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Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 44 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

Why do people in the US equate "choice" with destroying other people's protections?

  • "School choice" = removing teacher's work protections.
  • "Health care choice" = no healthcare unless you can pay through the nose.
  • "Food choice" = some of the worst food standards in the hemisphere.
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  • [–] 20 points 19 hours ago

    Almost all of it is, or at least originates, from racism, at least with schools.

    When public schools allowed racial integration , school choice became a mechanism for racists to pull their kids from mixed schools.

    It grew into things like charter schools that are private, often religious, schools that get public funding and maintain segregation.

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  • [–] 14 points 20 hours ago* (1 child)

    It's a classic conservative propaganda technique to name their evil plans the opposite of what they actually mean. If it contains the word "freedom" it's about tyranny. If it says "protect" it means persecution, and if it says "children" just mentally append "fuck" in front of it.

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    We need to stop saying right vs left framing. It’s the wealthy class propaganda technique. Poor people that are “conservative” are in most cases just tricked by these parasitic ghouls that spend money to lie to people to work against their own self interests.

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    The average maga voter isn't the mind behind the propaganda they parrot.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago (1 child)

    This is exactly the point.

    They live in a controlled information environment; much like the Russian people who think Ukraine is full to the brim with Nazis.

    They have been force fed hate and bigotry for decades at this point. They are not blameless, but also they don't deserve all the hate that is projected at them.

    As pointed out, the education system is gutted, thus they are not curious and checking their biases; it is normalized for them to be hateful toward "others"; their whole world is small and full of fear.

    I pity them their small pathetic lives, and dislike them for their shitty views. The only thing I hate is that the stupid bigotry seems to be spreading around the world.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago*

    I mean, I agree with you on all this, but I have a very hard time seeing how this is relevant to my comment. The topic was conservative propaganda techniques, not hating conservative voters. I despise them, but hate is too strong a word for me to feel for any person.

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  • [–] 7 points 20 hours ago

    Because of all this competition we have in the market! With many schools near your home, they compete for your conforming child's business. What with the labor shortage, we have all these employers with that good health insurance competing for our time. And of course, small farmers are doing great and supply our many competing food markets.

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