• @NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Republican presidents are always worse for the economy. It’s a low bar to cover, but at least democrats don’t cut as much from education, health care, and other social safety net programs.

        • Sightline
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          42 years ago

          That’s not a strawman, strawman is making shit up then arguing against it as if the other person said it.

          • possibly a catB
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            32 years ago

            Honestly, the introduction of this boiling down to the lesser evil of Dem vs. Rep seemed close enough to a strawman for me that I found it good enough for a quick quip.

            My point is that they’ve already started setting up distractions from the typical arguments - conforming it to a false binary that moves the spotlight away from structural systems - before those arguments have even begun. Let me know if you know a term that would better apply.

      • @Krauerking@lemy.lol
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        82 years ago

        He’s looking for a fight that no one is interested in so he can state all the facts they have been building up about economic policy.

        The problem is that people that should hear it don’t care and those of us who care already know but can’t do much about it.

        They are just screaming they want to be logical/rational in an unlogical/irrational world.