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I dunno if you have payed attention to politics recently but "we need to exterminate the trans agenda and the people who spread it" ain't exactly anyone misconstruing what those people have been saying
And on the other side, 'we need to murder all landlords' also leaves a bad taste.
I'm not sure you know this, but housing is a NEED, and making it a tradable commodity that is affected by market trends tends to harm more people than it serves
You're right, I guess we should also murder shop owners, pharmacy owners, clothing production owners, prostitutes, even councils who charge for toilet usage, self-help gurus, artists.. All people who provide needs that are affected by market trends.
You will not die without most those things, and the things you would are either currently being hoarded and killing people (shop owners destroying edible food to increase margins, pharmaceutical companies gouging for AIDS medication, insulin, etc), or cannot effectively hoarded (bathrooms, scam artistry, regular art).
First of all, not every conservative is a Trump supporter. Second, there are a number of loud liberals on TikTok who have said things like "cis people need to delete themselves." It goes both ways.
Loud liberals on TikTok are not elected officials
There are 496 bills that are introduced to state legislatures all the way to passed in the united states, spanning every state
Loud liberals are saying illogical, irrational things loudly on a social media app
13 states have laws that specify trans people being murdered is not a crime if the murderer thought they were cis
People not in power in any part of the 3 branches of government said something mean
In a majority of states, trans individuals can be removed from/denied employment, housing, state assistance, medical care, or virtually anything involving a contract
Just because some people were mean in your direction does not mean that they have any meaningful power, and the people being handwaved off that actually have political power are actually doing the things that people are saying they're doing
Ooh, big text!
Elected Democrat officials in many states shut down small businesses, while declaring big corporations like Walmart and Amazon "essential"
Elected Democrat officials caused people to die of non-covid causes by denying them access to things like Alcoholics Anonymous and other programs to sober up.
Elected Democrat officials hurt development of children with lockdowns lasting more than a year.
Elected Democrats granted exceptions to the covid restrictions of 2020 and 2021 to protests they agreed with while demanding that small businesses and parks stay closed for "social distancing."
Elected officials printed a shit ton of money to bail corporations out for covid and then act like they have no clue why inflation is so bad.
Elected officials put thousands of my unionized brothers and sisters out of work with executive orders.
Elected officials caused domestic violence to skyrocket, mental health to decline, and now they're talking about more lockdowns after promising that anyone getting the vaccines would not spread the virus.
Elected Democrats can't even be bothered to codify things like abortion and gay marriage, but it's always someone else's fault, fodder for the next election cycle.
My point is, neither side actually gives a shit. I agree with most of what you're saying about Republicans, but Democrats just do not give a shit either. They just play the blame game. Nothing will get done because all of these politicians are laughing their way to the bank while everybody else bickers.
Democrats suck, and they have always sucked, its a given. Not new, not controversial. Conservatives, especially the non-Trumpers, have absolutely no qualms with allying themselves WITH Trump because it's an ideology founded on greediness and spite. Conservatives will ALWAYS fall in line with even their political disagreements if it means they get to commit violence on those they dislike, strengthen hierarchies, or try to enact their weird palingenesis