This effort for liberals to try to convince decent people to cast a ballot for a genocide-funding cop has made me see some disturbing scratched liberal moments.

One “argument” that liberals abuse the shit out of is that they argue that not voting for Harris is rooted in being a privileged individual who doesn’t understand how disgustingly harmful Trump and Project 2025 will be for the underprivileged.

As a transfem, I can sometimes feel like “Schrödinger’s trans person” when it comes to libs that try to guilt trip people into voting for Harris for the sake of “protecting marginalized people.” I’ve had people assume, on multiple occasions and on the basis of my race and gender identity alone, that I back Kamala. Sometimes in these instances, I feel hesitant bringing up the truth for the sake of “keeping the peace.”

Liberals will hear a trans person make their case for why they support Harris and how they expect her to protect trans rights. Liberals will cheer a person like this on, and they will point to this person to say that those who refuse to vote (D) out of the bare minimum conviction of opposing settler colonialism do not understand how bad marginalized people have it.

However, if I, as a trans person, but not only a trans person, but a black neurodivergent, broke ass transfeminine enby in Florida, affirm that I refuse to vote for Harris, liberals will double down on transphobia and find some way to tie me being trans into some “maleness” that makes me unable to sympathize with the underprivileged. brow

This is so vile that it sounds like a strawman, but let’s just say that… when you’re interacting with anonymous liberals on social media who don’t have to worry about getting their shit knocked out when they say insensitive stuff, you get what you pay for.

Mask-off liberal moments like this actually make me feel a lot more justified than I already am in how distrustful I can be of these awful pieces of shit.

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    I agree but also think this is the wrong way of looking at things.

    If you’re a minority in the US, you should accept that you will always be used as an object of convenience by the (white) liberals. The mistake is to think they’re somehow genuine in their support of minorities.

    The question is how can you exploit this liberal need of “alleviating their own white guilt by pretending to support minorities” to advance your own political goals. Right now, the Republicans are openly anti-trans, but the Democrats still have to pretend to oppose that. How do you placate the liberals into giving you what you want is the key.

    An example here is how China came on top of the geopolitical struggle of the past century, starting as a weak and poor country. When the US was too strong, we sided with the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union became strong, we sided with the US to crush the Soviet Union. No illusions about anyone being your friends. It’s all about how you play the animosity of both sides and come out on top.