I mean, it starring Jared Leto was a big red flag right off the bat. I hate that Legacy wasn't a bigger success. Now, it seems like they're just making a fan service film based on a mix of edgy teen stereotypes from the last 25 years. You're right. It's hard to feel optimistic about this. lol

We keep saying these people are Nazis and no one believes us despite the continuously mounting evidence!

I remember dealing with this during gamergate. It sucks that we're rehashing this with *sigh* our federal government...

I'm not right-wing. In advocating for left wing policies. What are you even talking about? 😂

Which is evident in phrases like "Not greater rights, not lesser rights, but equal rights." It's this assumption that trans people were asking for more than that in their lives. When the reality is that they're being used as a scapegoat.

They're allowing the fear to win by giving in to these disingenuous talking points and trying to appease people who have these unfounded fears of trans people and what trans people want in terms of equal rights.

What I'm talking about is this capitulation to the more extreme ideas put out by transphobes regarding competition in sports, use of bathrooms, and generally giving trans people truly equal rights as somehow being a step too far.

Putin in this photo.

Personally, what I want is true opposition to Trump and his unique brand of fascism. I want leaders like Mamdani who are willing to challenge the outdated assumptions about progressive economic and social policies, instead of cowering away from them the moment someone calls us socialist.

People are tired of being misled. People are tired of the focus group tested, soundbite marketable, sanitized political rhetoric that plays to a perceived center that doesn't actually exist for most of the American electorate.

I don't believe that people actually agree with the far-right politics that have dominated discourse, but rather that people are tired of politicians who pay lip service to progressive policy and then abandon it once they get into office.

We've been in the trickle-down era since then, even if we saw sprinkles of progressive policies in new legislation under Democratic admins over the decades. But the economic and social policy was still largely market centered and top down. Culminating in the gloves-off oligarchical fascism of today.

Mamdani and AOC may be from a progressive bastion, but I also believe that more people than these corpo Dems think are open to a new progressive era. The progressive era didn't end in 2024. The progressive era ended when Reagan was elected.

Proud of the members of my synagogue that are part of the group that pushed Katherine Clark to finally do this. The next step is to get her to act on this understanding.

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