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Friendly reminder that only one party takes rights away.
And that's the party that got all the stupid fucks in our society to think they were the party of freedom.
And all the "Dems aren't fixing it fast enough!" voters thinking it'll be good for some reason.
That's because they're children who want exactly what they want, immediately, or fuck it all and let it burn.
Regulations are put in place to make sure some people aren't allowed to hurt other people. Some would argue that this takes away their rights.
I'd also extend that definition to "other life" too. Some MAGA may say: "The libruls want to take a way my rights to do what I want with my land!" When in fact it may be an endangered species has its last nesting ground on that land.
Can you provide examples? Or just here to make generalizations?
No one has the rights to harm another. Your argument is ridiculous.
It's not their argument, they are just reporting. Chill out.
That's just "people are saying". It's either a straw man, or a belief. If not both.
So you think we shouldn't have regulations?
What kind of regulations?
You're baiting people without providing examples. Which I'm sure you're aware of.
The opposite. I heartily disagree that regulations protecting some people from harm are at the detriment of others.
Do you believe that if regulations are put in place, some people will be upset that they aren't allowed to continue their bad behavior and claim that their rights has been violated?
Oh they'll be upset
Fuck'em
Do you mean idealistically (a belief), or reality in practice? Because many groups have been given the legal right to harm others, e.g. military, police, certain sports players and businesses, so in practice, many people have the right to harm another and it's terrible.
If you mean idealistically, well, that's a nice idea but it means nothing until we collectively build the power to enforce it. The bourgeoisie crying about regulation taking away their freedom to put lead in our food tend to be the people with the money and power to perform regulatory capture.
To clearly state the obvious: it does take away their liberty and that's a good thing. Economic liberalism is a tragedy.
Yeah, the freedom to oppress others, just like the founding fathers did!
Look, reflexively saying "both sides aren't the same" is ignorant and actively doing harm when you use it to broadly. Are both parties the same? No. But on many issues, both parties are the same. And this is one of those issues. What you are saying is demonstrably, patently false.
The South Carolina bill passed with near-universal bipartisan support.
Same thing with the Texas bill.
On this issue, both sides are just as bad. Democrats are just as bad as Republicans.
The problem Democrats have is that they don't actually believe in anything. They follow polls and consultants, and they lack any backbone. They have no fight in them.
Look at trans rights. Democrats have completely ceded the issue to Republicans. Trans people make the walking corpses that are the Democratic leadership feel icky, so they offer only symbolic support to the trans community. Kamala, in the face of tens of millions of dollars of right wing demonization of trans people, couldn't even offer the most basic defense of trans rights and the worth of trans lives. All she could say was, "I'll follow the law."
It's really, really easy to make Democrats completely cave on the rights of any group. All you have to do is make the case to the public that it's for the good of children. Want to ban porn? Bill it as for the kids, and the Dems will be too chicken shit to say a word against it. Want to send trans people to gas chambers? Say it's for the kids, and Dems will vote for it. Demonize immigrants? The Democrats will try to outflank you on the right, competing with Republicans to see who can be crueler to immigrants and asylum seekers. Name the bill after a white woman that happened to be killed by an illegal immigrant, make defending it require effort, and Democrats will be falling over themselves to vote to send migrants to death camps.
Are the two parties the same? No. But on many issues, they are virtually identical. As long as you can make a flimsy case that some stripping of rights is for the good of the children, Democrats will ALWAYS be too cowardly to stand up against the propaganda. It's been this way since at least Tipper Gore in the 90s.
I got to the part where you tried to equate Democrats not doing enough to help trans people with Republicans actively persecuting them and then I stopped reading because I realized I was reading straight up bullshit.
Democrats have removed ZERO rights. Republicans have and are actively trying to remove more. And one quick glance at both party's voting history, you know, the thing that actually causes legislation to be enacted, very clearly paints the parties in TOTALLY different lights.