• freagle@lemmy.ml
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      17 hours ago

      Platner has presented zero class analysis. 90% of his anti-war position is “we should spend that money at home”. And best he’s a sheep dog social Democrat like Bernie and AOC. At worst he’ll just slide right over his career because he won’t actually address his past.

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      16 hours ago

      What does that even mean? You know that war is the continuation of politics by other means, right? The class war is entirely political.

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          Do you mean the “political spectrum” as in democrats and republicans? There’s a ton outside that narrow spectrum.

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          Their political allegiance is capitalism. They’re all power hungry fascists, regardless of what political affiliation they claim on paper.

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          15 hours ago

          And there’s your problem.

          They’ve convinced you that Democrat® and Republican® are on opposite sides of the political spectrum when they’re actually on the same side. They’re both right-wing parties. There is no left side to speak of in the US.

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            That’s not true. There are very “liberal” wealthy people who are just as much a part of the problem as the “conservative” wealthy people. It’s the wealth that’s the problem. There is more than enough to go around. Wealthy people, of all sides of the spectrum, are terrible at sharing.

            If we looked at them like they were in the animal kingdom, we would think something was wrong with them.

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              There are very “liberal” wealthy people who are just as much a part of the problem as the “conservative” wealthy people.

              Yeah, because liberalism and conservatism are both right wing ideologies. The line between left and right is: who should own the means of production? Both liberals and conservatives want private ownership, while socialists want public ownership.

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    18 hours ago

    Bottom line every policy platner is calling for, is the exact opposite of nazi rhetoric. Meanwhile musk is retweeting great replacement theory posts and bolstering white suppremicist groups.

    In a vacume I’d have given musks Nazi salute a pass. Symbols can be mistaken and mis-given. Were it not at a time when he… literally was not just not banning, or unbanning white supremacists on twitter, but explicitly re-tweeting and bolstering them as well, it wouldn’t have meant much.