• awwwyissss@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Yeah and guess what, people on the “other side” are saying ridiculous things about you like you want to murder babies and force children to be gay. And they say, with just as much conviction,

      Seems an accurate description of Democratic policy to me.

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        10 months ago

        It’s not a big fucking leap to say that the party making laws against teaching history and wearing certain articles of clothing want to control people and keep them ignorant. If you think it is, or think it’s a “both sides” issue, you’re part of the problem.

        The thing about the golden middle is that it’s a thought-killing fallacy. If you just assume people on both ends are equally nuts, you can just stake out the territory precisely in between them and never actually have to think about the merits or morals of any given policy position.

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          10 months ago

          control every aspect of private life

          I’m not arguing for a golden middle, no need to strawman me. I’m saying that sweeping generalizations like above are just circlejerks.

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            10 months ago

            They are literally trying to control what clothes you can wear and what words you can use to refer to yourself.

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              10 months ago

              Are they trying to control what breakfast you eat? How you tie your shoes? What music you listen to?

              Extrapolating from a few cases to claim there’s a broad trend is lazy thinking. In the context of political discourse, it creates echochambers, misunderstanding, and hatred. Like conservatives who say “all liberals want to murder babies”