you don’t know what anyone else needs
nethier the civil rights act nor the legalization of same sex marriage is as concrete as a constitutional amendment, which is itself part of the constitution, and determines whether other laws are constitutional.
it’s unrelated to the crux of the argument. it’s a distraction.
reflective of the non-sequitur you’re engaging in
i have done no such thing.
leftists are communists and anarchists. communism is a stateless classless moneyless society. what you’re calling leftists is actually fascist.
its the subject of serious debate in scholarly sources.
It’s a fact that 3rd-party lose universally all of their elections while often spoiling elections for the primary party that most-closely shares their interests.
no it’s not. only a single counterexample is necessary to disprove this. but that’s not even what’s at issue here. what’s at issue is what the greater evil would have been. we cannot know what the losers of elections would have done had they won.
you’ve been suggesting, which is to vote third-party
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9217095
where?
I can’t teach reading-comprehension over Lemmy.
your implication that the fault is mine is erroneous.
I’m pretty sure universal healthcare is more popular than ever among Democrats; and things like tuition reimbursement would’ve been inconceivable merely 10-years-ago.
that’s not leftist.
he proverbial-equivalent of flat-earthers,
this is pigeonholing. you are trying to group me in with a (n unrelated) group of people and dismiss my valid assertions. it’s yet another mark of intellectual dishonesty
Historians, scholars, political-scientists all disagree
no, they don’t
I have proved both of these things.
you literally cannot prove a counterfactual, so claiming you have reeks of intellectual dishonesty
any time you want to make a bet a 3rd-party candidate winning versus one of the two primary parties
this is a red herring and doesn’t address the substance of our disagreement at all
Bernie had an effect on the party too, except he did it in a way that didn’t backfire for progress.
if by that, you mean progressing the party to the right, you’re correct. he hasn’t reversed the course of the democrat party at all.
but you’ve been told it’s not.
Yes, it was the Democrats who both supported and are primarily responsible for its passage.
… in congress. but they would have never proposed it if the writing weren’t on the wall, if the people in the streets had not made it a matter of import. giving the democrats credit is like giving bank tellers credit for financing bank robbers’ lifestyles.
it’s better than “threadiverse” which at once includes the name of a Facebook product and seems to also give Facebook all the credit for mastodon, Lemmy, pixelfed, peer tube be etc, while also making them appear to be second class citizens.
but I am not endorsing this “social web” thing yet, either.