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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This thread doesn't seem so ba-

We can be liberals in the same way the National Socialists were socialists.

explosion hitler-detector

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They just admit it! fidel-wut

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

The Biden admin needs to launch a massive propaganda campaign against communism and fascism online. They are currently playing with their hands tied behind their backs. Spend half of their re-election budget on online trolls on twitter, reddit, tiktok to absolutely destroy anyone that pushes communism and fascism. Hit social media company owners who allow anti-western extremism to fester. Release hit pieces in the media not just against the white supremacy right, but also against the commie left. Make deals with CEOs and wallstreet to stamp out any of that shit from their corporate culture like they did with ESG. The GOP essentially kicked the corporate and military wings out of their party, use that to your fucking advantage. Hit college campuses too. Communism and fascism should be painted in the same light as racism and homophobia basically. Western Lives Matter should be the new BLM. I want to see protests where kids are burning the hammer and sickle flags along swastika flags. I want to see Greta fucking Thunberg wear a NATO shirt to the Met Gala. No tactic should be left off the table.

what the fuck is wrong with these people

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do they not realize that anticommunism is already hegemonic in the state and business spheres?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

This unhinged screed is basically just a caricature of what already exists right now

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

The CIA is just a myth. You need to chill

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They got dunked on by some twitter account with a stalin profile picture and 5 followers and now they're traumatized by communism

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Biden admin needs to launch a massive propaganda campaign against communism

Please, I can only see that going well for us.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Western Lives Matter should be the new BLM

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No tactic should be left off the table

Somethig tells me he doesn't actually want to see burning swastikas

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

Spend half of their re-election budget on online trolls on twitter, reddit, tiktok to absolutely destroy anyone that pushes communism and fascism

Oh my god this person is 14 years old, has to be. The idea that Reddit and Twitter reflect at all the voting populace is so detached from reality.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WTAF?!? No way a human wrote that bullshit. That has to be an LLM just stringing words together.

visible-disgust kombucha-disgust

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No please, do it. Expose more people to the idea that communism is a thing that a) exists and b) opposes the democratic party. Especially using those heavy handed tactics and the influence of the wealthy and powerful. Like, nothing give communism more credibility imo than a CEO opposing it.

I can't think of a better winning position.

These are people who are winning the 'ideology' war and are still upset about it because they can't gloat. Pathetic.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The Biden admin needs to launch a massive propaganda campaign against communism and fascism online. They are currently playing with their hands tied behind their backs. Spend half of their re-election budget on online trolls on twitter, reddit, tiktok to absolutely destroy anyone that pushes communism and fascism. Hit social media company owners who allow anti-western extremism to fester. Release hit pieces in the media not just against the white supremacy right, but also against the commie left.

Why would Democrats attack the far right?

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It sucks arguably the best and most effective president of my lifetime might lose reelection to a career criminal because he is 3 years older.

What planet are these people inhabiting - they're both career criminals for one, it's not the age it's the collapsing your economy supporting Ukraine and pretending COVID isn't happening that's the problem.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The economic claims all just reveal that these people are making over $100k and living in a bubble. Even people doing reasonably well are noticing shit just keeps getting worse.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Fr, ranting about how shit the economy is and everything becoming more expensive is a pretty common conversation piece. Really gives away how out of touch these idiots are.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a career criminal

I love it when liberals accidentally stumble close to the point and then miss it entirely

Yes Trump is a career criminal, but that's because he's a capitalist. These dorks think he's some evil mastermind criminal who's plotting the destruction of America or some shit. They're so close to getting it but then stumble right at the end.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

the best and most effective president of my lifetime

He sucks, they all suck, is this poster 12 years old

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

calling yourself a neoliberal is so fuckin funny honestly. i think it's underrated how it just wasn't a self-identification until these redditors read a few wikipedia articles and said "hm, liberalism sounds cool, but what's all this stuff about the welfare state and the public good? no thank you, i just like rooting for institutional power."

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

Oooooo that's the stuff that made Stalin put you in a blender

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The better he does, the more voters hate him.

“Could it possibly be that our chosen candidate is failing to deliver adequately to voters? No, they must be dumb-dumb heads living in opposite land.”

[Biden] Cons: protectionism, but it’s not like we have much of a choice.

It’s okay when Team Blue does it!

I’m honestly at a loss for what people want out of Biden

The six hundred bucks he owes me? A strategy for getting control of the courts that doesn’t involve waiting thirty years for the ghouls currently on it to die? Considering Palestinians to be human beings? Forcing the rail owners to eat the union’s demands instead of the other way around?

China and Russia overextended and on their back foot

projection

Has defeated COVID

Yes, that’s right, no one is catching COVID anymore!

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

China and Russia overextended and on their back foot

This one is especially unhinged. Like, okay, Russia I could buy. But CHINA?! They're just going from win to win.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're on the "China real estate collapse" run again.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago

Social media completely changed the way opinions disseminate. It would take a miracle to see any President above 50% again. Trump social media machine was very, very effective, a lot better than Biden's, and he was only 0.7% above.

"widespread dissatisfaction with power has nothing to do with any actual decline in the political system's ability to respond to the public's needs and everything to do with mass media technologies. nothing can fundamentally change, all we can do is better manage perceptions."

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m honestly at a loss for what people want out of Biden 🤷🏻‍♀️ Alternatively I don’t know who people want instead. Wouldn’t this mythical candidate have won the primary and presidency in 2020 if they existed?

the fact you need to ask this is why you're losing. how do you smugly call yourselves smart analytical adults in the room and you can't even read the room?

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Okay, seeing that guy with John Brown flair comment "I don't know what more people could want from Biden" made me an accelerationist

God damn that subreddit is a hellhole

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hate voters

I thought these were supposed to be the "democracy over all" dorks

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lol no, they're out-and-proud technocrats. They're self-described anti-populists who think the unwashed masses are too stupid to know what's good for them and need to be ruled by their betters (read: people whose parents had the money and connections to get them into Ivy League schools)

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

"Democracy" is the bludgeon they use to beat the masses into submission when they need to clear room for bourgeois interests.

Whenever democracy is put into practice, they'll bend over backwards to call it any other name like "mob rule," "cult of personality," or "authoritarianism"

Notice how Ukraine went from "corrupt kleptocracy" to "European democracy" when it was necessary to whip up support for US interests in the region.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is one of the funniest things about their ideology. Democracy is supposedly one of the pillars of neoliberalism, but voters absolutely hate neoliberals and will only vote for them to keep a worse option out of power (see Macron and Trudeau for example)

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They love elections so long as nothing of importance or value is allowed to be on the ballot

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Me, a suburban former Republican supporting him even harder

"I'm doing my part!"

thinking-about-it

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I bless you all with this comment:

Pros: Best foreign policy president of my lifetime. Best jobs president of my lifetime. Most progressive president since FDR. Understands humanity and the plight of both Israelis and Palestinians. Gets high marks on the economy from anybody with a tiny bit of macroeconomic literacy.

Cons: three years older than opponent.

Result: Clap, you stupid bastards.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Much as I hate chuds, there's something about the smug, pretentious, condescending, obnoxious tone and content that these bourgeois liberals all seem to have that makes me understand why a bunch of white working class people just get driven into the arms of cultural nationalists like the Republicans who refuse to abide by the same absurd language and standards. Like my instinctive repulsion and contempt is stronger in a way when I see a pretentious lib talk than a ridiculous Republican. The latter I still fear and would like to see merked in minecraft, but there's something more especially intuitively infuriating about liberals.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They take so long to say nothing, and they take such pride in it. They talk like they're about to blow your mind, but then 5 confusing and aggravating minutes later you realize that you're just hearing a baroque retelling of the same two cows, civic religion horseshit we were all taught as children, and you kind of get mad at yourself for thinking that maybe this time they would have something insightful to say.

Everything they say feels masturbatory, thats's the word I wanted

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES

agony-4horsemen

SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

4.9% annualized GDP growth as other developed nations stagnate, inflation under control to the most reasonable possible level given the stimulus and 2 wars

Line go up. The more up the line go, the gooder the president.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All talking about how Biden is bad at PR. If only team Biden was better at making TikToks, the world would be a happy place!

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

We're like one presidential campaign away from libs saying "Voting isn't enough. Take direct action- you need to make posts on social media too"

Edit: To clarify I meant the campaign itself saying this

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pros: Best foreign policy president of my lifetime. Best jobs president of my lifetime. Most progressive president since FDR. Understands humanity and the plight of both Israelis and Palestinians. Gets high marks on the economy from anybody with a tiny bit of macroeconomic literacy.

Cons: three years older than opponent.

Result: Clap, you stupid bastards.

Jesus fuck are these real people?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most progressive president since FDR

sus-torment

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It sucks arguably the best and most effective president of my lifetime might lose reelection to a career criminal because he is 3 years older.

70k votes and we could have skipped COVID

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

when the Quinnipiac poll came out showing Biden at 25% favorability with voters under 35, I saw so many excuses from liberals:

  • young people are ageist
  • young people believe whatever they see on Tiktok
  • young people have a hard time discerning nuance (no really someone literally said this 😂)

and a few days ago I saw a post from George Takei like, "young people need to learn that sometimes we vote for someone even if we don't like everything about them" as if he were telling a toddler to eat their peas. why are they so condescending?? and anyway, I did vote for Biden without liking everything about him, but now his issues have become too serious for me to turn a blind eye anymore

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not me casually stealing your comments and replying with them on the posts you're quoting while disabling replies on reddit so they can scream at a brick wall about jerking off to line graphs or whatever it is they do there <3

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