• Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Here’s the problem: the one with the purple hair wants civil rights and safety, and the one with the red hat wants to punch the one with the purple hair repeatedly. Can’t really compromise like that. Need to fight red hat and billionaire at the same time, which is bullshit.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    this meme is dumb and short-sighted and the commenters are right.

    it isnt a culture war conservatives are inciting, it is a war on civil rights.

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      16 days ago

      In much of the public’s eye, it is a culture war. That’s what determined their vote and support.

      The whole point of eroding civil rights is to help billionaires.

      Always has been.

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        16 days ago

        The public gets things wrong, that’s why it’s important to set the record straight rather than serve up pablum.

        “The whole point of eroding civil rights is to help billionaires…”

        claiming an absolute regarding complex and differentiated issues is how you know something is pablum.

        The long-term conservative judicial and legislative campaign the meme incorrectly refers to has a lot to do with race and religion, for example.

        “Always has been”.

        this is just a line from a short-sighted meme that is often incorrectly used, including here by you. it’s a fun phrase that means nothing, it’s confetti stuck in your sock.

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    17 days ago

    It’s hypocritical republicans who LOUDLY incite and stoke any of the culture wars you refer to. Anyone with half a brain can see that since at least two decades ago.

    Yet another reason in a very long list as to why both parties are NOT the same. But that ship has sailed, I have lost all faith in the american electorate. Stubbornly ignorant, utterly misguided voters allowed the noisy felons back in, and they will NOT give up power on good faith. All while global warming continues to ramp up. It’s too fucking late.