You heard about all the businesses capitulating to the fresh fashy vibes of the new ameriKKKa? Tossing diversity initiatives, LGBTetc protections? Amazon doing this is particularly shit because like many tech companies, they have a disproportionate number of trans women in computer programming. You’d think that would count for something, but here we fucken are.
Red state leftists don’t want to vote because it feels hopeless, but here’s the thing. If all of you got up and voted at the next opportunity and lost, it would send a message to the world, loud and clear. The kind of message electoral politics can ignore, yes, but not the kind of message that corporate america can afford to ignore. If the nazis win the next one by electoral margins but lose by 80% of the popular vote? That is a show of force for human rights, for humane policies, for progress. Corporations will realize that catering to the nazis is not the wisdom, and at least one source of human misery will become substantially less miserable.
That’s where the real power is at the moment. Corporations. They have all these fiefdoms carved out in the legalized monopoly game, so boycotts can only do so much. But demographic information that their advertisers can use, that is something they’ll pay attention to.
Give it a whirl, please? And who knows? Maybe there’s still a sliver of a hope in hell that democracy can move this needle slightly away from endless calamity, right? Throw me a fuckin’ bone here. Do it on a lark. Do it on a dare. Do it high on bin laden weed with a six-pack of beer. Just do it.
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This is my anthem now.
Here’s an interesting tidbit. In 2016 Texas latinos lagged behind latinos nationwide in their support for trump by 6pts 34-28, and in 2020 Texas latinos lagged behind by 9pts 41-32, but in 2024 something happened that caused latino support for trump to swell to 55%. Meaning, if only latinos voted in Texas, trump would have won! Texas latinos are 9pts ahead of latinos nationally 55-46, why? Was it the flood of anti-trans ads? I don’t know, but that 23 pt increase should not go unnoticed, nor should the continual increase nationwide.
The precinct I vote in went 80% for trump and I personally don’t know of any leftist that didn’t vote. Where are they? The needle is moving alright, in the wrong direction! Good Luck!
tx latinx repubs are gonna feel an extraordinary amount of buyer’s remorse so i’m not too concerned about that. this post made no mention of or assumptions about race, was pointed at leftists. anyone who on a transphobic whim would’ve voted orange is pretty fuckin far from who i was talking to.
Leftists voting in red states can make a huge difference. Democrats have been winning most special elections since late 2024, including in solidly red districts. This couldn’t be possible if leftists realized their strength and came together at minimum. As for Latinos, what’s happening is that Latinos are now clearly politically assimilated. The Irish used to be a reliable voting bloc for leftists back in the day for example but are their descendants are now ideologically diverse obviously. This is what happened. Plus the economy and the overall gender gap in politics is doing their part. What leftists should do is focus on class consciousness and anti-oligarch messaging (easier to do due thanks to the current administration). Also, let’s stop comparing voter trends to the Obama era. Outdated and wrong. Ignores that Latinos and Asians for example voted heavily for Bush and Reagan, and GOP candidates since the 80s at least. Things change. So let’s be that change.
That’s weird. What would cause a pattern like that, do you think?
RAM – thanks, good attitude
beks – an accident of history? trans women have historically been associated with computer hacking. not all of them of course, just an oddly higher rate than the general public.
I really wish you Yanks would go back to the normal colour scheme.
This “red is right”, “blue is left” is really f’ing annoying.
we’ll get right on it, bud.