I said 99% of America is brainwashed. I didn’t say you or many people here are not part of the 1%. And those things aren’t what make people brainwashed. Total strawman.
You over generalize (a Fallacy) then have the nerve to point out strawman incorrectly , Ignoring that you specifically point out the left is “brainwashed too “ then when you Got pushback tried to act like it wasn’t warranted.
Then what specific thing about most leftists is evidence of their being brainwashed? All the thing the left was called "sensationalists" and "woke" for ended up being real things to worry about.
There's two types of people in the world: those who fly in private jets, and those who wish they did.
As someone who's far more left wing passively than most Americans are actively, let's not pretend the left is morally correct in all their behaviours. But if I try to list literally any act of the Democratic party over the last 20 year's you'll say "nah they're not left! Not like I am!" And ignore the fact that they're who you're voting for. But that's a staple of us on the left, every time we disagree with our own politician we put our fingers in our ears and shout la la la like it wasn't our vote that put them in power.
The right hired a comic book villain into power again, but atleast they stick to their guns on their elected official.
Bro I have zero fucking interest in owning a private jet. If I had that kind of money, I'd fly first class everywhere and subsidize my travel costs that way (the fuel, staffing, maintenance, etc overhead is shared by all passengers on all flights), not burn millions of dollars maintaining and paying the overhead for my own jet. Total fucking waste of money that is more about personal vanity than anything else.
That is just untrue. There are quite a lot of people who think private jet travel should be illegal, and I'm one of them.
Also, understanding that the US political system is broken and doesn't have a real left isn't ignoring who we're voting for. I don't like the people I vote for. They don't represent my views virtually at all. They just aren't nearly as terrible as the other option, and our broken system limits us to two options.
There are certainly delusional people on the left side of the spectrum who have insane ideas that would never work.
But "most"? No. "Most" of us on the left side want the basic shit that Europe has like mandated paid family leave, paid sick leave, 4+ weeks of paid vacation minimum, and publicly funded healthcare. That's it. No brainwashing there. We see what the rest of the free world enjoys and just want it for ourselves, too.
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u/joyofresh 1d ago
The whole world