that wealth redistribution question is pretty lit tho

love to frame “we should vote to redistribute wealth” as inherently undemocratic

In fact… are any of these undemocratic? Or just anti document worship? Cause as we all know the most democratic rules are the ones that were handed down by aristocrats 250 years ago and are essentially unchangeable by democratic means

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Some of the phrasing is extremely sus. The last one in particular: “to protect the feelings and safety of marginalized groups”

🎼 One 🎶 Of 🎵 These 🎶 Things 🎵

🎼 Is 🎶 Not 🎵 Like 🎶 The 🎵 Other 🎶

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Yeah that seemed like obvious manipulation to me as well. If you’re going to conflate them both that’s already a mistake. To put safety second is obvious de prioritization and most people will then subconsciously think primarily of ‘feelings’ in that question’s context.

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Also, yes. I think that I have more of a right to a pleasant day than some ill-mannered cousinfucker has a right to be a douchebag.

After the revolution, being disrespectful will get you the gulag.

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Policies with years of genocidal history behind them are obviously the most democratic

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52 points

lumping discriminatory and offensive together

lumping feelings and safety together

oh yeah, its editorializing time

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48 points

All wealth above a certain limit should be redistributed to address income inequality

Donald Trump Voters: 39%

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That’s what freaked the shit out of the Republican establishment in 2016 about Trump, it wasn’t him being uncouth, it was him idly saying “yeah we should hike the taxes on hedge fund managers” and getting zero flack from his base for it. It was threatening to reveal that rank and file Republicans aren’t “no new tax” hardliners, they just don’t want their taxes to go up.

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Did trump even increase any taxes? I thought his accomplishment was that he lowered it for “everyone.” And the result being the average joe got an extra $50 while millionaires and billionaires got to keep hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars

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No that was just campaign trail rhetoric. The irony in Trump is that for all his anti-establishment, drain the swamp bluster, he tends to parrot and go along with those around him are saying. So once he was in office, he got surrounded by careerist Republicans and his policies ended up being mostly Republican boilerplate, except for his erratic protectionist trade policies.

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How are any of these far-left? Especially the gun thing?

It’s center-right at best lol

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The wealth redistribution one is center left, but with everything else it falls into that Chomsky quote about a controlled populace is one given a narrow band of acceptable politics but fierce debate within that band.

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Because America

Where politics is made up, and the rules don’t matter.

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Because gomminism no gun. Even though literally most countries no gun regardless of ideology.

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fuck free speech all my homies hate free speech

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