• @[email protected]
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    -62 months ago

    Why are Americans so focused on left vs right? Both parties are fascists they’re just trying to take away different rights for the time being.

    • GreatAlbatross
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      192 months ago

      Bear in mind that the US’ main parties do not define the extent of Left and Right.

    • @[email protected]
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      142 months ago

      Yeah the good guys are the centrists who want to continue the status quo: grind the poor people, make them pay fortunes for basic needs while making the rich richer.

    • @hemmes
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      92 months ago

      What rights are the left trying to take away?

      • @[email protected]
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        -32 months ago

        2A right to privacy right to freedom of association

        Keep in mind when I say left I mean the Democrats

        • @hemmes
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          42 months ago

          I know you mean democrats, but that would be incorrect about the second amendment and freedom of association.

          Where’d you read that?

          • @[email protected]
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            -22 months ago

            The blues have been spearheading the attempts to strip gun rights away for a decade. They’re the reason the ATF felt so comfortable changing rules randomly to turn millions of Americans into felons overnight. The most agregious recent example is the legality of arm braces. Although to be fair that gung ho attitude never changed when the reds were in office. Theyre more than content to let it happen.

            I did mispeak about freedom of association however. Turns out that’s also being spearheaded by the reds.

            • @hemmes
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              Yeah, but you’re also wrong about the gun rights. They’re trying to enact sensible laws, not strip gun rights.

              The most [egregious] recent example is the legality of arm braces.

              It’s not egregious, that’s called a sensible conversation.

              Why do gun fanatics need these types of guns anyway? What are you hunting, dragons? It’s so cringe to me when gun enthusiasts get all upset about responsible gun laws - they just want to shoot everything and anything with the most firepower they can acquire. God forbid they have to earn the right to own such a weapon.

              • @[email protected]
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                -22 months ago

                Trying to apply justifications to the stripping of rights does not change the fact the rights are being eroded. Also if you think it’s okay to make millions of people felons overnight by the whim of unelected bureaucrats then this conversation clearly will go nowhere. Have a good day.

                • @hemmes
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                  22 months ago

                  make millions of people felons overnight

                  Also wrong. I knew you were going to spout some far right bullshit propaganda.

                  Here, take some time to educate yourself.

                  Listen up people - it is okay to evolve our laws as we evolve as people. No one needs a fucking AR-15, and if you do, it should be regulated.

                  …JFC

      • @Mango
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        To bear arms.

        Also nobody seems interested in male reproductive rights.

        Also, have you seen how leftist moderators here on Lemmy behave?

        • @hemmes
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          42 months ago

          To bear arms.

          No they’re not.

          Also nobody seems interested in male reproductive rights.

          Okay, I’ll bite. Like what?

          Also, have you seen how leftist moderators here on Lemmy behave?

          Do tell…

          • @Mango
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            -72 months ago

            Can you see yourself right now? You’re literally lying and discrediting purely based of personal impression, and that’s the same behavior your whole crowd has that I have a problem with.

            • @hemmes
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              52 months ago

              Why don’t you cite one reference to support your bullshit?

              • @Mango
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                -72 months ago

                Do I really need a reference to point out your party’s major stances? FFS, do you even know them yourself, or do you just pick a color and root for your team like it’s sports?

                • @hemmes
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                  72 months ago

                  Yes. You need a reference when you’re talking pure bullshit. None of that unfounded crap is on the democratic agenda. That’s why you can’t cite a single reference.

                  Bullshit like yours needs to be called out every time.

                  • @Mango
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                    Removed by mod

    • @[email protected]
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      -232 months ago

      The Left think they’re morally superior… Prepare to be downvoted to oblivion kek

      Meanwhile, me a Libertarian Socialist laughs at both sides for being totalitarian in their own way.

      One of them lies about it while virtue signalling empty promises and the other says “what are you gonna do about it, huh? Yeah, that’s what I thought”

      • Blackout
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        212 months ago

        Well the left wants to treat people as people and the right want to treat immigrants, trans and women as garbage. Pretty sure that makes us a bit more moral.

        • @[email protected]
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          -102 months ago

          Oh really. Why has Biden sent funds and bombs to Israel? Treating people real well there with genocide. Fucking joke.

          • Blackout
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            132 months ago

            I wasn’t talking about Biden. I was talking about the left. Biden is more center-right.

          • @InternetCitizen2
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            52 months ago

            Why has Biden sent funds and bombs to Israel?

            Congress does. Be sure to vote in those races too.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 months ago

              Wrong. Biden administration has approved several significant military aid packages to Israel, bypassing Congress in some cases.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            Huh, how does the action of one political party dictate what a global movement want?

            Do you even know what the terms “Left” and “Right” mean in this context? (No, they are not a synonim of “Democrat” and “Republican” party of this one country)

            Also since when was Biden on the left?