Charles Barkley’s CNN show may have been short-lived, but that won’t stop the beloved NBA analyst from making his political thoughts known.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    But, importantly, in MASSIVELY different amounts, and in very different ways.

    To lump them in the same category is to lie, and to lie blatantly.

  • Zorque@lemmy.world
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    They do!

    Of course only one parties main representative took us out of the Paris Climate Accord, WHO, banned Trans and non-binary genders, pardoned over a thousand insurrectionists, and made weirdly aggressive threats against some of our biggest allies… on the first day they took power.

    Which isn’t even speaking of all the policies and appointments they’ve made over the last several decades that have negatively impacted everyone but the already rich and powerful. To a degree that far outpaces the “other side”.

    I don’t disagree that they both make decisions that ultimately lead to pain for the majority of people, and most especially the most vulnerable and the most different… but one does it significantly more than the other.

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      We are indeed inclined to think that the party we align with least is the most dangerous one. Few people are truly unbiased.

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        Almost sounds like you’re suggesting that people think that one party is more dangerous than the other merely because of partisan biases.

        I’ll readily agree that both parties suck. I will strongly disagree that they suck equally. It’s not even close, honestly.

        • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubOPM
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          That is fine, it’s all part of the bias.

          For my part I think the Democrat Party is worse and guess what? I’m on the right. There’s no escaping your biases.

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            16 hours ago

            The right in America does not believe all citizens should have equal rights. Morally speaking they are not equivalent.

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            You’re not speaking from bias, but pure propogandized flavor aid levels of delusion.

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            Just because you think truth is relative doesn’t mean it actually is. If two people have opposing perspectives about reality, you only have to look at reality to determine which is correct.

    • Zorque@lemmy.world
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      Then what?

      Even if enough people gathered together to overthrow the government (the last time people tried, it was only a couple thousand of the most fanatic… and they weren’t on the side of angels), what would you do then? If it were that easy to just “make a good government”, don’t you think someone would have done it by now?

      Even the often lauded French weren’t able to accomplish that, they’re currently between a Macron and a hard place of right leaning bullshit.

      We need more than a revolution of arms, we need a revolution of thought. People are well aware that there’s problems, but no one can really agree on what that problem truly is. We all just point fingers at each other like some Spider-man meme instead of trying to figure out how to make the situation better. Or just hope someone else does the hard work of making our lives better *cough* Luigi *cough* while we sit on our asses and complain about how much everything sucks.

      We need to stop working against everything and start working towards something. Until we do that, we’re just going to keep running around a circle… one that’s leading us directly down the drain “both sides” are leading us down.

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    I had a flag made that says as much. Pretty happy about it, fuck our govt.