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Republicans strive to energize their base, Democrats compromise on their values. Republicans are enjoying success despite their shrinking base. I'm just spitballing here but maybe Democrats should focus more on energizing their base.

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Nicely done, there...

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Pinned with a three pound hammer.

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He started as a man and will always be one, regardless of injury. If a woman is born without her reproductive organs she is still a woman, just one with a birth defect. Honestly we know what a man and woman actually are, playing word games will not change that reality. Mr Penis? Did you just assume my gender? Hand in your TRA card.

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Offering up sacrificial lambs never works because it doesn't make the hunger go away and you eventually run out of lambs. The idea that you can appease someone to take your side by giving up another means you've trained your "ally" to expect you to keep giving tribute. You give and they take, you bend and they lord. That's not compromise - that's subjugation and idiots refuse to understand it.

Appeasement *NEVER* works because you've proven to be a traitor to your own kind and will eventually be rewarded as a traitor deserves. People who advocate it don't think it will work - they just want to be the last lamb left.

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Yes.Please, people - don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

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I think you quite missed the far larger point. They don't consider trans women as women. ENDA is the actual legislation that is for those protections, while also supporting the Equal Rights Amendment.

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Depends on the state.If I lived in WV, I'd grit my teeth and vote for Manchin every damn time, because he gives us the majority.

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But the people hurt by Republicans in power don't.

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Guess what, you can't fix everything in two years or less.Young voters need to have that drilled into their skulls.

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It's about sperm worship.

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The word 'welfare' is in the Constitution! The word 'woman' isn't.

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Democrats need to condemn people making the attacks. Demand equal rights for ALL.

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They consider gay and trans as deviations from their definition of 'man.'Man good, woman evil. Any attempts by what they consider men to display characteristics designated as woman threatens their absolutism. Such behavior suggests that their good/evil construct is not a universal law. And that it is possible to deviate from assigned gender roles.Utter terror about their own social standing results.Woman behavior or appearance is a threat to their Man godhead.

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Exactly correct- thank you most beautiful writer person...

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It’s moments like these I’m comforted to know that, as the Atlantic becomes more acidic, more of Florida is dissolving.

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