I'm enjoying seeing all the people that yelled at me for not supporting Harris come up with reasons to not support Planter and how this is totally different.
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Not mixed at all. I want a progressive who won't back down from MAGAs, who won't be intimidated, who won't be polite, who will have the courage to crush MAGA.
If he does those things, and later starts getting weird, we'll deal with him then, but right now we need strong courageous warriors, not polite weenies like Schmuck.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The elites are my enemy and they are doing everything to make sure he doesn't get elected. Voting literally costs you nothing. It seems obvious. Are the Platner haters even real people? Are they even from Maine?
I can't believe people would rather have Susan Collins over an imperfect progressive.
Centrists and authoritarian leftists are scary man. We've got terrorist rape-ublicans to deal with already.
https://lemmy.ml/post/48239454
https://mander.xyz/post/53015076
Meanwhile, they really didn't like that I've actually read Marx and Lenin and used it against them
https://lemmy.zip/comment/26868546
And this feels like the best image to describe it so far.
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They’ll post all that and then defend Mao, Stalin, and Putin.
Hey look it's both sides plus the no true Scotsman in one picture!
Both sides declares all positions equivalent. The stethoscope explicitly doesn't as it identifies authoritarianism as a shared mechanism while maintaining that ideological content and material outcomes differ by adding an additional axis.
No true Scotsman excludes inconvenient examples by redefining categories. The model explicitly includes authoritarian leftists as an additional category.
You've named two fallacies without demonstrating either one. Reading comprehension would help more than parroting pattern recognition without understanding. That's even worse than AI reasoning.
Polly want a cracker?
The policies that Platner is backing sure aren't scrutinized for the topic of discussion, that's for sure.
That's because Platner's policies are what we really should be talking about: healthcare for all, union rights, actual representation in Congress, etc.
Platner says a lot about Democrats never having actual policies that will put the money where the people are, and not just empty words like "We have to address affordability!" because that's not a policy, it's a marketing campaign.
Platner's policies are exactly what they don't want us talking about, and why he shot ahead of Mills by some 40 points before she "suspended" her campaign at the end of April.
To be fair, I only learned what a totenkampf is by reading these comments. I do know a few Nazi symbols more than just the swastika too
That's true, but I'm guessing that you haven't had it tattooed on your chest for 18 years.
I'm sure you've seen the totenkopf symbol before plenty of times, in a nazi context (are we the baddies, literally every wwii movie ever made, literally every wwii video game ever made, anytime you saw an ss costume). And none of those times you would've recognized it for the thing you see every morning when you brush your teeth. Because if it was, all those times would be a lot more memorable to you.
You probably never went to the public beach or pool with your friends, and had someone ask you if you know what that thing on your chest means. Because in a situation like that, you will find out what the totenkopf is.
I feel like people who think you can spend 18 years of your adult life wearing a nazi tattoo on your chest without ever learning that it's a nazi tattoo suffer from a severe lack of empathy.
Anybody who has mixed feelings about him need to listen to his interview with Jon Stewart on the Weekly Show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-itNjgCJDxU
MSM/Corporate Media are doing a massive smear campaign on him because he's railing against the Iran war and against Israel's incursions. The money machine is stacking against him and he needs as much support as possible. The tattoo is a red herring.
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