I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?

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    Just a reminder that it isn’t a left vs right conversation. It’s working class vs ruling class.

    You aren’t bitter at leftists, you’re bitter at the ideas that media companies use to keep you angry at leftists instead of oligarchs.

    If you have to work, you’re working class.

    If you actually do hate certain types of people, then you need to work on yourself.

    If you don’t believe certain people need health care, then you need to work on yourself.

    If you believe ultra wealthy (people making over $10mil in income annually) deserve more tax cuts, then you need to work on yourself.

    If you don’t believe that minimum wage should have parity with inflation, then you need to work on yourself.

    Have some class solidarity.

    EDIT: To all those downvotes… Ask yourself why you are downvoting me. (Now with 100% more sources)

    Do you actually hate certain people? Really? But you’re downvoting me? Work on yourself.

    Do you actually believe you don’t deserve health care? That others don’t deserve health care? Seriously? Work on yourself.

    Are you super wealthy (low percentage chance)? I’m saying uncomfortable things to you. But you can easily afford those taxes so maybe work on yourself.

    Do you believe people working for minimum wage shouldn’t be able to afford an apartment by themselves anywhere in the USA? Work on yourself.

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        You’re incorrectly saying that conservative ideologies = genocide, fascism, authoritarian. That’s complete and utter bullshit.

        At the moment in America there are more democrats calling for “white genocide” than there are republicans calling for any type of genocide. There are more democrats calling for violence and persecution of people with differing opinions and ideologies than there are republicans. Only 1 side is calling for censorship of opposing opinions, and it isn’t the ones that is being accused of being fascists.

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          Who is calling for white genocide?

          I see people claim this all of the time and they never have any actual evidence of this claim. Whereas the right in the US literally advocated banking people for their religious beliefs, and the KKK is still a politically active group.

          Which group chants “lock xxx up”

          Which group is banning books across the nation?

          Which group is literally boring their rights away (see recent vote in Ohio where 1.3 million people voted to reduce their own voting rights)

          What opinions are being called for censorship on a governmental level? The left used to some effect social pressure, but only one group is trying to ban books, block education, deny the existence of groups of people, and trying to jail doctors for providing medical care. (See Florida, Texas and Tennessee)

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            Who is calling for any genocide? We’re constantly being told there’s a trans genocide going on, but curiously no trans people are being rounded up and killed.

            As for white genocide, well there are calls for it in South Africa at the moment. Google “kill the boer”. There are plenty of black people on Twitter in the USA saying similar things.

            Which groups are advocating for “banking” people? (Also what does that even mean?)

            Cool, the KKK exists - so do anti-white groups. BLM exists.

            Which group chants “lock xxx up”?

            I have no idea, what are you referring to?

            Your comment on book banning is typical propaganda. No one is asking for books to be banned, just for inappropriate books to not be accessible to kids. That’s not banning.

            What voting rights did those in Ohio vote away?

            No one is trying to “deny the existence of a group of people”, that’s yet again just more far left “progressive” propaganda like the “trans genocide” thing.

            As for the jailing doctors for providing medical care, we’ll the issue at hand is what is and isn’t medical care, and when it’s appropriate. Cut any perfectly functional sexual organs off a child? Yep, straight to jail you should go. Prescribe puberty blockers to a child? Yep, straight to jail you should go.

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              “There are plenty of black people on Twitter in the USA saying similar things.” You can find extremists on Twitter for anything. There’s no organizer group. And if you’re going to argue that blm takes this position, a citation is needed. Not just some whack-a-doodle who supports blm but actually blm.

              Ah yes, that you don’t have the reading comprehension necessary to put together context clues that banking was a typo for banning. That actually explains literally everything.

              Knowing that I can just dismiss everything else because you’re either maliciously using a simple typo, in which case this isn’t a conversation that is happening in good faith, or you’re too stupid to debate with.

              Eta: it’s absolutely adorable you think you won. I did address exactly one point you made. Specifically because you were exactly predictable enough to know, beyond a doubt, that you would gloss over it. Bless your heart

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                I note that you didn’t answer a single question but instead opted to make a pathetic excuse to dismiss it all 😂 . If me asking what you meant when you literally made a mistake is all it takes for you try run away crying and then it shows you can’t defend your position. Absolute weak sauce.

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      People disagree because your entire argument is “unless you’re stupid and voting against your best interests or are a rich person who hates everyone else, you should vote democrat”.

      It’s not “working class vs ruling class” at all. Democrat politicians are just as pro “ruling class” as republican ones.