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RulerOfSlides"A platform indistinguishable from satire is generally shit"•

This is one of the stupidest yet lengthiest comments I've ever read. As such, I expect it to get gilded five or six times and wind up on bestof by the morning.

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ISISFieldAgentOP•

All of OP's comments in that thread are incredible. His head is so far up his own ass I think it qualifies as a colonoscopy.

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matriarchalchemistREEEEEEEEEEEvisionist historian•

Also from OP:

Obama never did anything to increase hate or violence in his rhetoric. His actions were influenced by Republicans, sadly.

Translation: "Democrats never do anything wrong ever; it's all the Republicans' fault!"

ID laws would be fine but combined with the gerrymandering and the conspiracy theories about millions of foreigners voting in elections, it seems more likely that they just fear elections being decided by an electorate that isn't dominated by white voters.

Translation: "Those stupid, super-racist conservatives think that millions of illegal aliens voted, LOL! But gerrymandering is only used by RethugliKKKans and that Russia actually hacked the election!"

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JohnDalysBAC•

I don't know where to put it but this response to OP deserves praise:

Clinton's identity politics makes race relations and gender relations worse. Clinton teaches people to think of themselves as victims with no agency who need government to step in and fix things. Sorry, I'm a strong woman who doesn't need a Mommy President to fix her life and teach people to be nice to her. And it is harmful to women for her to act like having a vagina was a qualification. The only jobs where vaginal-custody is a qualification are research subjects and surrogacy.

Obama perpetuated false statistics though. Most infamously, he cited the false statistic that women make 77 cents on the dollar in the same job as a man. Sorry, economics student here to tell you that there is not a single legitimate study with that number. Even feminist researchers can't come up with more than a 7 cent gap and that gap does not even account for college major. And when my field is 70% male and psychology is 70% female and the starting salaries are vastly different, yeah, you're going to get an earnings gap.

Republicans didn't have a hivemind when it came to picking a candidate, wow. Good golly gosh, it's like they didn't want to force a single candidate on America like the Democrats did. NOBODY had a chance at getting the Democratic nomination but Hillary Rodham Clinton. How is that a good thing? It didn't matter how much people wanted another candidate, she was the only one they were getting. I'll take people choosing a shite candidate over the establishment picking a shite candidate any day of the year.

Props to u/purplevioletron

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matriarchalchemistREEEEEEEEEEEvisionist historian•

TIL that policies like rent control, universal basic income, and single-payer, which increases the governmental interference in everyone's lives, was economically centrist.

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what_american_dreamafterberner•

The welfare state is totally centrist!

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FullConservative•

BUT RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH

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SparklingGenitalsI'm an FDR Conservative•

That guy who used the Wayback Machine to check out the history of r/politics threads should also do one on r/changemyview to see if that sub as ever actually been about changing one's view.

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JohnDalysBAC•

If you look at the OP u/anonon_990 on his profile he just posts the same bullshit on CMV every couple of months. He doesn't try to change his view at all. He just uses it as a soap box to tell everyone how dangerous the right is to anyone who will listen. He is an idiot that ignores everyone who actually provides information and reason.

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Anonon_990•

You know you're talking to me right?

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JohnDalysBAC•

I'm replying to the user above and speaking directly to him. I used the username function to call your attention and so he would have an easy link to click on and review your profile for himself.

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Anonon_990•

Very helpful of you. At least you contributed eventually.

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Shanchu28•

His point about right wing united states thought not being found in europe is funny because the liberal parties in europe can often sound like the most economically libertarian republicans.

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Ansuz07•

Hi.

I'm one of the Mods over at r/changemyview and I wanted to pop in since this thread has been linked.

If you choose to engage in this discussion - and you should feel free to do so - please respect our commenting rules.

Thanks!

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rhboomer•

While the reach out attempt is nice, I highly doubt any people saying similar things to the quotes post will change their minds for anything.

The problem is they have integrated their politics into their identity

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Ansuz07•

That is perfectly fair - not everyone is open to having their mind changed on certain subjects.

Since this was linked here, my goal was just to inform everyone about our rules if the decided to participate in the thread.

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JohnDalysBAC•

Why is OP allowed to post when he isn't open to having his mind changed at all? Doesn't that go against the spirit of that sub and negates the entire point?

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Ansuz07•

We try to give people the benefit of the doubt - we often can’t assess if people are open to having their mind changed when they post initially.

If, after a while, we believe the OP isn’t open to changing their view, we do remove the post

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TheDemonicEmperor•

The truth is far scarier

The Republican party is closer to being centrist than the Democratic party and they still want us to be further left.

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SexyCheeto•

Hey I was called a racist in that thread.

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flyboy179•

Most of that thread is a reaffirmation of biases. Hell one even brought a chart of voting trends for the two parties which does fall under of Republicans not wanting to spend more but the guy words it like they're actively malicious.

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