• Nobody@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The real problem is pronouns. We have to get rid of them. Nothing but proper nouns.

    “George likes proper nouns in George’s sentences.”

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    Of course those genitals are important! If they don’t do that, then their god will not magically fix said problems. They themselves are of course powerless to do anything about it. Far too busy lining their and their donors pockets!

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    9 months ago

    Just to clarify the point: Republicans only shriek about issues like transgenderism to put the focus on these non-issues, away from real issues like healthcare, poverty and inequality, war, climate change, etc…

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      “It’s God’s judgement.”

      Reprobate nation and all that stuff. It’s like lesbians causing hurricanes.

      To them, these are - or can be - connected.

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        Funny how they never comment on the high rate of floods, drought and tornados in the Bible Belt.

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          That’s gods punishment on them for not fighting the gay agenda hard enough. Once all the gays are back in the closet and all the babies are forced to be born and all the schools are Christian, the tornadoes will stop.

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      Which is why these issues and the left identitarian fringe that pushes them to center stage are so problematic. It takes two to tango.

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      Why aren’t the Democrats addressing those issues. Do they just shriek about other things? I feel like they shriek about the same things, actually, and that’s how culture war bullshit serves both “sides”, or should we say the two available flavours of neoliberalism.

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        9 months ago
        1. They are, but you aren’t looking.
        2. They’re pretty centrist so it won’t always be as aggressive as it should be.
        3. The GOP has literally, out loud, said in the past that their goal is to literally obstruct and vote down basically every single piece of Democrat legislation and there was a long time where two pretty rightwing fuckers were spending more time voting with Republicans than anything else and that really got in the way.

        So, I dunno, pay more attention?

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          No, I’m not American and it’s already annoying how much I have to hear about US politics. Republicans are clearly much worse.

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    If conservatives want to be a part of the solution, they can be. But they aren’t.

    Newt Gingrich was the last Republican to create policy and even he is problematic.

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    The older I get the more apt this aphorism becomes:

    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

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    They’ve missed the entire point. It’s about manufacturing outrage to distract from things people should really care about.

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    Meh. The illusion is starts to fade at the mention of student debt and totally broken with the word “ecosystems”. Need to dial up the conservative and make it about how jobs don’t pay enough or how much you have to run the AC now days. Also, not sure about the war part being bad in a conservative view, rather it’s that we don’t really win wars anymore.

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    Image Transcription: Social Media


    Low Quality Facts, @lowqualityfacts…

    For the sake of empathy, I ask you all to take a second to consider things from the perspective of Conservatives:

    Inflation is out of control. Housing is unaffordable. The healthcare system is broken. Everyone is drowning in student debt. Ecosystems are collapsing. We’re constantly on the brink of war.

    So naturally, one would ask, how can we even hope to solve these daunting and complex issues if we do not have detailed information on the genitals of every American citizen?

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    Inflation is out of control. Housing is unaffordable. The healthcare system is broken. Everyone is drowning in student debt. Ecosystems are collapsing. We’re constantly on the brink of war.

    This is a better description of Trump’s presidency than Biden’s, especially right now when inflation is not out of control, and Biden has done everything he can to forgive student loans.

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    Why couldn’t there be a party that people vote and also that has sane economic policies AND sane social policies? Why do the tribes have to be “good at one thing, horrible at the other”?