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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • “Centrists will never admit this…”

    centrists, and most people now, agree with both of those things, what are you talking about?

    you have a non-argument.

    you’re trying to rile up anger by safely condemning the imaginary offenses of a vague minority that you likely belong to.

    “If any centrist wants to admit that supporting genocide”

    centrists don’t support genocide, and if you think otherwise then you clearly don’t know anything about what’s happening in Palestine or in your own country.

    “For the first time.”

    you got to read some books. articles, watch an interview or two.

    If you are unaware of what’s happening and what people are saying, that is your fault, not some vague political minority that you’re ascribing your insecurities and ignorance to.






  • you also mention that we don’t know the extent of the voter fraud that occurred, that there certainly was voter fraud, that exaggerated claims of voter fraud are not widespread.

    and then the conclusion is to be careful of “conspiracies”.

    that doesn’t track.

    1. we’re not sure how much of the rainforest corporations have destroyed.

    2. We know that corporations have certainly destroyed large parts of the rainforest.

    3. therefore, if you hear people talking about corporations destroying too much rainforest, it might develop into a dangerous conspiracy, so report it for disinformation?

    no.

    voter suppression is and has been a real and significant problem, people should be aware of it. reporting hyperbolic disinformation should be a supportive paragraph to this point, not the conclusion or title, especially when violent calls to action are not a problem on the democratic side…

    as you say, hyperbolic claims only manifest sporadically on a couple message boards.

    that is not the same as an entire political party simultaneously claiming that their election was stolen and then violently attacking the capitol and the two should not be correlated.






  • Varyk@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldSo glad for Trump
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    9 days ago

    yep, that is good to throw in.

    I try to keep these as specific as I can, because as soon as I mention more than one item in the same sentence, the conservative arguing with me is like “so first he reduced inflation, then he also reduced prescription drug prices? which is it? choose one!”

    presidents can actually do more than one thing-

    "Last year biden said he was 80!

    this year Biden says he’s 81!

    what’s the real number?"


  • High five.

    it seems like Americans watched the South Park episode about Trump and Hillary, assumed it was the factual, comprehensive truth about all politics everywhere forever, and then never looked at any of the facts ever again.

    The democrats reduce inflation.

    The Republicans force women to die in hospital parking lots.

    democrats fund civil rights advocacy groups.

    The Republicans make memes about murdering senators.

    Democrats significantly increase the value of the US dollar and lower unemployment

    The leader of the Republicans is a rapist.