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Haven't people been saying this for a decade now? The democrats purity tests make this test for copper look like child's play.
by philipallstar 1y ago
Haven't people been saying this for a decade now? The democrats purity tests make this test for copper look like child's play.
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- duped 1y agoDonald Trump did get elected about a decade ago, so sure?
- philipallstar 1y agoIndeed. The worst purity test to fail is being an ex-Democrat.
- Mtinie 1y agoI’m genuinely interested in which “purity tests” you are referring to. I’m all for bi-partisan ridicule if it’s warranted.
- throwmeaway222 1y agohttps://nypost.com/2025/08/25/opinion/dems-nix-45-woke-words-from-vocab-privilege-birthing-person-latinx-intersectionality-and-more/ https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/opinion/dems-nix-45-woke-words...
- miltonlost 1y agoAn opinion article from the NY Post. Neat.
- philipallstar 1y agoIsn't it better to argue the content than ad hominem the source?
- cosmicgadget 1y agoHold on I will have an LLM write a 40-page rebuttal and when you don't read it I'll accuse you of ad homineming the AI.
- philipallstar 1y agoWell, either you've just invalidated the concept of ad hominem being bad, or you haven't. Which is it?
- cosmicgadget 1y agoFalse dilemma. I have illustrated that distrusting slop and a propaganda magazine isn't ad hominem.
- RankingMember 1y agoThat source lost its right to the benefit of the doubt long ago.
- philipallstar 1y agoNo benefit of the doubt required. Either read the content and comment on it or don't comment.
- RankingMember 1y ago> Either read the content and comment on it or don't comment. These are not the only two options. Considering the source is always relevant and worthy of comment.
- anigbrowl 1y agoThe content is also garbage (I read this a few days ago). They collected examples of the wackiest, most tortured language that they could (phrases like 'birthing person') and ascribed them to Democrats in general as if the party had some sort of crisis of cognition. The truth is that ivory-tower euphemisms like this are not common political currency, but ham-fisted attempts at communication by individuals or tiny groups with little or no political capital. Tabloid trash publications like the NY Post are not honest messengers, but rather seek to amplify things like this using synecdoche to suggest that they're representative of the median Democrat. If the poster above wanted to showcase the underlying ideas, they could have just linked to the Third way website and paraphrased their argument directly, but instead they decided to share the gutter press version. I discount tabloid newspapers the same way I discount left-leaning outlets like Democracy Now! or Truthout - they might be right some of the time but the general level of bias outweighs their utility as providers of factual information, which is readily available from less biased sources.
- Mtinie 1y agoThank you for sharing. Would you agree that Third Way’s positions and suggestions should be weighted differently than official federal government stances and actions?
- wasabi991011 1y agoSo your claim (based on your link downthread) is that - new regulation changing trade in a way that companies are struggling to follow is child's play compared to - a memo from a think-tank suggesting a particular choice of words ?
- 8note 1y agowhat actually costs something though? you want to pay more in taxes for everything because you dont like the high standards democrats have for themselves? some democrats also want to raise taxes? why not support them if you eant to raise taxes?
- philipallstar 1y agoDemocrats don't have high standards. Joe Biden was "in office" but with debilatating mental decline while other people did everything, and the Democrats were all in lockstep totally fine with this, until the one day they weren't and everything got reversed.