• SalamiDommie@lemmus.org
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    7 days ago

    There is now a bigger shift where there are some very inept leftists whose dogma harms them (as the conservatives of the 70s/80s/90s).

    As well many more well spoken conservatives in the last 10 years. However that benefit is starting to wane and they now have a brigade of social media rhetorist as intolerable as the left.

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      7 days ago

      Could you cite something? I haven’t seen any of this, and I’m very curious to see where it’s coming from.

      • WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 days ago

        Think of the woke tone policing thing, 10 years ago “leftists” got upset if you used the wrong words while ignoring the actual bad things that were happening.

        If you said “Trump is a fucking retard” the left goes “ok” the stupid-left goes “you can’t say that word! You’re as bad as Trump because you said that word!”

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              5 days ago

              lmao, I think it is even more delusional to presume that there’s people younger than 20 on Lemmy. I’ve taught people who don’t even remember Obama’s presidency.

              The problem is – and maybe you are too young to remember this – people have always just made shit up on the internet. I don’t even know where the fuck you’re going to find people who don’t take issue with actual slurs besides chud and lib sites, Lemmy included, which are hardly universally"leftist" spaces (and it seems like you don’t know the difference between a “leftist” or “liberal”). Who knows what fucking bots you’re running into or what algos have pushed into your engagement based on your activity, I can certainly say I haven’t seen any of the shit you’re describing, even on actual leftist communities. You think “scumbag left” is what, new? You seriously think white, cishet men haven’t used slurs this whole goddamn while even if they did claim to be socialists?

              So, do you have a source? A link? Any actual evidence that what you’re saying is in any way emblematic of some sort of popular discourse or cultural trend? Or did you make it the fuck up?

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        7 days ago

        I see it on Reddit all the time. Leftists hurting their own arguments because they’re repeating things that are just flat out wrong. Most people barely pay attention to the news, have no idea how our government works, and don’t read books.

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      7 days ago

      Leftist dogma hurts business. Nobody ever died from having a 2 day weekend or from being forced to work less than 40 hours a week