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Only in the long run. A lot of them died and suffered horribly first.

Anyone too dumb to know how stocks work probably thinks you're talking about the car

The audience does like a good insult though.

Can you name any?

Democrats haven't been in power for decades.

Sure!

• All people are equal before the law. Discrimination is abhorrent, and people's personal freedoms should be respected until they harm others. Liberals and Leftists pretty much agree 100% on this so I won't spend more time on it.
• Capitalism is the most powerful social engine for beneficial progress that the world has ever seen, but we need to keep it under control. It's like an engine - harnessed, throttled, and controlled explosive power to drive us forward at a manageable pace. Strong regulations, strong unions, progressive taxes, and heavy government incentives are the ways we keep capitalism under control. Currently, it is OUT of control and is doing far more harm than good.
• Taxes on the rich should be higher, loopholes should be closed, and enforcement should be stepped up. There's no consensus on exactly how much higher, but they all agree they should be higher.
• At the same time, we recognize the potential economic effects of taxing the rich. If we're not careful, they'll just move their money elsewhere. So we want to raise taxes to the extent possible without triggering flight of the wealthy.
• Everyone deserves a minimum standard of living. Food, shelter, and healthcare are human rights and should be free for those who can't afford it.
• Immigrants are good for the economy. Even the illegal ones. We should be making immigration easier.
• Climate change is real, is man-made, and it is our duty as humans to do our best to fix it. However, we can do so to a large extent without causing hardship among everyday people, by making intelligent changes upstream from consumers. We can have economic growth AND tackle climate change, if we're smart about it.

Obviously, left-leaning liberalism is a wide-ranging ideology but these are the main ones that came to mind immediately. The biggest difference between liberalism and Leftism is that Leftists want to tear down capitalism and Liberals want to control it.

That's...what I said.

Search “AI woman porn miniskirt,”

Did it with safesearch off and got a bunch of women clearly in their late teens or 20s. Plus, I don't want to derail my main point but I think we should acknowledge the difference between a picture of a real child actively being harmed vs a 100% fake image. I didn't find any AI CP, but even if I did, it's in an entire different universe of morally bad.

r/jailbait

That was, what, fifteen years ago? It's why I said "in the last decade".

typical file-sharing networks

Tox messaging network

Matrix channels

I would consider all of these to be trawling dark waters.

"Scam" in this case meaning, "I have no idea how any of this works"

Brave

Would that not be better than full fascism?

People are ABSOLUTELY going to forget. They always do.

Cute you think he's scared of Bernie

Leftists in America are a tiny minority that happens to be in a kingmaker role because the Dems and Repubs are nearly evenly matched. There is no vast silent majority of Leftists. You're in an internet bubble.

YOU need to get onboard with OUR ideas.

What power? You fuckers didn't vote them INTO power

He did vote against the Canadian tariffs actually. It'll pass anyway though.

We were within 2% of stopping them. If you bastards had got on board, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Ignore the edgy teenagers.

IIRC most recently (as in, 100+ years ago)

• the anti-slavery movement
• the pure force of Teddy Roosevelt's personality

There was also the "Southern strategy" where the Democratic and Republican party basically flipped due to racism.

If you have stumbled on CP online in the last 10 years, you're either really unlucky or trawling some dark waters. This ain't 2006. The internet has largely been cleaned up.

"Death to America" is no longer a call to action; now it's just remarking on current events.