Why are 70+ year old conservatives acting like conservative?

Maybe because they're 70+ years old and conservative?

Like, surely people realized that "moderates" agreed with the right on some topics, well, these are them...

money you shit article

stop asking stupid fucking questions

IDK why but my state's governor also backed internet censorship, and now I need a VPN just to look at porn.

What does that have to do with technology?

@cm0002@lemmings.world please add the required [Opinion] prefix in the title.

This op-ed from Fight for the Future <...>

because they think if they play nice they'll go back to the 90s arguing about tax policy.

Most seated Dems are actually Republicans. Completely bought by corps and Israel. And many probably aligned with heritage foundation.

Because nobody has primaried their trash asses

It’s taken me a long time to realize that the Democratic Party, for the most part, doesn’t actually hold any principled stands on anything at all. I think they used to, but something changed when Clinton was elected and they abandoned new deal politics. For the sake of political expediency, they will employ rhetoric that sounds good sometimes, but none of it is backed by any beliefs whatsoever. It’s a loose coalition of dead eyed opportunist, and the deluded idealists they are still able to manipulate. The leadership has zero concern for its base or constituency as a whole. Are there some individual exceptions? Of course there are, but not many. As currently situated, the party will never mount a meaningful opposition to fascism.

Because they already believe this way. Being adem doesn't mean you are a good person.

What a slanted hit piece this is. These Democrats are suggesting sunsetting provisions that protect social media platforms from being responsible for what their users post in order to rein in propaganda, electoral manipulation, and online fentanyl sales.

I think it's misguided to sunset it entirely rather than revise it, but to paint it as Democrats seeking to censor LGBT content is completely ridiculous. You can tell how slanted this is because the author made no attempt to get a quote from any of the Democrats it's going after, does not quote them from any other context, and doesn't spend any real time even explaining their reasoning.

It's not just anti-LGBTQ+. This is going to be bad for everyone. We're just years away from banks and insurance companies factoring in your social credit score based on your activity on sites where you had to verify you're not a legally considered a child.

You verify your age on Discord. Discord doxxes you through negligent handling of user data. Your account is found to be a member of a server that might suggest you are less responsible. Your rates are increased. Even if you know this is the reason, you cannot sue Discord because you were coerced into waiving your rights. The shareholders are happy because the line goes up. Is it already happening? I doubt any companies are rushing to tell us that they're doing it, but the data is available to them.

Because as someone outside looking in- USA has not had a 'left' party in over a hundred years.

Your Democrats are Centre-Right sometimes approaching right wing.

Your Republicans were Classical Right, now Far Right.

It’s because they’re right wing bigots, Walter Cronkite.

Because they are assholes losers that care more about winning than the disgusting things they have to do to win.

There is no honor or decorum left in politics, just naked greed and the concentration of power. Our politicians are the result of the corrupt environment they live in.

Until we seriously start removing money from politics we will be stuck in a ever increasing enshitification feedback loop where the only people who are represented are the wealthy.

It won't be nice to hear, but here goes.. Because the 'woke' movement pushed by the Dems, were really just a psyop - propaganda - to create hatred against orthodox Russia/Putin. Remember pussy-riot, the Gay Putin memes etc ? They were all US supported/instigated narratives pushed in Nato + especially Ukraine for many years. Now that the campaign didn't amount to the expected result, the US plutocracy/MIC don't need/want it anymore, and not all Dems were onboard with the 'hippie' psyop that went against their core morale. They are likely pushing back now.

Obama/Biden and other top Dems knew all along that it were just a campaign to pump up hate in a move against their perceived enemies, and don't care shit about ordinary people and their sexuality - or life really. I mean, when did US top politicians suddenly grow a desire to defend the little guy ? I've never heard of such a thing.

Re. social media/censorship. US spends a ton of resources grooming social media platforms for 'proper' western/liberal content/values, and the TikTok issue - among many - are an attempt to control information on that platform also. Specially young people have via uncontrolled media, seen what happens in israel/gaza, Ukraine/Russia, and even seen how China is really like, and even become friends with them. The young people on uncontrolled media (non US sphere of interest) are - according to the US leadership - getting behind the 'wrong' party in masses. That made the US Plutocracy flip out and make all kinds of problems for the Chinese company (hundreds of fake rumors, tariffs/pressure, and now money to buy it. The whole shebang were rolled out for 'National Security', which oc is just the security of the Plutocracy - not the people..

I think the 'normal' prosecuting morale is coming back - unfortunately. ..and fascism - that were already here before Drump - will become much worse as the US plutocratic regime decline into recession/crash. Be careful over there !

Because the DNC doesn't see the 10% of the population that is LGBTQIA+ as a significant voter group.

Because they never gave a shit about our rights, only used us because it was convenient. They are perfectly happy to toss us aside and stomp us out now that they don’t see us as useful to them anymore.

There's only a handful of Democrats that actually give a fuck about their constituents. Most of them are Bible thumping conservatives with everything that comes along with that.

They're backing censorship because they hate us and want us gone. It's that simple.

Because vote blue no matter who.

And if you lose the primary you’re only allowed to complain if you’re neoliberal otherwise shut up and vote as you’re told.

I hate this fucking country.

Because they are the same.

I couldn't say exactly why, but broadly it's safe to assume that the answer could be found by the age-old method "follow the money."

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Because the majority of Democrats are right wingers