"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).

  • Amorphous [any]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Defund the police is not a slogan, it's a demand. And a mild one at that. I'd rather be shouting "abolish the police."

    I think a lot about this tweet. Cops should be desperate to be defunded.

    • FarSeerFirelord [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      This. Do people somehow believe it's a campaign slogan to get the democrats of all people elected? Wait, what am I saying? This is burgerland, of course the point was going to be missed, whether deliberate or not.

      • TossedAccount [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Liberals don't understand the actual point of political demands or what a principled political program full of such demands might look like. They only know of policy proposals and political slogans, cobbled together into an unprincipled cafeteria-politics platform. Armchair online libs are like chuds in the sense that they believe paid PMC think-tank groups like MoveOn are the only ones workshopping/brainstorming demands like M4A, GND, defund/abolish the police, etc., and that the demands aren't coming from spontaneous people's movements and smaller grassroots and socialist organizations. These are the same sorts of people who think AOC and Bernie invented the Green New Deal platform, have no conception of "the left" outside of what's within the co-opting reach of the Democratic Party, and believe the only left-wing opponents of the Democrats are either Russian bots, crypto-Dengist PRC shills, chapo shitposters, or useful idiots of these other groups.