I was listening to a podcast the other day featuring two hard-left Americans in their late 30s. I won’t name names

The author claims that leftist podcasters are apathetic to social issues. After reading, I'm pretty sure that the only millennial podcaster this dipshit watched was Tim Pool.

Just as some boomers felt their progressive views on civil rights and feminism justified indifference — or hostility — to the gay rights movement that came later, aging millennials who feel they’ve proved themselves supportive of gay rights may find prissy and frivolous the younger generation’s insistence on things such as pronoun introductions and perfectly race- and gender-balanced workplaces.

Wut?

However, a shared loathing of the liberal establishment is probably the right’s most convincing case for leftist conversion.

If you hate libs, it means you are dumb and susceptible to right wing brain washing.

Fueled in part by anti-liberal animus, Sanders-to-Trump voters were a well-documented phenomenon that helped Republicans retake the White House in 2016.

There it is. Preemptively laying the blame for November's mid term losses on millennial leftists because they are *checks notes* apathetic.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah. Sanders voters came out for Hillary in large numbers. The whole narrative around why Hillary lost is cope and lies.

      • CTHlurker [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Also, like the libs were saying for the first 2 years after the election, Hillary won the fucking popular vote by 3 million people. So i don't know why they keep harping on and on about Sander's voters not doing enough.

    • GenXen [any, any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      More Hillary supporters voted for John McCain in '08 than Bernie supporters that switched to Trump in 2016.

      I'm sure the Hillary supporters who switched didn't like Obama on purely policy related grounds, and no other reason factored in their decision too.

      :liberalism:

      • StuporTrooper [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        What exactly would that accomplish? Why be anti-electoralist with time and resources when you could be proactively building dual power instead?

          • StuporTrooper [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Well conisdering Republcians openly base their platform on restricting people from voting I think it would be kosher. IIRC American Legislative Exchange Council was for a while openly saying that "when fewer people vote, we win more." But as always in Amerikkka, rules for thee and not for me.

            • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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              3 years ago

              "Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome — good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

              -Paul Weyrich, 1980

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBAsFwPglw

  • mittens [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Sanders-to-Trump voters were a well-documented phenomenon

    I can't stress "no it wasn't" enough.

    JJ McCullough

    I have this guy pinned as a Canadian chauvinist lol but don't ask me why, he's also a globe emoji hiding among the "lefty" crowd.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Hillary shill: "The problem with Bernie is he'll never be able to pull over any center and center right voters!"

        Center-right voter: "Actually I'd vote for Bernie, he seems like a nice man and he wants to give me more medicare"

        Hillary shill: "LOOK AT THIS FUCKING BERNIE BRO GOING STRAAAAAAAAAAIGHT TO TRUMP"

        • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, see, Bernie cant get those center right votes but Biden ran on "if I get elected the republicans will come to their senses"

    • eXAt [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      JJ McCullough is a young Canadian conservative that makes shitty youtube videos "explaining" Canadian politics

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    aging millennials who feel they’ve proved themselves supportive of gay rights may find prissy and frivolous the younger generation’s insistence on things such as pronoun introductions and perfectly race- and gender-balanced workplaces.

    The place where I work is lib as heck and everyone's fine with putting their pronouns on their nametags etc. It's not a big deal; people just do it. I don't know how the pronoun gestapo narrative has taken off but I guess I shouldn't be surprised given the increasingly ridiculousness of the right-wing propaganda factories.

    Fueled in part by anti-liberal animus, Sanders-to-Trump voters were a well-documented phenomenon that helped Republicans retake the White House in 2016.

    Yes, the three of them did technically "help" the Republicans.

    • justjoshint [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      don’t know how the pronoun gestapo narrative has taken off

      jordan b peterson surely a big part of it

      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Oh shoot, yeah, I forgot about that time everyone thought Canada passed a bill allowing trans people to legally exsanguinate you if you misgendered them.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      The place where I work is lib as heck and everyone’s fine with putting their pronouns on their nametags etc.

      Yeah, it's become pretty normal to have your pronouns in your email sign-off. At first I thought it was just a university thing, but I'm seeing it at the company I'm at and other companies we work for. These guys can cry, shout, and shit themselves all they want, "the pronoun stuff" isn't going away.

    • GundamZZ [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The writer's a gay conservative if it isn't obvious, by the way. They have to draw the line at gayness out of self-interest.

  • D61 [any]
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    3 years ago

    ...I won’t name names...

    :seen-this-one:

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    The author wants that to happen, and since liberals subscribe religiously to the Law of attraction concept that's why he wrote this shit-piece spits

  • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Fueled in part by anti-liberal animus, Sanders-to-Trump voters were a well-documented phenomenon that helped Republicans retake the White House in 2016.

    sanders voters shouldnt have bothered going for hillary in big numbers, and tbh they shouldnt have voted for Biden either. Youre gonna get blamed for everything anyways.

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to tell every campaign volunteer I hear from that the democrats have demonstrated the futility of voting and I won't be doing it any longer

    :party-sicko:

  • CrimsonSage [any]
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    3 years ago

    I couldn't finish it, too mush stupidity and historical ignorance. I have always said, and will continue to say, that the existence of the NYT and WaPo editorial and opinion staff is the single biggest piece of material evidence disproving meritocracy. You will find no finer collection of dunces and morons than among their number paid huge sums of money and given a massively oversized share of social power.

  • StuporTrooper [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Simple manufacturing consent ahead of the inevitable loss in November.

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      3 years ago

      They have a paid nurse on hand to keep them from drowning while standing in the shower every morning.

  • MerryChristmas [any]
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    3 years ago

    Damn, and they could stop all of this by making reasonable policy changes that benefit young people and the working class? Wild.

  • YuriMihalkov [comrade/them,any]
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    3 years ago

    Another article from this dude:

    "Any scenario in which the United States becomes a “right-wing dictatorship” will almost certainly be followed by Canada becoming a left-wing dictatorship in response."

    lmao :doomjak: