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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I detest hypocrisy and bad faith mindless tribalist propaganda slogans.

(In fact in the country I live in, there are actual Communists who were even Stalinists until not that long ago, and that's exactly what I dislike about them: hyprocrisy and bad faith mindless tribalist propaganda slogans. Curiously I detest the neo-Fascists for the very same reason: it's a judgement and opinion I hold quite which applies independently of the supposed political side of those doing it)

So I pointed out the hypocrisy and the tribalist, parroty, propagandist and even unimaginative nature of the slogans that poster uses, not for them (in my experience people who operate like that either do so in bad faith or don't actually seriously analyse the tribalists slogans they hear before they parrot them, so logic won't affect them in the least) but for anybody else who ponders about politics (rather than be a mindless follower of a tribe) who happens to go by and who might not have noticed this yet.

PS: Funnilly enough, the post below this one on my profile is also on a chain were I engaged with another parroty, slogan throwing hypocrite, of the other tribe of American politics (not that those tribes are politically that far apart, IMHO) for a very similar reason: that one was throwing around the "Free Speech" slogan demanding that Netanyahu gets to address Congress, but apparently wasn't so keen on my suggestion that if Congress is indeed a place where speech should be free then anybody should be allowed to speak there whenever they want and hence Netanyahu can join queue rather than get ahead by invitations (which interfere in the Free Speech of everybody else). Tribalist slogan throwers are invariably hypocrites.