Comment on California Files a Lawsuit Against Big Oil, What’s the Logical Response?

breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Because they still desperately cling to the “trickle-down economics” line of the last celebrity they elected.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    When is the last time you heard a conservative say “trickle-down economics”?

    Was it 1988? Or more recent than that?

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    • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Literally every single day conservatives push for tax breaks for big corporations and ultra-wealthy Americans calling them “job creators”. Trickle down economics is the prevailing philosophy of the Republican Party.

      If conservatives don’t think it works, I guess I’m concerned about their continued push to concentrate wealth at the top, because the only explanation is that they want to turn the working class into a peasant class.

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      • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        If Democrats didn’t think it worked, they wouldn’t have let it stay the whole time.

        Clinton, Obama, Biden, etc, have all kept the same economic vision for America.

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• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Who is defending them? It’s California being weird again.

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  • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Is California in the room with you right now?

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• Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Why do leftist defend poor people?

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  • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    What a telling reply

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      The Socratic method is alive and well, but only on one side of the aisle?

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  • Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Ok, I’m interested to see where this goes.

    Leftists may defend poor people because they sense a moral obligation.

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  • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Wow. I’m stunned by your comment.

    To rephrase it “Why should anyone care about anyone else?”

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    • Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      So, no answer? It is a serious question.

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      • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Righties only defend rich people?

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      • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        They can’t answer it. Their entire philosophy is composed of sarcasm and snark.

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