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philipallstar 2 days ago

Haven't people been saying this for a decade now? The democrats purity tests make this test for copper look like child's play.

wasabi991011 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

So your claim (based on your link downthread) is that

- new regulation changing trade in a way that companies are struggling to follow

is child's play compared to

- a memo from a think-tank suggesting a particular choice of words

?

Mtinie 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m genuinely interested in which “purity tests” you are referring to. I’m all for bi-partisan ridicule if it’s warranted.

throwmeaway222 2 days ago | parent [-]

https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/opinion/dems-nix-45-woke-words...

Mtinie 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Thank you for sharing.

Would you agree that Third Way’s positions and suggestions should be weighted differently than official federal government stances and actions?

miltonlost 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

An opinion article from the NY Post. Neat.

philipallstar 2 days ago | parent [-]

Isn't it better to argue the content than ad hominem the source?

anigbrowl 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The content is also garbage (I read this a few days ago). They collected examples of the wackiest, most tortured language that they could (phrases like 'birthing person') and ascribed them to Democrats in general as if the party had some sort of crisis of cognition. The truth is that ivory-tower euphemisms like this are not common political currency, but ham-fisted attempts at communication by individuals or tiny groups with little or no political capital.

Tabloid trash publications like the NY Post are not honest messengers, but rather seek to amplify things like this using synecdoche to suggest that they're representative of the median Democrat. If the poster above wanted to showcase the underlying ideas, they could have just linked to the Third way website and paraphrased their argument directly, but instead they decided to share the gutter press version. I discount tabloid newspapers the same way I discount left-leaning outlets like Democracy Now! or Truthout - they might be right some of the time but the general level of bias outweighs their utility as providers of factual information, which is readily available from less biased sources.

cosmicgadget 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hold on I will have an LLM write a 40-page rebuttal and when you don't read it I'll accuse you of ad homineming the AI.

philipallstar a day ago | parent [-]

Well, either you've just invalidated the concept of ad hominem being bad, or you haven't. Which is it?

cosmicgadget a day ago | parent [-]

False dilemma. I have illustrated that distrusting slop and a propaganda magazine isn't ad hominem.

RankingMember 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That source lost its right to the benefit of the doubt long ago.

philipallstar a day ago | parent [-]

No benefit of the doubt required. Either read the content and comment on it or don't comment.

RankingMember a day ago | parent [-]

> Either read the content and comment on it or don't comment.

These are not the only two options. Considering the source is always relevant and worthy of comment.

8note 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

what actually costs something though?

you want to pay more in taxes for everything because you dont like the high standards democrats have for themselves?

some democrats also want to raise taxes? why not support them if you eant to raise taxes?

philipallstar a day ago | parent [-]

Democrats don't have high standards. Joe Biden was "in office" but with debilatating mental decline while other people did everything, and the Democrats were all in lockstep totally fine with this, until the one day they weren't and everything got reversed.

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duped 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Donald Trump did get elected about a decade ago, so sure?

philipallstar 2 days ago | parent [-]

Indeed. The worst purity test to fail is being an ex-Democrat.