• amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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    21 days ago

    meanwhile there are two candidates who are actually competing in this race […] one of them has economic proposals that will benefit you and one has proposals that will make your personal financial situation drastically worse

    This is the part where they tell on themself about their true motive. The later part of the video is trying to dress it up in “my morals are actually better somehow because Kamala will be better on XYZ minority rights issue [that there is no evidence she will actually be better on],” such as mentioning trans rights when there’s an interview clip from just a couple of days ago where Kamala is asked her position on it and won’t even come out and just simply saying she supports trans people, instead talking around it about “what the law says” and “what doctors say.”

    I also notice they love to do that thing where they present the opposition as emotional and them as logical. This seems to be a favorite tactic of disparaging “leftists”. Another common angle I see in that kind of ideological space is portraying “leftists” as immature; you can in part see this in stuff like how they’ve tried to say that people become more conservative as they get older. Their strawman opponent isn’t a black woman in her eighties talking about a long history of oppression because they know how bad that would make them look. Their strawman tends to be a high school or college-aged portrayal, of a person stumbling over their words, unable to properly articulate what they believe in, who is blindly led by emotion. One example of this practice is that Crowder guy who, IIRC, would literally go on college campuses and ask people questions, trying to gotcha them to make their ideology look silly.

    They literally murder or imprison the most seasoned revolutionaries where they can get away with it and then say the younger people are irrational for learning from those revolutionaries.

    I digress, but it’s a whole disgusting pattern, is the point. There is no respect given, no consideration that the person they’re trying to mock and undermine might have a point. Only talking down to them from the presumption that they are better than.

    • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
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      20 days ago

      The entire video I’m sitting there thinking “the parody character is actually against genocide, and the heroic character is for genocide”. This matter is so clear-cut that they can’t even mock it successfully if their life depended on it.