The most depressing thing about this is the normalisation of the ridiculous idea that democrats and Marxists are even tangibly related... 🤦♀️
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
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We're talking about people who legitimately believe providing tax payer funded school lunch to kids is communism.
Right, precisely because of this kind of bullshit normalisation of the idea, not because it has any basis in reality...
Indeed, I suspect most people who identify as Marxist would not identify as Democrat.
I'd suspect most would (rightfully) be very offended by being labeled as such
Indeed
tangibly related
Did you mean to say "tangentially related"?
Tangintiblly
Tangerine Billy!? I bested him in poker once, and he shot me in the arm. If you see him, tell him I'm coming for him.
Either works
If you say so. One is a common phrase with a precise meaning appropriate to the context of the sentence. The other makes no sense at all. Political philosophies are specifically intangible. It's a mishearing of a common phrase or an autocorrect error at best. It most definitely does not "work".
The real tragedy is that because anyone bringing even the slight political criticism or discourse of the American Republic is criticized with meaningless hyperboles, thus destroying any chance of having a real discussion about political sciences.
And I’ve seen it in real life…
What a sad, pathetic, impotent old man
Maybe he can call a crackhead for help?
He’s a Russian now 🇷🇺
This dumb fuck visited the Kremlin to kiss pooty’s booty on the 4th of July
What's wrong with being a Marxist? Apart from holding the delusion of human nature and the species being capable of such feats.
Yeah humans never work cooperatively together, what’s millions of years of mutual aid and social interest amongst ourselves, our ancestors, and other species on this planet.
We work great together, to rape the natural world. How many species did we hunt to extinction before we even figured out written language?
And now we're number one, we've got nothing left to scratch the itch except ourselves. We're very good at being our number one cause of death outside of natural causes. And for quite some time now, at least as far back as the history books go.
Ask McCarthy
The beards, not everyone can grow the kind of beard needed to be a Marxist. They get left out of the party.
Mostly everything.
God, I'd give my left nut for a chance to make a Republican senator that fucking mad.
I opened the URL and still don't get the context. All I know is this happened in Capitol.
Senate confirmation hearings. GOP was questioning one of biden’s nominees (DuBose)
GOP asshole accused her of being Marxist, she said she wasn’t, and a Dem senator reminded Asshole that people can change views- he used to be a dem.
To which, Asshole says “I’ve never been a Marxist”; as if democrats are Marxist
I'm just so tired of the disingenuous reporting that comes from politics, no matter what side. Is it too much to ask for some honesty and facts without 14 levels of BS spin attached?
No, the insinuation from his outburst wasn't that Democrats are Marxist. His outburst was because he saw it as false equivalence. The nominee gave an interview in 2000 where she said she was Marxist. The dem senator tried to say the nominee and the GOP senator were the same because people can change their minds. That's when the GOP guy yelled. Not because he was trying to link Democrats and Marxism, but in a "hey! That's not two comparable situations! I never said I was Marxist!" kind of way. The implication being that while he used to be a Democrat, that's not the same as being Marxist. You know, the exact fucking opposite of the narrative that's trying to be spun?
Like, it's stupid that I even have to spell this out. I feel gross for defending any GOP shitbag, but God damn I am tired of reporting like this. I feel like anyone looking into this with even an ounce of context would understand what he was trying to to say, so I don't get why so many people are eating up the fake narrative. Are people so fucking stupid these days that they willfully believe misinformation over facts?
It's not even like the truth makes the GOP guy look good, it just turns it into a nothing story. So people are out here like "I choose to believe the misinformation because the alternative would be boring". Can we please be just a little fucking better?
You can start with a bit of honesty yourself.
The “Marxist phase” comment wasn’t that she was ever really Marxist, rather that she was- at the time- studying them as a polisci major.
It was said with all the seriousness one discussed of a “teenage rebel phase”.