• @amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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    014 days ago

    I suppose it could sometimes appear to liberals that some marxist-leninist types are being less abrasive toward republican administrations, if only because there isn’t the same need to write long essays trying to explain to liberals how the republican admin is bad. Like if they’re looking at it from a very narrow, simplistic interpretation of surface talking and ignoring ideology, I could maybe see where a liberal would arrive at this.

    For example, I have probably so far been less viscerally, in detail opposed (in words) to Trump 2 than I was to Biden, but not only are we only a few months in, often it’s like, what is there to say? Liberals already tend to think Trump is Satan/Hitler, but many were or still are in denial about the nature of Biden or Harris and that denial is one place where false comparisons of “slightly vs. very” corrupt can come from. As long as a liberal refuses to admit how similar the two camps are, I suppose it’s going to be hard for them to understand the level of attention some pay to criticizing the democrats.

    But also, if they were really paying attention, they’d know that most of what MLs talk about has jack-all to do with the US political party fighting because 1) the US is not the center of the universe, contrary to how it acts and 2) neither of those corporate stooge parties is going to be liberating people any time this century, short of a forceful takeover (one that many liberals would no doubt accuse of being evil tankie behavior because it uses force, while continuing to say that no one is fixing “corruption”).

    • commiespammer
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      014 days ago

      the US is not the center of the universe

      I’ve seen libs say that leftism is a republican psyop to draw votes away from the democratic party unironically. As if the entire history of socialism globally didn’t exist except in the context of their stupid popularity contest.

  • @Magicicad@lemmygrad.ml
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    14 days ago

    Are these people babies? Do they have object permanence? Under whose administration were student protestors black bagged, trans rights taken away, and fuckin Roe v Wade overturned? I can’t take them seriously.

    • USSR Enjoyer
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      014 days ago

      It’s really the same for all camps of party loyalists: all the alienation and cognitive dissonance caused by their own mandates are forgotten or actively purged from the collective consciousness in order to assert the presumption of moral and ideological superiority. To be fair, however, it’s very difficult to reflect on these contradictions when everyone is blowing dogwhistles in your face all day long.

    • @Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml
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      014 days ago

      No, to them it’s not a big deal. They just literally don’t care. To them having bad optics is worse than committing genocide

  • @big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml
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    015 days ago

    yeah, the genocide and the slava ukraini was kinda bad, but democrat corruption? we have a limit in what to resist