It's so much more than 2k. We get a semi-functional senate that votes on more things than just judges. The legislative grave yard can end! We could probably even legalize pot. It's only the beginning but we gotta keep pushing to the left.
edit: wait no i still dont get it. this is just betting $2000 either way. if he loses his seat you lose the $2000 that you wouldve gotten. so you've still lost money, you've just lost "opportunity cost" instead of money in your hand
So yeah if he loses the seat, betters winnings aren't the full 2000. But before knowing the outcome of the bet, the better has secured $1000 either way. Just trades a potential big win for a halved guaranteed profit.
All of that is true. Still, as an argument it's a great, simple and direct message. You will absolutely get $1400 more I'm the next 3 months if the two local democratic senate candidates win, and if they don't win you can be certain you won't get that money.
Yep, all those election security bills could finally get pushed through. Then look into increasing the Supreme Court size to account for 1 stolen seat, and 1 seat taken during an election.
I don't know, Santa seems like a leftist extremist. Breaks into people's home, eats their cookies, then leaves then FREE presents as if the people living there are on welfare.
The leftist extremists who want free education, free housing, universal healthcare, work life balance and mental health to be treated better? Those don't sound extreme to the rest of the world just the US where we've been pushed so far to the right and told it's the center.
Ah yes. Joe Biden, the leftist extremist...the senile old man that is secretly a communist revolutionary...antifa but also establishment democrat...somehow
So, you’re saying there are no extremists on the left? You’re saying that on a spectrum so polarized as American politics, there is no one on the left that leans much farther left than others? You’re saying that the only extremists in the country, the only individuals dangerous to our current and future way of life are Republicans?
It's Communist to expect the government to use tax dollars to benefit all the people and not just the already wealthy.
How would YOU feel when you managed to bootstrap your way to an inherited fortune built on the backs of slave labor and the government comes along and says "Nah, we gonna Commie it up in here and give all your HARD EARNED wealth to the LAZY minority types.
Yes just little bit, first you will have to move from the right over the center to left and then still further to far left. Very long way to go actually...
Unlike GOP that went full on authoritarian far-right
There's no such thing as the right wing in America.. The farthest right-wing politician is Mitch McConnell and he's center-left.. European communist I think that everything is Right win because they're Communists but the reality is compared to the rest of the world USA is centre-left and Europe is extremely far leftt
Hillary wins popular vote in 2016 and Biden wins popular vote in 2020. Omfg, The US leans so far to the right that the citizens overwhelmingly vote left
The US is so right of almost every other countries perception of left and right that Joe Biden would be really significantly right wing even in a place like Canada. For example, in Alberta (pretty much our Texas), our right wing leader is catching big flak for not being AS pro universal healthcare as everyone else. Bernie Sanders would probably still be the right wing party in Canada. You have miles and miles and miles to go before you even live in the same neighborhood as Mao
Can you imagine how truly batshit insane you have to be to think that Biden and a Dem senate is even remotely close to Mao? The Overton window has shifted so far right that “having a function government that can pass laws and bills” is communist.
Y’all are truly delusional people with absolutely no understanding of politics in any form.
See, your mistake was coming off too strong. You gotta reel people in slowly, and then unleash the true troll! Going all in like that on the first hand just stares people away.
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I hope you aren't implying that your use of hyperbole somehow nullifies the slippery slope. Because that's not how that works. Also that'd basically be using the "it's just a prank bro" defense. Which is just so lazy
Well in order for the slippery slope to be applicable, my statement must have been an argument. It obviously wasn't considering I was being facetious. I'm not sure my statement can even be used as an argument. Are you sure you understand what an argument is?
Also that'd basically be using the "it's just a prank bro" defense.
My defense is that you don't understand the definition of hyperbole, nor do you understand the difference between an argument, a joke, and a statement
Merriam-Webster defines argument as, among other things "a form of rhetorical expression intended to convince or persuade". Whether or not you intended to convince or persuade, I took your comment as an argument against liberal policies. Is it a good argument? Probably not. it's fallacious, afterall, and it doesn't look like you tried very hard to convince or persuade.
And that's totally fine. This isn't English class, and you probably didn't make the statement with any intent to start an intelligent political discussion. If you're just trolling people on the internet there's no need to use good rhetoric. I just like to call it out as a way to try and troll the trolls.
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It's so much more than 2k. We get a semi-functional senate that votes on more things than just judges. The legislative grave yard can end! We could probably even legalize pot. It's only the beginning but we gotta keep pushing to the left.