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[–] EmptyAsparagus@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

I aM nEuTrAl

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 120 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Actually, the other side mostly wants things to stay the same. Their constituents, on the other hand, would like to see better healthcare, education, unions, and stronger safety nets. But since the other side aren’t fascists, their voters are stuck with them.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This right here ☝️. The grassroots democrats I could support. It's the Chuck Schumers and John Fettermans that will undermine the party from within that make supporting democrats difficult.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's always a rotating villain.

Used to be Dianne Feinstein. Then it was Joe Manchin. Then it was that Sinema bitch. Now it's Fetterman and Schumer.

And people just kind of ignore the pattern and pretend it isn't a party-wide PR strategy.

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[–] lemonhead2@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

the media is owned by private individuals with their own agenda.

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago

No, the media doesn't think that, the owners of the media wants the media to say that they're equal

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Correction: They SAY they want health care and education, get elected, and then spend their political capital making most people poorer, doing fascism, and genociding.

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago

Equal? Universal healthcare is derided as the delusions of radical extremists. A mere pipedream of anti-semitic tankies, if we're talking the gambit of American media.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We need to keep repeating this, it's a CLASS war.

[–] DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago

It's always been a class war. Sometimes we do some of the fighting but the rich are always fighting.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (6 children)

A lot of world class dipshits on this very platform think both sides are equal. Getting pretty tired of reading

"Both sides are fascist, one's just more open about it."

Stupidest fucking sentiment I've ever had the displeasure of reading. Absolute lack of education and critical thinking skills to say shit like that.

[–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I was banned from the lemmy.ml memes community for saying the Democrats are slightly better than Republicans. After saying it I needed to argue with 20 people at once, all with preprepared arguments, who were adamant that both sides are the same.

I've also recently seen that that community is extremely toxic in other ways.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 week ago

The lack of critical thinking skills is when people cannot understand that one side is fascist and the other enables the fascists.

To many leftist, capitalist imperialism is just fascism in disguise, and they are entirely correct.

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 week ago (25 children)

The democrats had the house, senate, and presidency for 4+ years. Where is that Healthcare?

Spoiler: Both sides are bad, they both get paid off. Its just that one side is really fucking honest with you right now ... to the point where they commit crimes in public because no one will do anything about it.

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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

The media is just a billionaire propaganda machine. They have to make both sides sound equally right so both sides keep fighting each other instead of fighting the billionaires causing all the problems.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (9 children)

To be honest what I really want is fully automated luxury gay space communism.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They won't give us that either.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

That's fine, we'll give it to them for free.

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[–] Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Obviously the republicans are genuinely terrible people

But I'll give you an equivalence that actually holds up

Both parties have their snouts in the trough and depend on huge levels of external funding which completely undermines your democracy

That is a problem that needs to be fixed

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[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

As “the other side” don’t speak for me. I want guillotines and a substantial redistribution of wealth until we no longer have billionaires.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The media isn't talking about general ideas, they're talking about political policy.

And, no, the Democrats don't want healthcare and education for everyone as policy, if you think they do, you haven't been paying attention.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Is it easier for the general population to sway the voting of their democrat representatives towards healthcare and education reform or is it easier to sway the Republican reps? What about primaries, if your rep stubbornly refused to support their constituents desire for healthcare and education, are there democrat candidates that could be more focused on those issues? Are there Republican candidates?

You kind of need to work with the system you have until you can change it. Either you find the revolution, join it and force the change through violence, or you work in the system and push the reps you have to make it what you want it to be. There are no third party reps and won't be until you switch to a less archaic electoral system which won't happen without revolution or reps that understand it and see the value.

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[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (9 children)

both sides are bad. One is just infinitely worse.

People refusing to vote for the lesser of two evils is what got us the worse evil!

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[–] rossman@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

i felt embarassed trying to be a centrist at one point because i figured i should move where their goal posts were. they're trying to normalize shifting goalposts and they know it. unfortunately there's no actual social punishment for this.

[–] jeniferariza@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It’s wild how often both sides gets used to blur real differences.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 week ago

As do .ml and hexbear.

[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Which side wants healthcare and education? There's some independents that may want that but the two parties of the apparatchik are the same except one has a veneer to mask the racism. Lest we forget, both sides have bombing brown people schools in the middle east as a hobby...

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[–] xta@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the "media" doesn't "think" they all just push their current agenda

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So foolish to think this way.

The longer we sit here and make it about the "other" is another day/year/decade that these people play us and stay in power.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The two sides are the people and the state/capital, right? ... right?

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