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And Lemmy isn't an echo chamber? Try posting any conservative opinions around here and see how many downvotes you get.
To be fair, the GOP has shifted so far Right, that conservative opinions nowadays are less "We need to be more fiscally responsible and try solutions outside of throwing money at problems." and more "So lemme tell you which minorities don't deserve rights and the specific reasons why they don't... the short version is it's all of them.. except my asian wife and my black friend... for now.."
Bullshit. Just more of the hateful bigotry of the left than has divided things so greatly. You won't even engage, just mock an increasingly non existent strawmen
Trans people in red states say you're full of shit.
And your comment history reveals you as a lying fascist.
I guess my Florida based insurance provider dropping coverage for my HRT is "just a strawman" turns out
'My private anecdote disproves targeted state action!'
Jog on.
Asking if I misword something? I'm saying insurance companies are being actively complicit on this ongoing fascist movement by denying trans people coverage to HRT.
I'm glad you're better than this, but sadly it's not a straw man.
Edit: I think this is what they're referring to
Huh this post got my dogs barking..
Lol I bet you refer to black people as "criminals" too
Why?
I don’t know if that’s fair. Contemporary “conservatism” is pretty indefensible.
How so?
Let's start to the Florida curriculum telling kids the good things about slavery and move on to objecting to giving schoolchildren free school lunches. Then there's the encouraging suicides of trans kids by taking away the one thing preventing that suicide. I can keep going if you like.
It is not. I've read the text myself. You're gaslighting.
Bullshit. Cite your sources.
Sure, as soon as you cite your sources and stop gaslighting.
Then quote it
Sure thing:
Now cite your source.
That's a factual statement
No it isn't. There is no benefit to a skill if you're a slave. None.
Still waiting for that source...
Not that you're gonna listen to me but.... I grew up in Florida in the 90's. It was racist then and it's racist now.
It was homophobic then. And it's homophobic now.
Did you know that there are people moving out of Florida in DROVES and moving all the way across the US to live in Oregon instead??
https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/07/05/portland-is-unprepared-for-the-wave-of-transgender-kids-arriving-without-housing/
You just made all that up.
False
They have destroyed social programs and the middle class. Tax cuts for the rich drove up enormous, insurmountable debt. The war on drugs. There were no WMD’s in Iraq. Guns take precedence over kids. Due to voter suppression and gerrymandering, they are vastly overrepresented in government. They refused to let Democratic presidents appoint Supreme Court judges. They are okay with stealing migrant kids from their parents and hiding razor wire in the Rio Grande. They are broadly xenophobic, homophobic, and misogynistic. They support Putin…
And a bunch of “fuck your feelings” spoiled adult babies who can’t accept that their dumbass, tub-of-lard dipshit president lost tried to overthrow the government.
Lol all bullshit or bipartisan. Not too mention the typical bigotry of just broadly calling them all "xenophobic" and other typical prejudice
Lol “bigotry”. Conservatism isn’t an identity. Their policies are literally xenophobic.
False. The bigotry of the left has led to that misinformation spreading
That’s because all the dum-dums are still over there on Reddit. This place has brain cells and it’s awesome.
It's nice because you can talk to people, be heard, and be able to listen back. Of course I don't agree with everybody all the time, but in some communities it's cool to learn something you didn't know before.
Yup, based on the replies you got they're proving your comment Lemmy absolutely sucks when it comes to political circlejerk.
Here's conservative opinion for you: we should go back in how schools work because the less beaurocracy teachers deal with - the better they teach students. Also revert wage inequaloty where director eats-up half of entire budget. Go back to how it was in USSR.
Oh, you thought there is only one conservative opinion?
Uh yeah, people around here don't tend to accept bigotry. Anybody who espouses racism/homophobia can get out. Which happens to be most conservatives. It's not about being a conservative. It's about being a piece of human shit.
Even as I'm on the more left end, I'd say not all conservatives or right-leaning people are racist homophobic bigots, though. If anything, I'd say a sizable portion have a right-leaning non-discriminatory worldview, mainly economic.
Admittedly, as much as I'm preferring the fediverse, it is definitely an echo chamber, Lemmy included.
Lowering taxes for the rich and cutting social services does not tend to have good results.
Right-leaning economics does not make sense to me at all, beyond the emotional hook of "government stealing your hard earned money to give to lazy poor people on welfare".
But they still vote for homophobic bigots. If you sit at a dinner table with Nazis, what does that make you?
Nice bigoted comment proving his point!