which is to say, in their collaboration with the regime – which they think is clean because it's with the junior partner.

but weeks like this where there's dead silence from most of them on anti-trans legislation & deeper silence on the Dems central role in pushing it, from SESTA/FOSTA to KOSA...

and the only way to make that not possible, in any lasting way, is for *nobody* to be able to make such decisions backed by centralized legitimation of the violence and resource distribution necessary to make them effective.

or, more simply: there is no path to liberation through the state.

which is why it is such a defining rhetorical move for liberals who want to present themselves as radicals.

"we" did not pass anti-trans legislation.
a specific group of several hundred rich people did - mostly white cis straight men.
the decisive role was played by members of the Democratic Party.

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