Alteon
@Alteon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can someone give me atleast 5 examples of Democrats being against the working class? 6 days ago:
I thank we can develop state that our media landscape is beyond toxic. It’s apparent that much of our population is getting fed information through tik Tok, Facebook, and YouTube. Learning how to game the system like the alt-right does would be incredibly worthwhile.
- Comment on Can someone give me atleast 5 examples of Democrats being against the working class? 6 days ago:
Taxing the upper class was part of their platform though…so…still unsure as to where there against the “working class”.
- Comment on DC pizza shop faces backlash for congratulating Trump 1 week ago:
It’s hard to do this in a phone, and I haven’t really had time to properly respond, but here it goes.
This doesn’t mean that the whole movement supports or advocates for these things. There’s no major effort on the right to do any of these things.
There’s been no push back from your party leaders on these issues. You have a loud portion of your group screaming these things. Omission of acceptance doesn’t mean it isn’t implied. If there was a sizable opposition or vocal portion of conservatives stating that they don’t support these things, that would be one thing…but there isn’t.
Are you talking about getting rid of the Department Of Education? Defending their record of educating the American people is a tough road.
The Department has played a vital role in supporting public education nationwide. It has narrowed the gap between students of other ethnicities, and has provided beneficial assistance to low-income areas in order to provide many of these students with ways to make it into higher education. It makes sure that schools adhere to Title IX, and helps to enforce students rights within schools.
By getting rid of the DOE without a plan to support public schools, means we’re leaving significant portions of our populace without the means to access affordable education. Sure, you can get into a voucher program, but it’s quite obvious that this is just a means to funnel taxpayer money into private institutions. What happens if/when there are no more public schools? If they remove that voucher program, where are low-income students going to go?
This doesn’t seem likely to happen since Trump wants to keep it From what I understand, he’s been wanting to get rid of it and the ACA since 2016. It’s a socialized support system, and it hits all the markers of things that Trump and his cronies have been wanting to get rid of for years. I’d be surprised if he doesn’t try to take a few shots at it.
There’s no mainstream movement on the right to strip rights from people, unless you would count abortion as a right.
Ending birthright citizenships, ending DEI initiatives, elimination and suppression of unions and workers rights, rollback of child protection laws in the workplace. Those are all mainstream conservative movements. Getting rid of contraceptives and banning abortion is essentially forcing Christian morality upon everyone else.
It’s clear that the right wants an uneducated workforce that they can abuse, underpay, and take advantage of, and the best way to do that is make education the enemy and let them revel in their ignorance. It’s class warfare, and I’m worried that most people on the right are unaware of it.
- Comment on DC pizza shop faces backlash for congratulating Trump 1 week ago:
People on your side are literally advocating hatred of minorities, the reduction of rights for women, and the overthrow of our Democracy. Our two sides are not the same. If your party platform has a different take on education, border security, or the economy…then that’s one thing, but when they are literally trying to removed Public Education to dumb down the average worker, dismantle our social security, and strip the rights of our people how is that “the same”? Why should anyone on the left be “tolerant” to that hatred?
I’m not trying to attack you, I’m down for a legitimate discussion here, because I’m sure you have passionate reasons for voting the way you did, and I’d like to understand where the disconnect is here…
- Comment on DC pizza shop faces backlash for congratulating Trump 1 week ago:
Yeah. I get it. As a progressive, I don’t go to any business that proudly flies a Trump flag. I don’t trust that they will rationally think a problem through and I would have deep concerns about their decision making skills. Plus, the fact that it’s inappropriate to discuss politics at work, yet they feel it’s acceptable to back a political candidate? It’s repulsive.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
He gave them table scraps while feasting with his cronies (remember those COVID checks?).
- Comment on Post-election blues 2 weeks ago:
Hey, so the 15 million thing isn’t true. That was the number before all of the votes came in. She actually gained votes in battleground states, but lost them in non-battleground states (states that didn’t really matter). Just a heads up. We need to be using facts here (not trying to attack, just trying to get that information out).
- Comment on How a small but vocal minority of social media users distort reality and sow division 2 weeks ago:
I engaged with you in good faith, and you were merely a troll. Got it.
- Comment on How a small but vocal minority of social media users distort reality and sow division 3 weeks ago:
Marxist Leninist Socialists primarily, if you read my comment. I’m a Social Democrat, and I’ve received enough disrespect from ML Socialists, that I’m done trying to interact with them entirely. I get that your trying to minimize my argument, by acting like I’m attacking socialism entirely and act like I’m some sort of government plant…hence, again, why I’m stating quite plainly that I’m a Social Democrat.
The otherside of the coin is that I want to reform our system by trying to fix the problems of capitalism, and they want a revolution to completely dismantle it. I believe that the reality of implementing a socialist economy is completely unrealistic in a country as big as ours within the next 25-50 years, and that a revolution (which they are essentially advocating for) would introduce chaos and uncertainty into our country, and inherently the world. There’s no reality in which the movement gains widespread popular support in the short time frame that ML Socialists want. I firmly believe that the transition to a social democracy is a safer, more logical transition, and that as we adopt socialized programs, provide a better landscape for unions, and start reigning in inequality, we will naturally have more widespread support for a transition to a more socialist economy.
Metaphorically speaking, I want to slowly fix the problems that have cropped up around my house and upgrade things over time…they want to burn it down and build something that they believe is better. And they don’t like me because of that, that I’m essentially impeding their progress.
Still “irony” at it’s finest?
- Comment on How a small but vocal minority of social media users distort reality and sow division 3 weeks ago:
My experience with ML Socialists has been nothing but hostile. Anytime I’ve had questions or tried to have a discussion with a socialist about socialism, the response has been nothing but pure acid from them. Change is slow, and we’re slowly becoming more liberal as a people. They view socialized democracy as cowtowing to imperialism, and they seem to advocate for violent revolution to enact they’re goals. I literally can’t support that.
I would love for the US to become more socialized, for the workers to be more empowered, for people to live with better healthcare, less stress, and better safety nets…but as a social democrat, I’m the fucking enemy to them. As they described me, I’m imperialist scum.
I considered myself pretty far left…but those people? They fucking scare me…
… But if it’s more convenient for you to believe that I’m a paid government shill, then so be it.
- Comment on How a small but vocal minority of social media users distort reality and sow division 3 weeks ago:
I just blocked the whole of lemmyml and lemmy.blahaj or whatever it is, and my experience has been 100% better.
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 3 weeks ago:
Always line something else up first. If possible, also have enough money to last 3-6 months without a job - makes things a hell of a lot less stressful. We would essentially just bank any bonuses throughout the year, and it would afford us a nice nest egg in case something ever happened. However it needs to remain untouched.
- Comment on WHAT 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. It’s photoshopped. Good catch mate.
- Comment on Goodwill is out of control 4 weeks ago:
Then why does anyone donate shit to Goodwill. I thought they purposely sold things cheap so that people that needed it could afford it.
- Comment on I'm going insane 1 month ago:
Aaaaaaaaaaaand that’s exactly why the opening scene of Juon: Black Ghost/White Ghost made me scream like a child. The dread that rises up when something doesn’t feel right. There’s no build up to a scare…it just slams into you full force. Only movie I ever screamed while watching. Only happened once…but good God. We had to pause the movie and laugh for about 10 minutes as both me and my sibling both screamed.
- Comment on Anon makes bad decisions 1 month ago:
I’m assuming Tommy Boy:
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 2 months ago:
I finish with the D too!
- Comment on Would a brigade effort to "engage" with Trump ads in streaming services force the campaign to waste extra money, and make a viable psyop when they measure their telemetry? 2 months ago:
Holy shit… This would be amazing.
- Comment on Stay motivated 2 months ago:
Hey! It’s me! The CIA!
- Comment on How come roosters crow but crows don't rooster? 2 months ago:
Roosters don’t crow, they cock-a-doodle-doo. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
- Comment on The Big One 2 months ago:
… Always has been.
- Comment on "Quick" security check... I had to do 15 of these... 2 months ago:
I dunno mate…at least a sperm is capable of impregnating a woman.
- Comment on *He's beginning to believe* 2 months ago:
Yeah, sorta.
- 311 is a shit show. You have to pretty much get involved with your local government officials to get literally anything done, otherwise you can just live with your pothole.
- City officials have had a hard on for a minor league baseball stadium for fucking YEARS. They asked Richmond citizens for their vote on it, and every single time people said fuck no. It’s $110 million that could have been used to repair crumbling infrastructure, provide support programs, add additional affordable housing, repair our busted streets…noooo, why do that when we can go to a fucking minor league baseball game. Good idea Stoney.
- City officials also hard a hard on for a casino to bring in additional “needed money” that they planned to throw in absolutely terrible locations. No one wanted it. I think we had to vote it down like half a dozen times.
Petersburg, a
crumbling ruinstruggling town is now voting to add it. Just what it needs. - Look up the history of Jackson Ward.
- Shcokoe Bottome still has buildings were destroyed in the flood back 30 years ago that have yet to be revitalized (but a fucking stadium is fine, right?)
Thats just off the top of my head. Love it here though. Just…lots of annoyances.
- Comment on How the fuck do you meet new people? 2 months ago:
My dude, you can always start. I guarantee there’s a group out there for you.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Yeah, I’m not changing my entire client that I’ve gotten used to just to deal with a single bot that annoys me.
- Comment on GMod admins when you noclip 3 months ago:
Leftist admins when you say anything remotely supportive of Democracy instead of circlejerking the leftist next to you.
- Comment on Gaming battlestation 3 months ago:
Yes, please ignore the giant 15 lb bird in the room. Sure. Just act like it’s not there. Of course I don’t have 20 questions about the bird…
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
He gave them $1,600 in stimulus checks. Some of the poorer people think he’ll make things more affordable for people, lower costs, make crypto better, and essentially just rain down money. They have to think of their families future, and apparently they think Trump will do that. They don’t care what he’s done, he’s a means to an end, and if they can wrap an American flag around him, profess him the new Messiah, and ban abortions to do it, they will.
Republicans are either extremely ignorant or they just lack any and all empathy. They get their news from Fox that shields them from the truth, and they live in constant fear of blood-drinking evil liberals, illegal racist/murderer aliens, and that their money is being stolen from them by undesirables that feed off the system.
Their entire world view is a facade to make rich people richer and their ignorance of that makes them expendable pawns. It’d be comical if it wasn’t so tragic…
- Comment on Anon is stuck in a rut 5 months ago:
I heard that they can climb to the ceiling and drop down. Not sure how true it is, but helps to enforce how nightmarish they are, like they are some sort of unstoppable entity.
- Comment on Pizza Pizza 5 months ago:
Crustaceous*