People complaining about purity testing on the left and the test is whether they would vote for former abu ghraib guards with SS skull tattoos
I posted this above, but considering platner’s statements about how he signed up for the military to kill people, and went back multiple times (even as a merc), how many innocent middle-easterners do we think he killed? He’s definitely murdered at least a few innocent people.
He wore his blackwater cap to get a rise of people. His unit made a makeshift mortar from grenade launchers to keep bombing urban areas after it got forbidden due to the high civilian murder count. It’s definitely more than a few.
This is accurate, and I think it could hammer it home even harder with “liberal values” instead of “liberals.” The more directly we attack the issues, the harder it is for them to spin it as a personal attack.
ML’s, trots, anarchists… sure that’s infighting.
Anyone who thinks libs qualify as ‘leftist’ is misguided.This feels like such a double edged sword living in the US where Israel-supporting police-loving rich capitalists are widely labeled as the radical left if they dare to suggest that people should get healthcare or maybe we shouldn’t spend trillions blowing up brown people on the other side of the globe.
You know, the land of fucking geniuses where the batshit crazy pedo Nazi choice won the popular vote in 2024 against the Israel-supporting actual-cop capitalist who is right-wing to most of the rest of the world.
I’m not even sure what my point is here, maybe just expressing frustration. The overton window here is so far to the right, and people so passively absorb propaganda every day, that it feels like the entire spectrum of people from leftists to liberals need to form a coalition to at least slow & reverse the movement to the right, even if their end goals are all very different.
What it feels like is that the Republican party was actually supposed to be the controlled opposition to scare people into being comfortable voting for liberals, but then the propaganda worked too well and the mustache twirling evil caricatures got to be in charge instead. At this point I can only hope the level of ridiculousness knocks some sense into more people.
Basically this:

Side point but considering platner’s statements on how he signed up to the military to kill people, re-deployed multiple times (eventually even as a blackwater merc), said he “enjoyed his experience”, how many innocent middle-easterners do you think he killed?
Liberals do tend to have more capacity for self-doubt and questioning their own ideology and that of their colleagues. Politically this becomes a weakness compared to conservatives, who tend more to be pragmatic team players willing to ignore even large imperfections in each other to achieve a common goal.
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