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"I know what they really mean!"
Perfect example of what I'm talking about, lol. Lazy ideologue tactics 101.
If you don't realise how supporting a politician who defunds school lunches is an active statement that childen shouldn't be fed, then your cause-and-effect detector is broken.
I'm not falling for that, I know the games legislators play with bundling shit into a bill so that anyone who votes for/against it based on one part is now declared as being firmly for/against everything in it, because 'they voted for/against it'.
And what you're saying here takes it a step further than that, by taking it beyond a bill to "supporting a politician". So let's say a politician makes it so that hospitals have to be more transparent about itemizing things on their bills. Okay, I support that, and say so. But now people like you come along and say that I'm "supporting a politician who" and then name all sorts of shit I said nothing about supporting.
No.
I like your take, and your nuanced approach. People seem to be under the impression that their rage matters more than actually thinking about what caused it, and how best to address that.
If I were Republican, or voted Republican, and this shit happened, I'd be pissed. But more to the point, I'd find ways of fighting it, to whatever degree I can.
It is simply an unfortunate artifact of our system (of many systems) that there's a lot of potential to lie. Changes in our system that mitigate that, and that fundamentally allow for more parties to participate in the process, are where we really need to head, long-term.
And in the short term, fuck that policy.
Of course not, you've already fallen for something much worse.
You're getting blasted in this thread, but I wanted to thank you for bringing some nuance to this ridiculously partisan and strawman-y conversation.
Edit: Lol and they banned them for it. Jesus Christ Lemmy, you're supposed to be better than Reddit.