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  • … which is why find these generalized statements on political orientations stupid. At least the girl in the post could have said “Republican” or sth.

    I’m positive she wasn’t making a generalized statement globally. She’s referencing the Conservative Party in the country she lives in, probably the United States, which is the Republican Party.

    No, it’s not “the rights” who did that. It was a group of people from the right side of the spectrum, presumably the more extreme ones who did that.

    It was the conservatives (The American right) who did that. And while a minority of them were physically there to perpetrate it, they were in fact supported by the majority of conservatives in the country. Several polls have been done about this and while a majority of Americans condemned the attack, the majority of conservatives have defended it.

    You’re trying really hard to split hairs, move the goalposts internationally to muddy the argument, and make incorrect assumptions about the demographics involved but that facts remain what they are.


  • Just because right extremists do bad stuff where you live and left extremists don’t seem to exist or be as prelevant where you live, that doesn’t make the whole political direction

    It definitely does. A conservative in the United States is not the same as a conservative in the EU so in the context of one country, it’s entirely accurate. You can’t project a left/right spectrum globally when each country or group of countries have their own delineations on what constitutes “Liberal” or “Conservative”. One country could have a “conservative” ideology that’s considered entirely “liberal” by another country.

    It’s not like “the rights” or “the lefts” have tried to overthrow the government.

    Except they did. “The rights” in the U.S. attempted to overthrow the duly elected president elect and install the opposition into power. It was a comically piss poor attempt, but an attempt it was nonetheless.





  • It’s always been weird to me as someone who isn’t an engineer in degree or title why those with degrees in engineering think people shouldn’t use an accurately descriptive word like engineer when it’s perfectly appropriate just because it’s a little to close to the title of their licensed profession.

    Engineer is a verb, to devise or contrive something. Simply, to design a construct. A programmer by definition engineers a program and is therefore by the rules of the English language, an engineer.

    They may not be a Licensed Professional Engineer, but an Engineer they remain.






  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldDont get it twisted.
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    That’s not the commonly accepted definition of working or middle class. Middle class has never meant “don’t have to work to live”.

    In the U.S. the differences have always been defined by income level. Depending on the context, working class has also been used to mean someone working a blue collar non-salary job without a college degree.

    I don’t think anyone has ever seriously defined a college educated person making over a quarter million a year “working class”.