The world’s richest man is spending at least $100 million on the midterm elections to support the Republican Party and his far-right agenda. But it looks like Elon Musk’s focus won’t be the economy, or the war in Iran or artificial intelligence. It won’t be his repellent ideas about race and his advocacy for “white solidarity.” Instead, Musk has come out of the gate with a barrage of ads targeting Democrats for not being sufficiently supportive of discrimination against transgender Americans.
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As stupid as it is, the “men in women’s sports” bullshit as well as the “save the children” narratives and even the decade-old bathroom bills seems to occupy the minds of a non-zero amount of idiots.
“I don’t have a job and I’m going to have to declare bankruptcy to get life-saving healthcare, but holy shit, do you know there are men playing in a women’s sport I only derisively laughed at previously!!!1111”
You’d have to be mentally ill to be the richest man on the planet, have a trans kid, and still rate this as a top priority of your politics.
It shows how propagandized gender differences are, that anyone questioning the standard is seen by insecure straight men as icky to this degree of motivation.
There’s something wrong with Elon.
have a trans kid
This is the only reason he cares. He purchased Twitter over this. This is all about him feeling emasculated because one of his twelve sons turned out to be a daughter.
You’d have to be mentally ill…
He is.
There’s something wrong with Elon.
He’s mentally ill.
Nothing wrong with being mentally ill, but there’s something wrong when society denies it and pretends you’re still capable, fit and rational.
When trans people are harmed by ingrain bigots getting riled up by this kind of shit, then it has already worked.
Republicans have spent trillions talking about less than 1% of the population, and so far it’s distracted about 49% of people who vote
More Republican politicians have raped children than trans people have.
True, though not exceedingly relevant
The anti-trans ads work both ways.
Of course they’ll work. All they need to do is add a small lead to their baseline turnout(*) and they’ll win it. Source: watching this tactic work every election for decades.
* or cut turnout from their opponent. same thing.
This is the group that famously used push polls against McCain having an illegitimate black love child. That had “Bush’s brain” put anti-gay marriage initiatives in battleground states to turn out cons for voting against gay marriage, etc.
The cons don’t get their base to vote for them based on logic. It’s all vibes and fear of the other. This time around it’s trans.
If you look at voting rates, it’s not the GOP that decides elections, it’s the Democrats. GOP almost always gets ~63m votes. Democrats range 63+/-5m.
That’s why the both sides rhetoric steps up around election season. Republicans will vote consistently, and they win if a couple Democrats stay home.
If you look at voting rates, it’s not the GOP that decides elections, it’s the Democrats. GOP almost always gets ~63m votes. Democrats range 63+/-5m.
Bullshit. Complete and total bullshit.
Exactly. And also why the wedge ads and russian bot farms work so well; It hurts Democrats either way.
When that +/-5m gets wobbly, it’s a republican winner.
Somehow it comes out slightly different from a full fledged nazi than it does from an orange faced shitbag criminal. Musk the nazi isn’t near as charismatic as the shitbag mad king.
If you’re going to embed the Twitter links in your post from the article, perhaps at least replace them with nitter links for user convenience and privacy?
Nitter is currently dead. xcancel hints at potential legal issues (yes, a second wave), and this time it looks serious because a lot of frontends are straight up dead.
