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You're spending a lot of time scrutinizing the actions of a man who was just tortured for being gay. What are you trying to argue?

A big issue with things like PFAs is that they bioaccumulate. They build up faster than the body can metabolize them. This increases the likelihood of toxicity because the level in your body just keeps building.

There's also biomagnification, which is where a substance (in this case PFAs) grow more concentrated in organisms higher in the food chain. It's in everything. It's in the things we eat, and it's in the things they eat, and it's in the things those things eat, all the way down.

It doesn't matter if things aren't toxic now, because they will be given enough time.

Not everyone can afford to not take work. Queer people are more likely to be fired and refused jobs because they're queer, and that frequently means needing to take horrible jobs in horrible places just to survive.

but does he really think

I don't mean this in a snarky way, try waterboarding yourself for 5 seconds and then consider if you would be in any way rational after sustained torture. Torture fucks you up in horrible ways, and I don't think we should be criticizing this man for how he reacted to the injustice he faced.

Do you think there are circumstances where queer people deserve to be tortured? He moved there for work, but your victim blaming would be just as gross even if he did it for fun.

That's my gender. I didn't pay for this clipart.

A law for gender reassignment surgery to be paid for by the state when people are incarcerated for murder? Well then say that.

That's a horrible misrepresentation of what happened. The issue isn't that there's no "law for gender reassignment surgery to be paid for by the state when people are incarcerated for murder", the issue is that trans prisoners have a law excluding them from receiving healthcare. The state has to pay for the medical care of prisoners. For "some reason" (transphobia) trans people's healthcare is not included in that. Kamala Harris upheld an unjust and transphobic law. "She was just ~~following orders~~ doing her job" isn't the defense you think it is.

Your misrepresentation of the problem is another great example of transphobia. Trans people are asking not to have their medical care excluded. You just think trans medical care isn't necessary but you don't want to say it, so you have to twist the actual problem to make it seem like the trannies are being ridiculous again.

And this is another great example. You don't care about what trans people have to say, you don't want Harris to be better. You want the crazy trannies and commie pinkos to stop whining and vote. You don't want change, you want things to go "back to normal" so you don't have to think about people suffering for the neoliberal regime. Just own it.

So yeah, this is the part where you get mad at leftists for asking for any sort of change. It's also pretty transphobic and you spent a lot of time trying to defend some pretty awful shit. This is exactly what I was talking about. You don't want to hear what lefties have to say, but you won't own up to that.

Yes.

Leftists are trying to push her left because they want a more progressive president. It's a perfectly "valid" political position to think she's perfect as is and want leftists to stop trying to get her to be more progressive, just own it. You're pushing back against leftists and then pretending you aren't, and that's where you lose any good will or assumptions of good faith. By all means disagree with lefties, just own it.

My problem specifically is that this kind of thing happens any time lefties push for Democrats to be progressive. Exactly 4 years ago I saw leftists being chastised for trying to push Biden left because "he has to win first", then it was "he just won you have to give him time", then it was "we can't worry about distractions like trans rights or antiracism, we need to worry about midterms", then it was "midterms just ended, we need to give them time to get organized", then it was "we can't worry about distractions like trans rights or antiracism or genocide, we need to worry about Trump", and now it's looped back to "she has to win first". In 6 months it'll be "she just won you have to give her time", and a year from now we'll be too busy worrying about midterms.

Do you see the pattern here? There's never an acceptable time for liberals to care about marginalized people. We're not even saying Harris is evil or should lose, we're literally just asking for her to do better. I genuinely hope she wins, nationalizes all the things, fixes racism and transphobia, and we all live happily ever after. I just don't think we'll ever get there without pushing our leaders to do better. You know how the right loves to say "love America or get out"? Leftists are taking the third option of "make it better" and you're pushing back against them for it. You aren't saying it out loud, but you're embodying the "love it or leave it" mentality of the right.

We just want her to be better.

but posting “Harris isn’t progressive enough on —-“ right now is not okay

Trans people are literally just asking for basic human dignity, and you're telling us that isn't okay.

This entire response is an exercise in mental gymnastics. Leftists are bad for "not doing politics" but also leftists are bad for doing politics.

If we survive this election and Harris gets in, I’ll be right there demanding progress. For the next 87 days though, it’s more GOTV than Here’s My List of Demands.

If I had a penny for every liberal that said that and then didn't actually care, I'd be able to pay the student debt Joe Biden thought I didn't deserve to have forgiven.

I don't have links because they get banned pretty quickly, but over the last week I've seen maybe 4 or 5 examples of lemmy users referencing "the race card" (derogatory) in response to others talking about systemic racist violence.