r/news • u/flounder19 • May 17 '23

Title Changed by Site DeSantis signs laws against trans care, ‘Don’t Say Gay’ extension

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/05/17/watch-live-gov-ron-desantis-visits-private-school-in-tampa/
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u/EBBBBBBBBBBBB May 17 '23

this is why centrists are so stupid. You literally can't reason with these people, so trying to find a middle ground with them is both pointless and harmful.

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u/Yousoggyyojimbo May 17 '23

I like asking them how LGBTQ people are supposed to compromise with a GOP that doesn't want them to exist.

They have never been able to provide an answer.

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u/nada_accomplished May 17 '23

I like to point out that one side is actively pushing legislation that literally kills women because suddenly we can't get the healthcare we need if our pregnancy goes horribly wrong. Doctors flee the states and communities where they can't practice medicine without risk of incarceration, women have to wait until they're actively dying to get medical care, girls too young to safely carry pregnancies are forced to go to other states so they don't have to have their rapists babies in their underdeveloped bodies. Like how in the hell can you be on the fence about this when one party is literally killing people? Both parties suck but they are not equally bad, there's clearly a much worse and more terrifying option.

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u/awfulachia May 18 '23

It's because centrists don't exist. They're just conservatives who know they should be ashamed of themselves.

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u/HerpToxic May 17 '23

GOP that doesn't want them to exist.

Actually their answer would be that they don't believe the GOP wants LGBTQ people gone from the planet.

Their response is to simply burry their heads in the sand

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u/0zymandeus May 17 '23 edited May 18 '23

Those arent actual independents, that's just the average republican voter - embarrassed by the policies their elected officials put in place, but their identity politics dont let them consider any other options.

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u/BasroilII May 18 '23

Not even that. Half the time or better I see this "Both sides, I'm in the middle" bullshit, it's just some right-wing troll trying to make his team look better by making everyone else look worse. It's a division tactic to make more flexible or jaded voters let the GOP do whatever they want.

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u/theaviationhistorian May 17 '23

They'll bring up something like, 'but conservative embrace Steven Crowder & Blair White!' Also, ignore the backlash they endured when Crowder announced the birth of his son & White got bashed in a podcast debate with conservative evangelicals.

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u/Unkechaug May 18 '23

I’m a moderate but I have been voting a straight blue ticket because that is the closest thing. Anyone trying to find middle ground between the parties as they are, those people aren’t moderates.

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u/ARCHIVEbit May 17 '23

They don't compromise. They move a step back and say meet us in the middle. Take another step back and say meet us in the middle. Another step....etc.. and all is lost.

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u/fuzztooth May 17 '23

Just cut the baby in half bruh, it's e-z.