• Kalkaline
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      114 months ago

      They didn’t like John McCain, so they lumped him in with the rest of us.

    • @thesporkeffect@lemmy.world
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      84 months ago

      The upside of that is it works against their overton window dragging, if you are going to be called a commie leftist no matter what might as well lean into it

      • @volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
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        44 months ago

        How does it work against overton window dragging if saying “maybe people should stop dying of preventable disease in the wealthiest country on earth” gets you labelled a communist? It’s precisely the sign that the overton window is shifted to the far right

        • @eldavi@lemmy.ml
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          14 months ago

          i think it works against leftist’s goals we they lean into the straw man description of a tankie; it’s turns off liberals a lot