• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I respect that you have a different perspective about the current and future impacts of Republican policies than I do. I respect that your opinion is likely valid from your perspective.

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      5 months ago

      My whole point was it’s an unfair comparison. Imagine you have a political scale that runs from -10 to 10, where -10 is plotting to overthrow the government to establish Handmaid’s Tale meets ethnic cleansing of the “impure” and 10 is plotting to overthrow the government to establish anarcho-communism.

      The original image is like comparing a -9 on one issue to a 3 or 4 on an entirely different issue while pretending that both represent the extremes. “Maybe people shouldn’t starve or die of exposure” is not remotely as extreme a position as “exterminate the impure” and also don’t represent views on the same issue making it an apples to oranges.

      If you compare views on the same issue, it’s at least a more fair comparison and there are some issues where the differences aren’t that big (aka speech, where seemingly everyone wants to silence at least some of their opposition). Pretty sure I pegged the right wing view on guns dead on, for example.

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        5 months ago

        So what you are telling me is that this is going to lose the election for the Republican presidential candidate this year, because mainstream Republicans won’t support someone who voluntarily associates with people like this, right?

        Donald Trump shares stage with rightwing activist who’s discussing stoning gay people to death

        A rightwing activist whose rally Donald Trump spoke at last week in Arizona is now telling his podcast audience that the Bible calls on Christians to stone gay people to death and saying that being gay is “an error” and compared homosexuality to drug addiction and alcoholism.