Hereforpron2

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Very helpful, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Ahh that's interesting, so the issue is as much having a conveniently shifting position as it is a further-right-than-progressives static position. Thanks a ton, that helps me understand a lot!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Gotcha, so it means fake leftists almost? Does it imply someone is even further right than a current "centrist"? Or more like, "the center is right wing at this point, and so much so that even the Dems who are just left of center are still on the right [but therefore less than centrists still]"? This is not meant to be obstinate, your response was just very helpful and I want to bracket in on where folks consider liberals to be on the political spectrum so I can understand/use it properly.

 

For the longest time, "liberal" seemed like it basically just meant "Democrat" the same way "conservative" has/had been used to mean "Republican." Now, it seems like it means "bad Democrat" and is even worse than being MAGA the way many seem to use it. Where did its use as an insult within the [relative] political left come from, and what does it specifically accuse/identify someone of/as?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We've all snuck something home from the office here and there

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Communism (or Marxism more specifically)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

The use of "the French" in this tweet by @AP was inappropriate and should have been "the Fr*nch 🤢."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Totally. Every next safety measure from airbags to seatbelts are about adding extra inches, rarely even full feet, and they are shockingly effective.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Largely true, but it's crazy what the difference of just a few feet of slowing down does (rather than zero feet of abrupt stopping) to acceleration forces. The crumple zone on a car only has to be 3 feet long to turn a 60mph crash from a fatality to a horrific injury.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Wow that's interesting, cuz I share zero trust with the NSA, too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

That goose is so fly they call his feathers "up" instead of "down"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Dang, really thought that'd work...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

"we used to think that this was what we didn't know, but thanks to exhaustive and expensive research, it is now this that we don't know."

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