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aidan,

Well we couldn’t know what it said til they passed it. “Call it the stupidity of the American voter”

aidan,

Yeah, it’s probably better to go back to a lot of FDRs policies.

Or the bipartisan effort to keep house prices by any means necessary. Such as by giving everyone who a fairly low interest home loan , which directly led to 2008.

aidan,

What? I think a lot of non-progressives would call this propaganda.

aidan,

The democratic governor in my state recently succeeded in a years long endeavor to legalize gambling. That’s deregulation too

aidan,

Can you name a functional civilization without oppressing some minority populations? Does that mean oppressing minority populations is good or necessary?

aidan,

How is that any different from the current system. Just instead of relying on people voluntarily helping them, they’re relying on beuracrats

aidan,

Sadly people like to tell other people what to do

aidan,

We individually aren’t, in theory the majority on any issue is.

aidan,

The difference is generally they make it voluntary

aidan,

After they enriched themselves by pillaging the work of others. Also let’s not forget the widespread (almost 100%) abortion of those diagnosed with down syndrome pre-birth. So when you prevent the disadvantaged from even being born its pretty easy to not oppress them. Furthermore, Iceland like the rest of Europe, does have a bit of bullying of Polish(and other) migrants- but I have no clue how wide spread it is.

aidan,

Not on Iceland, before moving to Iceland.

aidan,

That’s not what I said

aidan,

I’d prefer people making decisions for themselves as much as possible.

aidan,

Agreed, but there is no we. You shouldn’t make decisions for me either.

aidan,

And I addressed other groups being currently oppressed.

aidan,

I didn’t say it did.

aidan,

What is the we?

aidan,

You only addressed one of 3 things I pointed out.

aidan,

I did?

aidan,

Well it’s not everyone, both those things effect people differently. Even if I live in a country with decaying infrastructure- if I barely go outside it doesn’t effect me that much. Or, I may value infrastructure or the climate differently than you.

aidan,

It even says that in the first line of the post

aidan,

To a lot of young people, myself included. The authority, or at least the authority we interact with- is progressive. So something like a thin blue line flag is rejecting that authority. Also the Gadsden flag has always been anti-authority.

aidan,

I didn’t say to everyone, I said to a lot of people that is the current dominant ideology from people in positions of authority that they interact with.

aidan,

Yeah?

aidan,

Especially because average privilege accross a demographic says nothing of a given individuals privilege.

But I think that’s not the only reason people feel this way, but also because for the people we interact with they are the authority. Most of my teachers were progressive, anti-capitalist, and ERFs(I don’t know about trans exclusionary since they never talked about it)- but said ridiculous things like “men can’t get raped”. This might’ve been just my school, but especially amongst girls, anyone suspected of being “conservative” was bullied. I wasn’t conservative but was pretty argumentative, and I have someone email my school email thanking me for saying what they wanted to say but were too scared to.

Remember for a lot of people my age, early 20s and late teens, when we were growing up people who made funny memes(like from our perspectives Alex Jones or whoever) were being banned while the inverse wasn’t happening.

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