Edit: Sheesh. Some of you folks need this.
Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages
up·lift·ing /ˌəpˈliftiNG/
adjective
adjective: uplifting
inspiring happiness, optimism, or hope. “an uplifting story of triumph over adversity”
Edit: Sheesh. Some of you folks need this.
Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages
up·lift·ing /ˌəpˈliftiNG/
adjective
adjective: uplifting
inspiring happiness, optimism, or hope. “an uplifting story of triumph over adversity”
yeah. frankly while most left/liberal dont’ see it, Trump is also a product of the pendulum swinging. we have been on a good spat of liberalization for 30+ years and there was going to be a backlash. and as someone who grew up working class white, i totally get the unfairness and bitterness of so many of those people who the economic/education system has totally abandoned, and the horrible feelings and condescending that comes from the liberal elite/educated set who look down on everyone who isn’t highly educated and living in a coastal city. i got lucky and got to be one of those people, but many of my peers did not.
frankly i find it truly revolting how much of liberal america is so disgusting smug and condescending towards anyone who isn’t exactly like them, and that massively accelerated in the 2010s. used to be in the 2000s people would respect/admire me for working my way from a poor working class family to elite school on scholarship and putting myself through grad school and building al ife for myself… somewhere around 2015 that all became to change though and i repeatedly starting meeting folks who told me that i should have ‘stayed in my place’ and my ‘education is wasted on losers like you’. etc. and that attitude has only gotten worse and worse in the 2020s. i’d say there is a massive massive increase in class snobbery and elitism that didn’t exist 10-20 years ago.
i’ve also noticed progressives have moved away from economic issues largely and are entirely focused on culture war bullshit, esp use trans people and trans rights as the most important thing ever, which has alienated many many people due to the rage and hatred being spouted over it. to me this is a horrible horrible move, and plays right into the right wing’s advantages. because they are offer a much clearer narrative about these things than the left/liberals are. and clear narratives win elections and voters.
what baffles me is how the democrats can’t understand or replicate Obama’s success and messaging and act like he was some act of God. He wasn’t. He just appealed to people’s sentiments and listened to them… just like Trump did in this last election… meanwhile the democrats totally ignore the people and lecture us that they know better than we do what is going on in the country and we should be happy with how things are.
I hope someone on the left/dems capitalized on the severe economic need in this country and steers away from the culture war bullshit. A candidate that wants to actually fix the problems in this country that affect everyone, but it seems nobody is coming forth to do so. And at best we are just getting some candidates who are just going to go with the ‘trump bad, me not trump’ routine again, which we know doesn’t work.
what a lot of people miss in Trumps success is that he had a clear vision people could get behind, even if it was all bullshit and lies.
You have completely and hopelessly fallen for Republican propaganda. You’ve swallowed their entire framing of trans issues without any thought. You’re repeating the Republican Party line verbatim.
Democrats have spent the last decade trying to stay the hell away from the trans rights discussion at every opportunity. They’re not over bigots like Republicans, but they try to talk about literally anything else. Republicans however have continued to scream from the rooftops about trans people, as they try to incite the populous to acts of literal genocide.
Where are all these Democratic leaders that spend all their time talking about trans people? Can you name a single one? You’ve been brainwashed by conservative media.
Except I’ve been personally assaulted, threaten, and attached by trans people and their rabid allies for suggested trans people are just people and they don’t need special treatment. In person. In real life. i’ve been screamed at my face and threated with violence for not ‘using the right pronoun’, even after i asked them what pronoun they wanted and use it…
I live in a progressive area. Trans people here have it good. But a lot of them refuse to accept that… they want to abolish sex/gender entirely and become physically violent towards anyone who says ‘maybe you should chill and just enjoy your life’ or dates to accidentally ‘misgender’ them. They are the bullies and bigots here.
I’m glad you’ve never been personally attacked and harassed. I’ve had trans folks literally verbally assault me for waiting for coffee because I ‘look too straight’ whatever the fuck that means. multiple times over the past three years especially. Literally had some trans guy scream in my face on the subway yesterday while I was sitting in the corner minding my business and him going on and on about ‘don’t you like my beautiful care I’m a lady now why dont’ you want me i know you want me because you’re a removed i can tell because you have nice boots you take it in the ass.’ And I’m sitting there just ignoring them because I don’t want to engage some mentally ill psycho.
Just because you’re trans or leftist, doesn’t give you the right to assault and harass other people. Most of the democratic party pols are pro-trans agenda. And the ones who dare speak out against it and say stuff like 'maybe men shouldn’t be in women’s sports, or ‘maybe we should have 3 kinds of bathrooms’ get attacked mercilessly and called bigots and hateful by the nutbags. Every moderate democrat who speaks out on the issue gets attacked, despite having popular support because they expressing a more common sense approach instead of a ‘trans people should have no rules or restrictions on them that the rest of us cis people deal with’.
I don’t care about anyone being trans. But I care about insane people using their trans identity to abuse and harass other people, to file lawsuits and etc all because they feel they need to be treated differently than everyone else. Like you want gender affirming care? cool, but don’t give 12 year olds puberty blockers. 12 year olds have no idea who or what they are. let them figure it out when they are young adults like the rest of us. Just like we shouldn’t allow 12 year olds to get plastic surgery or tattoos or any of that type of body modfication
but any complexity or nuance on this issue gets the pro-trans extremists calling anyone a bigot. people should be allowed to be critical of these things. discussion and debate should be allowed to happen without the threat of violence and harassment from the pro-trans people or the anti-trans people.
funny how i’ve never seen a pro-trans person irl on online every have a good discussion of these issues… they just resort to insults and harassment and refuse to acknowledge anyone else’s concerns or questions. it’s almost as if they are just as ignorant and hateful on these things as someone who is anti-trans. and it’s not so much about trans people… as it is about their little culture war bullshit.
ironically when i see trans people discuss some of these things… who dont’ have an agenda… they are a lot more moderate on ‘trans issues’. probably because they are just a person and not some ideologue using trans people as a prop to further their political agenda.
I thought of disputing, but every paragraph is a troll
He didn’t have a clear vision. He had contradictory promises all over the place.
You must be a troll if you’re dumb enough to think all that tripe.