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| ▲ | culi 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I was one of the people who believed it was "just an awkward gesture". Egg on my face when a few days later he went and spoke at the far right German parties conference |
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| ▲ | hcurtiss 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The AfD is not a Nazi party either. Jesus. People are completely unhinged. | | | |
| ▲ | archagon 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You should have seen his Twitter feed. Just fuming, virulent white supremacy 24/7. (Of course, he wiped a lot of it after the election. Fucking coward.) |
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| ▲ | Sohcahtoa82 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| In what way is the Democratic party more authoritarian? Republicans are the ones that insist on protecting police no matter how much they trample on people's rights. |
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| ▲ | NoImmatureAdHom 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | - Deciding not to prosecute crimes they agree with / which are commonly committed by their base. There are two ways to use the police against the people, you know. - Speech controls (they wanted compelled speech, which is a line the Americans have so far managed not to cross - Biden managed to get it in to Title IX) - Rabid, senseless, confusing opposition to gun rights, a civil right in the U.S. Gun ownership does not result in more or worse crime, it's very clear. - Totally opposing widespread, bipartisan support for voter ID Let me be clear, I'm no fan of either side. | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Deciding not to prosecute crimes they agree with / which are commonly committed by their base. Like the Jan 6 pardons and Trump's immunity? > Speech controls (they wanted compelled speech...) https://democracyforward.org/news/press-releases/ooo-win-law... "A federal court today ruled that the Trump-Vance administration unlawfully compelled civil servants at the U.S. Department of Education to transmit partisan political messaging from their government email accounts during the ongoing federal shutdown — violating core First Amendment protections." > Rabid, senseless, confusing opposition to gun rights, a civil right in the U.S. As is their First Amendment right. Do you oppose that civil right? > Totally opposing widespread, bipartisan support for voter ID Why not? When put to the people for a vote, it fails. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6178993-california-pro... | | |
| ▲ | NoImmatureAdHom 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | I can understand having strong feelings, but the question was about the Democrats so my answer was about the Democrats. The "what about"s aren't compelling. - Jan 6 was bad. People who were charged, put on trial, and convicted for being part of that very, very clearly did not get a fair trial. Some went to prison for years for ... walking in to a building, looking around a bit, taking some pictures, and walking out. This does not come close to comparing to the scale of destruction visited on American cities by the Floyd riots. Almost none of those people were punished. We're talking a 100x difference, maybe more. Don't forget the "oh jk jk gathering is fine if it's for political purposes we approve of" move by the dems during covid too. - This is a really specific case! Seems like they shouldn't have done that. It does not compare to, "We're going to create this category of speech we'll call "hate speech", and make that illegal for everyone. Also, we'll force everyone to say stuff they don't want to say". That specific case hinges on what the Dept. of Ed's remit is. It's totally cool to ask your gov't employees to send emails promoting things they don't agree with, it's not cool to ask them to do it if it's too partisan. - I don't understand the 1A comment about 2A rights. I support 1A rights? - CA is not the US, and it's disingenuous to point to that. Presumably this would have been obvious to you. Here's evidence: https://electionconfidence.org/issues/voter-id/broad-support... | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | > I can understand having strong feelings, but the question was about the Democrats so my answer was about the Democrats. The question was actually, and I quote: "In what way is the Democratic party more authoritarian?" So I'm left wondering why these authoritarian acts don't count in a comparison between the two. | | |
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| ▲ | polymork 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You can’t reason with OP because they don’t even know what “authoritarian” means. MAGA are a little sensitive this week. |
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| ▲ | behole 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Another propagandized fool who thinks they see the world for what it is and the rest of us don't. The real nazis did show up. They are wearing the same red hat you have in your closet. |
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| ▲ | watwut 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Bullshit. Like, you are just straight lying in both of your sentences. We see what modern republican party does - literally last two years. |
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| ▲ | wredcoll 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You mean like creating an autonomous paramilitary force that operates masked agents across multiple state lines kidnapping people without due process or any regard to the constitution? |
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| ▲ | hcurtiss 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | ICE, CBP, DHS, and their predecessor agencies, have been forcibly removing illegal immigrants for decades. | | |
| ▲ | watwut 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | And in this iteration, they murdered, intentionally and proudly abused, treated whole cities as occupied territories, lied to courts, beated citizens (and murdered them) .... ... while republican party and administration openly supported it. |
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| ▲ | mike_bob 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| As Trump would say "this is the opinion of a very low IQ person" |
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| ▲ | bothers 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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