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Democrats
Retain marriage rights for gay couples.
Expand legality of recreational drugs.
Free food for schoolchildren.
Tax credits for families with children.
Subsidized for free childcare.
Expand electric car charging nationally.
Subsidize sustainable fuel sources.
Fact based education standards.
Stop racism in policing.
Expanded healthcare subsidies.
Preserve democracy.
Republicans
Being gay or trans should be illegal.
White supremacy is great!
Christianity as national religion.
Privatize the post office and weather service.
*Eliminate the EPA, Department of Education.
Defund IRS.
Disenfranchise nonwhites and women.
Antivax agenda.
Expand fossil fuel use.
Eliminate worker safety laws.
Eliminate collective bargaining and union rights.
Defunding science research.
Deregulate crypto.
No regulations on AI.
No recognition of child's educational or bodily autonomy rights.
Eliminate hate crime laws except for straight white men.
End democracy, install fascist dictatorship.
But yeah, they are totally the same, right guys? RIGHT!?!
Teaching a bunch of lies about American exceptionalism and how imperialism is actually good isn’t what I’d call “fact based”
Right like how democrats in nearly all major cities increased police funding and almost none passed any meaningful reform.
But don’t remotely consider universal healthcare
Preserve the status quo which I wouldn’t call a democracy. A democracy enacts the will of the people, democrats don’t even have a democratic primary for their own party.
I think you dropped this:
Democrats & Republicans
You've certainly whitewashed Dems quite a lot. You're fundamentally not wrong though. As bad as the Dems are, and they are very bad, MAGA is undeniably worse. If we had some other electoral system, we could safely explore other options. But we don't. We have FPTP, which makes it a binary choice between bad and worse.
And worse is just so, so much worse. That doesn't make bad good, but it's still a binary choice. You'd have to be evil or stupid to try to muddy the waters so that bad seems close enough to worse that people don't feel the urgency of choosing bad to prevent worse.
The lesser evil choice is whichever hastens the collapse of your monstrous, genocidal empire
You're ok with genocide
Dems can be convinced to try other election systems besides FPTP because they fundamentally believe in democracy. From my perspective, fixing things without violence is still an option with Dems. It isn't with Republicans.
Westerners will go on and on about how North Koreans are brainwashed to worship their leaders, then say shit like this.
Apparently doing the modern holocaust doesn't' count as "violence" to white supremacist BlueMAGA fascists.
I'm hoping Musk gets some momentum with his third party. Either it splits the Republican vote and slows down this freefall into fascism, or he dumps tons of resources into promoting some variety of RCV. Either way, that's a net benefit in my eyes.
Either you're stupid or you're lying.
Where's the lie?
Literally fucking half of the shit you attribute to democrats.
Start here. This is a fucking lie and you're practically a nazi for whitewashing them
Its not a lie. The legal progress towards this has come from Democrats. Yeah, it's not enough and it's been too long coming. Still, look at which states passed laws on chokeholds and which states passed laws allowing people to run over protesters, then tell me there is no difference in the parties.
You're too easily impressed with the most superficial bullshit possible. The difference you highlighted is purely symbolic on both sides. As if cops are restrained by the law in the first place. Both parties have the exact same policy on policing and your 'good guys' are almost exclusively the ones in charge of the cities that actually run those police departments. All they do is give them more funding. And to confound people like you they engage in 'liberal box checking' where they 'do something' that changes absolutely nothing structurally. And then you turn around and defend these murderers like they're the good guys. You're a boob.
Not allowing choke holds isn't superficial. Body cams aren't superficial. They cut down on police use of force and citizen complaints. They also cost money. Better trained police costs money. Sending out social workers with police on domestic calls costs money ,and makes a huge difference in the quality of policing.
The only substantial reduction in policing cost is cutting back on the drug war and most left leaning states are doing that. (Reducing numbers of police would do it but most states have similar per capita number of police as Europe).
There is no doubt we have a long way to go on police reform, but to say there has been no progress simply isn't true.
I'm sorry but you're extremely too credulous and unthinking.
I already explained why and how bans on chokeholds are superficial. Are your senses so dull that you didn't notice or are you being deliberately dishonest and lazy by not addressing it?
Body cams are even more glaring an example. It's extremely fucking common knowledge that they turn them off whenever they want. Do you think you're being strategic by ignoring that fact? Because the effect in reality is it makes you sound like an idiot. Your entire premise is undermined.
You just straight up have no idea what's happening in the world around you.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html
"More training costs money"
"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
Yes, some cops are going to use chokeholds regardless of bans. Some people are going to commit murder regardless of it being illegal too. That doesn't mean we shouldn't bother having laws against murder. The fact that chokes are not reduced to zero by chokehold bans does not negate that it reduces the number of chokes used. In the same way, the fact that cops will sometimes shut off their cams does not negate the times that they don't turn off the cams and it allows victims to seek justice.
I am aware of Killilogy and Warrior Cop training. Cops receiving the wrong training is an entirely separate issue from the cost of improved training.
Finally, please refrain from personal attacks as this detracts from your arguments and violates community guidelines.
Murdering black people for advocating their civil rights is good huh?
No it isn't. You're hiding behind hollow rhetoric and ignoring reality entirely. Yes. In your fucking mind palace it's TECHNICALLY POSSIBLE to train police to not be bad. But you're ignoring all present conditions and all of history. I'm not going to apologize for you feeling stupid or offended at being called stupid. You're stupid.
Mind palace. Completely ignoring how the world works in favor of how the argument works in a vacuum.
Petulance. Police killings are up, not down. The direction is not towards zero. You're either a fascist or a useful idiot. It literally does not matter which. I call you a fascist.
Well, Democrats are the less evil choice, but all this is peanuts compared to EU social standard, I see here in Spain often US tourists which thinks they are in the future, IN SPAIN, with the rights, services and the freedom people has. Even with the US Democrates, it's compared like the EU fifty years ago.
The EU and the Democrats are both supporting the modern holocaust, neither of them are in a position to talk about "social standards."
Don't confuse the statement with the capability to realize it. In the same moment when Netanyahu travel to the EU, in the same moment he will get arrested, but the EU can't invade Israel to capture him, less without the support from the US. But the change is on the way.
No. Please don't make claims about things you don't know about. It makes it sound like you're lying deliberately.
Maybe in your imaginary dream land that I assume you were referring to with your comment about the EU arresting Netanyahu, not in the real world though. Please try and remember we are talking about the real world.
Certainly not all EU members will arrest him, but the most will. The ICC statement is clear, the problem for some countries is the USA and beeing a NATO member (sadly) at the same time Israel is supported by the USA. This is because some countries are still hesitant, not for other reasons. The real world is this, and because more and more countries want to turn the EU sovereign respect the US. Trumps BBB and Tariffs for the EU, probably will accelerate this process in August 1, in the manner of selfdefense.
[^1]: Politico - Netanyahu arrest warrant: Where can he still go in Europe? [^2]: Straits Times - ICC judges reject Israel's request to withdraw Netanyahu arrest warrant [^3]: EurActiv - ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu 'binding' on member states [^4]: Channel 4 - Netanyahu arrest warrant: Europe split over ICC ruling [^5]: Newsweek - Netanyahu Arrest Warrant: Full List of Countries That Will Comply with ICC [^6]: The Hindu - Is Netanyahu Above the Law? [^7]: Sweden Herald - Netanyahu Heads to EU Despite ICC Arrest Warrant [^8]: Washington Examiner - EU says arresting Netanyahu 'not optional' as members waiver on warrant [^9]: i24 News - ICC Upholds Arrest Warrants Against Benjamin Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant [^10]: Al Jazeera - ICC prosecutor warned to drop Netanyahu case or be 'destroyed'