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[-] Hayduke@lemmy.world 216 points 1 year ago

Funny to think of the right viewing the, globally speaking, center-right as “radical left”. The level of hyperbole and hypocrisy from the right is stupefying.

It’s one thing I am trying to impart on my kids. If someone speaks fluently in hyperbole and absolutes, or getting louder the more they are challenged (or both), 100% they are full of shit and trying to sell you something.

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[-] Jolly_Platypus@lemmy.world 183 points 1 year ago

I wish they were radical left.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 169 points 1 year ago
[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 70 points 1 year ago

Or left light, or left light classic.

~It's just left zero.~

It's just one of those generic brands you'll find on some low shelf in a semi-abandoned dollar store.

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] TwoDogsFighting@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

They are, I'm afraid, new left.

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Id settle if they just left all together.

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[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 117 points 1 year ago

Democrats need to let the shutdown happen but im almost positive they'll just give the fascist everything he wants instead.

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

Schumer et al: "best we can do is write some sternly worded letters"

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[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

They need to shut it down AND call for a nationwide general strike. And then we don’t stop until every Republican has been removed from government, gerrymandering has been outlawed and fixed, and RCV is the law of the land.

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[-] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago

Shut it down.

Shut it all down.

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[-] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

Lmaoooo Chuck is radical left, sure buddy sure

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 year ago

Everything left of themselves are radical to Facists. Alex Jones got a lot of leeway back in Bush days because people thought him being against Bush meant he was closer to center, but it was the opposite. Bush wasn't terrible enough for Jones.

Same with Fuentes and Kirk really; groypers attacked TPUSA mostly for not being racist enough to Jews.

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[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago
[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, I'm sure they will find some moral-grandstanding excuse to avoid doing it.

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[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

I'm still waiting to see who these 'radical left democrats' are... cuz I'm more left and radical than ANYONE that's elected currently. I don't understand how that doesn't just get old..

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[-] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 year ago

Government is starting to break down. Officials are being arrested by ICE. This really feels like the pot is so ready to boil, which just sucks for the average Joe trying to get by.

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Pots been boiling for years, the right just put a lock on the lid like a pressure cooker.

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[-] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 40 points 1 year ago

Likely will try and pull some 'because congress is absent' emergency rule bullshit to grab for full dictator powers.

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 29 points 1 year ago

The other subtext is coloring Schumer and Jeffries as terrorists.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

More evidence for the next Nuremberg trials.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nuremberg trials happened because an alliance of antifascist countries fought hard at great cost to take the fascists down with the help of organized resistance inside. Today we don't seem to have any of the prerequisites.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 13 points 1 year ago

There are precedents from a few different countries that fought to overthrow a tyrannical government and then had to sort out how to deal with recovering and rebuilding their politics and society in whatever form. Chile, Argentina, South Africa, or Ukraine might be better models than postwar Germany.

There is also this: https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/126900/8008_FDTD.pdf which is based on absolutely exhaustive real world research about what does and doesn't work, and is highly regarded in a ton of activist communities outside the US (and for some reason almost unknown inside it.)

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[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

If he will call you radical left anyway, then why not try to be the radical left he calls you for just a day?

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[-] Eh_I@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Schumer is going to give him such a tweeting 😡

[-] StewNasty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I bet he'll even follow it up with a strongly worded letter with at least 3 very srong points addressed to whomever will pay attention to him.

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[-] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 year ago

They believe anyone who isn't them is a radical leftist.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

No matter how far to the right democrats shift, republicans will always call them radicals.

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[-] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Shutdown might help Trump to push his project 2025 agenda with no judges working and the justice halted.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I know that was Schumer's excuse last time, but I'm not sure that really adds up. The federal courts can still fund themselves for a few weeks after a shutdown. Also, the lower courts are slowing Trump down, but the Supreme Court is consistently ruling in his favor. If anything, he should want the courts to be running as quickly as possible so he can keep appealing and getting the Supreme Court to overturn all the restrictions the lower courts are placing on him.

Plus, while ICE is being designated an essential agency and ICE agents are expected to fulfill their full duties during a shutdown, they do it without pay (and get back-pay when the shutdown ends). That's not a big deal for a week, but if you stretch a shutdown out for a month, that starts to hurt. I'd like to see how loyal Trump's dogs are when they're not getting fed.

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Anyone who doesn't kiss his ring is "radical left"

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 18 points 1 year ago

Calling it. Something about "but muh federal works don't deserve this" wiping away tears with $100 bills.

Shut down the government. Fascism is based on one part greed, and if the lowest arent getting paid maybe they'll stop being able to do as much damaging stuff.

That's hilarious. They weren't even demanding anything substantial, like the abolition of ICE or the removal of National Guard troops for cities. They staked their claim on budgetary issues related to healthcare... and Trump couldn't even stomach that.

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[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Isn't he aiming for government shutdown since the beginning? After all he wants to be Orange Shitler.

[-] lemmylump@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

The Bailey's are so fucked, and rightly furious with this chucklefuck.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Inb4 anti-trump Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger gets called a "Radical Leftist"

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 14 points 1 year ago
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