• fluxion@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    All this brainstorming for a offensive nickname and they end up with one that points out his efforts to help school children afford essential medical products. Well played GOP.

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      3 months ago

      The issue is they are twisting it and saying they forced schools to put them in boys bathrooms to ramp up the transphobia.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      This is literally just telling people about a cool thing he did. Like, how many people wouldn’t have known about this if not for the GOP?

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      The name isn’t to point out his efforts but a way to signal to conservatives that, because he cares about tampons, he cares about girls in a way that is “unnatural”.

      The goal is to try to label him, put him in a box that the right can point at and say, “SeE?! He MuSt Be A PeDoFiLe!1”

      The people who are building the narrative are trying to paint him as worse than “Hide your sofa” Vance, which is a tough sell right now.

      I’m actually sort of proud of the Democrats right now. They have, effectively, pulled the mic from the hands of Trump and Fox, name called them to the point that the Republicans are scrambling, actually panicking, about the election.