You’re still dismissing major events last year where people bought and used guns to defend against something that had nothing to do with the right wing. Again, I really don’t care the reason, it’s a good thing.
I'm not dismissing that at all. I'm just saying that's not the basis of your original article by my reading. It wasn't minorities buying guns to defend businesses from looters, it was minorities buying guns because they are scared or racial crime.
Can the two be the same thing sometimes? Sure, absolutely. In the framing of the article you posted? No not so much.
So both you and the new guy are masters about making claims that you have no evidence for. Looks like you found a buddy.
I've seen and read countless articles in the past year or more on the subject. I'm just saying find them yourself, oh king of straw. I'm not wasting my time going and finding info for you to ignore. If you truly had any intent on your viewpoint wavering you'd look yourself, but you are just here to own some libz amiright?
Uh, no? I believe this started when the island of Oahu required restaurants that offer sit-in dining to check vaccine cards to seat customers. That’s not a business choice, that’s a government mandate.
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No no, WE were all talking private business, YOU brought in Hawaii. To which I'd agree gov mask mandates and vacc mandates are dumb at this point, but MUH STATES RIGHTS So I'm still in the quit being a fucking baby or don't go there camp. Get over it bruh.
It just sounds like your argument is “Biden is not my specific flavor of leftism,
The Democratic party flavor of "leftism" is like the LaCroix flavor of leftism. Barely fucking there and more a suggestion than anything concrete. So yes, in that him and the dem party by and large don't represent my ideals really at all on anything substantial that is true.
therefore anything he does cannot be used to judge whether we continue to try a policy or stance that’s slightly different from what he did,” is it not?
He hasn't really done a single meaningful thing for either of us to make this assertion now has he? You should be jumping for joy at the Biden presidency. He's accomplished nothing, as the Dem elite who run the party have no interest in doing so.
That’s the same silly tankie communist argument I just pointed out
and it’s the same argument used on the right by people who try to say “well, Trump isn’t reflective of what real republicans are,” and it’s just as wrong.
No it's not the same silly argument as there's a whole plethora of ideologies in between the US version of "left" and authoritarian communism. Real world examples being most of the developed world that's not here.... Further left than that theres Kurdistan with it's fledgling little anarcholeftist ideals experiment, and there's more in the past that got smashed by either the west or authoritarian communism depending on which example you choose. Hell Israel early on was pretty far left with a lot of it's social vales, though that's changed quite a bit over the years.
And I'd say Trump is reflective of republican values and what they are. He won thier primary, and they overwhelmingly voted to keep him in office. I don't know how that's the same as me saying my values are different than Democratic party values, unless your assertion is its a binary choice, period and I'm not allowed free thought outside the major party lines.
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