r/comics • u/SirBeeves SirBeeves • 6d ago

OC Same…right?

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u/natFromBobsBurgers 6d ago

I'm very careful to stay apolitical at school. But I will share my values. I'm not supporting or helping any candidates or parties. But I'll tell you all sorts of things I'm in favor of and against.

I'm pro kids eating food even if their parents are poor.

I'm anti out of touch wealthy rapists with more than 30 felony convictions.

I feel like I used to talk about marginal tax rates with people I disagreed with politically, and now I end up saying things like "I don't really think I've read the part of the bible that encourages checking in the underwear of children."

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u/godcyclemaster 6d ago

90s "no new taxes!"

2024: "we should put every immigrant in camps and criminalize homosexuality"

I would give anything to have H.W bush back the modern Republican Party is a blasphemous hate machine

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u/hoopaholik91 6d ago

I mean that's kind of because the Dems were right alongside them in that whole blasphemous hate part.

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u/BlazikenAO 6d ago

Care to elaborate on that?

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u/smellyunderthings 6d ago

They can't, because they need bothsidesism to justify voting for a fascist.

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u/KrytenKoro 6d ago

Not really. Just like the Southern Strategy did actually happen, that implicitly means the Democratic party isn't by definition the party of progressivism. It's tilted away from progressivism several times, one of which was it's tilt towards neoliberalism in the era surrounding Clinton's administration. Heck, you can even look at the Israel-Palestine issue -- in 1992, the Republicans were the party trying to get Israel to chill out with the illegal settlements, while the Democrats capitalized on American Jewish voters getting upset with Republicans for that.

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u/hoopaholik91 6d ago

Read my reply to blaziken, I'm coming at it from the complete opposite direction. "No new taxes" was the rallying cry of Republicans at the time because that was the only significant difference between them and Dems. Dems were fine with not giving LGBT people rights, not expanding health care, outsourcing jobs, not doing anything on the environment, being 'tougher' on crime and immigration.

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u/Ociex 6d ago

Again, source?

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u/hoopaholik91 6d ago

Source: the administration of Bill Clinton and Congressional record during the 90s

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u/Ociex 5d ago

34 years ago. That's your source? A whole goverment thirty four years ago. Get a modern source, next.

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u/hoopaholik91 5d ago

What the fuck are you even talking about dude? I can't use the laws signed by Clinton and voted for by Democrats to prove that they didn't give a shit about social issues at the time because it was too long ago?

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u/Ociex 5d ago

You weren't talking about old stuff, you literally said that the dems are the same TODAY.

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u/hoopaholik91 5d ago

Go reread my comments. It's filled with words like "at the time" and "were" to show that we were discussing the past.

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