Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

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Ask every Anti-Masker you know on what their stance is related to abortion.
Proceed to punch their **** if they oppose abortion.
Isn’t calling for violence against others in breach of the rules here? And people’s opinions are not an excuse to start physically assaulting them.
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Another thing about the GOP is that bugs me is how brazenly the used the label communism, socialism, etc. to a point where its utterly meaningless so now when you have a Racial Marxist thing like in CRT people are more dismissive, including the people in the middle who aren’t as politically engaged but know the Republicans have been using that label willy-nilly for my whole life.
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Congress has just today to make a funding bill or the government shuts down.
In the latest MAGA Death Cult news, the GQP is threatening to veto any funding bill that has any funding for a mask or vaccine mandate. They’re willing to shutdown the government if the government doesn’t let people die.
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@Dustcan
This the vaccine mandate that the district courts have put a stay on saying they don’t have that authority?
YourPalContrail
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It seems like the GOP is considered about the liberty aspect of it. Is it fair to characterize you as leaning democrat? I only ask this because if we use moral foundations therory you would understand that people politically left typically use 2 moral foundations, care/harm and fairness cheating; meanwhile, people on the right use a more broad moral foundation that includes liberty and that’s why I think your are missing why this is important to them.
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I mean from what I understand it’s not that they want the freedom to spread disease, it’s more of they don’t want to be forced to wear a mask and take the vaccine.
It’s not that they want the freedom to ram into other people on the highway, it’s more that they don’t want to be forced to drive on a specific side of the road under a certain speed.
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If that’s the logic then the Dems in Congress should hold off on funding until it’s worked it’s way through the courts as well.
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I’m certain people on the far left will say you’re wrong there and that they support liberty as well. Though the point of divergence is that the left wants liberation from largely abstract or non-human entities such as disease, poverty, being offended, etc. and sometimes they also advocate for liberation from human entities as well, such as from landlords or employers. Noble on paper, for certain, however, often these goals are pursued through empowering large, centralized entities that pay their side enough vocal support, regardless of their actual internal or even external practices. As well as mandating things that go against the cultural traditions, needs and/or liberties of other demographics. It’s well meaning but also deeply flawed, as much if not more so than pure liberty/capitalism.
tl;dr terms are getting changed around and rendered meaningless so often and so hard that actually having an intellectual debate between the two extremes, at least, is impossible.
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Needless to say, zoomer tankie accounts responding to the tweet were rampant and seething like mad.
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@YourPalContrail
In what moral universe is the freedom to spread a deadly disease worth protecting?
This is why debate is impossible, Contrail, unless you very comprehensively spell out your arguments beyond any possibility of paraphrasing and cherry-picking. Freedoms can be turned into aggressions, and thus, are no longer liberties, but crimes.
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