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Advance is Exposed in Macnamara (theluptonfactor.substack.com)

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The organisation may be enabling the Greens Party they profess to oppose.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

But more than that, the Greens have the avowed aim of taking over the Labor Party and destroying it.

News to me!

[...] the Greens have become an extremist party.

They are aligned with Islamist extremists, offering a safe space for anti-Semites. The party backs some of the world’s most violent, tyrannical, misogynist, anti-gay and racist regimes. They claim to be progressive but are the exact opposite of progressive.

Soon-to-be voters should probably consider statements like this themselves, as they're of course highly subjective. I'll admit to knowing comparatively little about the position of each party on Israel/Palestine stuff so I'll have to leave a direct reply to that one to someone else, but having inadequate environmental policy is, subjectively, an extremist position. I can now label Labor and the Coalition extremist parties 🙃

The way the preferences can occasionally be quite strategic (due to candidate elimination and flow-on votes) is an interesting phenomenon though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He's apparently a writer for the Herald Sun and Australian. Thats enough for me to discount anything he says immediately as probably skewed if not outright false, until he proves otherwise. Believe it or not they, (Murdoch Propagandists), can, rarely, make levelheaded comments. Its a rare sight though.

Advance is Exposed in Macnamara

Title seems deliberate, and a little hyberbolic, in an attempt to mislead readers as to the articles subject matter.

The article reads like a friendly disagreement among friends. Where one friend has a brainfart their muddled mind construes as profound then has to express it, thus demonstrating his knowledge and command of a subject to all around.

They are aligned with Islamist extremists, offering a safe space for anti-Semites. The party backs some of the world’s most violent, tyrannical, misogynist, anti-gay and racist regimes. They claim to be progressive but are the exact opposite of progressive.

Classic lazy partisan writing.

Assertion of non-specific associations. Using language indicating those associations as deplorable to the unbelievably extreme.

But all too often turns out to be literally unbelievable. With comparisons easily made about all other actors, in this case Labor/Liberal/Nats/etc, when judged by the same skewed grounds these allegations have been laid.

One massive problem with this type of shitscoop writing is, when a truly disgusting association comes to light of some heinous group/individual and some political entity, be it individuals or Party, the languages impact has been minimised due to its low bar for deployment.

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