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Do any of them know what the word "liberal" actually means?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The democrats are the liberal party. They support abortion, religious freedom, police reform, civil rights (sometimes), drug decriminalization, etc.

That being said, they are trying to encapsulate and entire half of the political spectrum. There's going to be gaps, disagreements between individual party members, and places where one policy or value has to override another.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Nah, your first statement is close, but you miss by a bit:

"The democrats are the liberal party. They [pretend to] support abortion (when trying to get elected), religious freedom (when trying to get elected), police reform (when trying to get elected), civil rights (when trying to get elected), drug decriminalization (when trying to get elected), etc."

When not trying to get elected they don't actually DO anything.

Drug decriminalization was a big deal in the 70's and we are maybe just now kinda getting around to it.

I didn't even call out the shit behavior on civil rights, you did that.

They seem a-ok with police fucking with college kids right now.

They've had 50 years since roe v wade to guarantee the right to abortion, and they didn't.

What DID they do?

Helped give money to people who are already rich through tax breaks. Helped give money to people who are already rich through deregulation they allowed through. Helped give money to people who are already rich through defense contracts. Helped give money to people who are already rich by overthrowing foreign governments with control over resources out oil barrons want.

Id call those "gaps", yeah.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Literally everything Democrats do is bad, especially the good things they do.

Got it.

Definitely not sounding like fash talking points at all.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When choice 1 is kill me slowly (maybe suggest slowing down oil emissions but not actually enforce it), and choice 2 is kill me quickly (lets sell Alaska to Exxon), what is the correct choice?

I would honestly prefer choice 3 which is stop fucking trying to kill me.

Should I commend the D team for not being quite as bad as R? Jesus man, I just want to have options that aren't two different versions of wrong.

Seriously, how do you not understand that this is an ENGINEERED false dichotomy?

Additionally, everyone is coming at me going "the liberal party is progressiveby definition" and yet no one gives any examples of ACTUAL progress o. The D platform that ever a tualky gets acted upon. So far I'm the only person here who's even. Rought up the ACA, and I do grant that it is mild progress, for the US, not for anywhere else in the developed world.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

Choice 3 is just choice 2 with a fake mustache.

Should I commend the D team for not being quite as bad as R?

Yes.

Jesus man, I just want to have options that aren’t two different versions of wrong.

Sucks, welcome to being an adult.

and yet no one gives any examples of ACTUAL progress

It's pointless because every time we do you just throw out a red herring. Or start screaming that doing something to fix the problem is somehow worse than making the problem worse. Or you just go quiet.

Let's try. Biden has forgiven $153 billion in student loans that would not be forgiven under the GOP. That is progress.

Commence with the mental gymnastics.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Debt forgiveness is a decent step... Again unless educating your populace is as high a priority as it should be, in which case higher education would be freely available to any who wanted it. That's not a moving goalpost, that's simply how it always should have been.

Under that, there simply is no student debt. Also, worth noting that debt forgiveness doesn't actually fix the problem, it just gets people to shut up and go away, so yes I am still screaming for good and free public education for the public good.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

There it is. No progress is good enough. Ever.

Fuck you and your "biden bad" propaganda.

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