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[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not even in-group loyalty. In-group loyalty would be having the decency not to gaslight homies.

[–] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is blue MAGAism. I've kept telling it people here for months and kept being shunend with the same ridiculous lines of argumentation. Either on Bidens health or for me more importantly on how supporting genocide is somehow a good and acceptable thing, because god forbid we demand and enforce a non genocide non neoliberal candidate.

Which brings me to another point. Trump was on brand. Everything he said was more or less predictable. Meanwhile Biden trying to talk about social justice and tax justice was clearly not his tune. So not only did the campaign managers not manage to prepare him for Trump being Trump. They gave him stuff to talk about, he doesn't talk about normally, making his performance even less believable.

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't get what blue maga actually means. Does it get tossed both ways?

And I get frustrated that peeps can agree with others like 95 percent of the time then get absolutely shit on for having a differing opinion. If I can make a chain from what you said to a bad outcome with logical fallacies you're obvs a nazi.

Yeah. Trump was Trump. I've never bothered watching his insanity so I don't know if/how much he's declining. But he's a known quantity and not super interesting.

[–] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Blue MAGA as in dogmatically following and defending the leader, while deflecting any valid criticism with extreme vitriol. I have been called a secret Trump advocate for saying that Biden is a genocide supporter and in declining mental health. Pointing out that the Dems could have propped up a better candidate and need to do that, was met with attacks.

Saying that they are alienating minority voters was met with racist attacks against those minorities, claiming them to be dumb. Actually they willing to face much more threats than the white upper class liberal from a Trump presidency, but they have the backbone to say that genocide is a red line and they understand that if they accept one genocide the next one is coming, until they are the ones being genocided.

Any notion that the Democrats are an establishment party that is playing with fire by continuing down their establishment road instead of working towards being a real progressive alternative that most people would love to vote for, was shunned.

It is political delusionalism, fueled by gas lighting from the DNC cabal. Instead of motivating their base, instead of providing a vision and inspiration they chose to gaslight, shame and threat their base into submission. That is how you build a cult and that is how you destroy any progressive political movement. Because then all people are left with is fear of loosing out, which is easily exploited by fascists like Trump.

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

They did the same shit with Hilary. Just memory holed anything negative.

Because then all people are left with is fear of loosing out, which is easily exploited by fascists like Trump.

We need electoral reform that removes as much strategic voting as possible.