The "Trump can be pure evil but Kamala has to be perfect all the time" talking point I've seen on the libverse is fucking batshit
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Agreed. There's no interpretation that doesn't suggest a worldview completely removed from reality except naked bad faith.
But the simplest explanation, if they're saying it in good faith, is they don't think genocidal extermination is a disqualifying "flaw" and are annoyed that people are holding it against Harris.
How did we go from 0 delegates, Neera Tanden, and mocking the Khive to this ghoul being crowned and annointed? Chomsky may be the world's most correct man.
Agreed. There's no interpretation that doesn't suggest a worldview completely removed from reality except naked bad faith.
This may or may not represent bad faith on their part but I think I can understand a worldview that makes it make sense. It's an extremely undergraduate academia worldview where you're given the grading rubric for an essay before you write it. Kamala has a paragraph on her website about [insert issue] that means she should get full points for it. Very much along the lines of "liberal box checking" being a thing I may or may not have mentioned out loud in previous situations.
I can... uhh... "understand" isn't the right word but I've seen Dems behave like that many times. Their candidate says something preposterous and libs treat it like it has already been accomplished while ignoring that the dem in question created the problem in the first place and zealously defended the problem right up until they started running.
Can you talk more about liberal box checking?
The only thing I recall was an example sentence that was just "what what what what what what"
I've heard his contributions to Linguistics have mostly been set aside as the science has developed furth and further. I was referencing "manufacturing consent", which I admittedly haven't read through, but the "manufactured consent" concept is so useful to understanding how these things are done.
Lemmy dot world users are now saying anyone who doesn't want to support a genocide denier "hates America" which, well, yeah
I hate America
Death to America, of course.
Just further proof that the democrats are tired of being held to a standard of decency and are openly envious of the Republicans and their orgy of cruelty
I think they absorbed a lot of republican voters who were embarrassed by Trump in his term. Possibly only in the pundit/donor/political sphere & not really enough to do anything but vindicate all of their worst decisions and inclinations
I think the 2020 election was the conservative wing of the party's backlash against the progressive wing. From the concerted effort to derail Bernie and Biden's nomination largely on the votes of red state democrats (irregularities aside), and the progressive messaging notwithstanding, Biden's win was the old guard asserting dominance. They knew they'd face Trump again and were planning to capitalize on all the space to their right flank from the beginning. The fact that that's created conditions for NeverTrumpers and Hillary campaign dead-enders to thrive is probably more a consequence than a driver imho.
San Francisco liberals want classier Trump.
I unironically fear that the conservative rebrand from dopey, overweight oil tycoons and shit to “sexier” tech CEOs and the know it alls is going to be the lynchpin needed for a good amount of democrats to jump ship.
How many American liberals that if you put them in a “sexier” culture like France would flock to the National Front party?
kamala has to be perfect all the time which is why she's perfectly pro genocide
So much more ghoulish when that is the exact line used to both sides the palestinian genocide. The "perfect victim" or "spotless resistance" is a common tactic used to silence BY THE KIND OF PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT HARRIS! The gall that they would turn it around to cudgel those speak against her...
Having standards is what prevents the election from being reduced to Trump vs Blue Trump. Demonizing the concept of having standards ensures that Trump's policies will win no matter what
We should allow her to do a little genocide, as a treat.
blueMAGA brain. just swapped HUNTER'S LAPTOP out for STOLE NUCLEAR SECRETS
https://lemmy.ml/post/21850844/14586738
I've said some incredibly cruel, bad faith things in political discussions but I'm struggling to recall ever telling someone asking for an end to a genocide that they were a foreign spy trying to sabotage the ascension of the god-queen.
Like this is just the face of evil. And after literal decades of throwing "Soviet genocides" in our face as evidence we're iredeemable monsters. And they just never cared at all. Every accusation is a confession. They made up Soviet and Chinese genocides because they thought it levelled the field and would rob us of moral high ground. They never thought genocide was bad or cared about their imaginary victims.
Wow, the comments on that are getting even worse since you commented.
One of them linked unironically right back to the OP without a trace of critical thinking about what that top-level comment on OP was saying.
Another one did a double genocide theory style "Which of the 4 ongoing genocides would that be then?"
I think we can all agree there are NOT four distinct events going on that deserve the label of genocide alongside the Holocaust and Rwandan genocide.
Claiming otherwise diminishes the Holocaust. Shouldn't we be able to call that antisemitic?The server returned this error:
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Owned.