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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by gadders on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:49AM (#42930785)
I'm not rage-baiting. I'm saying it's a reasonable point that people can disagree on, but if any Republican candidate had had it as a policy position in the last election they would have been labelled as "Far Right".
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by matthewmacleod on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @07:55AM (#42931720)
Yes, you’re rage-baiting; a republican candidate would have been labeled that way because of the aggregate of their positions, not this one.

Though of course, that is by modern standards quite a conservative right position to take. (And incidentally not one I’d consider reasonable to take; though I’m obviously biased by being directly affected)

Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by gadders on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:04AM (#42931791)
No, I don't think it takes more than one position to get you labelled "far right" these days. The Free Speech Union, which is UK pressure group in favour of free speech was recently labelled "far right" by Wikipedia for promoting free speech.
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by matthewmacleod on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:17AM (#42931909)
This is what I mean by rage-baiting :)
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by gadders on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:13AM (#42932556)
Disagreeing with you is rage-baiting?
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by VagabundoP on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:03PM (#42936195)
I just checked the wiki, but can't find the far-right references.

There is some chatter in the Talk page about some members of the group associating with far-right figures and pushing some very dodgy views on far-right topics. Is this what you are referring to?

Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by gadders on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @06:07PM (#42940500)
The far right accusation was recently removed after they publicised it.

Which dodgy views on far right topics?

Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by trealira on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @06:00AM (#42930859)
And Kamala Harris was labeled far-left for campaigning on a Trump-lite platform on immigration and the economy that appealed to no one.
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by gadders on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @07:19AM (#42931393)
I'm not sure if "free sex changes for illegal immigrants" counts as "Trump-lite"
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by tstrimple on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:11AM (#42932536)
Your mind was really warped by conservative propaganda wasn’t it? Amazing how effective it is on a certain type of person. Reality just doesn’t matter at all to you does it?
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by dralley on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:44AM (#42933841)
Look, I voted for Kamala and donated >$100 to her campaign. And I agree that it was absolutely not in any way the focus of her campaign.

But it's not lying to point out that she was for that in 2019. The fact that the video was made into a campaign ad doesn't make it false.

Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by gadders on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:10AM (#42933275)
It's not propaganda if it's true.
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by ModernMech on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:20AM (#42933420)
"free sex changes for illegal immigrants" is a campaign slogan. That you are engaging with this topic at a slogan-level means you are not here to really here for curious inquiry. You sound like a election ad.
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by dralley on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:49AM (#42933924)
>And Kamala Harris was labeled far-left for campaigning on a Trump-lite platform on immigration and the economy that appealed to no one.

I am begging people on the left to stop slandering "we will enforce the law" as a right-wing position. It is not, shouldn't be, and the right doesn't deserve to get credit for it.

Kamala wasn't "Trump-lite" any more than AOC is "Stalin-lite". The differences between the two are fucking categorical.