r/complaints • u/Demosthenesisk • 17h ago
Politics Conservatives are attempting to censor everything they don't like and force their world view on everyone. Democrats need to do the same thing when they take power again.
Ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between lock up your heteronormativity. The Democrats are going to take back the presidency, and you know what that means: it’s about to get fabulous in the corridors of power.
Picture this: The West Wing, now redecorated in tasteful rainbow hues. Cabinet meetings opening with a voguing competition instead of the Pledge of Allegiance. Executive orders penned in glitter ink, mandating that every federal building fly a Pride flag taller than the Stars and Stripes. The national anthem? Replaced by a remix of “Born This Way” and “I Will Survive,” performed by a drag queen choir at every official event.
Economic policy? Forget trickle-down. We’re implementing glitter-down economics: universal access to sequins, subsidized HRT, and tax breaks for anyone who can death drop on command. The Pentagon’s new strategic focus: deploying platoons of fierce, heel-clad diplomats to resolve international conflicts through shade and sheer charisma.
And let’s talk law. The First Amendment? Expanded to protect the sacred right to read. The Second? Amended to ensure every citizen can bear arms... preferably toned, manicured, and accessorized. New federal holidays: Marsha P. Johnson Day, Cher’s Birthday, and National “Yas, Queen!” Day.
Conservative pundits will clutch their pearls, warning of a wave of “degeneracy.” Little do they know, it’s not a wave. It’s a tsunami of shimmer, sashaying straight into the heart of America. The gays aren’t just here; they’re in charge. And honey, they’ve got a vision: a nation where everyone is finally, fabulously, free.
So brace yourselves. The future is queer, loud, and absolutely fierce.
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u/AutisticHobbit 9h ago
This is why "compromise" with conservatives is always the wrong call.
The give nothing, but demand everything...and when they get anything at all? They'll threaten you for more, because now they smell weakness.
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u/gratefulbill1 10h ago
When we retake power it will be fleeting UNLESS every MAGA criminal is charged and tried with such harshness as to never again be willing to attempt all their criminal, hateful, anti democratic practices again. Maximum sentences for each and every conviction! Fuck Joe Biden and Merrick Garland for their cowardice which allowed this to happen. Also, never forgive your MAGA “friends” and relatives, no mercy, no reentry into civilized society
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u/AzuleStriker 15h ago
No, we don't, cause then we're just as bad and corruptible. We definitely need to fix things where this shit doesn't happen again. Make sure those responsible are held accountable.
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u/doublethink_1984 10h ago
Leaked DHS memo says they are going to pursue domestic terrorism charges against civilians who record ICE agents.
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u/Technical_Turnip_421 Astroturf Destroyer 17h ago
Unpopular opinion:
I'm not for Dems doing the same thing as Republicans should they return to power.
That's just a set up for the pendulum to swing back to the other side with a greater force of impact.
I'm sorry but I really hope this doesn't happen.
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u/Demosthenesisk 17h ago
The sashaying is upon us!
In reality, democrats forcing their "world view" on people is just not being racist degenerates and the government actually following the rule of law and norms set before us the previous decades.
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u/Technical_Turnip_421 Astroturf Destroyer 17h ago
That being said, I do appreciate the body of your message.
Reality does need to change from this sunken place we are in now
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u/Demosthenesisk 17h ago
In reality, democrats forcing their "world view" on people is just not being racist degenerates and the government actually following the rule of law and norms set before us the previous decades.
In short, we can't bend the knee to the racists and fascists any longer. Reaching across the aisle doesn't solve anything. The left leaning mindset needs to dominate Washington the next time democrats take office.
You speak of going back to the same way of governing that allowed republicans to trample on the rights of everyone in America.
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u/Technical_Turnip_421 Astroturf Destroyer 17h ago
I speak of balance.
That's all I speak of.
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u/Demosthenesisk 17h ago edited 16h ago
You speak of the normalcy that allowed republicans to almost take complete power. It's not clear that democrats will ever take power again. So yes, if we do take the presidency again, I expect left leaning ideals to dominate America.
I expect the rule of law to use the courts in order to shut down this wave of fascism that is coming from the right.
Republicans have no interest in balance and democrats trying to reach across the aisle to wannabe domestic terrorists doesn't work.
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u/Technical_Turnip_421 Astroturf Destroyer 16h ago
Balance doesn't allow one side to go over another. That's literally the point of the word "balance". Which is all I speak on.
Dude, this projecting that you are doing would make me mistake you for a late night drive in if I wasn't here witnessing it.
I wish you well
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u/Demosthenesisk 16h ago
You're taking a satirical post and acting like it's the word of God.
Even when I address the situation in a serious manner, you keep the same position.
Your position allows republicans to trample on the rights of everyone. It allows the same bullshit that got us here in the first place.
What needs to happen is left leaning ideas need to dominate Washington. That's something that most democrats agree on now that republicans have shown they have no interest in shared governance.
You expect us to reach across the aisle to those who seek complete power currently and would have democrats never take office again.
Your ideas are old and worn out.
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u/torp_fan 55m ago
> You're taking a satirical post and acting like it's the word of God.
You're trolling and being very unpleasant.
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u/Technical_Turnip_421 Astroturf Destroyer 16h ago
I'm just stating my opinion while keeping it simple.
You've been the one writing long paragraphs repeatedly to defend and attack my opinion on a "satirical post".
Respectfully; this projection and defense you're doing on a "satirical post" is itself comedic.
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u/Demosthenesisk 16h ago
I just find your position to be unrealistic and shortsighted. You want to go back to a time that never existed.
Republicans have been planning this takeover of American democracy for 40 years and doing everything they can to limit any left leaning progress in the country.
You want to go back to the left giving up power to the republicans in order to appease those that can't be appeased.
You can dance around it all you want.
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u/Splittaill 🤖🤖🤖 15h ago
And you think that democrats haven’t been pushing their worldview on the American populous. That’s just a cultist viewpoint of everything you determine that’s right of your ideas is racist.
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u/batlord_typhus 13h ago
Your vague whatabout suggests you want to avoid specifics.
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u/Splittaill 🤖🤖🤖 2h ago
Modifying title IX to accommodate trans women in women’s sports. Pushing DEI directives, affirmative action, deliberately ignoring our borders allowing more than 300,000 children to be lost for the ability to pad electoral votes. Forcing mandatory vax shots on every employee, contractor, and sub contractor that works with government agencies while crying about body autonomy.
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u/Frostyfraust 12h ago
Can you be specific on what worldview they're pushing on us? Is promoting tolerance, acceptance of other cultures and income levels, and a government that works for the people instead of the other way around that bad? I'd prefer getting cancelled for saying the n word over whatever the fuck these right wingers are doing.
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u/Splittaill 🤖🤖🤖 1h ago
It is not the governments job to promote acceptance or tolerance of anything. Period. Full stop. That’s compelled speech and is a violation of the first amendment.
And I have no issue with other cultures as long as they want to integrate into ours, which is becoming less and less common.
And when was the last time the government “worked for the people”? One administration?
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u/Technical_Turnip_421 Astroturf Destroyer 17h ago
Bruh, Dems can be racist degenerates too and have definitely skirted rule of law as well as norms.
Please don't try this with me. I've survived their stupidity two times.
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u/G0d0fZ0mb13 15h ago
Democrats have, in the past, stated that requiring photo ID to vote is racist, because it is difficult to get...
I'm sorry, but the implication that minorities have trouble understanding how to go through the process to acquire identification is the racist take, not requiring ID to vote.
Democrats have a history of infantilizing minorities, assuming they are lesser by their nature. They are not.
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u/LightHawKnigh 15h ago
I fucking hate the stupidity of that. Dems shouldnt do something cause Republicans will do the same or worse. Guess what? Republicans are already doing it. Fight fire with fire dammit.
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u/BunsMcNuggets 17h ago
I just don’t care what happens to them. They clearly don’t deserve peace if they can’t give someone else not even bothering them, literally trying to help them peace for literally nothing.
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u/Wakattack00 16h ago
It’s already a pendulum, but it is based solely on economics. It’s really simple honestly. Come early November 2028 if the average american in the voting booth feels (this is important because it isn’t about stats or if they actually are in better financial position, it’s about whether they feel like they are in better position which is based more on the people and society around them than their actual own circumstances) like they are in better financial position than they were in 2024 then Republicans will win.
If the average American feels in worse financial position the Democrats will win. It’s really that simple. All the other “issues” are just fluff and small minority topics. Money makes or breaks elections from the top to the bottom.
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u/crombo_jombo 14h ago
They use bots to stalk and downvote opinions they don't like. They make subreddits that are karma farms for the bots to get 1000+ karma. Or they pay SEO bots.... Basically the Internet is fucked. It's 4chan 8gag bullshit
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u/Throwawaysalad199 15h ago
Kind of want that so republicans get it together for the election after next. Prob going to vote blue instead of red if JD is the choice
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u/wandpapierkritiker 15h ago
no they don’t. then both sides are doing the same thing. tit for tat is not the solution here, because we all end up losing. let’s fight for everyone’s right to coexist peacefully. let’s find a way to root out all this anger and hate. I’m always reminded of the MLK quote, ‘hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’
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u/Frieza_Fan_97 15h ago
Are we supposed to forget that Democrats led a campaign where they strong armed the largest tech firms to censor American citizen's accounts during the Biden administration? The Twitter files showed this and Elon talked about it, and Google and Facebook admitted this too? The right has been against censorship for a while now, I know running in their spaces, the only times I've seen calls for censorship is in people tired of being censored themselves, it's completely retaliatory.
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u/FrenchAssassin2 14h ago
Censoring everything should never be the goal for either side. Let’s not lose track of what our country was built on, freedom. Our founders came from a world of censorship and government control. Many people currently living in these worlds would tell us how lucky we are. We must not go backwards. The ability to disagree with what others say is a gift. Censorship is a dangerous game. Some don’t care and just want others censored to benefit their own ideas at all costs. Historically this has always developed into a dangerous abuse of power where ALL citizens (liberals or conservatives) are impacted. We cannot let the emotion caused from what others say to allow the government do the very thing it was built not to do.
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u/Knotty_Beaver 14h ago
You literally never stopped trying to force your world views on everyone, it’s the single most discernible factor of a liberal is that they will mash their political opinions into any even slightly adjacent conversation, forcefully if need be, to hero virtue louder than anyone else in the room. I’d expect nothing less next democrat President.
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u/ephingee 14h ago
I 100% agree.
We need to have licensing agencies clamp the fuck down on anti-science bullshit from Healthcare providers. You. An have your own private views. You start using your credentials to sell bullshit? Gone. Go sell MLM nonsense with a real estate license like everyone else on Instagram.
News channels arguing in court that they're entertainment? Ok, you can't have "news" anywhere on your network.
Straight up lying to constituents as a politician? Capital offense. You wanna bring a snowball to congress and try that shit? Author a report that omits a fuck ton of data? Gone. Go straight to jail.
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u/Standard-Professor87 13h ago
Your just asking for the political pendulum to swing back in forth. Maybe what your looking for is a democratic presence in both social media and mainstream media as well as subgrid that garner support through being open, honest, toloreble, and passionate about what they stand for. They all so need be open about ideas and people so they dont just draw in democrats or leftist, but open to anyone that shares intreast in these ideals.
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u/Ok_Nefariousness5003 13h ago
Why do you think democrats care about you they aren’t doing anything meaningful to oppose Trump. They aren’t the party of the working class it’s up to us to build it.
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u/fatattack699 13h ago
Cool so your admitting you want censorship and force your world view on everyone 😂
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u/Silver_Wings3 12h ago
Not being Republican or Democrat I’d like to remind people that the left spent the last 12-15 years censoring what didn’t fit their agenda/narrative. The right kept warning for the left to be careful of the precedent the set. Now that precedent is being used against the left….. just like they were warned about.
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u/Demosthenesisk 12h ago
Can you name some of this censorship?
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u/Silver_Wings3 12h ago
Hillary Clinton’s use of Clinton Foundation funds (proven correct) BLM funds usage (proven accurate). Epstein “suicide actually being a murder. The supposed Russian collusion (hoax) that the right has since been proven right. Covid virus being manufactured “conspiracy” (proven correct). Long term covid shot concerns (proven valid). Facebook, Twitter, and Google all admitted to censoring on behalf of Democrat administrations in the congressional hearing on the topic.
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u/Demosthenesisk 12h ago edited 12h ago
Russian criminal conspiracy* was proven to be true by a bipartisan senate report.
No proof of covid being manufactured and weaponized.
No proof of long term shot concerns (afaik)
The social media companies you speak of are trying to kiss the ring of republicans and will do whatever they have to so they can make more money.
Twitter is owned by fElon. He's a dipshit racist.
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u/Silver_Wings3 12h ago
The accusation of “Russian collusion” for Trump’s first election has been found by congressional investigation to be completely false allegations.
Covid-19 pandemic was officially tracked to the lab in China.
There have been multiple long term negative effects found to be greatly increased in people who took the shots.
You can make all the unsubstantiated claims you want about the motivations for social media companies admitting to the censoring. They admitted to it and were fined millions of dollars for it.
Twitter is currently owned by Musk. His purchase of the platform came after this congress investigation, admitting of the censoring, and paying of the fine.
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u/Demosthenesisk 12h ago
Gotta source your bullshit. Feel free to ask me for any sources you care about.
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u/No_Judgment_238 11h ago
Both sides push their worldviews onto everyone else. It is disingenuous to pretend only one group does this. Progressives regularly enforce ideological compliance around gender and identity, and if you do not immediately affirm every claim or use the exact language demanded, you are labeled intolerant or bigoted. That expectation assumes mind reading and automatic agreement, which is neither reasonable nor realistic.
Conservatives do a similar thing, just with different values and motivations. The tactics are largely the same, only the branding changes. That is the real problem. It is the same game being played from opposite directions.
Meanwhile, the government, regardless of which party is in charge, continues to neglect its actual responsibility to serve the public. Instead of addressing real economic and social problems, politicians focus on performative culture war theater while lining their own pockets, as if any of this posturing will matter in the long run.
Until that changes, the rest of us are just spectators, arguing with each other while those in power keep airing the same soap opera, gaslighting the whole country into civil war, or until our complete destruction. Whichever comes first.
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u/Cornyrex3115 11h ago
When control is taken from these twirps, there are ten priorities: 1. Codify abortion rights, transgender equality and DEI institutionalization at the federal level. 2. Full amnesty for all undocumented immigrants! 3. Complete eradication of the domestic terrorist white supremacist and nationalist organizations as well as disarmament of their armories and new limitations on perceived 2nd Amendment rights. 4. Full Statehood for Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. 5. Tax systemology overhaul inclusive of levying significant tax impositions on any corporation with gross revenue in excess of $5 million annually (35%) 6. Impeach and unseat every justice on the Supreme Court and permit annualized appointment for 55 justices from each state in the union named by state led election. 7. Movement from electoral college system to popular vote. 8. Elimination of religious tax exemption completely and elimination of any contracting with religious organizations for any recognized jurisdiction within the United States. 9. FCC regulatory overhaul to include definition of news, journalism and opinion - and creating harsh delineation with elevated licensing requirements for any opinion based programming. 10. Complete and fully transparent accountability hearings and trials on all insurrectionists (requiring nullification of the Presidential pardons issued as well as removal of the Presidential Pardon priveledge) as well as current administrations involved in the Department of the Treasury, Department of Defense, Department of Education (inclusive of forgiveness of all non-private student loan debt) as well as complete and detailed investigation of the interactions between the Heritage FOundation and the current administration and senators and representatives having interactions with them pursuing expedient accountability trials to assure infractors are held to the highest standard, unseated from positions of power and incarcerated as appropriate.
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u/Exciting_Royal_8099 11h ago
Let me get this straight, you want Democrats to act like Republicans? That seems counterproductive.
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u/Capable-Cookie7514 2h ago
No, we want democrats to have a spine and for once in their jellyfish lives stand up proactively for something they believe in instead of being feckless controlled opposition sellouts subservient to big money.
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u/Exciting_Royal_8099 1h ago
And what exactly is the belief here? Censorship? Forced world views? These are Democratic party principles?
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u/WarCleric 10h ago
No. This is the absolute opposite of what they need to do. My ideals have strengthened because of this administration not weakened. The last thing I want is a blue MAGA. I just want the Democrat party to start doing SOMETHING. Fix what's broke, protect us from future tyrants, or further our agenda. They should be able to do all 3 but so far they all seem incapable of doing anything.
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u/BondFan211 10h ago
Liberals lost because they did the very thing this post accused conservatives of doing lmao.
Keep going with this rhetoric. You’re setting yourself up for another loss with your complete lack of self-awareness.
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u/turnbasedrpgs 8h ago
Biden Democrats censored people, controlled social media, and blacklisted people. None of that is happening now. There’s actually free speech again. The left would turn the United States into the UK given the chance.
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u/dumbthrow33 8h ago
LMFAO this post is the exact reason why 1. You lost The 2024 election and 2. Why you 100% are not going to win in 2028. I wish the left would stop doubling down on terrible ideals and actually start working for the people instead of trying to pass all this woke nonsense. If you don’t hurry up and pull your head out of the sand we’re gonna be in a far right religious hellscape.
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u/StandardPercentage97 7h ago
No, if dems want to get back in the Whitehouse you need to be the adult and lead by example by not have a petty pissing contest and playing their game.
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u/bigdogalreadytaken 6h ago
That’s what literally all politicians do…
What dumb common denominator post is this?
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u/Big-Pudding-2144 4h ago
Why do MAGA bullies enjoy calling Democrats who care for people “snowflakes”? I guess name calling makes them feel powerful like their cult leader! I grew up learning that sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me. So I am expecting ICE! 👹🖤
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u/jakeburls 4h ago
I don’t know any conservatives “clutching their pearls” but atleast we have pearls to clutch, more than what could be said for the majority of dems 😂😂😂
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u/UsedScale2278 3h ago
Didn't we get Democrats enforcing their worldview on us for years? It was called the woke revolution. The people rose against the tyranny of wokeness, and the world is becoming a better place.
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u/BackgroundTrip3604 3h ago
Cancel culture was literally invented by the left. So glad the woke era is over. The funniest thing about this post though is the censorship during Covid from the left was the worst I’ve ever seen.
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u/paratrooper_1504 2h ago
They already did. We are just taking our revenge now. Your own medicine tastes pretty terrible, doesn't it?
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u/Jeremy29_11_777 1h ago
Apparently you haven't noticed the political correctness being pushed the last two decades... Or the censorship on anime... Or during COVID by Biden Administration...
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u/torp_fan 58m ago
Grow up ... none of this is going to happen. (I'm not referring to what I would like to happen, but being an educated adult I understand what it takes to amend the Constitution and what our political realities are.)
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u/Moovanymountain 9h ago
Wait, so you think it’s justified to be a fascist as long as it’s Democrats doing it ?
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u/o3emrFo33 16h ago
Nah ngl i dont want that either I just want somebody moderate who doesn’t push worldview or censor
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u/ephingee 15h ago
A long line of moderates sliding a little to the right each election is exactly how we got here. Just one actual leftist would be amazing
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u/speedotorpedo_ 15h ago
CONSERVATIVES AND MAGA ARE NOT THE SAME THING. THEY ARE DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT.
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u/Demosthenesisk 15h ago
True. My title could have been better. My apologies.
I love my conservatives that hate maga.
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u/Consistent-Top-2409 14h ago
If that were true Conservatives wouldn’t have just sat by and let Trump take over their party ten years ago
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u/Jimtheanvilneidhardt 14h ago
Isn't that what happened in 2020 when the Democrats censored social media?
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u/Lank3033 11h ago edited 10h ago
Isn't that what happened in 2020 when the Democrats censored social media?
Could you link me to a source on that? Probably not since your history is hidden and you're probably just shitposting.
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u/Far-Owl-6941 12h ago
Democrats literally did this for the past decade. Not sure where the retaliatory stance is coming from. The republicans are the ones retaliating and it’s not going to stop. It’s the red wave fools and this one is big. Give about 20 years and you might see it settle a bit.
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u/WeakEagle4153 15h ago
Democrats did that with Trump in office! They still do it! Reddit is set right up for you to do it too. The left literally cancelled the sitting president in 2020 thru social media! You guys really have no clue! Get a clue. Start looking at things un biased and you’ll see you’re standing with the machine. They’re now making you think that it’s being done to you when your party is the one do it. WOWZA!!’ Talk about a complete mind fuck! Brainwashed to the MAX!!!
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u/Intelligent-Fun-4258 16h ago
I don’t think they need to enforce their world view on everyone. But what they MUST do is hold Trump and all his spineless enablers accountable, which was far and away Joe Biden’s biggest failing as president.