https://twitter.com/ashleylynch/status/1349107017152020480

Just for fun, listen to the clip and guess if Matt makes the case for fascism in it.

For extra fun, read the replies

  • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    There was always going to be an identify crisis on the left when fascism was removed from power and there was no longer an agreed upon mutual target of disgust. to channel people's outrage.

    ???

    If fascism was removed from power, then what's the threat here? If fascism can be removed by VOOOOTing then how powerful is it? If Joe Biden can defeat fascism, how scary is it? Why is someone in BC caring so much what happened in the US? Did they storm Canada's capitol too?

    There absolutely are grifters on the left and they're all offering paywalled content of them taking performative potshots at AOC for being a class traitor because they know outrage makes money.

    Yeah the guy you're whining about not being outraged enough is trying to make everyone outraged so he can make money.

    Also a reminder that every one of these motherfuckers got filthy rich peddling this shit.

    Says the comfy editor/writer/director/color grader living in Vancouver

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think it's simpler than that. Donut emoji twitter is obsessed with this idea that the left is just a bunch of online bullies. We don't have legitimate concerns or problems with libs in power. We're just bullies who need to have a target - any target - to attack....

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

        They'll never think of us as anything more than yelling, misogynistic Bernie Bros. Common trash who are too stupid to understand the fine nuances of politics. Idiots who either need to be educated or punished.

        • star_wraith [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          They have to think of us that way. We have to be bad people, otherwise they have to confront the fact that maybe the policies they support don't make them the "good" people. And since they can't attack our ideas as being bad, they have to come up with "oh the left is a bunch of mean bullies!" to make it all work in their heads.

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Hot take: The reasons people mentioned are just minor grievances. The real issue is that the Chapos don't like Hamilton or the West Wing.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I mean doesn't the chuds storming the capitol prove you can't vote out fascism? Surely the libs can see that? Yes Trump may be gone in just over a week's time, but these Q anon 12 Chan fascists are still there, radicalised and waiting for the next ghoul to lead them. They'll be unsuccessful larpers until the moment they're not and actually do something like kill a politician they don't like. Yes it was funny as fuck seeing these chuds in the capitol building, but they ripped out the panic buttons of Ayanna Pressley before storming the capitol, so there's a lot everyone doesn't know yet. Also Biden is basically fascism lite in many ways. Both the lib analysis of "Back to normal ™️" and the podcast underplaying the capitol storming are flawed, though the lib analysis is much more flawed.