• DickFiasco@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I think the GOP intentionally spews some ridiculous shit like this every so often to make their regular shit look less crazy.

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      2 months ago

      Yep, to move the Overton Window to the right. The left should do this as well. If a group of real leftist put out a political platform it would make Biden look like a Republican.

      • Completly ban lobbying
      • Free healthcare for all
      • Free college for all
      • Housing guarantee - homelessness not acceptable
      • Billionaires fortunes taken and redistributed
      • Ban fossil fuel subsidies
      • Military exit from all countries except as part of multi-lateral peace keeping forces

      Stuff like that

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          2 months ago

          Billionaires fortunes taken and redistributed

          That’s the only extreme one to me. Higher taxes on billionaires is a reasonable take. Government forcibly seizing private property is not.

          Honorable mention:

          Military exit from all countries except as part of multi-lateral peace keeping forces

          This would be extreme except it’s not even possible, other countries are not interested in paying for their own defense.