Hey now, I take it seriously, but I don’t want to fight stupid battles. I let my vote do the talking.
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Once you get older, you see the pattern of the parties making promises year after year, only following through when the populace overwhelmingly dictates it.
At least my ignore list is getting a good workout from this thread.
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Well, with that new executive order, anti-racism education is out the window and “patriotic” education is in. Sounds very CCP.
Back during the Cold War, every child learned how bad communism was. It isn’t until they become adults that they (may) learn how bad capitalism can be.
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You’ll love your king’s new patriotic education commission, I’m sure.
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You ignore based on if they share or don’t share your political opinion? Or just the people that act rather rude, and inflammatory?
I ignore people who toss out platitudes instead of dealing in facts and specifics.
Basically, if they got it off a bubble-gum wrapper, they go on the ignore list.
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Aren’t most of the those governments just evil due to human nature? Like on paper socialism is “great” everyone is “equal”. Until someone decides to be more equal. Like in animal farm.
It’s horrible they think it might be nice to consider other people’s opinion that isn’t there’s so things are done fairly.
It’s so horrible, Ben Franklin even made it a virtue.
yeah but they really taught those gays and brown people a lesson!!!
Well, that sounds mildly elitist. And sounds like just a reason to ignore anyone who simply disagrees with you.
Socialism is Social Security. Do you want to get rid of it?
Socialism is the US interstate system, do you want to not keep the roads maintained?
These are a few I can name off the top of my head. Even Tax Credits are a form of socialism.
Socialism is already in the United States, the question is How Much? Or what would you support.
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If working from facts is elitist, I will wear that label, I guess.
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maybe we should teach our children that america was built on the backs of slaves and the genocide of the native americans first instead of white washing everything imo
Pretty much this, yeah. Capitalism is also good on paper, but the way it’s been run in the US is horribly corrupt. There is no free market because of the stranglehold the mega corporations have on the government - and the amount of influence they have is far, far too much and skews a lot of bills and other lawmaking and policing in the government.
You can’t have one or the other - it should be a mix. Health care, for example, shouldn’t be a business - it should be treated as the human right it is. It’s the sign of a developed nation. But other things like the stock market or other economically-focused center shouldn’t be approached with the idea that the community has more say than the individual.
Give and take, and pay your dues. We’re all in it together.
Just a reminder to all my friends who may have a capital “R” in their names.
Blizzard has and will punish you for wrongthink. There is a correct opinion and there is a wrong opinion and if your opinion isn’t correct I promise you WILL be punished.
The Republicans budge very little, if at all. They also try and force some questionable things into bills. The Dems do too, but putting protections against liability for corporations into a covid relief bill is… shady.
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it is a controversy in the united states to say the civil war was a war over slavery and maybe we shouldn’t lionize traitors lmao
Is policy always based on fact? Does it need numerous citations from multiple sources? How do you dictate who gets put on your ignore list
Speaking of which, I’ll share one of my favorite quotes of all time:
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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