• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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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!?!

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      Fact based education standards.

      Teaching a bunch of lies about American exceptionalism and how imperialism is actually good isn’t what I’d call “fact based”

      Stop racism in policing

      Right like how democrats in nearly all major cities increased police funding and almost none passed any meaningful reform.

      Expanded healthcare subsidies

      But don’t remotely consider universal healthcare

      Preserve democracy

      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.

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        Teaching a bunch of lies about American exceptionalism and how imperialism is actually good isn’t what I’d call “fact based”

        That’s a right thing, not a left thing.

        Right like how democrats in nearly all major cities increased police funding and almost none passed any meaningful reform.

        A lot of left leaning places pushed consent decrees, for example:

        https://www.chicagopolice.org/community-policing-group/consent-decree/

        But don’t remotely consider universal healthcare

        The list time Democrats had a filibuster-proof trifecta it was for about 2 months and they passed Obamacare. Since then Republicans have nullified about 40% of it.

        Preserve the status quo which I wouldn’t call a democracy.

        Except by definition it is a democracy. Like it or not, most people vote for the status quo.

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          Literally fucking half of the shit you attribute to democrats.

          Stop racism in policing.

          Start here. This is a fucking lie and you’re practically a nazi for whitewashing them

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            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.

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              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.

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      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.