- 19 hours
Where they build strength by chugging Jack Daniels and doing key stands.
This guy wants power do badly, so he can pull a Right-Wing Mamdani, and be a big conservative hero.
He tried president, he’s trying governor, and if he loses this, I predict he’ll try to be mayor of some city next, probably Cleveland. I grew up in Cleveland, they’re dumb enough to vote for him.
- 1 day
The epstein class showing off their toys in public now? Ok, enough internet for me today.
- 2 days
Another loser Indian Republican. (I’m Indian and tired of brown people thinking they are white and privileged. If I remember correctly, Bobby Jindal said he was white. Another terrible person)
wealthy indians tend to be super conservatives, especially if they are from a rich caste family back in india, the poorers tend to be more democratic.
2 daysVivek Ramaswamy. He’s the GOP candidate for governor of Ohio.
Amy Acton is the Democratic candidate.
Ramaswamy views the LGBTQ community as a cult and trans identity as a mental illness. He has called for prohibiting gender affirming care to minors. He says: “Ohio has barred men from competing with women in women’s sports, and the Supreme Court has now held that it’s constitutional.” He misgenders every trans person he mentions, and makes no effort to hide his disgust.
With Acton, the only potentially offensive thing I have found is one, singular statement, where she says she does not support “boys playing in girls’ sports”.
There is a medical condition called “aphasia”, where a speaker mentally reaches for a word, and grabs the wrong one. People with the condition use words that don’t match their intended meaning. As a parent of a trans kid, I have struggled to make my vocabulary match my intended meaning. Knowing and supporting my child fully, my mind still occasionally reaches for their dead name and gender when I go looking for the right word. Not with any malice, not with any disapproval or disappointment. Just the words I had been using subconsciously for their entire life have become the wrong words, and sometimes my conscious isn’t quick enough with the ones carrying my intended meaning.
I have every reason believe Ramaswamy’s use of “men” is an intentional slur. The man’s entire worldview revolves around the idea of denigrating and insulting LGBTQ in general and trans in particular. He takes great pride in expressing his hatefulness and bigotry at every opportunity.
I think Acton’s use of the word “boys” is more comparable to aphasia. Her (uneducated) concern seems to be ensuring fairness in girls sports. She may not be an overt ally, but she’s done very little to make me think she might be an enemy.
Frankly, the supposed anti-trans sentiment arising from this one statement seems more like GOP propaganda than legitimate concern.
- Kewlio250@lemmy.zipEnglish1 day
Yeah, because the Republicans definitely care more about trans rights
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- Kewlio250@lemmy.zipEnglish3 hours
Or what, you just won’t vote? Not even gonna try to vote for someone that clearly aligns more with your issue as opposed to the option that’s entire platform is demonizing the existence of LGBTQ?
Vivek Ramaswamy. He is a con-man running for governor of Ohio. He made his fortune by buying a failed alzheimer drug and then lying to investors about its potential in order to jack up the stock price of his company. He is also famous for going on a Christmas day rant, along with Elon Musk, about how entitled and worthless American workers are because we demand things like a living wage and want free time to enjoy things like recreation.
He isn’t doing to well in Ohio fortunately.
