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Casually flinging vague accusations of fascism or of having sympathies with a particular historical socialist workers party contribute zero to the sides underst
by gbacon 1y ago
Casually flinging vague accusations of fascism or of having sympathies with a particular historical socialist workers party contribute zero to the sides understanding one another. Words have meanings. Which specific people are forwarding which specific fascist positions?
I see a significant asymmetry in the sides’ understandings of one another. The right are typically able to articulate the left’s views reasonably well, but the left operates with caricatures — the aforementioned irresponsible accusations included.
We’re barely a month past Charlie Kirk being gunned down in cold blood on a college campus, and not a hit carried out by any sort of right winger. The piece’s handwringing over radicalization on the right comes across as the left failing to understand the other side and refusing to look in a mirror. Radicalization on the left is an enormous problem.
- deeg 1y agoI don't understand how anybody can say this when Trump is the leader of the GOP. When Trump called Harris a "socialist lunatic" and a communist was that articulating the left reasonably well? Is Trump calling Biden "Sleepy joe" not a caricature?
- MisterTea 1y ago> and not a hit carried out by any sort of right winger. All the Charlie Kirk apologists have "selective" memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_shootings_of_Minnesota_legislators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_shootings_of_Minnesota_le... And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Pennsylvania_Governor's_Residence_arson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Pennsylvania_Governor's_R... All this year. Two murdered, two shot, and an arson in an attempted murder by immolation. But sure, do go on about Kirk and all the leftist political violence. Edit: to add, the crooks running this nation into the ground didn't even bother lowering flags to half staff after the murders. But a big outpouring of crocodile tears for Kirk who wasn't even a politician.