JTarrou
11hr ago
Ken Paxton isn't a nationally important race, he has other baggage, and it's Texas. If he were up for the presidency, he'd be Hitler Hisself. Nearly all politicians are adulterers who take bribes, you might as well call just him a politician.
JTarrou
11hr ago
"We called every Republican a Nazi and Hitler Hisself for a century, but Eisenhower was a difficult lift because he just kinda....beat Hitler and Nazism so we left that particular slander to our pet commies" isn't the defense of establishment liberalism you want to pin your hat on.
JTarrou
1d ago
From Grok: From communists and the far left: This is where associations with fascism occasionally appeared. East German Communist leader Wilhelm Pieck in September 1952 attacked Eisenhower’s call for a “crusade against communism” (in a speech to the American Legion) as repeating “the program devised by Adolf Hitler” and using “the language of Hitler and Goebbels.” U.S. Communist Party materials from the period sometimes warned that the Eisenhower administration represented a “sharpened war and fascist danger,” linked McCarthyism and anti-communist policies to fascist tendencies, or framed the Republican victory as heightening fascist risks.
So yeah, same same. The center libs were too circumspect to accuse Eisenhower of fascism directly, but the far left wasn't.
I'll go further and say neither you nor I will ever see a Republican candidate for important office anywhere, ever, who isn't called a Nazi/Fascist/Hitler. Nor will we ever see such a candidate fail to garner some vague rape claims, often by large numbers of anonymous women. The only question is how far toward the center believing such things extends.
JTarrou
3d ago
This tragedy serves as yet another painful reminder that homophobia is still rampant in our country.
Apparently, our country is Gambia. So desperate for the oppression they imagine used to happen in the US, some have resorted to importing their hate from overseas.
When the history books are written, the black muslim Gambian will be a white christian MAGA chud.
Not everyone in respectable left-of-center politics is a communist, but they all are fine with being in the same party/coalition/movement with communists. Is there any principled reason center-right parties have a special duty to ostracize their LARP wing, while the center-left does not?
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