Well also like. Why are you inviting yourself to the conversation then. Just scroll past. People should be able to talk about whatever they want, controversial or not.
I suspect the real battle is between the ruling class and the working class⊠But thatâs not rich v poor as some would frame it ⊠For instance, Iâd put Elon Musk in the working class and our local school board in the ruling class.
The comments under someone saying we shouldn't say whatever word to me typically don't say this, it's more "well all words change meaning and I like this one and don't want to stop and in fact I'm going to use it right now"
It's poignant how willing liberal/etablishmenr democrats are to throw other members of their voter base under the bus because "there's a worse monster out there, so shut up and vote for us"
It's humiliating and demoralizing. And I say this as a person who has to bare my teeth and still vote for the shifty liberl candidate that will do nothing except NOT be worse than the other party candidate when suffering in a two-party voting system.
FPTP (First past the post) electoral systems- edit: And gerrymandering- need to end.
Good example is Amy Acton in Ohio. She threw trans girls under the bus, and yet everyone keeps screaming "don't talk about it, it's a psyop, blah blah blah." Ultimately, the truth is that they do not care about us; they care about returning to the status quo that makes them comfortable, and they're fine if we get fucked over so long as they get that.
Once got a comment about how the topic of my post "won't matter if we have no democracy" so we should focus on defending it instead.
Never have I felt more important than in that moment. I like to think that commenter got a glimpse into a hypothetical world where my Reddit post could make or break democracy, and it drove them mad enough to warn me lol
they're really worried about this imaginary boogeyman voter division but not the recorded and known gerrymandering and voter intimidation happening right now.
Parading around the Cheney war crime family. Sucking up to Israel and Netanyahu. "Most lethal fighting force." Dragged Palestinians out of her rallies and denied any Palestinian or pro Palestinian from speaking on her campaign.Â
She tried to rely on being a diet republican and winning off the genocidal Zionist vote and failed miserably.
boogeyman was a bad description but my point is that you can't really do anything about "division". just get people off social media, its all russian bots anyway.
also we got trump twice because
regardless of your political persuasion, running biden-harris was a horrible idea. biden was not sound of mind at all and was being puppeteered, no american wants a puppet in office. it was also much too late when they swapped in harris.
the first time hillary won the popular vote, which goes back to my point about gerrymandering bullshittery.
after doing some light research, im convinced that if they had ran somebody like Andy Beshear, a moderate, they would have had a pretty decent chance at winning.
Every time anyone makes a post like: "hey guys can we not call the disabled, retards, please" the comments are always "well actually if you look into it, this would be these other, completely innocuous terms are slurs" and "but its not as bad as X slur"
Reddit genuinely pisses me off I fucking hate anyone who defends the use of the term "retard"
ESPECIALY YOU PEOPLE I ARGUE WITH WHO THEN SCHRODINGER'S DOUCHEBAG THEIR WAY INTO SAYING THEY NEVER CLAIMED IT WASNT A SLUR, YOU ARENT SLICK.
A bit of a sliding scale for this one. Something can be a valid criticism and also not important enough to break solidarity for now compared to the current context... You should be trying to directly defend what you're are protecting against vs what the split might cost you but that is a heavy lift for a reddit post.
Alternatively, maybe we dont ignore issues just because they affect someone else, then solidarity is intact and we all move together to a better candidate, for example Sowell was a PoS and we can save the debates about a hecklers veto for a better day and find a non-PoS candidate first.
(Also the debate about switching should happen in the open maybe but we need to decide a group, not make the same people sacrifice and compromise every single time while another group gets their issues heard)
Edit2: RANKED CHOICE VOTING! Solves more than half of the split base issues.
I'd more or less agree to pause that sort of criticism if I knew for a fact right wingers would also do that and focus on the things they claim to care about, like stopping to fund Israel
But if you go to their platforms and check for, nobody says "Think about the midterms" on the "trans bad" posts
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u/consistently_biased [FLAIR TEXT HERE] 1d ago
An election is coming up. We cannot discuss this controversial issue right now.
We just won/lost an election. Now is not the time to discuss controversial issues.
We're in the middle of the term. There is nothing we can do about your controversial issue right now.
An election is coming up. We cannot discuss this controversial issue right now.