• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 days ago

    I suspect the American left focused on LGBTQ+ issues because it was a “safe” mission.

    Increasing official tolerance there was no threat to their donors or the wealthy in general. Nobody had to pay more in taxes or submit to meaningful government regulstion to enforce “don’t explicitly fire/assault/refuse to marry someone for being gay/trans”. Arguably those policies could have ecen come out of broader expectations for “stay out of people’s personal lives” rather than making special cutouts and declaring a marginal group.

    Looks impressive, accomplishes very little. Pretty much sums up the Democratic party for the last 50 years.

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      9 days ago

      Looks impressive, accomplishes very little.

      I guess the real satire is in the comments. Do we blame the dems for having actual plans to help more than the ruling class, or do we blame the gopniks for locking down house and/or senate to block anything positive for us poors for 49.7 of the last 50 years?

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          8 days ago

          Republicans want minorities to die.

          Democrats don’t want minorities to die, but are less effective than I would like.

          bOtH sIdEs ArE bAd!1!1

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              8 days ago

              an outright terrible burning pile of trash on one side, and a freshly shit bed on the other.

              If you go somewhere that smells like shit: that place smells like shit.
              If everywhere you go smells like shit: Check your shoe for shit.

              If everyone is “literally too stupid to understand the entire point” then you are literally too stupid to articulate your point.

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              8 days ago

              Oh jeeze, hoisted by your own removed

              Bud your point isn’t complicated or even slightly difficult to understand, it’s just bad (and uses slurs)