• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    The article is correct.

    Commenters here throwing shit at it (not all of them) should read up on what the word “degenerate” means and how it’s close to what they’d want it to say.

    It’s absolutely the same as with genetic diversity.

    Also the whole fucking point is that you don’t have to adopt what you tolerate, the comment about “big tenting with these fuckers” is clueless.

    It’s interesting how Americans blame bad-bad boomers for the world they left you, yet this particular kind of crap started happening when the generation of John McCain started getting too old.

    And as someone living in Russia I’d much prefer it to be a parliamentary country of a 100 sorts of conservatives and fascists (from Makashov fascist party to CPRF to national-bolsheviks to monarchists) with unregulated capitalism, than what we have. And since that was the choice in 1993 and 1996 resolved electorally in favor of “against assortment of radical mostly right shit” over “for some democracy no matter of which people”, that led to Putin, maybe someone can learn on the mistakes other people did. In this case not look too close at people who still want to preserve some checks and balances and electoral democracy.

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    “Value pluralism”.

    Yeah, but your problem there is that trump has no values other than “tell me I’m great and get me more money”, and his supporters have no values other than “fuck people that were born with darker skin than me”.

    You can’t rescue democracy by trying to big tent with these haters.

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    So abundance-y! Doesn’t even address the form or function that neoliberalism actually takes in reality, how it is the basis for foreign adventurism, imperialism, etc. not serious.

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    One of the things i sometimes forget is that America was originally settled by the outcast religious weirdos from the rest of the world. That is somewhat calming when seeing all the religious stupidity around me because its nothing new.

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        They might be the source, but a lot of Catholics have started imitating them. They are almost leading the pack now with Opus Dei. The new age “law of attraction” bullshit is also just a repackaging of the “prosperity gospel” that so many evangelical charlatans use to fleece their flocks.

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    well when one side of the political spectrum relies on identity politics of a certain demographic and the other is the big tent….

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      According to this article, value pluralism. There is a single reference to concentration camps being out of scope, but it’s mostly a view from the clouds on the subject. Like if you were to describe Biden’s idea of bipartisanship.

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      “Value pluralism” according to the article.

      … which sounds like a freshman poli-sci student sniffing their own farts and putting their thoughts on paper for all to see.