• GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    27 days ago

    Marjorie Taylor Green would be a Gilded Age Democrat. Against banks or big government because they rightly call out how the Republicans just hand out money to the elite, but she also wants Jim Crow laws and genocide.

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      Literally just any pre-Civil rights Act Democrat from Georgia. If anything MTG is a traditionalist in the sense that she perfectly follows the footsteps of the previous Georgia democrats.

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        Incidentally, a friend of mine recently got dog piled in an lgbt discord for saying to someone who wanted to crossdress “if you want to be femme just go for it”. People freaked out and piled on her saying that femme is an important word to lesbians and you shouldn’t use it that way. She got really affected by it for a few days.

        Here in the UK femme gets used pretty much interchangeably for “feminine” and I wondered if this is an american thing or just a weird insular lgbt discord communities thing.

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          I wonder, I use it the same as your friend. Like when shopping at op shops (thrift stores) here, the clothing racks are sorted by femme/masc

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            Yeah it just sounds like really over the top concern dogpiling to me. “Noooooo you can’t use that word like that it is only for lesbians” is really just wrong and older generations are only familiar with the word through “femme fatale” which is never anything to do with being gay.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      Yeah at that point you’re basically renting, you’ll never own your home.

      Except it’s worse because you can never leave to get a job somewhere else.

      • facow [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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        Nonsense obviously housing prices will continue to go up forever so you could sell your house at anytime and buy a new one for a tidy profit! And if it starts to slow down again we can just introduce 70 year mortgages!

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        Isn’t this just sort of approaching the chinese model (as told by online comments, not necessarily the real one) where you can never own land you just lease it for 100 years. Except also dumber than that

        • Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          No because the lease in China isn’t on a speculative asset the cost of which is justified by your end ownership of the asset. The 100 year lease just means they won’t kick you out for no reason like a landlord can.

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    Even a lot of chuds would actually agree with us if you could somehow present policies divorced from propaganda and aesthetic baggage. The number of people who are actual considered, reflective, true-believer fascists (in the vein of Stephen Miller, say) is quite a bit lower than it appears, I think, especially outside the ranks of billionaires and centimillionaires. 75 years of red scare propaganda has just totally closed off that whole region of political solution space for a lot of people.

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      i still think chud media distilling all politics down into a series of keywords that mean “good” or “bad” could be a benefit to us, if you can talk without touching the clearly marked tripwires

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@hexbear.netBanned
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    i think the best way to maoism is by adding multi-party democracy to the mix, as per nepal’s “people multiparty democracy”. seriously!