• HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    These comments holy shit :brainworms:

    I’m a peace-loving antiwar old hippie gal (yeah, I like granola, ok?), but I see the need for a strong military (I’m from a total military family except for me, including half-bro/sis, mum, dad, cousins, grandparents on both sides).

    The MIC is also the best rationale for just tax policy in the US

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Sounds like complete bullshit this person tells themselves. An identity they've invented but don't actually have in any meaningful actual way.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Americans prefacing their bloodthirst is always funny to me. "Listen, I'm as leftist liberal as they come. I hug trees and I drive a Tesla. I was born with a birthmark shaped like Tom Perez. I eat extra vegan tofu. But we really gotta give cops more guns to defend American values."

      • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        “I’m as left as it gets” always precedes the most heinous rightwing shit spouted by a centrist lib

          • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            That, or they are so naive they really think nothing exists to the left of them (since communism is actually rightwing authoritarianism or whatever)

          • DJMSilver [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            overton window is bullshit. these people support imperialism full stop.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Can confirm, was raised by and grew up around them. Thankfully my parents weren't total shit although my mom is basically full blown Qanon brain now.

          • Nakoichi [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            At least they taught me all about the crimes of this horrible country. The new age vaguely left white person to Qanon pipeline is very real though.

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          My dad was a hippie in his youth and today he can best be described as a tradcath strasserite.

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      This person’s only rebellion was smoking weed and wearing a nirvana shirt during a Christmas party

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Nice example of how hippie aesthetics is just that, aesthetics. If you're really generous to them hippies are maybe less openly racist and homophobic than average but that's about it. Smoking weed and eating granola does not turn you into a friend of the proletariat.