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   CandyK (lovelylovely@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:13:05 JST CandyK

   • CandyK

   @lovelylovely

   Know the difference between Progressive & the radical left that has cost us two elections.

   Democrats must confront this problem now.

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:13:04 JST Robert Link

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     @lovelylovely Elsewhere in my feed is a Heather Cox Richardson piece about a 1930s or '40s Army pamphlet on fascism, which points out the fascists will offer the false-bifurcation (only two options) and then claim anyone who isn't one of their is the loathsome other, usually "communist" or "lefitst." So I don't think "Dems" are to blame here. The fascists don't distinguish between progressives, centrists, moderates, and bomb-throwing anarchists. There's simply MAGAt-Nazis and commies.

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:40:44 JST Robert Link

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     @lovelylovely I think the repeal of the fairness doctrine and the success of the right-wing infotainment machine cost us the election, if you actually care, what I think. I think misogyny cost us the election. I think racism cost us the election. I think the toll of those forces vastly outweighs the the effect of 3rd party spoilers like RFK or Jill Stein or West, or any of the nutjobs who said Gaza was their reason to not get aboard the #HarrisWalz2024 train.

     ymmv

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     CandyK (lovelylovely@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:40:45 JST CandyK

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     • Robert Link

     @phaedral If you don't believe the far-left among other issue cost us the election" you're fucking blind, NoOne is blaming Democrats even tho their decision making during this past election contribute to our defeat, Democrats are not leftist You are in many ways at the End of your toot making my point.

     Democrats/Republicans?

     MAGA-Far-right/MAGA Far-left.

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     CandyK (lovelylovely@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:43:20 JST CandyK

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     • Robert Link
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     @TruthSandwich @phaedral

     They can't see my toot?

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:43:20 JST Robert Link

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     @lovelylovely @TruthSandwich@fedi.truth-sandwich.com This toot doesn't seem to connect to anything. I'm guessing you meant to continue the conversation about leftists v progressives?

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     Truth Sandwich 🇺🇸😱💀 (truthsandwich@fedi.truth-sandwich.com)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:43:22 JST Truth Sandwich 🇺🇸😱💀

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     • Robert Link

     @phaedral @lovelylovely

     You can't see this post because you're on a censored server, but you're wrong.

     We have more than the fascist populists and socialist populists. There are plenty of liberals and even some conservatives.

     However, the two populist extremes have far more in common with each other than with the more moderate people closer to them.

     The socialist populists are legitimately socialist. Many are unapologetically communist. And all are authoritarian.

     #uspol

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:48:16 JST Robert Link

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     @lovelylovely I truly don't know enough about Tlaib to have a strong opinion, but if she's got a seat as a democrat she's hardly far left. And, as a Palestinian I am a little more sympathetic to her wrongheadedness. It's an emotional thing, seeing one's people decimated.

     And she /still/ should have seen that by attacking #HarrisWalz2024 she was in fact aiding and abetting MAGA.

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     CandyK (lovelylovely@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:48:17 JST CandyK

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     • Robert Link

     @phaedral Totally, And who orchestrated the Uncommitted "Free-Palestine bullshit?

     I'm wait...The far-left #Rashida_tlaib and?

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     CandyK (lovelylovely@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:57:05 JST CandyK

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     • Robert Link

     @phaedral Well I know quite a lot about Tlaib and she's poisonous. Did you forget that Trump is president?

     This is Tlaib District, Dearborn Michigan