• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Anyone who isn’t actively killing minorities while yelling racial slurs is now a leftist commie autist.

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Right Wing defines “Left” as anyone with the least bit of empathy and/or basic intelligence.

        Real “Leftists” exclude any potential ally who disagrees on any point, no matter how obscure.

          • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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            2 months ago

            Schrödinger’s Liberal. All powerful when it comes to stopping the Revolution; utterly powerless to stop fascism

            • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
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              2 months ago

              What legitimate personal interest do establishment democrats have in stopping fascism?

              • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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                2 months ago

                Yes, AOC, Bernie and Omar are just salivating to have concentration camps open.

                All have run as Democrats in elections.

                • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
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                  2 months ago

                  Lol. I’m talking about the party as a whole. The ones you speak of that use their power to put down revolution and progressive candidates like Bernie alike, but appear “powerless” to do anything else like “stop fascism”. What interest does that party have in stopping fascism?

                  See, it’s not a dynamic where they are all-powerful in one aspect and powerless in another. It’s that their interests are very heavily weighted to the first aspect, and that informs their behavior.

                  So tell me, why should they care? Why should they go out of their way? They won’t be the ones directly affected and in fact it’s a great campaign tool if their opponent is openly fascist. Not to mention the money being made off of it. If they get accused of allowing fascism to take root they can just say they were powerless to stop it, and you fuckers will believe them. Tell me how this isn’t a net positive for anybody, without an identity that lands them or their loved ones directly in the crosshairs (i.e. the vast majority), that has a ruling class position in society?

            • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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              2 months ago

              Liberals aren’t stopping the revolution or fascism. Liberals generally just support the status quo, with tweaks or not. Fascism and liberalism are both based on the same underlying base, when a liberal society finds itself in decay and dire circumatances, it often becomes fascist.

  • applemao@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I know someone who always has to say More like rage FOR the machine amiright? They went WOKE!! I just facepalm hard.

  • Crikeste@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Imagine looking for musicians while stating in your ad “I plan on writing songs… “

    You make the songs, then you look for people to play them.

    • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      He doesnt actually know how to write songs, but in his head he “knows” hes the main character, so he thinks hes gonna get a group of musicians together, start playing some shitty chord, and everything will just fall into place and the bassist and drummer will stsrt playing along with some brilliant ideas of their own that he can take all the credit for because he’s the frontman and he started the band.

    • Bunbury@feddit.nlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, this is definitely just someone who got told (possibly even by a band member of Rage Against the Machine themselves) what the songs and the band are actually about. Doubt a single song will ever be made.

  • papalonian@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I like how it’s:

    If you love America and are pissed about … please contact me.

    … and not, “if you’re a good bassist looking for a band”. Tells you all you need to know about the quality of music they’re gonna put out.

    • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      By this point, I suspect a lot of people who use the term don’t actually know anymore. To them it just means “the shadowy bad guys who want to ruin my life specifically”.

          • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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            2 months ago

            Okay, are we all here? Let’s discuss Jeb Blinkersen, 29, of 39 waukee way, Minnesota. Have we done anything to ruin his life lately? Looks like he got a raise recently, shit, we’ve got to get ahead of this NOW. Johnson, I want you to breed up some samples of that bat-whale-bear virus we’ve been incubating in RFK, and make sure there’s an accident. Stevens, call his boss and tell him to send the factory to China OR ELSE. Yeah, they probably won’t like the higher profit margins, but make it clear they have no choice. We’ll show Jeb to let his guard down. Good meeting everyone, let’s meet again next week about Amanda Hugenkiss, priority omega seven; Zuckerberg says she seems actually happy and she might be trying to leave Facebook.

    • djsaskdja@reddthat.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I always read it as companies who were responsible for offshoring labor. I might be too generous though.

      • azimir@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        That’s part of the power of the term. Globalism is a valid term for a view about how integrated international markets foster economic and social benefits, while Globalist is often used as a racist dogwhistle. Racists often use small variations of accepted terms to conflate and low key their hatred in public venues.

        • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I don’t disagree with you in the North American context, but in other parts of the world you can have totally normal discussions about the merits of globalization/globalism and globalists without it being a dogwhistle. And you can be a critic of “globalism” (better understood as a configuration of imperialism) without being a racist or even for explicitly anti-racist reasons.