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Not good things to say when several of your prominent members are charged with conspiracy and election fraud (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Squorlple@lemmy.world to c/michigan@midwest.social

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[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

control every aspect of private life

I'm not arguing for a golden middle, no need to strawman me. I'm saying that sweeping generalizations like above are just circlejerks.

[–] ImADifferentBird@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are literally trying to control what clothes you can wear and what words you can use to refer to yourself.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are they trying to control what breakfast you eat? How you tie your shoes? What music you listen to?

Extrapolating from a few cases to claim there's a broad trend is lazy thinking. In the context of political discourse, it creates echochambers, misunderstanding, and hatred. Like conservatives who say "all liberals want to murder babies"