• VHS [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Libs gotta learn that reflexively taking the opposite position of chuds will only be correct about 95% of the time. The other 5% is why Theory was invented

    • Quizzes [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      It's a pretty easy ideology 95% of the time. You just find out what they're doing and immediately contradict it. I can see why it's popular.

      • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah good point. Starting to realize liberalism as a set of beliefs is just a barely-connected series of talking points and word-games placed in all the right conversations and institutions like pinball buffers, designed to keep you bouncing around a mental maze instead of just noticing the obvious truth in your payslips. They can only keep it so freakishly clean looking because theres billions of dollars and dozens of think tanks behind it frantically laying tracks ahead of themselves like Bugs Bunny

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I mean, isn't this what chuds do as well? Is it even ideology at that point, as opposed to just team sports?

        • Quizzes [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          They have a lot more "for" than "against". Being for country, for their own kind, for families, etc. Meanwhile when 5% of what you do is not knee-jerk contradicting the other side...

          • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            In terms of their ideals sure, but I think it breaks down a bit when you ask how those ideals guide the policies they support. Something like how liberals might believe in freedom, equality, integrity, international cooperation (extreme euphemism), etc. but in practice they just accept what their ideological leaders tell them and react to what their enemies do.

  • MaoZedongOfficial [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Everyone except us.

    Correct 🥳 I have argued with both of these people and they're subtly stupid relative to what their jobs are

    • hes_fired [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Apartheid Clyde just really, really likes fascism but can't say it out loud to everyone

  • mittens [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    why are they tripping over their own legs with this one. Parenti already solved this connundrum of state media sometimes reporting the truth. Turns out they will occassionally report the truth! Wow

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    "Left" libs are exactly who I would expect to defend Bellingcat

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Bellingcat is irrelevant. I don't need CIA funded OSINT goons to tell me the guy covered in swastika tattoos is a fucking Nazi. I have fucking eyes.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      i'm starting to think we're some of the only folks relatively outside the online assylum. you know, for non-grass touchers.

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      2 months ago

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  • Fuckass
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    1 year ago

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  • Abraxiel
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    2 years ago

    I'm so fucking tired of people condensing shit that started a controversy into a vague, half-generalized description.