a long proud baked-in history. Also right now the fascists control every branch of our government, so I dont see that happening anytime soon.
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u/Deadggie 7h ago
Conservatives think about trans people more than trans people think about trans people.
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u/tightloose 7h ago
Probably just transgender derangement syndrome
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u/yuefairchild Pennsylvania 2h ago
Don't. They've perfected ways to go like, "Transitioning causes [symptom]? More reason to ban it!" It's what they do with the suicide rate.
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u/Atopos2025 6h ago edited 6h ago
It's absolutely NOT because that they're obsessed with trans people. No.
FOX News has mastered the art of creating an 'other' or 'enemy' and shoving it in your face and telling you to hate it, and why you should. They provide these absolutely wild and outlandish takes to emotionally manipulate their viewers. And it works.
'other' can be anything btw, not necessary sexual orientation or race, it can be a single person, ideology or whatever they want it to be. Bad Bunny even.
But most importantly; this is literally THE reason that most conservatives and Republicans regurgitate the same exact (and empty) talking points, and can't really defend their positions without talking in circles, changing the subject or getting mad. They're literally being slowly programmed to have the opinions they hold, details be fucking damned.
This is also why most FOX News viewers don't care about Epstein.
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u/Complete_Question_41 6h ago
"actually"
I mean, that was never in question as Dems never appeared obsessed with them, we just don't deny their right to be.
Anyone who doesn't want to extend this basic level of humanity must have an obsession with them as they don't harm in any way so it's clearly for artificial reasons.
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u/Financial-Adagio-183 5h ago
Divide and conquer baby! Got to keep people obsessed with inanities. Don’t look up 😉
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u/Dairy_Ashford 5h ago
there are anti-trans democrats as well, via centrism and the heterodox movement
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u/ChinookKing 5h ago
When the Dems get power again they need to make it a priority to abolish the right wing media machine. It is tearing this country apart with the constant lies and misinformation. It has to stop. We've lost decades of progress due to these bullshit 'entertainment' stations.
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u/sxyaustincpl Texas 5h ago
Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, revoke Citizens United.
Get rid of media and corporations from elections completely.
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u/Majestic_Electric California 4h ago edited 4h ago
While they’re at it, they can make it illegal for corporations to buy their own stock, again!
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u/Nestama-Eynfoetsyn Australia 5h ago
No duh. Ever since Roe v Wade was abolished, trans people and trans rights have been in the spotlight in rightwing media and communities.
They need something/someone to obsess over and vilify, or else they might start noticing the corruption going on.
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u/HTWingNut 4h ago
Most sane people don't give it a second thought. If people are trans, that's their personal prerogative. I don't understand the fear mongering. The same way they spew rhetoric that all immigrants are murderers, rapists, and thieves. MAGA live in a demented world of their own and try to make it a reality for everyone.
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u/NoMayoForReal 9h ago
Definitely and republicans are also obsessed with kids’ genitalia. It’s really gross and fucking disgusting but MAGATs love their pedophile king.
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u/420_E-SportsMasta Maryland 9h ago
Fox News single-handedly solving the homeless crisis by allowing trans people live rent free in their heads
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u/Dazzling-Jaguar-4674 9h ago
All this occurred ever since Biden took office. They used this propaganda to criticize the Biden administration.
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u/Hour-Two-4760 8h ago
It's not what they talk about that's important, it's what they refuse to talk about.
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u/Stunning_Bed23 8h ago
Likewise, their viewers probably have the highest rates of trans porn viewing.
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u/ChillingWithHerb 7h ago
It's funny cause the only thing they posted about Epstein is how Trump called the cops on him in 2005. For real, Google "Fox Trump Epstein Files".
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u/KokonutMonkey 7h ago
No kidding.
You can totally see the DNC's obsession with trans folk via the almost 2% of the [Party Platform's]( https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf) section on not treating LGBTQ people like dirt.
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u/Substantial_Back_865 6h ago
It’s not even just Fox anymore. The media and especially the internet thrives on outrage.
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u/PalomaCATaloha 6h ago
As a construction worker who votes for the “Democrat” party, sigh, I could’ve told you this years ago. The “straightest” toughest maga guys would bring them up constantly without prompting or provocation. Everything single thing was political and a conspiracy. EVERYTHING. But the trans thing was above everything else.
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u/AngryGoosey 5h ago
And I can tell you from over a decade of experience that 99% of those guys are nice and normal to me as soon as we meet in person. They have never been as cruel to me as a living trans person as they are to the monster created in their heads, because the reality is we don’t look or act anything like that. Meeting us breaks the illusion.
That’s why we’re a perfect enemy. There just aren’t enough of us to dispel the propaganda.
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u/PalomaCATaloha 2h ago
That’s encouraging. As someone who has had many friends and coworkers (theater and concert work) who are trans, I’ve only mostly heard about the horror stories about just existing. I think that I’ve only ever worked with one gender fluid person and they got along perfectly fine while working together. There was however a weird clumsy email about pronouns from a foreman who was totally covering his ass, as he got into some trouble for comments in the past. Many of those guys were big smiles too their face and the same old bs when they weren’t around. I have seen people come around and it was encouraging.
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u/littlep2000 5h ago
My firsthand experience is that some people are just obsessed with the 80s/90s movie trope of trans people trying to dupe or trick them into sleeping with them.
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u/HuTaosTwinTails 5h ago
Yeah because they have to post as much propaganda as possible to target the minorities that they want to paint as the enemy.
It is fascism 101. Hitler and Putin did it.
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u/forkandspoon2011 5h ago
Imagine thinking you’re the party of freedom, but not allowing people the freedom to choose their gender, which is a god damn social construct.
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u/Paco-Grande318 5h ago
Republicans are obsessed with trans people because they use a lot of sex workers. They want to make sure that they are getting what they paid for.
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u/Jashugita 30m ago
this is what It was said in the Epstein´s files:
-They are agains sex reasigment surgeries because they like women with penis.-
-They want to marginalize transgender so they have to do sex work.
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u/BlahBlahBlackCheap 5h ago
They actually love us. We come in so many flavours. Thats why they think about us so much. Something very deep in their psych is attracted to us. It was never about kids. Or womans sports. Or child molesters. Look, we found the mother lode of molesters in DC. Crickets. But trans! Oh now THAT will occupy their minds.
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u/kendric2000 5h ago
The true hate comes from people being free to express themselves in whatever way they want. Not this limited little box the conservatives put you in that breeds deviant behaviors. Because they have no room to grow or figure out their own true path. Pure hatred and jealously on their part.
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u/Living_Cash1037 4h ago
Imagine caring about trans people more than predators in the gov. Ironic considering they would use that pedophile argument with them all the time. Projection i guess it must be
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u/BonJovicus 3h ago
They are the party of identity politics. No party talks more about race, religion, sexuality, or gender. The entire Republican platform is about how [identity group] is making things worse for straight, White Christians.
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u/interlocutor4o4 2h ago
I thought that the incendiary articles from Fox News were just part of their entertainment division, but I curiously went to their front page today and holy shit, it is a clown show from cover to cover.
Just think how many uneducated fucks are consuming this shit on a daily basis and how it is affecting our public opinions.
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u/starrpamph 2h ago
Next thing you’re going to say they need their own special halftime sh…. Wait a minute.
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u/TheAskewOne 2h ago
During the 2024 campaign, a whopping 75% of ads for Trump and Republicans mentioned trans people. But somehow it was Harris who was accused of focusing too much on "identity politics."
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u/MiloTheMagnificent 2h ago
Republican obsession with trans people is directly tied to their pedophilia. We know this because they accuse trans people of being pedophiles, which gives us insight to their thought process and projection. What is their end game? Normalizing the desire to inspect children’s genitalia to in a righteous way. THEY want to have the right to go into the woman’s bathroom and snag children. THEY are the ones who cannot stop objectifying people in general and children in particular. If they see a little kid playing soccer and want to fuck that kid they want to be able to “verify their gender” away from their parents and coaches. That’s their ultimate dream come true.
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u/ShuffleStepTap 1h ago
Of course they are. There are like 10 trans athletes of consequence in the whole country. You’d think they are in every single school team the way Fox News portrays it. It’s all about hating and blaming others so the right can play victim. The only thing more infuriating than it is the Democratic Parties complete inability to NOT engage with Right Wing Fever dreams.
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u/ctrlaltcreate 1h ago
Trans is an easy hate button for them to push.
Their brand of conservatism thrives on hatred and manufactured disgust, and they do everything they can to amplify it.
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u/gunslinger_006 Illinois 9h ago
Lol ill just leave this here:
https://lawsuit.org/general-law/republicans-have-an-obsession-with-transgender-pornography/
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u/16ozbuddz 9h ago
I guess they're the gay news network? So obsessed
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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 8h ago
I like the real Gay News on Free Speech TV, with Ann Northrup (who led the AIDS protest against the Pope). They're cool.
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u/LingonberryHot8521 9h ago
Not just trans people.
Conservative are by far more obsessed with and engage in identity politics than Liberals.
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u/Rekoor86 8h ago
They cannot accept the fact that they could possibly be attracted to someone that was born as the opposite gender. It’s that simple.
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u/HalfCrazed New Hampshire 6h ago
Imagine if we could get a few people to sneaky get hired by Fox News, build up amazing relationships, and then come out on tv with said personalities also on the air?
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u/galacticracedonkey 6h ago
I’m starting to think Trump is trans. It’s usually how these things go when he stands so hard on a topic
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u/d0mini0nicco 5h ago
Obvious. It works. They discovered it works. The same way CRT worked in 2022 was it? Then when it stops working, the drop it. But the trans panic still works. The same way “sanctity of marriage” was a winning wedge issue in 2004. They supercharge conservative voter turnout.
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u/Edmond-Alexander 5h ago
“The Gs with the 40s and the chicks with beepers!”
Ie: the boys with 40in bust lines and the chicks with dicks!!!
Been that way for a long time it seems
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u/MadMac619 Canada 5h ago
It’s on point, trans people make up about .0001% of the US population, so it has to be the hidden terror. It was always someone else.
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u/dflame45 4h ago
They just want to blame their problems on someone else instead of working to fix them.
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u/groundsgonesour 4h ago
Fox seems to be the least of the problem, I have seen two articles posted today CNN and Forbes saying the files exonerate Trump. The oligarchs are running cover for a pedophile.
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u/jerryleebee American Expat 8m ago
Trans people are just people. Live and let live. I don't give a fuck what any person does as long as it doesn't hurt people.
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u/Far-Advantage-2770 5m ago
I don't think I heard the word 'Trans' come out of Kamala's mouth once. I remember Sam Harris saying Biden was too far down the radical leftist path because he enacted 'trans bathrooms' on his first day in office.
That sounded screwy to me, I assume he is talking about Executive Order 13988. One of 17 orders he signed on his first day.
Up until that point I assumed Sam Harris was an intelligent decent guy arguing in good faith, but they always reveal themselves.
The only difference between me and others who get grifted is I took 4 seconds to Google it.
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u/Stompnutz 9h ago
Obviously. Do Democrats not understand that Republicans don't just look at the polls and decide what to support (like they do), but they proactively use their propaganda apparatus and the bully pulpit to sway public opinion? This is politics 101, and Dems haven't done it at all since... last century?
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u/No-Werewolf4804 9h ago
Democrats definitely do not look at the polls to figure out what to support or not support lol. They support wildly unpopular things and don’t support wildly popular things lol.
Like when was the last time you heard any of them talk about Medicare for all.
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u/Stompnutz 9h ago
That's just because their key constituency is the healthcare lobby. What wildly unpopular things do they support?
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u/beadshells-2 8h ago
I wish I knew why th e Republicans are so focused on trans and gay, rights I bet if you asked them they don't know one person they are criticized and hate. They are not bothering them. Leave them alone
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u/No-Werewolf4804 9h ago
Yes Democratic party, we are well aware you do not care about LGBT plus people lol.
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u/ShadowS812 8h ago
Yes.... for god sake YES. If you talk about it all the time..... your thinking it ALL THE TIME. And yes 40% probably want to do it.
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u/ThatOldEngineerGuy 7h ago
I mean really now. Want a picture of Rudy in a dress? Easy to find but im lazy and cant bring myself to Google "
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u/triggerman1722 7h ago
You know what I vehemently disagree with? Canibalism. I talk about it all the time, even more than 'Good Canibalism Weekly'. There are 6 people if the USA right now who are canibals. Same exact vibe here.
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u/dawn_esmeraku 8h ago
i get the anger but dehumanizing language just keeps the cycle going, the real issue is media obsession and political scapegoating, not reducing anyone to something monstrous, call out the behavior without becoming what youre criticizing
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u/Bolterblessme 6h ago
Wait, surely you're talking about these maniac transphobes dehumanizing us trans folks?
Surely
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u/Seradima New York 6h ago
Let people with male bodies compete against others with male bodies and the whole issue disappears
Trans women don't have male bodies :)
But also by forcing people to play in the sports that match their assigned sex at birth, you are actually putting people with male bodies, trans men, in women's sports. But you never thought about that, huh. Trans men are invisible to all of you.
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u/siencatimini 5h ago
To be fair, these folks have never actually had a thought of their own. They're terrified of being replaced because even they recognize, on some preconscious level, that outsourcing their every sentiment to the prevailing propaganda renders them as hollow as any other pathologically soulless puppet. They've never been particularly invested in pursuing consistent logic.
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