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minus-squarekibiz0r@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·2 months agoI mean, yeah, that’s pretty much all voting. Elected officials never actually get to weigh in on like “Trans people: fully considered as their chosen gender, Y/N?” It’s always like “Should we renew the provision that the dept of education is able to recommend limiting student aid funding for teachers’ aide programs that prohibit student teachers from stating, on school grounds, that they have family members who have donated to 501©(4)s that have lobbied against bathroom bills, and also fund repairs for the orphan-crushing machine and the last $5 we need to cure wrist cancer forever?” You always have to reverse-engineer a politician’s philosophy, cuz you can never predict exactly what byzantine nonsense they’ll face in the actual role.
minus-squarebirdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoThey say it so cumbersomely because they know the alternative of saying “Should we gas trans people?” would deter voters from voting on them. The real agenda of billionnaire oligarchs, and their fascist allies, ultimately, is complete control.
minus-squaredustycups@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoIts far from perfect but sites like theyvoteforyou.org.au help a lot. Not sure what the US & EU equivalents are.
I mean, yeah, that’s pretty much all voting.
Elected officials never actually get to weigh in on like “Trans people: fully considered as their chosen gender, Y/N?”
It’s always like “Should we renew the provision that the dept of education is able to recommend limiting student aid funding for teachers’ aide programs that prohibit student teachers from stating, on school grounds, that they have family members who have donated to 501©(4)s that have lobbied against bathroom bills, and also fund repairs for the orphan-crushing machine and the last $5 we need to cure wrist cancer forever?”
You always have to reverse-engineer a politician’s philosophy, cuz you can never predict exactly what byzantine nonsense they’ll face in the actual role.
They say it so cumbersomely because they know the alternative of saying “Should we gas trans people?” would deter voters from voting on them.
The real agenda of billionnaire oligarchs, and their fascist allies, ultimately, is complete control.
Its far from perfect but sites like theyvoteforyou.org.au help a lot. Not sure what the US & EU equivalents are.