Labor "deal."
BendingUnit
joined 2 years ago
Yes, that is what the video says. Generally the liberals, or "moderate" right, insist that we HAVE to listen to the extremist right. This has gotten us stuck in a quagmire, and kept us from solving problems and indeed backsliding, for decades. The extremist right generally has some vapid falsehood or outright insane conspiracy theory to peddle, and entertains and distracts it's voters.
I believe the narrator is trying to get "moderate" voters to take a teensy, tiny step to the left; away from their comfortable friends, the literal fascists; and ignore them a little more in favor of facing reality and solving problems.
If you go back and read my comment, you will see that I referenced the stop and frisk program that has been on again and off again in New York City and other parts of the United States. Where strangers with weapons and a history of violence can stop anyone on the street and search them, for no good reason at all. Phone searches do also happen here, especially during traffic stops or when the police are harassing protesters or the media. But nearly everything we do on our phones in the US is already heavily surveilled, so most folks I know already behave as if their phone is a snitch
The unconstitutional and bone chilling stop and frisk program is apparently another authoritarian idea exported to the rest of the world, if what they are saying about China is true. It takes very little leap to go from what the thugs with badges do here, to the claim that is made about what China is doing.
I gotta call them and ask, "removed, how are you not a hostile occupying force again?"
I kind of had a funny reading of it: "China is getting so bad, it's resorting to stop and frisk measures, like that authoritarian shithole, America."
Lol! It be like that though.
And self awareness and good old fashioned honesty are hard to come by these days I guess. Not much we can do (in a fast, easy fashion) when folks prefer easy comfortable lies over cold hard reality.
Great talk 👍
The point you were trying to make.
Yeah I am. Have you seen the sharp uptick in fascism lately?
Yes I know, this is why we must leave them behind.
I'm not saying this is never said, but I will say that I have never heard this and I pay a decent amount of attention. What they usually say is some variation on a lie or conspiracy theory.
I listen to both their leaders and their voters. The leaders are whom I'm attempting to tell people to walk away from because they spew unhinged garbage designed to distract the majority of their voters from the fact that it is the very people they vote for making their lives worse. No, I can't find common ground with people willing to grind up humanity for the profit of a handful of wealthy, powerful monsters. And the entire point of the video is to encourage you to stop trying to find common ground with them because that's a bad idea that has only lead to suffering and mass death, and will continue to lead to suffering and mass death. We need not allow barbarism a seat at the table.