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Post by soundnote »

Miner49er wrote: post #402
bmarquez wrote: post #109

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Except /r/conservative never claimed to be unbiased. After people started brigading and posting threats (examples are occasionally shown by moderators) they had to tighten up their moderation. In contrast, /r/politics claims to be about general politics but most content to the right of AOC/Bernie gets downvoted or deleted.

Pretty much anything to the left of AOC/Bernie gets downvoted or deleted from /r/politics too. It's basically a sub for the Democratic party.

I lean right and genuinely enjoy reading stupidpol.

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Post by lm28469 »

thamidolide wrote: post #453
throwaway0a5e wrote: post #449

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> by worldwide standards America actually ranges from center-right (Democrats) to far-right (Republicans) OhBoyHereWeGo.jpg It's stupid to try and condense the political ideology of the US (or almost any nation) down to one spectrum and then try and map that onto the rest of the world when we (and the rest of the world) have a lot of ideology based on "well party X took position Y because party V had position W back…

Anyone who is genuinely left wing will easily recognize that neither party in the US represents their interests.

> genuinely left wing

What does that even mean ?

Any one with half a brain will find good ideas from the far left to the far right. This "left vs right" is the dumbest thing we ever came up with. Vote and fight for ideas, not sport teams... keep the fanatism for football

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Post by Delmania »

cies wrote: post #391
tor11 wrote: post #377

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this is almost correct. probably correct that they censor based on conservative opinions. not correct that right leaning americans are conservative. all conservatives are right leaning tho. not the other way around.

I'm not even sure what right leaning or conservative means these days. The "right" was merely copied from an ancestor post.

Conservative means what it has always meant. The political belief that the law should bind outsiders but not protect them and that it should protect insiders but not bind them.

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Post by jki275 »

Schiendelman wrote: post #432
skinkestek wrote: post #415

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Stop it.

There was no fucking nazi symbol on the stage at cpac.

If you want to take a tiny group of extremists that are not accepted by a group and pretend they represent a group, we can do that the other way also.

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Post by jejones3141 »

Delmania wrote: post #460
thamidolide wrote: post #453

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Anyone who is genuinely left wing will easily recognize that neither party in the US represents their interests.

Correct, the Democrats are a weak willed party of centrists more concerned with maintaining the status quo as opposed to implementing progressive legislation that will help people. The GOP has become a cult of personality.

The Democrats had their cult of personality in the Obama years.

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Post by thamidolide »

abernard1 wrote: post #256
jordigh wrote: post #133

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Because the only defense they constantly employ for saying atrocious things is that it's not literally illegal to say them. It's not literally illegal to be racist, it's not literally illegal to be xenophobic, it's not literally illegal to be transphobic. So they think they should be all those things, although they don't call themselves those names. Things should be said based on the inherent merit of what they say,…

> If the only reason you can find for justifying what you say is that nobody has made a law yet to stop you (and we do have laws to stop some things from being said), then perhaps you need to find a better thing to say. If a person thinks that perhaps, maybe, there's 2 genders and not 700+, they should be prevented from civic discourse? That maybe we should not be providing chemical treatments to toddlers for gender…

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Post by krageon »

khmmr wrote: post #447
smcl wrote: post #403

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You're suggesting that right-wing white males are an oppressed minority in the USA. It takes a serious amount of ignorance and mental gymnastics to sincerely believe this. I suspect you are trolling, but if you're not then I don't know what would convince you otherwise because the amount of information you'd have to discard or ignore to reach this conclusion is alarming.

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If you're just going to lie, you could at least pick something everyone isn't versed in. As opposed to implying the US has no oppressed minorities, which is by now so well and extensively documented to be the case nobody sane will take you seriously after reading you say it isn't.

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Post by leereeves »

Draken93 wrote: post #435
leereeves wrote: post #280

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Absolutely, look into it. Mixed with their tyrannical racial nationalism, you will also find many socialist ideas; here are some examples from the 25 point plan, their early party platform: > We demand that the State shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of living decently and earning a livelihood. > We demand... that all unearned income, and all income that does not arise…

You are missing very important points here: 1. national-socialism seams to have equality as a target. But this equality accounts only for a small group of superior people. In case of Hitler that was the aryan, german race. 2. Those points and the reality are two completetly different things In fact Nazi-Germany was not socialist but capitalist. Rich people and companies became richer. The only people that were exprop…

I'm certainly not defending the Nazis here. I'm cherry picking because someone claimed there were no cherries (socialists) in that bowl of grapes (nationalists) and cherries. So I'm pointing out the socialists.

The role of the left in the rise of the worst governments of the twentieth century should be remembered, so that nothing like Hitler ever happens again.

Many horrible governments start with promises of equality and a humane society (not the Nazis, who promised revenge, but certainly the communists), because that much concentrated power is a catastrophe waiting to happen. A government big enough to give equality is also powerful enough to impose tyranny, as we saw far too many times in the 20th century.

Even the Nazis only rose to power because of the horrible mistreatment imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles. Germans saw themselves as the oppressed people.

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Post by smt88 »

paganel wrote: post #217
smt88 wrote: post #196

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By this logic, we shouldn't make or enforce laws because someday, someone can pass a law against harmless behavior. Regulation, moderation, and law enforcement are always a balancing act. We can't just say that balance is an impossible dream, so let's just give up.

> By this logic, we shouldn't make or enforce laws because someday, someone can pass a law against harmless behavior. In a so-called liberal state we shouldn't send people behind bars for political reasons, not even fascists. Sending the people that protested at the Capitol behind bars is being done as a result of politics.

Please provide an example of someone who was sent to jail for protesting (and only protesting) at the Capitol on Jan 6.

They must not have committed any of the following crimes: calling for violence, assaulting another person, or destroying public property.

My girlfriend had at least 3 family members there who went, marched, and went home. None of them were tracked or charged with a crime.

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