"Global Warming"? Well I've experienced cold winters, THEREFORE CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX.

"Patriot Act"? Well I don't care for the encroaching security state, THEREFORE I MUST BE AN ENEMY OF THE STATE.

"Never forget"? Oh shit, slipped my mind, I GUESS 9/11 NEVER HAPPENED.

"1%"? Well gosh, I know a medical technician who earns $350K/year, but they're still paying off student loans, THEREFORE THE WAGE GAP IS A MYTH.

"Believe all women"? Buddy, I have an ex who used to lie and cheat on me, THEREFORE WE SHOULD ACQUIT HARVEY WEINSTEIN.

These assclowns are total fucklords. Guarantee if you ask them to break down any of these slogans down they could do it in exquisite detail. The truth is they just disagree but lack the conviction to say so and want to lecture you instead.

(I'm always thinking back to Matt Christman's dichotomy of "don't be an ahole vs. don't be a p*y" that perfectly encapsulates today's libs/cons).

  • ShoutyMcSocialism [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Were you just lurking Stupidpol? This was just a thing there. About about how "defund the police" is a stupid slogan.

    • goldsound [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Or Twitter, cause I think O*ama said something about it.

    • Ketamine_device_tech [none/use name]
      4·
      4 years ago

      As always, social democracy is objectively fascist

      https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/k4z84d/rstupidpol_you_lose_people_with_snappy_slogans/

      CitizenGymSocial Democrat | Perfect Market Idealist [score hidden] 5 hours ago

      The slogans are successful because they're divisive.

      Conflict drives engagement on facebook & twitter. So the newsfeed algorithms promote divisive slogans in order to sell adverts.

      If the slogan had been "Black Lives Matter Too" or "All Lives Matter!" then it wouldn't have seen half the coverage it did.

      awful_neutralSocial Democrat [score hidden] 8 hours ago

      Activists are never going to stop coming up with slogans like this because the whole point of them is to filter out the "undesirables" and signal how much more radical and virtuous you are than everyone else. If normal people hear your slogan and don't immediately get offended or question it in some way, it's not provocative enough, and if eventually they get used to it and start using it anyway, it's been "co-opted" and it's time to move on to something else.

      The people who come up with this stuff either don't actually care about winning or are so far removed from the public that they don't understand that they aren't.

      enby_stranglerLeft Pragmatist [score hidden] 7 hours ago

      I like the slogan "Re-fund the police." Sets you up in contrast to these guys, sounds good to pro-police voters, and stands for a good policy goal (shift police funding towards better training and recruitment and away from the war on drugs and petty offenses).

      • anonymous_ascendent [none/use name]
        2·
        4 years ago

        Why are you downvoting this user? They’re right.

        Stupidpol social democrats are fascists. Social fascism has been around for a hundred years, since the chauvinists destroyed the Socialist International to back their nation’s imperialist wars.