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by thrance 1y ago
> MAGA represents a reactionary movement by white evangelical forces seeking to revert America to a time before the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Its core supporters are low-income, poorly educated white Americans and evangelical P
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by thrance 1y ago
> belief that governmental power corrupts You can't be serious man. Not a single right winger bat an eye when Trump received a $400M plane from Saudi Arabia. They all hate muslims but they hate accountability even more. > mandato
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by thrance 1y ago
Right wing issues: deport brown people, remove rights from minorities, cut essential government programs, undo social progress, give tax breaks to the rich, spend government money on military contracts. Left wing issues: socialized healthca
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by thrance 1y ago
Probably so that what Parisians call the "rive droite" (lit. right shore) is effectively on the right-side of the map.
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by thrance 1y ago
Having a socialized healthcare system incentivizes the government to ban the worst public heath offenders. High fructose corn syrup would have been long gone from most foods in a sane society, for example. Generally, making the government h
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by thrance 1y ago
You clearly misunderstood what "if companies can freely poison everyone, profits go up" meant. It's not that the rich are poisoning people for its own sake and laughing manically to themselves. It's that removing regulat
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by thrance 1y ago
What's your reasonable explanation, then? A whole lot of words for saying nothing.
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by thrance 1y ago
What's up to debate here? It's crystal clear: they removed important health regulations so that a few companies could make slightly more money not having to clean up after themselves. What's not to hate there?
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by thrance 1y ago
This is a form of political violence.
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by thrance 1y ago
Even better to have neither.
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by thrance 1y ago
> Capitalism can both create and break hierarchies. No, Capitalism can only reinforce hierarchies. Its core tenet is accumulation of capital, and thus power. > corruption and incompetence are a great way to reach that goal. Corruption
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by thrance 1y ago
Public higher education yields more skilled workers, who contribute more to society, thereby being a net positive overall. That's how it works in civilized country anyways. Too bad the average American can't think further then &qu
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by thrance 1y ago
If Monero ever came close to Bitcoin's popularity, it would be outlawed. Plain as that. You can't get freedom through technology.
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by thrance 1y ago
Like what, seriously? I don't remember Kamala going on about seizing land and killing landlords. Get fucking real.
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by thrance 1y ago
> tyranny prevention and respect of the constitution. Haha, sure. One, the tyrannical government is taking roots day by day and no one does shit. Two, even in this fantasy world where half the people wasn't on board with the destruc
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by thrance 1y ago
He was helping the "unborn" by advocating for stripping womens of their rights and sending them back to the house. He was helping students by supporting the most anti-intellectual party ever, that cancelled student debt relief and
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by thrance 1y ago
What do we get out of guns that would justify all those deaths, exactly?
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by thrance 1y ago
Evil is happening right now , the guns are freaking useless.
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by thrance 1y ago
Thank you for taking the time to develop your viewpoint in spite of my mildly aggressive reply. I'll try to reciprocate: I completely agree on the issues you bring up but I disagree on their causes and what should be done to address th
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by thrance 1y ago
> He also preached the views that offend the stonks go up brainwashing of the youth happening in academia. Speaking of unhinged takes... I literally can't parse that sentence. Touch grass sometime soon?
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by thrance 1y ago
The GOP and its entourage actively cheered on the Hortmans getting assasinated in their home by a republican guy disguised as a cop [1]. Trump was golfing during their funrerals and used the occasion to dunk on Tim Walz to the press. He d
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by thrance 1y ago
That's what's happening. Neoliberalism is slowly drifting into fascism, as it has already done multiple times in the past. Maybe what comes after will be actually stable, and not just metastable.
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by thrance 1y ago
The most sustainable vision wins eventually . If history has anything to teach us, is that it's full of extremely unpleasant periods between the stable ones. And things aren't looking like they're improving.
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by thrance 1y ago
Maybe start with ousting the most anti-intellectual administration in existence? Whatever the solution is, they won't be the one to implement it.
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by thrance 1y ago
> There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that demo
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by thrance 1y ago
That's super cool! Really funny how quickly they turned into stereotypical country dwellers: mainly spending their times gossiping about each others or getting all worked-up on right-wing propaganda about places they'll never go t
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by thrance 1y ago
Is there such a thing as the "anti American far right"? As far as I can tell, all these wannabe despots are buddy-buddy with Trump, Musk and MAGA in general.
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by thrance 1y ago
Racial profiling is now legal: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/us/politics/supreme-court...
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by thrance 1y ago
You're an idiot if you truly think that's the issue with "artificial rape". Go inform yourself instead of reflexively defending your in-group.
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by thrance 1y ago
Which is why comparing mainframes and nuclear reactors is a bad analogy. A better one would be datacenters vs individual PCs. If the goal is efficiency, datacenters win everytime.

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