• dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But then you get the rule of the minority with our current gerrymandering. Is that really better? You’re definitely right on established reason, logic, and precedent, but people can argue that they have points for all of those things that support abortion rights and points that support restrictions abortion. To basically anyone either side is established reason, logic, and precedent.

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      It’s not necessarily one or the other, you can cater to the needs of both the majority and the minority. They don’t come into conflict nearly as much as conservatives would have you believe. As long as we don’t cater to the needs of the minority that want to supplant the majority, and instead to those who want to live in harmony with everyone else.

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        1 year ago

        Policies should in general be focused on the statistically proven as beneficial options. Instead we go for wedge issues that actually matter to no one.

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            1 year ago

            Trans men in sports is one of the hottest issues right now. Would you say you truly care about that at all?

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              I dunno if I use podcasts as my metric for how hot an issue is. The only time I really hear about that kind of thing is when people are complaining (albeit rightly so) about Joe Rogan’s latest attempt at keeping himself relevant.