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The DM was a DM asking us to change our no tankies policy and remove the fuck tankies banner as it was apparently upsetting hexbear users. Apparently tankies view the word tankie as a form of slur. The admin wants us to ally as a form of "left solidarity"

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[-] ToastedPlanet 2 points 2 years ago

It's crazy to see a far left news source be used to try to convince people that the US has never been a democracy.

We have always been a democracy and we thankfully still are a democracy. We are in danger of losing our democracy to fascism however. If we don't fix the flaws in our democratic institutions we will end up in a fascist dictatorship.

I am well aware we are circling the fascist drain. I also know that the modern neoliberalism movement started by Regan and Thatcher is how we got here.

[-] iie@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago
  • 70% of Americans want singlepayer healthcare
  • 90% want universal background checks for firearm purchases
  • 75% want Citizen's United repealed

and yet these and other popular policies remain politically impossible

[-] kneel_before_yakub@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

Ivy league uni

"Far left" lol lmao even

[-] Grimble@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ok, you know things. Cool. So why are you being so dodgy about hyperspecific political tendencies? Why is such a precarious, controlled, center-left (by ur standard) system like the US worth balancing?

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