@RealRudeKevin @tim86975973@Aella_Girl Here is the thing, thirteen year-olds are having sex and do have sex. This has always been true. I had sex for the first time when I was thirteen (just a minth shy of my fourteenth birthday) with a fourteen year old girl
@BN9 It is shocking that a Republican Speaker of the House would work in a bipartisan way to pass needed legislation. I mean, how can anyone expect our country to function if the two parties discuss and compromise on bills that come before them, finding enough consensus to enact laws
@an_average_bear@lastpositivist We live in a mostly "managed" democracy, where debate around "the issues" is strictly controlled by corporate media and the interests of capital are protected by both parties. Bernie was a possible threat and so was stymied at many levels which led to fewer votes
@an_average_bear@lastpositivist In this election, Republican voters turned on the party and corporate interests to nominate Trump, but Dems were not sold on Bernie's Dem Soc message and bought the line that Hillary was the most electable
@an_average_bear@lastpositivist Bernie being the closest thing to a real leftist American politics has seen for a long time, I supported him. I think Hillary won because she was someone donors and the party apparatus knew would not upset the neo-liberal, pro-business status quo
@lastpositivist Yeah, I got it and it was funny. The bros did have some borderline rhetoric sometimes. I don't have a joke back. She won because she had better control of the system and the party and because of her name and the money tho as we all know
@sidewayskoyote@NLRG_it@Aella_Girl Fascism is anti-socialist. The socialists were the first people the Nazis killed to gain power and fascists are anti-egalitarian, a basic tenet of socialism
@Aella_Girl People may use it that way, but that is only one part of fascism. Both the left and right can express themselves through authoritarian regimes, but fascism maintains private property and strong nationalism with ethnic/social class hierarchies
@Aella_Girl Fascism is the political and economic system based around nationalism with authoritarian leadership, strong suppression of dissent, and favoritism toward a particular cultural or ethnic group. I think people misuse the word to imply biased, bigoted, or antidemocratic