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Re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Post by rapind »

alephnerd wrote: post #167
rapind wrote: post #160

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> The "Bernie bro" to MAGA pipeline is very real, as was the "I wanna make sexist or racist jokes" to Alt-Right pipeline. It would have been so easy for the Democrats to embrace economics and labour over culture war and scolding. To push for getting money out of politics (Citizen's United). They could have kept the Bernie crowd, Gen Z men, and maybe even Rogan (that guy went from left of centre to right of right so q…

Subsidizing unionized EV and Battery manufacturing jobs in deep red states [0], expanding tax credits and subsidizes for the bottom 50% of Americans [1], expanding Medicaid access [2], and other tangible pocketbook benefits showed that a portion of American voters do not care about their pocketbook, and would rather vote based on culture war topics. And you aren't even American based on your very obvious commonwealth…

> Butt out of our political commentary.

Don't be ridiculous. I'd love it if I didn't have to care about US politics, except it has infected the rest of the world. Telling someone to butt out when your dear leader is invading other countries, intentionally influencing foreign elections (Vance stumping for the AfD), and claiming others are 51st states, etc. I also have friends and family in the US that only ever want to talk politics these days.

For the record, I think Biden deserves kudos for pursuing a far more progressive and labour oriented strategy than people expected. The Bernie Bro's soured on Democrats in the 2016 elections. I'm not sure they were a real problem in 2024.

Re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Post by cogman10 »

liveoneggs wrote: post #180
cogman10 wrote: post #56

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> Democrats should drop "birthing persons" I've never heard 1 democrat politician say "birthing person". This was never something "democrats" said and always something that rightwing media says that Democrats say. There's nothing to drop or defend as this is completely a distraction from real issues. Basically, rightwing media LOVES picking fringe individuals pushing a position and pretending like every democrat actu…

2024 NIH guidance: https://web.archive.org/web/20240409042454/https://www.nih.g... These word changes were real things that happened by government policy.

> Both pregnant women and pregnant people are acceptable phrases.

Literally the first sentence in the guidelines that talk about birthing person.

The entire paragraph says "it's fine if you want to" and isn't prescriptive.

This is a fake controversy. You are literally just mad that some people recognize and want to be accommodating to trans people.

Re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Post by rapind »

al_borland wrote: post #178
karmakurtisaani wrote: post #174

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Do you have any examples of such positions?

Illegal immigration. Preventing it, and correcting lax enforcement of the past is now labeled a maga issue, with democratic cities actively trying to work against ICE and people who support the left protesting against it. Here is a short clip of Obama, Hillary, and Bill Clinton supporting deporting illegal aliens, especially those who have broken laws. If they said this stuff today they’d be called maga. https://m.yo…

You're taking a small slice of left progressives and applying it to all democrats to try and push this "the left are all commies" narrative. ICE is running around like the gestapo in targeted blue cities, so of course it's an issue. If they were doing this in red cities (where the crime actually is), there'd be the same push back. It's obvious that republicans are intentionally trying to create issues and division using every tool at their disposal. There won't be enough leopards for all of these faces.

Re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Post by liveoneggs »

cogman10 wrote: post #182
liveoneggs wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2024 NIH guidance: https://web.archive.org/web/20240409042454/https://www.nih.g... These word changes were real things that happened by government policy.

> Both pregnant women and pregnant people are acceptable phrases. Literally the first sentence in the guidelines that talk about birthing person. The entire paragraph says "it's fine if you want to" and isn't prescriptive. This is a fake controversy. You are literally just mad that some people recognize and want to be accommodating to trans people.

I really can't stress enough just how offensive "chestfeeding" and similar turns of phrase are to massive numbers of women. It is a very big deal.

Re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Post by al_borland »

rapind wrote: post #183
al_borland wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Illegal immigration. Preventing it, and correcting lax enforcement of the past is now labeled a maga issue, with democratic cities actively trying to work against ICE and people who support the left protesting against it. Here is a short clip of Obama, Hillary, and Bill Clinton supporting deporting illegal aliens, especially those who have broken laws. If they said this stuff today they’d be called maga. https://m.yo…

You're taking a small slice of left progressives and applying it to all democrats to try and push this "the left are all commies" narrative. ICE is running around like the gestapo in targeted blue cities, so of course it's an issue. If they were doing this in red cities (where the crime actually is), there'd be the same push back. It's obvious that republicans are intentionally trying to create issues and division us…

I didn’t call anyone a “commie”. The push to allow illegal immigrants to stay, or to just give them citizenship unchecked, started well before any of the more recent ICE issues. Sanctuary cities existed before Trump’s current term.

If cities cooperated with ICE instead of fighting them, ICE could just go pick people up at the jail instead of ended up in this “gestapo” scenario. Federal and local governments fighting against each other is the problem here. 15-20 years ago they would have likely been on the same side of this issue and could have worked together to handle thing with more professionalism and tact.

The data doesn’t seem to support crime being localized to red or blue cities. Your characterization and Trump’s both seem incorrect.

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-donald-trump-claims-crime-u...

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

kulahan wrote: post #153
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #143

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That's just it, though. The people who buy electric cars because they want to help the environment are wrong. They're only doing a good thing because they're self righteous pricks who are full of themselves. They're just as bad as the polluters. The people who want to stop smoking are wrong because they're self righteous pricks who are full of themselves. They're worse than the cigarette companies. The guy who want t…

Thank you for posting exactly the hilariously wrong interpretations I'm actively speaking about.

What's wrong with my interpretation?
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