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[–] mgnome@piefed.social 61 points 10 months ago (1 children)
  1. Marginalize anything even slightly left of centre.
  2. Go rightward trying to chirp off electorate off your rival alt-right party.
  3. Observe entire national political spectrum shifting so far to the right, that European centrists become extreme left by your standards.
[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Hey Hitler had valid points! I really wouldn't label him far-right but just right for Germany /s

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't think Mothma is actually a liberal really. Like shes a senator but she's playing pretend. Putting on a show. She is more similar to Bourgoise class traitors who sided with the proletariet in revolutions of the past. Which did happen. Engels, Lenin, etc. All born into rather wealthy backgrounds. She does have that kind of sheltered mindset of being shocked by violence, but that's normal for her to have given her life experiences, and she gets over it eventually.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 10 months ago

This isnt to say shes a communist by any means btw. But she is very clearly a revolutionairy character. Liberals would be reformist at best.

[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You might think that but you have to remember the New republic was formed after the emperor died, and that it failed for much of the same reasons the old one did.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Well yeah like i said she isnt like ideologically a leftist or anything. It's media made by Americans so she's gonna be bad when it comes to governance. But in regards to like how she views revolution she isn't a liberal. A liberal is more like that one dude who works for the empire, and is a stickler for the rules. But then gets all upset when he has a personal attachment to the people being slaughtered. But then he still attacks Andor for no good reason.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

She acts like a Liberal as if reform is possible, but secretly opposes the entire system and funds rebellion.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Ya exactly. An actual liberal would call her a terrorist lol

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago

sighs loudly

[–] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 10 months ago

We had liberal politicians fight fascism in the past, and it was great!

Not only did they welcome fascists who opportunistically saw where things were going with open arms, but also forced workers to accept monarchists and reactionaries who repressed and brutalized them constantly as comrades in arms and 2 days after Fascism fell in Italy, Fiat for instance had ordered guards to fire into insubordinate workers if they didn't start working in 5 minutes.

Workers got so fucked that you could upload the retelling of the events on PornHub

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At least revolutionaries like Cassian existed. stalin-shining

I just rewatched S2E6 tonight.Fuck. So fucked up that Cinta dies after they reconcile. Fucking shit. Ugh, hate that scene.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

~~Use spoiler instead of dropdown please~~

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

That is a spoiler though???

We don't have a spoiler Markdown like Reddit (>!not a spoiler!<) or Discord (||also not a spoiler||) and the dropdown is literally called "spoiler"

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait you're right my bad. I just used a dropdown myself but somehow I thought spoilers was black text which was only shown when hovering the mouse or tapping it.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

It's all good! I think there are spoilers like that too? That sounds familiar.

Anyway, I'm using a new app so I thought I did it wrong as it was so I appreciate you saying this because it helped me get verification I did it right!

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

sicko-wistful Imagining a world where Nancy Pelosi was using her insider trading money to fund Maoist rebels in the Appalacians.

[–] Powerfromspace1@mstdn.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@geneva_convenience sadly any who would were run out of the party

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

and any who try again are quizzed about their loyalty to isreal. eg mamdani

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe JFK was one of them? I don't know much about the topic but his assassination always seemed a bit iffy. Maybe I need to take my meds? 🤷

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

JFK wasn't funding a secret rebel group fighting against America to overthrow the government (not much of an Andor spoiler)

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

If it was secret, how would you know?

[–] apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

If any were it's not like we would know, secrecy being rather important to that kind of activity.

[–] Goldmaster@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I can hear that track