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No war in ba sing sa type ass
I'm afraid that's not correct :/
If a person calls themself a leftist and they genuinely believe it, then they are a leftist.
You don't get to gatekeep the movement. Sorry.
This meme is itself an example of leftist infighting; you could have been supportive but you chose to divide people instead. Trump would LOVE you.
Democrats call themselves leftists all the time while supporting non leftist policies and politicians while believing their party is left of center. It's no different than MAGA believing they are Christian despite being nothing like their Christ.
But you don't get to decide whether a person is Christian or not. You're not the arbiter of their belief. They decide what they are; all you get is an opinion about it.
Let leftists be leftists. We need all the help we can get.
"Leftist" isn't an identity, it's a description of political philosophy. An objective adjective.
Is "Liberal" or "Conservative" an identity? Is "MAGA" ? Why can a person not identify as a Leftist
Not when liberals try to control the situation with their reform bullshit.
Liberals achieved more of their goals this year than leftists did. Do you really want to exclude them as allies? We would outnumber MAGA.
Be practical. You can't get a perfect ally, but you can make friends willing to help your cause.
Liberals are MAGA. They are clueless about class solidarity and are hostile at the concept.
Hrm, hard disagree there, and at the risk of sounded repetitive it's each person's decision to choose a party, not yours. You seem angry and I don't think you're in the mood to listen so I'll be blocking you. Have a day
You are in a communist community, you are welcome to support your right wing reactionaries somewhere else.
Of course I get to decide who a Christian is. If someone follows the Quran, attends Mosque, doesn't eat pork, and completely follows the traditions of Islam, they are Muslim. They may not "identify" as a Muslim, but that word has been polluted to the point of uselessness. Words have meaning. You can be something simply by meeting the definition of the term. Your own emotions are irrelevant.
I consider you to be a conservative republican because of your support of constitutional rights, therefore you are one. <-- incorrect because my arbitrarily-chosen criteria don't determine your identity, you do. Regardless of how I personally measure your beliefs, you are the one who decides them and their value. If my opinion of you is "conservative republican" then my emotions are irrelevant; I'm wrong and you're not one.
Good talk :)
Lemmy in a fucking nutshell.
"You're not LEFTY enough! You must pass my purity tests or you are MAGA!"
Bullshit like this is why we'll never get anywhere. Any of you assholes notice America is now a fascist country? Anyone know how they got control? By not fucking fighting among themselves, that's fucking how.
We're going to have to take in some people who aren't 100% in agreement with every fucking point. THAT'S a hard pill to swallow.
Its a fascist country because liberals decided that 50 years of incremental fascism was acceptable, except you called it lesser evil. This is a bed liberals made for themselves and now cry that they dont like the monster they helped create
Which group is the one saying "if Gavin Newsom is the democratic nominee for President, and you vote for him, you must be transphobic"?
considering newsom does not want to end capitalism...
What does that have to do with transphobia?
Hate and bigotry is good for business. Solidarity and community is good for labor.
Gavin Newsom, the guy that makes George w bush look like a leftist?
Back in the aughts, I remember people calling him a Nazi when he was running for mayor of San Francisco. I thought it was hyperbole. It's less clear than I realized.
He did a photo-op of personally destroying a homeless encampment, and is trying to outflank Trump’s right. He’s a nightmare.
the only "leftists" I be fighting are the ones who don't vote
other than that it's slightly upset debate
edit: oh God here come the idiots
Vote for who, your right wing POS posing as allies to the working class? Hard pass.
The liberals sued the socialist presidential candidate off my state’s ballot last time. If you want me to vote, tell them to stop doing that.
By idiots you must mean those calling out your BlueMAGA tendencies. Your voting got us into this mess and you can't vote out fascism, specifically what the people you are voting for enables the problem and prevents anything from slipping back to the left
you can vote AND do other stuff. You don't just vote and sit on your ass. idk how you came the conclusion that I meant that 😭😭😭
Because the typical liberal response is vote and then do nothing else or do things that will accomplish nothing like these oligarchy planned No Kings protests
What are you doing?
Yep
Fuck those people
All so they can pretend to hold some moral high-ground
there are none, because there are none to begin with. center right is the best you got in USA.
There are liberals and authoritarians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt_and_civil_rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Imperialists
https://sfmlkday.org/mlks-political-affiliations-and-beliefs/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23329173
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_liberalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre
(He's pretty based tho)
Same animal.