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So instead we have to hope that not only will you win, but enough actual trans supporters win to counterbalance the likes of you. And then to hope that, in six years, we Texans remember what you did, and take the opportunity to choose someone else, maybe even someone worthy, someone better than you.

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But you could always try to make it right. Restore your support, acknowledge that you were wrong, seek redemption. It will ring hollow no matter what, especially if after the election, but you could try. It would be the right thing to do, if that interests you. But of course you won't do that.

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I genuinely hope that you win. With far less enthusiasm, still I hope. But now a good deal of my hope is for the trans people who will be driven yet further into the void if you lose. They would be blamed, they would be hated, while you slink back to your life unbothered, one more forgotten coward.

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So here we are. A community once again torn in half, one side demanding unity no matter what in the face of existential threats, the other side railing at the injustice of being the sacrificial lamb no matter what happens. But most of both sides will vote for you anyway, so why should you care.

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The run up to every election for the last 10 years has felt like this. Panic, fear, pain, fury. Say nothing critical, wait until they have power, anything else is too dangerous. Scream at anyone who might hold back the blue wave we all need to survive, even if it means they drown for the rest of us.

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Your betrayal becomes theirs if they give voice to it. They become the problem because every choice is for someone who will not support them. To criticize is to let the side down, to refuse to support and vote is tantamount to treason. Once again stripped of their power, their voice, their peace.

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But arguably what's worse is what happens to the people you've now abandoned. Trans people are faced with the same calculus they nearly always are: vote for someone who denies your humanity to help everyone else, and hope that they can be persuaded, or don't, and be the enemy within everyone blames.

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If any of that seems harsh, why? If you'll say whatever you think will show that you are "reasonable", that you understand that being trans is nothing more than a "genetic mutation", even after you've said supportive and knowledgeable things in the past, why should we assume we know your line?

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Or maybe that's a little too far, given how like a Republican that would make you, and the Hispanic vote in Texas is much larger than the trans vote. So you also can't give up abortion too much, you absolutely need women to vote for you. But I'm not a political consultant, I guess I wouldn't know.

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However unintentionally, you've effectively blackmailed us to give you power. So since you've done that, who else will you throw under the bus? Will you give Republicans grace that maybe some of those brown people in our concentration camps deserve to be there? Republicans voted for that, after all.

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Either way, having said what you said, your voters now can't trust you. And yet we are still your voters. Most of us will choose you over the guy who sent law enforcement after families with trans kids, because you have to be better than that. So we rage at what you say, then vote for you anyway.

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Maybe you're trying to play the game, offer the hollow concession to try and win some shaken Trump voters over to your side and then go back on it. Or maybe you always intended to retreat from your support for the trans community, you just needed the nomination before it was truly safe to do.

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That gives you the kind of profound leverage no politician should have. Safe in the knowledge that as long as you are the better option, you are free to compromise, backtrack, dilute anything you've said before, and you will still get our vote, because you're the only option we have.

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I can't vote for the Republican, that all but guarantees the deaths of innocent people. I can't not vote, ceding any power I have is just making it more likely the worst happens, and voting 3rd party, in this country, is essentially the same. So it's you, or someone like you, no matter what.

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Voting for people like you is common to being a Democrat. It's never perfect, more often than not it feels more like compromise than support, but you do it anyway, because in the binary choice we have, Democrats are always the better option. Which is to say, voting Democrat feels like extortion.

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Jonathan @ignoranceburns.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@jamestalarico.bsky.social Hi James. I'm a Texan Democrat. The rainbow flag applies to me, and many of my loved ones, some of whom fly the pink, blue, and white one. You'll never see this, I assume. I have no following or any real presence here, on a site few care about, but I want to say it anyway.

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It’d be really nice for us to get to a place where every election doesn‘t necessitate hugging someone and crying regardless of the outcome.

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.

Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.

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Jonathan @ignoranceburns.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of my least favorite things about all of this is that we just accepted the term "AI" (not criticizing you). We've always used humanizing language for computers, but we let this metastasized algorithm turn a specific concept into hollow marketing. First and foremost, it's not "intelligent".

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Jonathan @ignoranceburns.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Phantasy Star Online. My sister bought the GameCube game and forgot about it. I tried playing it off and on for like fifteen years but I hated it. Didn’t even know it was a collectible until I sold it to a used game store and they set up a console to test that it ran ok before paying $20 for it.

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friends even though I think evil shit?” Yes. Making Ron literally say “they like it. They like being slaves.” is objectively horrifying. Funnily enough, Ron says a fair amount of deeply ignorant gross shit throughout the books, and is supposed to be the status quo “taken for granted” character.

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Reading Ulysses didn’t prevent you from failing to read what I said. Yes, she is a classist, bigoted asshole, and that exists in her books. The enslavement of elves was always meant to be a horror show and to make you feel that. Did she pull the old feel good liberal “we can disagree and still be

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She founds a society to support freeing them, actively recruits people for years, learns to knit and starts hiding hats in the common room frequently to try and give them freedom, all while actively encouraging the elves to seek freedom and trying to convince people who disagree for four books.

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unjustly. They are forever tainted. But I despise that even now, I have to deal with people who’s irrational hatred of them stems from a complete failure to actually read them. These are kids books and you missed basic shit like “slavery is shown here as both bad and yet tolerated by society.” 10/10

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what I’m really trying to do. I’m tired of those of us who loved those books, who grew up with them, who found ourselves in them, getting offhand slapped by these media illiterate dipshits for ever having felt that way. Defending her at all, or the books, gets labelled as transphobic, and not 9/

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think that they’ve been warped, maddened, by the magic that binds them? Did the wars, colonialism, and casual violence toward non humans not make you wonder if maybe this was also a grotesquery on display, not a straight up endorsement? I don’t want to defend her or her books, and that’s not 8/

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So yes, there are characters who explicitly say they support the enslavement. The elves themselves say it. And you’re meant to feel uncomfortable with that. To see it for what it really is. Or did Kreacher wishing to join his decapitated family on the wall not clue you in that we‘re supposed to 7/

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indifference by the government and society in general, the scenes of brutal violence, name calling, legal relegation to subservience, all with a parallel to the centaur’s land seizures and goblin property rights and second class citizen status while humans portray them as devoted and submissive. 6/

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lingering on the abuse, magically self inflicted, the multiple entire sub plots of house elves being mistreated leading to the downfalls of those who abused and enslaved them? The advocacy happening from select few, the unwillingness to confront or change what is by the privileged, the utter 5/

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have plenty of genuine problems, like ”being fat is bad unless your a good person”, lazy depictions of other cultures (asian and northern African in particular), but you could only think the books defended slavery if you’re not very good at reading. How else could you miss the running theme of 4/

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happens in the context of her transphobia, like they just can’t help but hone in on how much they hated the books when talking about the actual real world harm being done. But hey, at least you get to feel vindicated, right? Anyway, for anyone who cares, no, the books don‘t defend slavery. They 3/

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It‘s not just a remnant of my attachment to the books, it’s the bold faced arrogance and callous attitude these people show. “Oh, that series you loved that was written by a horrible person? Yeah, it was never any good anyway, I’m sorry you have bad taste and are stupid”. It’s even worse when it 2/

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I read those books. I read and reread those books. They were my sanctuary in an unhappy childhood. I left them behind because of who Rowling is, but even all these years later they are burned into my brain. And I never know what to do with that information when I find idiots like these. 1/

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At this point I just assume anyone who has this kind of mind numbingly stupid view is some disillusioned idiot who is only just now realizing the United States isn’t some beacon of freedom. It’s pathetic, and I’m tired of seeing that kind of idiocy yelled in my timeline. Fuck off.

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More than half of all Americans live at or near the poverty line, and every attempt to change that has failed. The most common reason for bankruptcy for the last forty or so years is medical debt, even though during that same time we‘ve helped finance other countries who have universal healthcare.

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that American‘s “aren’t doing more”, genuinely fuck you. Our government is first and foremost something that happens to us. We have both the largest number of homeless and imprisoned citizens in the developed world. Mass shootings are normally an every other day thing and we barely notice anymore.

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have some kind of democratic power, but we don’t. Republicans have won five presidential elections since 1988, two of them without winning the popular vote, one of them having been literally stolen by a corrupt floridian Secretary of State and Supreme Court. If you’re surprised by this, or angry

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was being done inside our borders. Everything that’s happening now is the result of 50 years of intentionally disempowering US voters, especially those who vote progressive, and corrupting the government to ensure it holds. I don’t know how anyone deluded themselves into thinking that US citizens

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