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ethaver@kbin.earth ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Yeah I lurk around r/conservative and hubs still lurks on the remains of Twitter just because we both a) can't look away and b) think it's important to understand what's going on over there.

I usually see stuff said like "they're not actually antifascists that's just a misdirection to cover their real fascist ideologies." Which is a genuine strategy in political propaganda. People use all kinds of labels to cover up all kinds of awful shit.

Really the only way around that is to focus less on labels overall and focus more on individuals and either thoughts on or even more importantly actual specific real world actions. I don't know what political label people would put me under.
A lot of my local politicians last year were listed independent. I picked the one that wanted to expand the bus lines. I think a fetus is a human being but that it doesn't have a right to use a woman's body without her continuous consent. I think the rich have broken a bunch of the social contracts they made to avoid bloodshed and that something bloody is inevitable more than it even is desirable. I'm thinking that next time there's political unrest in my area I should just sit on an out of the way street corner with a sign that says "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES."

Dunno what any of that makes me but I'd like to find more of us if possible. Sometimes labels help that, sometimes they don't. Wish I had a better or cleaner answer fire you.

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