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Re:Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach Ne... by wolverine876 on Friday August 13, 2021 @08:01PM (#28176380)

> My comment wasn't sharing blame. It was remarking on the fundamentally different organizations that the right and the left run, and who they allow to speak.

Fair enough, and I think that's a valuable point. However, I think the following is too:

>> What extremists?

> There's a well known group, who you can probably find by seeing who's on the Fox News homepage right now, who says things would would be considered far left.

> And yet, Biden still calls these people crazy and says no to the more extreme policy proposals. Big tent politics.

I don't think they are extremists, but if you can name some and their extreme policies, I'd go with it. Fox isn't a great source for deciding what is 'far left'.

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Re:Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach Ne... by ethbr0 on Friday August 13, 2021 @09:14PM (#28176848)

I've got a bit of a thing about naming politicians below singular offices. It seems like part of the problem: name recognition wins elections and donations.

But to talk about policies, I would call defunding all police, complete student loan forgiveness, banning nuclear power and crude exports, and opposing market based carbon taxes extremist.

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