• ameancow@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I think they’re confusing “progressive” with “Performative Discord Leftists Who want to have intellectual arguments but are afraid of real conservatives so they just infight and purity test all day” or “Lemmy users”

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        real conservatives

        The last one im aware of died in 2013. He was almost 90, and would probably be an anarchist in modern context. He seemed like he was moving that way.

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        but are afraid of real conservatives

        Why should they be afraid of something that hasn’t existed since the end of WW2?

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        So that’s your idea of a “progressive,” huh? Two plutocratic racketeers in over-priced suits?

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          I grew up in a country that insisted these two guys were somewhere to the left of Fidel Castro.

          Show me what a True Progressive American Politician looks like, please.

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            Sooooo… you don’t know who Bernie Sanders is? That’s a “progressive” - or, more accurately, an edgy liberal.

            I’m going to go ahead and assume that even here, on a (supposedly) anarchist community, I will still have to waste my energy explaining to liberals how their own ideology actually works?

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              Sooooo… you don’t know who Bernie Sanders is?

              He’s the guy who spent twelve years stumping for Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris, right?

              waste my energy explaining to liberals how their own ideology actually works?

              Does liberal ideology work? Seems like its in full collapse at the moment.

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                He’s the guy who spent twelve years stumping for Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris, right?

                Yeah… you know that thing “progressives” were doing right up to the election?

                Does liberal ideology work?

                You’ll know when it stops working - you’ll see liberals roll out the red carpet for fascists while pretending they cannot do anything to stop them. Do you see anything like that happening now, perhaps?

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                  Buddy, lol you can put your guard down. The person you are replying to is not arguing in favor of liberalism, they are being facetious and that picture was posted in jest.

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            I grew up in a country that insisted these two guys were somewhere to the left of Fidel Castro.

            Your post makes me think you somehow believed them…

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        Let me be clear, we’re occupying Afghanistan, but we’re going to be doing it the right way this time.