GiddyGap @ GiddyGap @lemmy.world

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Thanks for the response. I appreciate it. It's ok to agree to disagree. Especially on a minor issue like this.

Thanks. I'll try it out.

Not trying to be better than anyone, and I do agree that it may not be the biggest of deals. But I'm a native speaker, and I'm just pointing out the grammar part and making people aware that it's a Republican epithet.

Here's an article about it for your enjoyment: https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2010/03/26/114585414/since-when-did-it-become-the-democrat-party

Agreed. While I do think there's a political component to this story, I haven't found a viable general news community on Lemmy, unfortunately. Would have been happy to post there, too.

If you have found a good news community, feel free to let me know.

Fun fact: As of 2023, the 2004 general election between Bush and Kerry is the only Presidential election since 1988 where Republicans have won the popular vote.

Yay for American democracy.

Democrat is a noun. Democratic is an adjective. You can say "vote for a Democrat," but you can't say "vote Democrat" because you're referring to the Democratic Party where "Democratic" is the adjective. In that case, it would be "vote Democratic."

Republicans love to use slurs like "the Democrat Party." That's probably where you've heard it.

The party of "family values."

Ironically, Christians always complain about the hate they are getting from "the world."

In reality, Christians just need to get out of bed with the Republican Party. Most people don't hate Christians or any other religious group for that matter, but many people hate the Republican Party. With evangelicals being in something of a symbiotic relationship with the Republican Party, they are hated by proxy.

Lol. Love this movie.

*Vote Democratic.

Vote Democrat is just bad grammar.

Vote Democratic*

*Vote Democratic

Ironically, Christians are commanded in the bible to be good stewards of creation. Many apparently take that to mean destroyers of creation.

There's fortunately a lot more opposition to Trump this time around. Hopefully enough to keep him out of office.

Wow. That does not look good.

Can we have some term limits, please?

There's a reason why it's called "work" and "free time." Most prefer free time to do whatever they actually want to do.

And we're way overdue for another patch or two.

They see how Georgia has changed and continues to change. The Atlanta metro has completely overrun the rest of the state. The GOP has problems in any state with a large, dominant metro area.

Republicans think they just have to use the words "socialist" or "radical" or both for it to constitute an attack. That's the entire vocabulary.