What do you believe that most people of your political creed don't?
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Huh. Mid 20th century? But that’s when America transitioned to relatively high and progressive income taxes instead of relying on tariffs. It’s also when massive state spending on education lead to a large chunk of Americans being able to care about something other than themselves, a precursor to progressivism in America and the civil rights movement.
If anything, I think Americans appear to want to go back to the Gilded Age, known for its massive inequality, corruption, and excessive-wealth-flaunting.
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I know who told you leftists don't like guns, we like guns plenty. It's liberals who don't like guns. I left us know sometimes you got to throw a bomb into the carriage of a tzar. Well left his nose when you go on strike you should bring a gun with you, cuz the Liberals going to try to use the National Guard to murder you.
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And to add to that, scientific papers should be published in open-access journals, instead of Wileys et al.
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the Republicans fixed the DMV here by running it like a business
Any details?
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Doesn't sound like they live in a bubble, then.
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what does that mean?
language of privilege
i've never heard that phrase
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That's not anything to do with the running of the DMV though, I mean now when you go the process is smooth and on time, when it used to be a mess. They made it so most of the stuff you used to have to go wait all day to do, can now be done by appointment at the tax collector office, it's a huge and very organized process. The employees there don't make the rules, the bigotry is a different problem and comes from the state not the county.
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can you name any example? and also, who's the judge? can somebody else decide you're too rabid for their opinion?
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Nonsense -- people frequently help others even during disasters, wars, and other precarious times.
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"everyone agrees abortion is awful…"
that doesn't make them right btw. hitler was democratically elected too; the majority isn't always right.
Do they present any actual arguments? That's what would be interesting, because that is something that can be discussed.
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I do feel like arguing semantics at almost all times steals some energy from the movement overall
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It’s functionally no different than a dollar bill.
In the case of communist ‘money’, I think we would cease using money to kill our neighbor.
Seems like a big difference to me
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I see how that could feel right. It doesn't make sense to me personally though.
Is consciousness different from the ability to experience? If they are different what separates them, and why is consciousness the one that gets moral weight? If they are the same then how do you count feelings? Is it measured in real time or felt time? Do psychedelics that slow time make a person more morally valuable in that moment? If it is real time, then why can you disregard felt time?
What about single celled organisms like stentor coeruleus that can learn? Why are they below the bar for consciousness?
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I suppose to me, one’s moral weight is in their mind.
The problem that i see with that is the following: Assume a child has little neural activity (which, btw, is not true at all; children and newborns often have higher neural activity than grown-ups), but assume for a moment that a child had little neural activity, and therefore would be less worthy of preservation.
Now, somebody who has migraine, or has repeated electrical shocks in their brain, might be in a lot of pain, but has probably more neural activity than you. Would you now consider that since they have more neural activity, they are more worthy of life than you are? And what if you and that other person would be bound to the tracks of a trolley problem? Wouldn't it then be the ethical thing to kill you because you have less neural activity?
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I agree with the following: If your mother tries to kill you, and dies themselves instead as a result of the conflict, they have no right to complain.
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just a short reminder:
you can post a picture of a gun on facebook, because it is only a harmless picture of a machine that is solely built to kill people. definitely nothing that shouldn't be shown in public
if you do post a picture if an exposed female nipple, banned, because guess what? that's illegal
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it will become automatically appealing to them the moment that is pays out economically for them. if they could afford more under a leftist politics, than under the current politics, people are gonna be all for it.
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I have no idea what point you're trying to make other than, I dunno, some crazy shit like everyone who disagrees with you is a Zionist or something?
But I stand by that post, if you voted for a third party, you helped trump. If you're trying to wrap your stupidity around the plight of the Palestineans you either aren't following the news or never really cared about them in the first place.
I get that this is probably the first humanitarian crisis you've seen on social media and pretended to care about but as you grow up, hopefully you'll realize there are sometimes unfortunate restrictions around your choices. While I would have loved a better option than the Dems, the choice was them or trump. If you voted third party, you helped put an administration that is absolutely hostile to them and worse than what would've been the case otherwise.
Sorry if reality sucks but whining about it like a petulant child isn't going to change it or rally others to your cause.
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I am very very very left wing, BUT I can get really annoyed with a lot of those "on my side" advocating for the most idealist of all idealism, as if it's a contest. Feels like a competition of "who's the bestest and mostest leftist of all". You scare people away and - not justifying it - but I get why some people get upset with "the left" because of this...
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this guy pointed out trump would be worse for Palestineans
You realize Trump pushed Israel to accept a ceasefire/prisoner exchange, right? That's an actual, material improvement in the situation in Gaza compared to Biden. Democrats who are still trotting out "Trump will somehow do an even worse genocide" are giving away they game that they don't even care enough to keep up on the news.
I say this as someone who think Trump should be in prison, too.
