6d ago

Controlled Opposition

Yes even Bernie

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Is this meme intentionally ignoring the massive progress on lgbt rights in the last decades or no? It's an overly simplistic representation of a very complicated issue
- Democrats understand that being gay doesn't restrict their power. Republicans hate gays because they are religiously indoctrinated to hate them.
  You can be gay under Democrats, but you're sure as shit gonna stay a slave.
  
  We are not slaves by quite some stretch, as much as Republicans want that back. "Wage slavery" is a fun term, but it doesn't actually reflect the variety of options people have available to them that real slaves do not.
  As long as we can unionize, the chains cannot bind us.
  
  Want to explain the options?
  It seems to me like slavery except you can request to work for a different master and you are required to maintain yourself instead of getting food and housing in exchange for labor.
  Your punishment for refusing to work is to die in the streets, compared to being beaten or sold off.
  I would say our current wage slavery system is equally as bad as indentured servitude, the illusion of choice is maintained.
  
  Having to work is not slavery, good god. That's incredibly insulting to those who actually are slaves.
  instead of getting food and housing in exchange for labor.
  You do get food and housing in exchange for labor, it's money.
  You have options to fight back and get higher wages, like unionization. You can choose where to work which is NOT an illusion of choice, it's a real one.
  Your punishment for refusing to work
  There is no form of society that can function without people working.
- Democrats aren't doing anything to try and stop the dismantling and reversing of said progress on lgbt rights in the last decades.
  They are targeting all things lgbt and won't stop until officially lgbt never existed and it's a thing to be stopped by all means.
  That's how i took it, this is the current situation.
- Agreed.
  It resonates with people because in recent years we've seen an uptick in conservative politics.
  The reality is that progressive vs conservative policies exist in a homeostatic relationship and there's an ebb and flow as societal norms and the overton window wander around.
  The US electoral system is not representative. Wealthy donors have too much control. There are valid criticisms to be made of the Dems ...
  ... but ultimately it's an absurdity to suggest that the democrats block movement back to the left. In the US if you want progressive policies implemented you need to vote Democrat. That's it.
  
  In the US if you want progressive policies implemented you need to vote Democrat. That's it.
  Hell no what the shit? This thinking is why the US is going fascist. Voting democrat as a vehicle for change has been demonstrated to be a failed proposition.
  
  Sorry, I'm not going to engage with this argument.
  It was repeated ad-nauseum in the lead up to November 6.
  All points have been made and re-iterated.
- But that's extremely damaging to the narrative, so we're just gonna... ignore it.
- America has gotten further left, and we seem to have recovered from the Republican-lite era of the '90s. But the Republicans keep gaining power and moderates keep voting for them despite agreeing with Dems.
- Civil rights are liberal, not left specifically.

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