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    7 months ago

    Can you link some left-organized suppression of books or book burnings in the US? I’m going to say within the past ten years. Because I know I can link plenty of examples coming from the right.

    And I guess I’m not far left enough because I’ve never met someone who expressed a desire to kill police, and can’t actually remember seeing that online from anyone except the occasional edgelord.

    let violent criminals roam free because they have ‘mental ailments’

    That’s a claim I see from the right a lot, but not a belief I’ve seen espoused. Personally I don’t like that Reagan dismantled our national mental heath resources and that Republicans keep voting down attempts to expend resources in that area, while also sidestepping our gun problem as a mental health issue.

    if you’re a white male - fuck you and your entire heritage.

    As long as you don’t think the most critical part of your heritage is a traitorous nation that existed within our borders for less time than I’ve owned the underwear wrapping my ass as I type this, and don’t try to pretend racism ended with the emancipation proclamation or even the civil rights act, I think you’re good. I’m about as white as you can get, and I’m even old and look like I should have a maga cap on, and somehow I haven’t run into the problem you are describing there.

    Left, better for social and universal needs of the people. Get a lot of the automatic guns off the streets. Make a heath system that does not put people into years of debt, or outright denied service because “sorry this specialist doctor for your hyperspecifc issue is not in your insurance network.”

    All these positions are painted as far left by Republicans, and are not taken seriously as a result.