• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Just to clarify the point: Republicans only shriek about issues like transgenderism to put the focus on these non-issues, away from real issues like healthcare, poverty and inequality, war, climate change, etc…

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      11 months ago

      “It’s God’s judgement.”

      Reprobate nation and all that stuff. It’s like lesbians causing hurricanes.

      To them, these are - or can be - connected.

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        11 months ago

        Funny how they never comment on the high rate of floods, drought and tornados in the Bible Belt.

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      11 months ago

      Which is why these issues and the left identitarian fringe that pushes them to center stage are so problematic. It takes two to tango.

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      11 months ago

      Why aren’t the Democrats addressing those issues. Do they just shriek about other things? I feel like they shriek about the same things, actually, and that’s how culture war bullshit serves both “sides”, or should we say the two available flavours of neoliberalism.

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        11 months ago
        1. They are, but you aren’t looking.
        2. They’re pretty centrist so it won’t always be as aggressive as it should be.
        3. The GOP has literally, out loud, said in the past that their goal is to literally obstruct and vote down basically every single piece of Democrat legislation and there was a long time where two pretty rightwing fuckers were spending more time voting with Republicans than anything else and that really got in the way.

        So, I dunno, pay more attention?

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          11 months ago

          No, I’m not American and it’s already annoying how much I have to hear about US politics. Republicans are clearly much worse.