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What I wonder is how this didn't also happen to the right.
by analog31 1y ago
What I wonder is how this didn't also happen to the right.
- FridayoLeary 1y agoHaving a set of beliefs tethered to reality probably. Also as a general principle the right/centre don't believe the job of the government is to interfere in every aspect of peoples lives. This at least limits their ability to reproduce the empty gestures and moral lecturing of the left.
- rjbwork 1y ago[flagged]
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- nomdep 1y agoThat reminds me, yesterday a friend told me she believed the Trump assassination attempt was staged to make him look good: that the shooter had missed on purpose and the ear wound was fake. I mean… it’s not impossible. I just don’t think Trump is that smart, though.
- stogot 1y agoI’ve heard people making this up to. Yet their instagram and twitter is full of people praising assassinations, but then when they are attempted they claim “hoax”.
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- unethical_ban 1y agoYou pick cherries quite well.
- pas 1y agotethered to good old human biases though
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- watashiideogram 1y ago> What I wonder is how this didn't also happen to the right. Well, the "right", or more aptly conservatives, actively resist change in culture and society. They conserve it (hence the name).
- immibis 1y agoAlso incorrect. The current crop of so-called conservatives are extremely radical.
- mantas 1y agoThe so-called conservatives are radical centrists at best. While today’s „far-right“ would have been considered moderate conservatives not so long ago.
- stogot 1y agoThe “far right” has become just a schoolyard name calling label to brand anyone the left disagrees with
- theossuary 1y agoMore like a nice way of saying fascist
- mantas 1y agoCalling today’s „far“ right fascists/nazis/etc is just a disgrace to victims of the real thing.
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- immibis 1y agoWhy do you think so? Would it not be better to recognize fascism/nazism as early as possible? Hitler was in power for several years, doing various increasingly bad stuff, before he started the holocaust.
- immibis 1y agoBecause it's simply incorrect. "Performative radicalism" doesn't "freak everyone out" and destroy a movement.
- pydry 1y agoA) It does, sometimes. B) The far right has a lot of wealthy donors because it is safe for capital. In this case, I think money would have smoothed over most of the issues.
- Vegenoid 1y agoDidn't it? But then, the pendulum swung. It will continue swinging.
- aprilthird2021 1y agoIt did. The War on Terror was so bad for the political actors who took part in it in the US (and by ripple effect in Europe), that they were trounced by Obama, who is still the highest approved US President in the 21st century. Trump won, partly by saying the War on Terror was a disaster and the Republicans were disasters. He distanced himself from a right wing which had done the same thing, made itself irrelevant to the mainstream with performative patriotism while we actually lost lives and trillions of dollars in a quagmire people didn't want about 1-2 years into it. Whoever brings the left back will have to distance themselves from the party in a similar way