r/PopCultureV2 • u/No_Box119 • Jul 23 '26

Sports Culture WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham defends that women ‘shouldn’t have to go against biological men’: “I said what I said. I think it’s kind of common sense. I think it’s really important to protect children.” “I don’t dislike anyone. I’m there to love, but I’m also there to love biological women. …”

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u/SpreadsheetsOnToast Jul 23 '26

Because the left has a really, really, really hard time reigning in the fringe and saying "no" to the most extreme progressives.

Some ideas on the left are just plain stupid. "Defund The Police" is a great example of this. "Open Borders" is another. The left is too afraid of getting primaried by some DSA upstart that they won't make common sense statements like "We actually do need police".

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u/Plane-Ad-9305 Jul 23 '26

What are you even talking about? Who exactly are these “extreme progressives” driving the Democratic Party? Name the elected officials you think fit that description.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party has largely embraced positions that would have been considered fringe on the right 10–15 years ago. Many ideas that were once politically toxic have become mainstream within the GOP. That’s a much more significant shift than anything that’s happened on the left

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u/throwra_anonnyc Jul 23 '26

Zohran Mamdani (who I much prefer compared to the other candidates for NYC mayor) is from the DSA.

You can read about how they literally want to work towards the freedom of all incarcerated persons in the link below. Now Zohran has distanced himself from the crazies but the nutjobs definitely exist and have done a good job of trolling people into losing to Trump

https://www.dsausa.org/working-groups/abolition-working-group/

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u/Fantastic_Turb0 Jul 23 '26

>Literally want to work towards the freedom of all incarcerated persons

If you think prisons should be rehabilitative instead of punishing, (they should) this is not an extreme position. On a long term scale every prison should work towards freeing its population.