• Vestria@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Of course it’s just more performative MAGA nonsense, cutting off the nose to spite the face and calling it “owning the libs.”

    These people wouldn’t know Marxist ideology if it slapped them across the face, it’s just another buzzword in the same vein as “socialist” and “leftist” and “communist” (read: “anything I don’t like”).

    The constant aggressive anti-intellectualism is exhausting.

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      1 year ago

      I think “owning the libs” is a desirable side-effect and not their main goal.

      Their main goal is to keep the lower class voters ignorant and uneducated so that history can be denied and they can be more easily manipulated into voting for right wingers using appeals to emotion (e.g. hatred, racism, patriotism, way of life). This is of course to keep power where it is.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t disagree with you, I was merely commenting on their stated reasons for the vote, as mentioned in the article.

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    1 year ago

    The tweet that has their panties in a twist:

    I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is president elect of ALA. I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity. And my mom is so proud. I love you mom.