This post doesn’t establish any context so I’m clueless what it’s referring to. Anyone care to fill me in?
While I’m sure the type of person being described here DOES exist, I have yet to see it. Any time an professional poster has a vague, say-nothing rant like this, I assume they came across it once and wanted to make a screenshotshottable tweet to advertise their blog.
There is nothing of value here, no one is learning anything from a post like this. It says nothing beyond “this very niche opinion is a contradiction” and exists to get us angry at a strawman - and to let us know about the poster’s blog. Easily my least favorite type of political commentary.
It’s just another ragebait post for ragebaits sake.
You definitely seem right that it’s more about getting attention for themselves, but I thought maybe the two women had some specific feud going lately, which I missed.
It’s a trading card game
Can’t tell if joke. I don’t think this post is about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez vs Magic the Gathering.
You can’t tell me what my spirit tells me isn’t true
can you
I’m out of the loop, what’s this even about?
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MTG is a card game, right? What happened with MTG which led for it to be something to avoid. That’s what I’m out of the loop about. I don’t see what is controversial about MTG right now.
@[email protected] How about actually explaining to me what happened because I already said I’m out of the loop.
MTG is Marjorie Taylor Greene
Thank you, that makes more sense.
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Or maybe, you know, you should’ve just listened to me when I said I don’t understand what’s being talked about. That’s what it means to be out of the loop asshole.
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Wat ._.
Any leftist who thinks AOC is a leftist is just a liberal cosplaying as a leftist.
Anyone who gatekeeps leftism so hard may as well switch sides
TrickDacy is the poster child for shitlibs.
No one gives a flying fuck about your fake leftist bullshit. Tagged you “agitator” long ago for a good reason
“All those anarchists who actually are left are fake, only my capitalist liberalism is the only left”
Okay shitlib, go vote for some genocide you “leftist”
“It’s the liberals who are the real leftists”, lmao
Liberalism is now the only true left, anything saying otherwise is gatekeeping
Liberalism isn’t on the left right spectrum at all. It has some leftist principles, but it has capitalist principles. Also, the Democratic leadership and at least 3/4 of national Democrats aren’t even liberal. No liberal could stomach the Democratic primary circus, or sign off on mass surveillance or genocide. The Democratic establishment is neoliberal, which is to say that they are anarcho-capitalist with a liberal facade.
None of this describes AOC, but it’s true that AOC has been partially assimilated to establishment politics and is way too interested in having a comfortable relationship with the establishment Democrats.
We’re not gatekeeping leftism, liberal… we are defending it from it’s vilest enemy - you.
Couldn’t find a way to prove me any righter than that huh? I mean, it’s impressive.
Couldn’t find a way to prove me any righter
Correct, liberal. You are, indeed, right. No less right-wing than any fascist, in fact.
So do tell, liberal… what did you do for your oligarchy today?
Insulting people wont make them move further to the left. It does the exact opposite.
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Theres a term for that. It is called Black Propaganda.
This user has never moved an inch to the left in their years of being on Lemmy. Might as well abuse them until they leave leftist spaces at this point.
Based honestly, I’m down for making users who defend the actions of Vote Blue Genocide No Matter Who get off from here.
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Liberals cannot be “moved” left - all you’re going to end up with is a liberal that is now better equipped to cosplay as “leftist” while they de-radicalise the left and rob it of any relevance.
You don’t have to believe me - there is nothing new about this.
“The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro’s friend and benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or tool in this political “football game” that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives.” - Malcolm X
Simply exchange the term “Negro” for leftist, and you expose the manner in which the liberal has been undermining and sabotaging the left even before liberals took hands with their fascist spawn to crush the Sparticist Uprising in 1919.
So do tell, liberal… what did you do for your oligarchy today?
They went into a leftist community, started a fight, said liberalism is on the left and the only left, and when proven wrong said it was gatekeeping.
Liberals are the colonists of the fediverse. They spread the propaganda the rich fed them, then say anyone who doesn’t believe it is paid for. Like their mind was paid for.
Liberals are the colonists
Well… it is what they’re good at, after all.
No one did or said any of that. You are so hateful one would have to question how you could possibly embrace any social policy that would help other human beings.
Oh no, I’m so evil by not supporting people defending genocide, woes me. I wouldn’t defend the neoliberals, I’m just as bad as the people commiting social murder!
Get on your real account and tell me that. 6 months of nothing until Tracy gets banned? Lol.
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sorry about that guy.
Thanks. I ought to be used to it by now. It’s so common here. I’ve probably blocked 20 people for acting like this. And I try to avoid blocking anyone who acts even somewhat sane.
They are so out of touch with reality. It’s just insane to be so enraged at something like 99.999% of humans for not agreeing with their exact beliefs. It’s not good enough to believe in human rights, universal healthcare, that capitalism is toxic, etc. If you say one thing against them, you are a “liberal” which means a million different things but in a context like this I can only imagine it meaning “anything >.1% to what I consider my right”.
also a “liberal” as if that carries any meaning whatsoever.
Dangle that slender thread of hope, liberal - the days where your fundamentally oligarchic ideology was simply hidden away as normality has been crumbling away for a while now.
The left has allowed right-wing ideologues to monopolise liberal-hatred - there’s no need to discuss the irony of it all, since we don’t have all day - but that’s something that can be fixed.
After all, the Palestinians made a gigantic hole in one of liberalism’s holiest of cows - Zionism - back in 2023 and by doing so showed just how fragile liberal ideology truly is.
Perhaps we should start making some holes of our own, yes?
You have no idea what I believe and you never will know, fake tankie. And I won’t need to hear your pathetic whining again after now 🚫
