• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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    Conservatives should never be permitted to be in positions of power. It should be illegal for them to possess firearms.

    Throughout history, every violent act of racism has come from conservatives. Every single time. Why do we allow them to hold positions of power? They are evil. Period.

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      I appreciate your anger

      But you should be careful with absolute words like “every”. Wouldn’t want your message to be detracted by someone with a technicallity to fellate (someone like me except they disagree with you).

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        I agree. I typically avoid absolute terms, but I enjoy the arguments these statements invite from conservatives. Even when given such an obvious opening, they usually have a tough time arguing against it.

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            Sitting idly by makes you complicit.

            The problem is not me picking fights with racists. That’s the symptom. The problem is the existence of racists and those who defend racists.

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              Not making absolutist statements does not make you idle. It is wrong and misleads impressionable people. Don’t lie to support your cause.

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            Anger against conservatives is righteous anger and moral. Making verbal arguments is not “fights” as you are presenting it.

            Picking fights is literaly the only way political change is possible. Being polite when political opponents are hostile on a philosophical level is counterproductive and self-destructive.

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            Memba when we asked England nicely to be our own country and it worked, then we eliminated slavery using only handshakes and gentlemen’s agreements, then there was no more racism but just for fun we passed the civil rights act not because we needed it but because it would be easy and we may as well write down the principles we all follow anyway

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      They are making it simple for all of them to be strapped. My daughter who is a liberal was handed a .22 pistol as a gift from her GOP father-in-law when she moved to Florida a few months ago. She was like okay, thank you I guess.

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        What sort of strategy have you discussed with your daughter about her safety and wellbeing? if you and her have a gun aversion, does she train in martial arts, or are you just taking a leap of faith because the chance of you or her becoming a victim doesn’t seem plausible to you? i want to understand if you and her truly feel that comfortable and safe. if so, hey, i pray that you never suffer a traumatic experience…to me your statement just seems like she was handed a seat belt and was like ‘im not gonna put my seatbelt on, its uncomfortable’ . i say this because i was a raised in a bar and i never saw a woman win a fight with a man hand to hand. Lastly, some of us live in shit holes and can’t leave. but we can make decisions that lead to us going home at night, carrying concealed is one of those methods, and i am very liberal. protection is not GOP exclusive. It’s just tainted by them.

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          Wearing a gun may give you some protection, but it also brings you a false sense of security and introduces countless new risks while negleting the source of the issue. If you’re actually living somewhere, where it’s “normal” to wear guns it’s a far better idea to just relocate. But then, many folks are just scared and don’t actually gain any increased safety from wearing a gun.

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            It’s a very real problem. getting a ccw is easier than getting a drivers license. depending on the state, not every place is the same. Living in Rhode Island? yeah having a gun felt passe. Here in Florida. The place is a 39 ring circus with no one orchestrating the show and crime solve rates are laughable at best. additionally. some towns, like mine. our police go home at 6pm…like wtf…our 911 goes to the ‘central’ city after hours which means police arrival times range between 40mins-1:30mins…up north they were sub 10mins tops and 24/7 police shifts. so its not lost on me, i just cant afford to live in a place like that anymore, sadly.

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        So you admit slavery was ended by progressives. The “Republican” party was the progressive party at the time of emancipation. The parties famously swapped political orientations later during the “Southern Strategy” period, completing their swap in the 1960’s. That should also explain why Republicans were racist in the 1960’s, but were progressive before that. If you ever get confused, just follow the racism. The racist party of any given time period is the conservative one.

        Either you know about the party orientation swap and are being deceptive in your language or you didn’t know that and should take your own advice.

        Regarding Robert Byrd, he was a notoriously conservative shitbag (which explains his racism) who happened to run as a Democrat for conservative voters. That happens these days as well. See Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema as current day examples.

        Joe Biden has always been a neo-liberal, which is just a well-dressed conservative with tact and intelligence. He’s become more socially progressive later in his career, but is still a neo-liberal (conservative by all international standards).

        Every word uttered by a conservative is deception, manipulation or profoundly incorrect. Every single word. Your commentary is further evidence.of that.

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            Aaaaand now you are outright lying. You know we can just look up this extremely basic History 101 material, right? I would suggest you follow your own advice and study up, but I suspect reading comprehension is not your strong suit. Ask a friend to read this Wikipedia entry for you. It covers the party switching you claim never happened.

            It also describes the “Liberal Republican” party of Lincoln’s time as well as the conservative Democrats, who later became the Dixiecrats of the south. You’ll note the Democrats of Lincoln’s time are absolutely the conservative racist party of the south (you know, the confederates whose statues Republican’s strangely love so much nowdays).

            Your deceptive position is so weak that, as another user pointed out, even if it were true (which it’s not), it means nothing because of the absurd levels of racism, bigotry misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia the conservatives of today pride themselves on. It’s truly grotesque and indefensible, yet here you are trying fecklessly to defend it.

            It’s hard to know if you really believe your absolute falsehoods or if you are just gullible enough to believe what the other conservatives teach you on stormfront or nambla or wherever conservatives hang out these days.

            Either way, you continue to prove that very word uttered by a conservative is a lie, manipulation or profoundly incorrect. So, thank you for being so predictable.

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                My “poorly written source” is Wikipedia, which in this case, cites multiple reputable, scholarly sources for its data.

                I know wickerpedio and book-lernin aint as good as wut uncle daddy lernt ya, but i gess this collij book stuff is all us dum libs got!

                Then, you follow that deceptive and inaccurate complaint about the quality of the source with a list of legislative voting results apparently based on the premise that the last party switch (which you originally claimed never happened at all) happened in 1948. What you fail to note is that the party switch famously lasted throughout the 1960’s. To help illustrate that timing (and since you bought up “Storm Thurman”, whoever that is), notorious racist Strom Thurmond’s switch from the Democrats to the Republicans in the 60’s happened because of the passage of the civil rights act. He stated his reason for switching parties was because the Democrats no longer represented the right people.

                I’ll type this next part slowly because I know you don’t read fast. A party switch does not take place in a single day or a single year. It takes place over decades. In light of your inaccurate and impossible premise that “the last party switch happened in 1948”, your long list of context-free legislative vote outcomes from the 1960’s is not evidence of anything at all, now is it?

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        Lol okay sure let’s say all that is true. But who is on the side of civil rights these days? Certainly not the republicans after the shit they pulled the last few decades. You can’t even say they’re participating in democracy what with their trying to overthrow it and everything.

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            Which cities were razed, exactly? Portland, OR? Seattle, WA? Nope, they’re both still very much intact and doing just fine. Maybe you have some photos you’d like to share of the seas of rubble left behind after these cities were razed. We’d love to see those.

            Do you really think humans can just rebuild a “razed” city in a few years, or are you just lying because you are a conservative and can’t help it?

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        It’s great to hear about Republicans promoting civil rights and racial equality. We need more of that in the USA.