I some times think about it and how shitty people are

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    It’s a pretty common tactic by people pushing an agenda to interview an idiot with certain views and then present it as if everyone with those views are just as dumb. It’s common on conservative outlets but I also don’t like it when people do interviews at Trump rallies and find the biggest idiot to put in front of the camera. It’s disingenuous to do that.

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      6 months ago

      The thing about trump rallies is you’d have to look really hard to find someone with a full set of functioning brain cells.

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    6 months ago

    To be fair, a lot of the content on that antiwork sub was basically “communism is when we don’t have to work.” The whole thing reeked of propaganda intended to make the left look stupid.

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      Why is it that everytime someone on the left does something stupid online, it’s automatically propaganda? Why can’t it just be the case that there are a lot of politically and generally uneducated people that are part of the movement, which is consistent with every populist movement for all time? This has to be reckoned with and mitigated if the left ever wants to actually hold power and do something with it.

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        It’s funny you should ask. I use this language specifically because when I say that leftist communities are filled with cringe populism and bad political science, I get banned from .ml pretty reliably. Calling it out as propaganda seems to play better most of the time.

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          5 months ago

          If you’re gonna chat shit at least cop to what you get banned ‘pretty reliably’ for. I don’t know a single ‘leftist’ who unironically uses the term “degenerate”, fash-ass.

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      6 months ago

      Agreed. The group make itself look bad. The mod is what everyone was expecting and didn’t disappoint in the interview. I haven’t laughed that hard in years.