shakes_mcjunkie

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by shakes_mcjunkie 5y ago
The sanewashing post linked in the article is hilariously ironic: https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/js84tu/how_did_... > So with all that explained - I think it's pretty simple. Mainst
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by shakes_mcjunkie 5y ago
But that's not what the movement is about. The "Defund the Police" and "Abolish the Police" slogans are based on even "better policing", "community policing", etc. still being incredibly harmful
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by shakes_mcjunkie 5y ago
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying.
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by shakes_mcjunkie 5y ago
Given the long history of the US culture broadly being anti-left, what possible slogan could there be that's "aspirational and adaptable and unassailable". I think you put effort into a slogan but it's pretty much imposs
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by shakes_mcjunkie 5y ago
What slogan have you heard is "A slogan that is supremely dunkable by one side yet scratches the itch on the other is going to surface like curds in spoiled milk". No slogan is going to be 100% perfect because it's compressin
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by shakes_mcjunkie 5y ago
My point about "Make America Great Again" is anyone can be like "I don't get it what does it mean though?" which happened a lot from liberals and left for this slogan specifically. Conservatives get the benefit of b
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by shakes_mcjunkie 5y ago
> strongly implies something that the movement allegedly doesn't actually support Who do you mean when you say "the movement"?
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by shakes_mcjunkie 5y ago
> Every time, liberal progressives hop on these movements and attempt to sanewash them; every time, the radicals proudly push towards extremes. The trouble for these radical movements comes, often, when their vision meets reality. Mass p
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by shakes_mcjunkie 5y ago
Is it really surprising that all kinds of different people are a part of a political movement? You would find this same kind of diversity of thought in any group of people.
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by shakes_mcjunkie 5y ago
You could say literally the same thing about any political slogan. For example, please explain "government accountability" or "serve the people"? That literally could be anything. Another example, "Medicare for All&
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by shakes_mcjunkie 5y ago
> It's a more hardcore lifestyle change, but it can also be a psychologically simpler ruleset to follow. It's a hardcore change but "simple" to follow? Isn't that part of the problem? The physical and mental are