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[–] -1 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Pocketbook issues are not what I see passion around on progressive-leaning lemmy. I see landlord hate (regardless of rent cost, or with magical thinking that if the hated people suffer then poof rent will go down), enthusiasm for trans people playing all sports at all levels (and if anyone has legit questions about related science they are worse than nazis), cop hate (no reform ideas, just burn them down), advocacy for violence against billionaires and CEOs (again, no reform ideas to prevent new people from doing the same evil things, and regardless if any specific act of violence would benefit anyone's quality of life), etc.

If progressive agendas are about pocketbook issues, the majority of lemmy enthusiastics are terrible ambassadors for it.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago

    enthusiasm for trans people playing all sports at all levels (and if anyone has legit questions about related science they are worse than nazis)

    I’ve certainly never seen that. I’ve only seen people be shown the science around it and still double down on transphobic rants against it that don’t reflect the science.

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  • [–] -1 points 15 hours ago

    Sounds like you're getting tunnel vision while examining the lunatic fringe under a microscope and then generalizing that as the entirety of progressivism.

    It's really just a caricature though, because the same edge lords that you're describing would actually refer to most progressives as some variety of "neoliberal," "shitlib," or even "fascist."

    They're not serious, and the left would be better off without them. In fact I think most of them are plants.

    But in case you're not just being disingenuous and you're actually curious about progressivism, then try reading about the policies advocated for by people like Bernie Sanders, AOC, Abdul El-Sayed, etc...

    And then if you tell me with a straight face that those aren't pocketbook issues, I won't believe you

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