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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I mean, at one time this might have meant the difference between wanting to save money in a bank vs wanting to invest in infrastructure projects, but today it basically means wanting to drown brown kids in a Texas river, arm teachers with guns, engrave law onto a woman’s uterus, shut down education, overthrow the government, bring back racism, sexism, classism, bigotry, homophobia, climate change denialism, anti intellectual, greedy, go back to religious fundamentalism vs not any of those things. It’s become batshit insanity vs people that are just ordinary rational.

So yeah, maybe chat gpt didn’t get enough lessons from mein kampf to be “center”, but come the fuck on, the right is absofuckinglutly awful. Like just the worst human beings imaginable. The fucking figurehead of the right has over 50 felony indictments against him, is that really a fair right vs left? It’s fucking Evil vs normal at this point.

If everyone in the Republican Party wasn’t a mouth breathing, con-man, shit stirring crook, I might buy the balance argument a little bit better, but there is absolutely rampant corruption, hypocrisy and downright inhumane things proliferating on the right with absolutely no equal on the left.

I’d rather have some dreadlocked, crunchy hippy talking about higher minimum wage than some ignorant blowhard saying global warming isn’t real and let’s arm all the kids to cut down on school shootings. Jesus fucking Christ.