2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
Here’s the thing when it comes to that who’s left or liberal and who isn’t.
Jimmy Dore can be a Liberal or left so can anyone else.
It’s like being a feminist and suggesting that other feminist just can’t be horrible people.
One thing isn’t tied to another. Now I do and will call someone else out who isn’t really left or liberal. But never simply as an insult or to gatekeep.
I just rather be clear about what things are, but that again has nothing to do with someone being a POS.
That said Jimmy Dore is a fucking moron, he’s a cheap suit sell out just Joe Rogan etc, who in hearing people talk about being a sellout.
Bottom line is it’s game it’s about $$$$$$ at the end of the day.
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis
And I am asking you what he claimed to be, you can't even answer this.
If he never claimed to be anything, then how is false self-identification even relevant to Biden?
You do realize it's because it's an internet forum that I should question the motives of a far-right concern troll rather than Biden because at least I would get a response from the former?
"My successes are my own, but my failures are due to extremist leftist liberals" - Party of Personal Responsibility
Prediction for the future
I mean, you call yourself a left-wing progressive but you are sympathetic to and supportive of far-right ideology, of course your self-identification is going to be criticized. In the meantime, did Biden claim to be left-wing or whatever to have his self-identification questioned?
You are an intellectually dishonest actor who's just shamelessly projecting their own personal flaws on others.
"My successes are my own, but my failures are due to extremist leftist liberals" - Party of Personal Responsibility
Prediction for the future
"My successes are my own, but my failures are due to extremist leftist liberals" - Party of Personal Responsibility
Prediction for the future
I remember when he was working for TYT that at some point I got do disgusted with him that I started to understand that he is part of the group that he has a right-wing mindset but that at best he probably like drugs and don't think that gay people need to be "cured".
The guy started repeating right-wing propaganda talking-points on TYT, how Clinton killed Seth Rich and how the laugh of julian assange confirmed this theory. Put a transcript of what Dore says and what Alex Jones says and you probably would have a hard time determining who said what.
What truth is there in complaining about mermaids at the DNC? Just because you are repeating the same thing RNC convention was saying about leftist, doesn’t make it the truth.
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Their truth is what matters to people is not healthcare, not housing, not the minimum wage, not authoritarianism, not the environment, not even labels for what’s contained in food you buy... their truth and what they consider important, is democrats launching an invasion of mermaids that will attack the sea, Jewish laser that will attack space and satan will rule the land...
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Obviously.
The Democrats are a centrist party, with both center-left and center-right members. AOC and Bernie are center-left, Biden and Clinton more center-right.
I can't recall any time when Biden self-identitied as progressive or left-wing, himself; he mostly speaks to policy and party.
If you were arguing that Democrats are all left-wing, you'd be the one mischaracterizing the party because you're too focused on its relative position to the GOP, rather than am objective analysis of its members' views.
Its fun to do. This forum would be a lot more boring without him.
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And it was very clear that the sort of liberalism I was talking about is the capitalist one, because that is the one OP follows. And that definition of liberalism really only seems to get used in the US by... liberals. I don't really see anybody left-of-centre who self-identifies as liberal, its meaningless to try and turn liberalism into that wide of a label when its not. Even if a lot of liberals these days support moderate regulations, it does not change its a capitalist ideology. Or has the far right calling everything they don't like as 'liberal communism' broke the US liberals?
Claiming punk is any way liberal is just silly, even with the bands who just use it a label to make money.
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So doubling down on the deliberately dishonest insistence that classical liberalism is all liberalism and modern liberalism doesn't exist, ignoring pretty much the entire 20th Century development of modern liberalism in the process.
Your position here is just definitively incorrect.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_liberalism
Classical liberalism as a term has seen a resurgence, but outside of the last decade or so has largely not been what anyone would plainly use "liberal" to describe itself, as its all 18th and 19th Century principles, resurrected. Just use the more-mdern label; libertarian.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Im not saying all liberals are classic liberals, i'm saying all liberals are capitalists. Wanting regulations within capitalism does not change that it is capitalist. Or do you think European countries where not capitalist during the era where social democratic parties where in centrist coalitions with liberal/christian democrat parties?
I mean look at the OP, we all know he was the biggest Biden fanboy on this forum during the primaries, how the fuck is he not a liberal capitalist?
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He is using the Liberal definition that only gets used by right-wing US parties/factions. Ignoring the part that no left-wing political force labels themselves as liberal, not even in the US.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
This is fundamentally meaningless, then. The vast majority of politicians in the developed world are capitalists. Nobody in the USA who's won election has been an avowed socialist for at least 70ish years (and I can't be arsed to check). Not even Bernie or AOC are socialist.
Speaking as a socialist myself, and who can point to Canadians like Tommy Douglas who absolutely were, to be clear.
I guess the problem is that you think "liberal capitalist" is a bad thing.I mean look at the OP, we all know he was the biggest Biden fanboy on this forum, how the fuck is he not a liberal capitalist?
*Ahem*He is using the Liberal definition that only gets used by right-wing US parties/factions. Ignoring the part that no left-wing political force labels themselves as liberal, not even in the US.
https://liberal.ca/
They've shifted more centrist lately, but they were decidedly left-wing in the past. The shift to the center has been, if anything, a response to the NDP and an attempt to distinguish the two.
And regardless; you were speaking to liberalism in general, rather than strict political labelling. There's a reason I self-identify as a "liberal market socialist", y'know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_socialism
What, exactly, do you find amusing about that?
I support the complete dismantling of capitalist ownership systems to replace them with worker-owned collectives and such other socialist systems. That's socialism. I'm not an idiot and I know that's not gonna happen in my lifetime, and since I don't support the use of violence for political reformation outside of resistance to oppression, I'm perfectly content to work within the system as it exists.
Dang, they're saying I could monetize my schtick? NAw, that would be gauche and lame. I refuse to get paid, even in turnips. I do collect all of the tears of trumpers, putinbots and berniebros. I use them to water my community garden.
Anyways, the original article is doing great work. It summarizes the Right Wing origins of so many dirtbaggers.
Infracted.
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So you don't understand practicality and incrementalism, then.
Yeah; I'm not gonna pick up a gun and try and rally my dozens of fellow liberal socialists into rising up and tearing down the captialists by force. And there's no way I can bring about that kind of sweeping change politically in the short term. That leaves me with "putting on my big-boy pants and working within the system to bring about reform over time, piece by piece".
Honestly, those attitudes are really telling.
Those people aren't left-wingers. They don't give a shit about anything Bernie stands for. They're just anarchists who want to see everything torn down. Not to rebuild anything new in its place, they're entirely focused on solely lashing out. I have no idea where they got the idea that Bernie would have been a figurehead for that, but they did. And that's why they'd have had no problem shifting to Trump, because he offers the same potential for tearing the status quo apart.
To contrast with my self-defense of my own socialist views, I'm entirely focused on what I want to build, as a society, and have no interest in causing the status quo to collapse until we've got that new model ready to put in its place.
The thing is, Bernie embraced these people to boost his campaign(s).
- He courted their support.
- He went on their podcasts.
- He gave them major positions on his campaign staff.
It became a problem in very early 2016 and sustained until 2020. It was very frustrating as an early supporter.
For me, the lesson is to not even flirt or play footsie with these people to begin with. Their intentions were obvious all along.