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WayeeCool [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 年前

'I'm not a progressive': Fetterman breaks with the left, showing a maverick side

www.nbcnews.com

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'I'm not a progressive': Fetterman breaks with the left, showing a maverick side

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WayeeCool [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 年前
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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has drawn fire from progressives over his fierce support for Israel and broken with immigration advocates with his support for curtailing migration.
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  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
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    football-lucy

    • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
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      Also imagine branding someone that is just doing the literal status quo as a maverick. Liberal media, not even once

      • 420stalin69@hexbear.netdeleted by creator
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        NBC News endorsing the notion that the woke mob run culture via tweets while the brave government does what it can to stop them from ruining everything for the hard workers.

  • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    glasses-off maverick

    glasses-on right wing freak

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    Probably not surprising at all, but amazing how Israel has caused all the Democrats people here somewhat liked to show their true colors.

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      Eventually you’ve seen enough scratched liberals to fully internalize that liberalism is the moderate wing of fascism.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Spoiler Alert: I never liked him.

      • Hohsia [any]@hexbear.net
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        gigachad

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      I just thought it would be funny to get another giant bald guy in a position of power

      Jesse Ventura has given me years of entertainment

      • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Jesse Ventura was never this bad, not that he was ever perfect

        • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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          I know

          Plus he helped stop Secundus

  • CDommunist [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    Fetterman is good representation of many US citizens. Mildly left wing on economics, mixed on social issues, doesn’t give a shit about the actual consequences of foreign policy

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    Yet all leftists and progressives will get blame from his supporters if he loses next election.

    Noooo you have to vote for him even though he says he in no way represents you… noooo you can’t just call him a liar for pretending to be progressive

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      He’ll definitely lose but now he has the good health insurance for life.

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    If by maverick they mean “like John McCain” then sure, whatever, get in the pit maverick

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      Being a “maverick” is when you get absorbed by the blob and become an unthinking vessel for its will

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        Do you at least get a cool pseudopod to use

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    Fetterman becoming the new Joe Manchin was not on my bingo card

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      Don’t blame me I voted for stroke.

  • CDommunist [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    socdem supports empire

    shocked-pikachu shocked-pikachu shocked-pikachu

    “progressive” in US politics means that you aren’t a 100% neolib. If you are 80% neolib you are still progressive

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    Anyone who remotely runs as a progressive in this country: “LOL PSYCH! I’M RIGHT WING!”

    Normies: “Wooooow…this clearly is a condemnation on anything left-wing as a whole.”

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      hypersus

      Of course that policy is radically leftist you damn commie, your chairman Bernie voted against it smuglord

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    go ahead. keep screaming "Shut The Fuck Up " at me. it only makes my opinions Worse

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    Praying for Comrade Another Stroke

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      the stroke giveth and the stroke taketh away lenin-sleeping

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      Maybe his next stroke will turn him into Parenti

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    Liberals called him progressive to beat a tv doctor lmao. He was never actually progressive.

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    Candidate in the election: I am literally Vladimir Lenin

    Candidate after the election: I am literally John McCain

    (Probably replace Lenin with Bernie Sanders or Corbyn if you’re being less hyperbolic)

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.netBannedBanned from community
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      Where did that bring you? Back to me

      • Hohsia [any]@hexbear.net
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        To Glenn Greenwald serving Meghan McCain

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    This is pretty much every Democrat but you’re going to hear about how he’s absolutely necessary because his opponent wants to nuke the Three Gorges Dam and send every arab-American into a concentration camp.

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      his opponent wants to nuke the Three Gorges Dam

      Most libs probably want this too, they’re just as insanely anti China as chuds these days

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        Yeah exactly what I was going to say

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      deeper-sadness

      We’ve officially reached that point (may have always been here) but seems more blatant these days.

      Your lesser of two evils lineup, everyone!

      “I support the right of the settlers to continue their extinguishment”

      Vs

      “The white race must be protected at all costs to ensure a society for women and children”

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      From the same people who want to nuke St Petersburg and put every migrant in a concentration camp

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        Yeah it’s always confusing to me how they tell you the Republican is bad for doing everything they want them to do with their foreign policy

    • GeorgeZBush [he/him]@hexbear.netBanned
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      I feel like the only option now is to sit back, watch America stumble its way into WW3, and hope there’s something to organize from the rubble of the world.

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    This’ll teach me to not participate in bourgeois elections ever again.

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