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Lmao at “mildly egocentric demands”.
Is there any more condescending way to express the thought “YOU SHOULD BE WILLING TO SACRIFICE YOUR HEALTH AND WELLBEING FOR THE GOOD OF THE STATE”?
I just can’t imagine the sort of brain-disease necessary to think that 1.) the State, as it exists, is worthy of sacrifice 2.) imperialist war good 3.) you should be willing to suffer discomfort or death so your masters can prosecute a war on the other side of the world against a people who are not remotely a threat to anyone living in this country.
I can remember, back in middle-school, when they taught us the difference between liberalism and fascism (or maybe it was democracy and totalitarianism) they said fascism is defined by “the glorification of the state above the individual.”
Love how /r/neoliberal interprets “demanding Biden to deliver on $2000 checks immediately” as demanding that Biden (with a majority in both houses of congress) be a dictator.
They’re being disingenuous on purpose.
They literally always twist the words of their critics to spread ridiculous smears like this.
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I mean the stimulus checks and Syria airstrike are good examples of this.
“You want the Democrats to fulfill their lies promises and send $2,000 checks immediately? Do you think the President is a dictator, he’s actually powerless! You’re saying Trump exercised such power regularly and we’re just choosing not to? Do you literally want Biden to act like Trump, a fascist?”
“Oh you’re against dropping bombs on Syria? Well we didn’t drop bombs on Syria per say, we dropped bombs on Iranian-backed militias.” (The way they’re spinning this is to make it seem like these are Iranian-based terrorists or w/e who have entered Syria to fight) “Also this strike was retaliatory for their attacks on American Troops. Are you against this country defending its soldiers?”
Both of these arguments are willfully ignoring the actual arguments left-wing critics are making. Those being “The Democrats have the power to fulfill their promises, they are just consciously choosing not use it and were lying the whole time” and “They’re attacking US troops because the US is doing imperialism and destroying and occupying their country. You can literally just leave and these attacks wouldn’t happen. Stop destroying Middle Eastern countries” respectively. They know these are the arguments, but they have no real response to them, so instead they ignore them and argue past them to try and portray left-wing critics of the Democrats as fringe loonies.
I don’t see how unilaterally deciding to murder people in a sovereign nation is suddenly cool and good if they were also foreigners.
I also made the mistake of going into the thread, and they are incredibly horny. Neolib influencer seems to be an untapped market.