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Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"

Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Something interesting to me is how the left takes these things on the chin. In these comments there are lots of comments like “yea well they all do this”. Compare that to the right during covid who would take screenshots and make sure everybody knew this was happening and not only that it was happening but how this would lead to dystopian authoritarian rule that threaten each and every person. I see this over and over again with each and every opportunity to show people how bad things are getting. But instead we snuff out these things ourselves and just move along.

The left have no bite. They are all bark

Can we make this character be the face of leftists from now on. Because its most of you.

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Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yes, clearly the handful of people with no power that advocate for Socialism or Communism are what is wrong with our country now.

I think you are confused and are perhaps really wondering why centrists keep getting moved to the right.

Both dominate political parties in the US are fascist in nature. You have the authoritarian fascists and you have the neolib fascists.

Picking on the left is just a convenient scapegoat at this point. It is low hanging fruit and is pretty pointless.

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TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The dichotomy between the left and right on these kind of issues are probably more economic than anything else.

The people I know that freaked out about these sort of things were typically maga types. Lower income, lower education, and relied on social media for all kinds of news, human contact, and such.

Meanwhile most liberals and conservatives that didn’t, lived more comfortably with higher career and education levels. This isn’t even really a left wing vs right wing kind of thing. Even the conservatives I knew that had higher education and career accomplishment freaked less out about Covid and social media “censorship” too because they could just do without.

If you can live comfortably and it doesn’t affect your living, you tend to not rock the boat

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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Compare that to the right during covid who would take screenshots

Be more specific. Do you mean how sites were taking down covid conspiracies that were getting people killed?

Also, these sites aren’t free speech platform. They’re advertisement platforms. They should be burnt to the ground.

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- Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes because the right mobilized and overwhelmed the sites with complaints. At to this the mass cancelling that created panic in any celebrity made them all support each other. So now you had Joe Rogan bringing Zuckerberg on and really drilling home how problematic the left was and how they needed to stop it. The left went full toxic ex girlfriend. They were keying cars and lighting fires everywhere and never understood why nobody wanted to associate with them.
  
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  - Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I never saw any cars getting keyed near me. I actually don’t have any political messaging on my truck because I’m worried about my mirrors getting smashed though. I think you’re living in a fantasy world created by your social media bubble.
    
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Apocalypteroid@lemmy.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Check out Mr. Militant over here. You’re doing your part by moaning on Lemmy. Well done you. Be the change.

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- Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  100% more effort than anything else going on with Lemmy or leftist.
  
  The left are so anti left that they’re regressing so rapidly that women can’t even get an abortion anymore. Their excuse is “money”. The actually cause is that the average leftist is dumber then the average person on the right. They’re on average less effective. The past decade is more than enough proof of this. I don’t care what you’re going to reply with because I know it’ll be some sassy comment to make you feel better. But it’s not going to change fuck all. The left is fucking cooked.
  
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  - MBech@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    The left are so anti left that they’re regressing so rapidly that women can’t even get an abortion anymore.
    
    So the left is bad because of republican policies? Are you real?
    
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jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They were getting whipped up and manipulated. A lot of that shit you are talking about was not organic.

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- Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes I agree with what you’re saying. But the left has to adapt or its finished. For all the talk of intelligence and how dumb the right are goes out the window. That’s because even with the money and the power, the people on the right had enough awareness to know when to lean into something even if they didn’t agree and when to pull back. The left do not. People keep saying they don’t understand how people can ignore Trump’s dumb bullshit. It’s because they don’t actually like Trump. The left doing understand this. Trump is giving them victory after victory. It’s not about Nazi or fascism or any of that. It’s about winning. The left have placed to many barriers to winning that something basic like Gavin Newsom mocking Trump is seen as amazing. That should have been the approach 10 years ago. Instead people focused too much on calling him a racist directly. You have to show not tell.
  
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  - jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There hasn’t been a left in your country in a very long time.
    
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