#''calling jd vance weird is like attacking a politician in the 70s by saying they're gay'' is an actual take i've seen

[renardtrickster]

"Republicans posit themselves as the voice of common sense, what the average person wants, the physical embodiment of the silent majority, but it just isn't true. Even putting aside the FACT that statistically the "average person" is in favor of trans people and their rights, the conservative culture war has become so radicalized and hitleresque that they've become parodies of themselves. It is not, per their definition, "normal" to transvestigate every other person walking down the street, or to shout "THEY'RE A MAN WHO WANTS TO BEAT UP WOMEN" when cis female athletes have slightly higher than average testosterone levels, or to be as possessive of children and what they learn as they are (ironically in a way conducive to actual grooming), or for your wannabe Vice President runner-up to currently be condemning the degeneracy of women who don't want to be broodmares. Saying they're weird isn't a centering of normalcy as innately desirable goal or the prescribed model of acceptable behavior, it's dispelling the notion that they REPRESENT the average person when pre-2016 this rhetoric was exclusively the purview of nazis on 4chan. Also fascists like being thought of as scary and them being laughed at makes them deeply uncomfortable, which is an important political end in and of itself."

"But have you considered that I'm queer and people dehumanize me by calling me a freak? By calling JD "if you aren't pumping out babies you're a subhuman" Vance a freak, you're using the exact same othering rhetoric people use against me. You're not as progressive as you think you are, because I'm actually more progressive than you are, and smarter. In two weeks the Democrats are going to flip the "leftists are all groomers" script on its head by pointing out that their presidential candidate is literally a friend of Epstein's and I'm unironically going to argue that you're casting Donald Trump in the role of the trans woman by pedojacketing him. Both sides are exactly the same, there is no difference between anything and anything else in the world, also I am very smart."

"By calling JD Vance weird as part of your moral denunciation of him, you're also morally denouncing the online transgender furry kinksters who get called weird" Why would you besmirch the good name of online transgender furry kinksters by insinuating that their weirdness is in any way comparable to JD Vance? I am going to attack you.