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  • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Pete Buttigieg Says Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports Raise “Serious Fairness Issues”English
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    3 days ago

    The part that boggles me is how this takes so much space in the broad conversation when competitive sports are truly an inconsequential part of existence.

    It takes so much space because the amount of energy required to ask the question “should trans women compete in women’s sports” requires exponentially less energy than the amount of energy required to defend a particular answer to that same question.

    Conservatives know this, so they’ve made a point of incessantly asking it and others questions like it because that steals focus from more important issues, riles up their own base, and causes liberals to fight with each other.

  • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Pete Buttigieg Says Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports Raise “Serious Fairness Issues”English
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    3 days ago

    and you have no other topic to talk about than sport?

    I always see someone with this exact same take every time any politician says anything and it’s so dumb, lol

    The guy was asked a question about a political topic and he answered it. That doesn’t mean that particular issue is all he thinks about, or that he thinks about it to the exclusion of other topics. If I asked you your stance on trans athletes I’m sure you’d have an opinion too, but I would never assume that’s the only issue you ever talk about.

    Look, I think Pete is the same kind of neoliberal Uncle Tom as the rest of the Democratic establishment, but this was just one question he answered in an interview with many questions, and he’s been pretty vocal about Trump and other pressing political issues for like 3 straight election cycles.

  • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Bombshell Claim on Who Is Hiding Epstein’s Birthday BookEnglish
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    6 days ago

    He was also co-chair of Sanders’ presidential campaign in 2020.

    On the other hand, OpenSecrets shows him taking a shitload of contributions from Big Tech (with Google being his largest backer), so I’m not entirely sure I’d trust him to make decisions that favor the working class if push came to shove…

    In any case, he’s doing a lot to keep the Epstein scandal in the news cycle, so I guess it’s best not to look a gift horse in the mouth. If and when he decides to run for president I’ll definitely be suspicious of him, but for now it seems like he’s serving the common good.