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They were just champing at the bit for an excuse to get more racist. I can't believe the utter heel turn with their border rhetoric

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1bauos4/biden_says_he_regrets_using_term_illegal_as_trump/?sort=controversial

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Unfortunately you just stepped into the Hexbear trap. Below you will find a hundred correct comments about how conservatives are neoliberals and that neoliberalism is just another arm of fascism anyway.

I hope you stick around and read and learn in good faith though it'll be good for ya.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Below you will find a hundred correct comments

monkey-typewriter

As proponents of (small r) republicanism, constitutionalism, rule of law (which they refer to as 'law and order'), free markets, and private property, American 'conservatives' are indeed Liberals. They just advocate for shittier public policy. There is nothing inherently progressive about Liberalism. The United States was simultaneously a slave plantation oligarchy and a Liberal Democracy.

The presence of universal suffrage and civil liberties are concessions which took centuries to extract from the Liberals, by social movements with many Communist organizers at their core. And yet under Liberal Democracy, we still have legal slavery, lack universal sufferage (felony disenfranchisment along with a vast legally constructed underclass of undocumented workers), and civil liberties which only exist if you can afford a well connected Harvard-educated lawyer.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It'll be awhile before we get to 100. Some of us are working our dog walking jobs and others are waiting for our xibux to clear. Give us a minute

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

With China being on the edge of collapse, you're damn right I'm waiting for my xibucks to clear.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

theres are plenty of sane commenters, they just seem to be downvoted every time.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Hexbear doesn't have downvotes. The difference in votes is just from the massive weight of your shitty opinions.