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Right, you suggested that this guy's SO doesn't exist because she agreed that... some women like having sex with men. Hey wait a second, this almost reads like you're suggesting that real women don't like having sex with men

Any radical can tell me that the political center doesn't exist, but that doesn't really change the fact that the loss of the political center is why we're in for another four years of Trump

What do you call the 11 million people who voted for Biden in 2020, and didn't vote this year?

Maybe deradicalize wasn't the best word, but I couldn't think of a better pizzazzy synonym for convincing centrists to vote blue instead of red

here a mislabeled "security update" was auto-installed.

To be fair, you would have to read all the way to the first paragraph to get this information from the article. Hard to blame people for not knowing this critical bit of information when it was buried so deep

Hey look it's the rhetoric that lost us the election

It turns out we really, really need the specific demographic that sees a comment like this and thinks "leftists don't like me so I'm voting red"

"Real women actually don't like having sex with men" is a weird position to take bud

Then genuinely, don't say anything. You are a representative of a political ideology, and when you condescendingly tell people to educate themselves on a subject instead of writing a short paragraph, or finding them specific reading material, you make the entire political ideology look lazy and elitist.

The common response I've gotten to the sentiment that I've just shared over the last 4 years is "fuck 'em, we don't need people who aren't willing to educate themselves." As we can all see right now, this is incorrect. We need to garner support from people that we don't like, and that means treating them with civility even when they don't know things that we think they should.

I need you to understand that not a single MAGA guy would be affected by this. 45% of women voted for Trump. MAGA guys have no problem finding women willing to date them. Progressive and centrist guys would. This isn't about women bowing to MAGA, this is about finding an effective way to protest, which this is not.

No, I have good reading comprehension relative to the average American. Do you want to try to explain to me how a protest that specifically targets progressive men is an effective way to get men to be more progressive?

"Just don't be a bad guy and you won't be the target!" This movement makes no distinction between conservative and progressive men, it is explicitly about absolute denial of sex, dating, marriage, and children.

Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% in favor of women not dating conservative men if they don't want to. A movement that draws attention to the fact that women have the option of breaking up with their boyfriends and divorcing their husbands would be fantastic. A movement that specifically tries to deny relationships to the people that you're trying to deradicalize is not that.

But go ahead and keep downvoting me. I'm trying to explain how we need to avoid losing more voters, and you're sitting there repeating the same shit that lost us those voters in the first place.

You can tell a protest is working when it causes people to elect the people you're protesting against

Well no, obviously. This movement has members numbering in the thousands. There may be two people in my city actually trying to live by it