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Regardless of which side of the political aisle you are in, what is one hot take you have that would get you cancelled in your own party?

I feel like I’m going to ruffle a lot of feathers with this one, but somebody’s gotta say it.
You cannot scream nonstop about foreign countries like Israel having so much influence over our elections and our policies and in the same breath, tell us that we should be making Palestine and the people of Gaza our #1 priority in our elections over our own interests. I see leftists do this all the time and it gives me whiplash every single time. Babe, you are doing the exact same thing you are criticizing both Democrats and Republicans for doing with Israel. The only difference is that both parties are getting paid to support Israel’s interests. You are promoting Palestine’s interests over what is good for Americans for free. I don’t want to be the United States of Israel, but I’m not trying to become the United States of Palestine either. If we’re against foreign influence, let’s actually be against it. All of it, not just the versions of it we don’t like.
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CountScrofula · 41-45, M
I think you have the Palestinian issue misdiagnosed. People aren't trying to replace Israel with Palestine, it's that spending 4 billion dollars a year on mass murdering children is such an extreme crisis it requires a lot of noise to stop.

That said my cancellable take is that identity politics and intersectional feminism are not left wing. They're liberal. Individualistic politics which erode solidarity and collective thinking and have caused deeply, deeply toxic splits. And I say this as someone with the most woke beliefs you could imagine.
Younameit · F
@CountScrofula
And I say this as someone with the most woke beliefs you could imagine.

Where’s your septum piercing then?

CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@Younameit Cock ring and my pubic hair is green.
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@VisionQuest Yup. Culture war has stripped us of our ability to recognize we actually have a foe in common and we could solve these social issues by working together.
Mcmarie90 · 31-35, F
That there are in fact some things government is good at doing, that shouldn't be handled by the free market, as long as there are checks and balances.

Also, I think if you vote to go to war, you need to be on the front lines.

Also, I can want to have nice beaches, clean water, and fresh air and not be an eco-terrorist.
deadmoon · 31-35, F
@Mcmarie90 All fair and reasonable points, but yeah… I can see all these being some spicy takes in Conservativeland.
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deadmoon · 31-35, F
@Keeper I’m not in disagreement. For the most part, this post was just intended as a little exercise to see how many people can still break away from their ideological echo chambers and share an opinion with the other side or a viewpoint that would be widely unpopular within their own party. This is something that seems to be becoming increasingly rare.
BohoBabe · M
It's not that we're putting Palestine before America. It's that opposing genocide SHOULD be the most simple thing in the world. If Democrats can't oppose genocide, how can we trust them to protect our democracy?

I do think anyone who didn't vote for Harris did enable Fascism, and they should be shamed. But I also understand how someone can think that there's no point in voting when both parties are willing to fund an apartheid state doing a genocide.
MethDozer · M
Couple of things.
I tend to be easier on liberals and centrist than mostnof my peers and at times even towards some libertarians. Not necessarily the ones in power but the ones in subjugation. I think people on the left often tare into them as soft targets, attacking the weaker target instead of the bear. I think it loses possible allies and roads to what we want to achieve and ends in lost oppertunity for meaningful dialogue to spread the ideas. Ultimately strengthening, not weakening the right.

Second a lot of gender identity issues. Im all for the rights of all but I disagree on childhood gender affirming drugs for one. Two I make the case that there is a not small segement who engages in a performative trans or fluid gender identity who uses the real struggle and associated rights of people going through real and undeniable issues in order to force everyone around them to engage in a role playing game to live out thwir kinks and weird sexual fantasies over being truly transgender or fluid. I find it offensive and insulting on several accounts but at the top of list is that it creates exponentually mkre hardships for those who truly have an identity crisis and want to live their best life expressed who they are and kind of dehumanizes and makes fun of their real struggles. I've had both conflict and agreemnet on that notion from those in my camp. On that note, in a related sense when it comes to some wuth gender, sexuality, and race identity things, some just go so hard for the shock value atrack and turn it up to 11 and it makes the struggle for equality untenable.
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deadmoon · 31-35, F
@MayorOfCrushtown Lol. I genuinely believed conservatives were slowly starting to come around on pot legalization too. Wasn’t it already legalized in some red states too?
@deadmoon theres alot of Conservatives who lean toward Libertarian who are all in favor of legalized weed. LOL
Alyosha · 36-40, M
TransX is not X.
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deadmoon · 31-35, F
@NativePortlander1970 Omg, everyone it finally happened! My first insult by NativePortlander that will likely turn into a block from him! I’m officially part of the club now, guys! 😂🤣
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