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These are either:
Smeared by other communists, who probably aren't exactly what one thinks about when considering arbiters of what is left and what is right
Are like Jackson Hinkle, ie. genuinely aren't really different from any other MAGA online personage expect for retaining some affectation of portraying themselves as a communist.
Didn't you raise an eyebrow at me for a comment implying Meghan Murphy was right wing?
I don't know if you deleted your comment and this is why my links don't work, or it's some website gremlins (
definitelymost likely gremlins, I swear I saw the comment a moment ago.), but this is my comment where I said:And this was my response to a reponse to the above comment:
And I'm pretty sure directly between the two there was you saying something to the effect of "Meghan Murphy is right wing now?". And now you're saying all commies who are against double mastectomies for 13 year olds are actually MAGA?
Huh? No, I'm not saying that, but there are people identifying as communist - like the aforementioned Hinkle - who, judging by their current feed, really don't much differ from MAGA apart from their support for some official American enemy states like PRC and North Korea (the latter which, of course, Trump made overtures towards during his reign).
Ok, but people like Hinkle also existing doesn't address the point I was raising.
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Sounds like several things are being conflated here:
Populist vs elitist
Activist vs status quo
Down-to-earth vs refined and cultured
Freedom vs regulation
Traditions of folk vs commerce-legible lifestyles
Living from history’s example vs putting history in the rear view mirror
Individualism vs collectivism
Genders according to a reproduction instinct vs a sexual pleasure instinct
These have each been red-coded/blue-coded at some times and politically coded at others.
Of these, the Democrats’ switch to elitism (for example) was as sudden as the Black vote switching after Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.
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I think they were referring to people like Freddie DeBoer, who is calls himself and is quite clearly a socialist/Marxist, but ruffles a lot of progressive (woke) feathers by criticizing by criticising identity politics. Pretty much anyone that's liked by the subreddit stupidpol.
DeBoer ruffles feathers, but I don't remember him being called a far-right reactionary.
Pretty much anyone who ruffles their feathers gets called a reactionary, or some similar term. Including DeBoer.
Pretty much anyone who wades into politics and culture-war issues, and has some level of name recognition, gets called various names online. But by whom? Randos on Twitter? D-list freelancers on Ghost? Daily Beast-level progressive pundits? The NYT?
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