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People complaining about purity testing on the left and the test is whether they would vote for former abu ghraib guards with SS skull tattoos
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This feels like such a double edged sword living in the US where Israel-supporting police-loving rich capitalists are widely labeled as the radical left if they dare to suggest that people should get healthcare or maybe we shouldn't spend trillions blowing up brown people on the other side of the globe.
You know, the land of fucking geniuses where the batshit crazy pedo Nazi choice won the popular vote in 2024 against the Israel-supporting actual-cop capitalist who is right-wing to most of the rest of the world.
I'm not even sure what my point is here, maybe just expressing frustration. The overton window here is so far to the right, and people so passively absorb propaganda every day, that it feels like the entire spectrum of people from leftists to liberals need to form a coalition to at least slow & reverse the movement to the right, even if their end goals are all very different.
What it feels like is that the Republican party was actually supposed to be the controlled opposition to scare people into being comfortable voting for liberals, but then the propaganda worked too well and the mustache twirling evil caricatures got to be in charge instead. At this point I can only hope the level of ridiculousness knocks some sense into more people.
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c/politicalmemes in a nutshell
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ML's, trots, anarchists.... sure that's infighting.
Anyone who thinks libs qualify as 'leftist' is misguided.
"educating a liberal" and it's just an ML harassing another leftist for having the wrong opinion on China.
Liberals do tend to have more capacity for self-doubt and questioning their own ideology and that of their colleagues. Politically this becomes a weakness compared to conservatives, who tend more to be pragmatic team players willing to ignore even large imperfections in each other to achieve a common goal.
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It’s possibly the only thing that the leftists and the conservatives have in common.
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Liberals cosplaying as leftist is more dangerous to the left than any fascist.
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That's what big media and bots will push to legitimize whatever bs crocodile tears propaganda is needed to control the masses
Ah, see the trick is to just call the person a liberal, regardless of how many progressive ideals and policies you agree on.
Boom, now you can ridicule and ignore them!
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It doesn't really count when you just call the person you're fighting with a liberal because they don't agree with you on absolutely everything.
Tbf democratic socialists and "tankies" fight heavily.
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