• booly@sh.itjust.works
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      16 hours ago

      Seriously. The rhetorical shift:

      Study of American men’s self-reported political affiliation shows that “moderate” aligns pretty closely with “conservative.”

      Headline assigns “moderate” political affiliation to Joe Biden, to suggest that Joe Biden’s policies align closely with “conservative.”

      Biden campaigned on being the most progressive president in U.S. history. Did he deliver? Not on all metrics, but whatever it is he did, he wasn’t a secret conservative pretending to be moderate. The most you can accuse him of is being a moderate pretending to be progressive.

      • anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        12 hours ago

        Biden was a fundamentalist catholic who thought homosexuality was a sin and abortion was murder.

        Everything he did that could be considered progressive he did as a compromise to his own values - that’s what makes him a moderate.

        That’s exactly the type of person this article is talking about.

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          11 hours ago

          Eh I’ve spoken to Biden personally about gay rights, dude’s not bigoted and leans into the progressive catholic church. His wife being a physician doesn’t see abortion as murder I don’t think. His conservative tendencies are that he’s establishment - he thinks he’s still playing the same football game they’ve been playing since he was a kid. He’s neoliberal as hell as is the entire Democratic leadership, which turns people off.

          • ἀνάγκη@lemm.ee
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            9 hours ago

            His wife being a physician

            She isn’t though. She’s an Ed.D (her doctorate is in education) not an MD.

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            11 hours ago

            A catholic fundamentalist will only support marriage as a universal right when not supporting it becomes a liability, for the same reason catholicism and christianity writ large legitimized and supported the institutions of slavery and segregation for far longer than they were publicly popular for

            Biden, for all his notable progressive compromises, will drag his feet against doing anything insufficiently popular, no matter how unjust the alternative is.

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        14 hours ago

        “Men on dating apps who say they’re moderate are conservative”

        First, we knew that. Second, Biden is not on a dating app.

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          13 hours ago

          “I’m a liberal on health care because I believe it is a birth right of every human being—not just some damn privilege to be meted out to a few people. But when it comes to issues like abortion, amnesty, and acid, I’m about as liberal as your grandmother. I don’t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far. I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body. I support a limited amnesty, and I don’t think marijuana should be legalized.”