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  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Ahhh thank god the left stood by President Johnston and didn’t fracture into chaos, could you imagine if they did? That’d enable a unified right to run a train on them and do everything they were complaining about but much much worse and ultimately usher in the end of left wing politics in america for decades. Fortunately our leftwing is tooo politically effective.

    JFC the anti-war movement wasn’t the backbone of the American left, it was bougie hedonistic kids who really didn’t want to be sent off to die for their parents’ ideology. The kneecapping of the American left happened when Cold War politics purged the labor movement (y’know, the actual backbone of the left) of militant leftists.

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      6 months ago

      Plus as the other commenter pointed out, there was an anti-war candidate who had a lot of support but the establishment rejected him, effectively handing the election to Nixon. You could argue that something similar has happened three elections in a row now - the Dems don’t want to win if winning means electing somebody good.

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        It’s a combination of wanting someone they can control, and fundamentally wanting to appease the PMC with the working class being badgered into following suit rather than the other way around.

  • cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    The ignorance on display here is comedy gold. I honestly have a hard time believing it’s not just actual leftists trolling for fun. Like the one commenter who brought up the Khmer Rouge in order to imply the CPV was morally equivalent. Amazing, just simply amazing lol.

  • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    They stole rice at gunpoint from random villagers, they murdered some 37k civilians (from 1967 to 1972, so the real numbers are bigger), and they conducted mass murder strikes against villages and refugee camps

    The Viet Cong weren’t Hamas level, but they were damn close

    interviewer What’s that you say, ‘communism 100 billion’? What a brave and free thinker!

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Gottem with the “all activists are white and therefore bad” shtick that I remember hearing during Occupy Wall Street. Funniest thing is that the people saying it the most are white themselves.

    On a side note, I’ve noticed that a lot of chud jokes about white women being “offended” (giving a shit about marginalized people) shows the political shift of women moving left and men becoming increasingly right-wing.