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When “they” make a statement it’s bad, when “we” make a statement it’s good.
It’s pretty standard tribalist thinking.
Whilst not at all exclusive to people of the Far Right (it’s a natural tendency in all of us which, IMHO, we need to be alert for and stop it when it pops up in ourselves), tribalism it is the core (maybe even the entire foundation) of Far Right authoritarian “ideologies” (the non-authoritarian ones, like Neoliberalism, also exploit other human cognitive weaknesses).
Yes, the difference is see is that the liberal tent is bigger, so bullshit tends to get called out more. Not always but slightly better.
The right is such a unit, they literarily had no problem voting for a rapist, insurrectionist, criminal because he had a R next to his name. It’s scary group think.
Whilst it’s my impression that the Left tends to have more people who challenge such thinking, I would say that the phenomenom of Tankies shows that part of the Left are just as purelly tribalist as the Far Right.
That said, Liberal and Left aren’t the same thing and, at least judging by the posts I see in Lemmy from American Democrat Party supporters, most are just as tribalist as the Republicans, just loyal to a different tribe. Similarly those whose take on Equality is that it’s a war of identities are hugelly tribalist: I don’t think you can go around seeing people as being divided in groups defined by genetics alone (rather than, say, individual behaviour) and claim that people from certain genetically-defined groups are inherently good or bad, without being a tribalist.
In my observation its pretty common for uncritical bubbles to form around “Identities” because criticism of the structure, fairness or effectiveness of the general ideolical thinking itself is quickly branded as an insult to the Identity and all people deemed to belong to it, and this happens just as much with the Fascist “identities” (such as how criticizing the Israeli Genocide, that is labelled anti-semitism) as with the Neoliberal “identities” (such as how if you point out the unequal treatement of men and women in Courts when it comes to custody of the children on a divorce, that is label anti-Women).
Amongst people with Liberal-leanings I would say that maybe the ones who are also Left-leaning or those whose Liberalism is pure (i.e. genuinelly about Freedom equally for all, which curiously also makes them a lot more Left since Money and Ownership in our society de facto control most Freedom) are the ones with less tendency to be tribalist. Then again, that’s a pretty sophisticated political position to take and I don’t really think there is any big group out there pushing it as a “packaged” slogan-heavy full ideology, so maybe those people just don’t have much of a tribe to feel like they belong to.
Ugh yeah, that’s how hypocrisy works.
My problem with the left photo is he could be kneeling on a Nazi.
It’s a similar comparison to Luigi Mangione
One person was responsible for killing or leading to the deaths of thousands and possibly millions of people to an early death - no one bats an eye
One person was responsible for directly killing one other person - the whole country loses their minds
It’s not just the Fascist Far-Right who exploit the human tendency for Tribalism, the Neoliberal Far-Right does it too, they just mix it a bit more with exploiting other cognitive weaknesses in human beings.
That said, the latter political group did fail miserably in getting people to feel like the Healthcare Insurer CEO “is one of us” and Luigi “is one of them” possibly because all the usual group definitions the Neolibs tried to push to get people into group-oriented thinking on the side of the CEO (strivers vs skivers, family man vs lone wolf and so on - just read the newspaper articles and you’ll spot the framing) failed as people already felt more like the victims of businesses like Healthcare Insurance than “winners” of the profits such business make.
Oh yeah, Luigi definitely came up as a topic of discussion over the holidays when I was visiting the conservative side of my family. I considered it a win that they at least acknowledged that the legal system and media works differently for the rich and powerful. I mean, common ground is common ground.
So much of this is filtered through the national corporate media. Quite a few people bat an eye at the vulgar abuse of power by insurance adjusters. But they aren’t afforded a platform on your Cable News outlet of choice.
Vanishingly few people were sympathetic towards an unknown CEO of a notoriously skinflint insurance company. But he was lionized and eulogized on every national news station.
In the same vein, most people slept through Kapernick taking a knee. It wasn’t properly news until weeks after he first did it, in large part because it took that long for right-wing anchors to notice. By contrast, the Elon Fascist Dab was headline news within seconds of him performing it and only got talked down to “Autistic Man’s Arm Just Did That And It’s Ablest Of You To Notice” after days of equivocating in papers and news channels of record.
The Consent, folks. Its being Manufactured.
Omfg I’m gonna stab someone. How the hell are they trying to use autism as an explanation?
This is not how any of this works. You don’t start stimming in a perfect right wing gesture. He never did something like this before in public. He also doesn’t look startled or anything.
I’m mad now. How did this chipmunk become a government advisor? I want him to trip on Lego so bad.
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whole countryruling class loses their minds
Now that you mention it, this is fairly accurate in my social / familial sphere. For a lot of folks it’s more about race than politics, though.
I mean… wasn’t race kind of the Nazis’ whole thing?
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Remember when they boycotted the NFL: they were never going to watch woke NFL again. And NBA. And Target. And Bud Light.
How’d that work out? Where are they now?
Right back where they always were.
That unnecessary comma makes this read like a command
Some people have a problem with the left photo, some with the right photo. And some are furious because of THAT FUCKING COMMA!!!
why use an Oxford comma when you can just
can just end the fucking sentence.
I actually like it, but, I suppose, I like to use commas.
Commas are great for lists, and for combining two sentences into one using a conjunction like and, or, but, etc.; like I just did.
If you made each side of the comma a sentence then arguably neither would make a complete sentence.
In your opinion, were there too many commas in my original comment? (Serious question)
Edit: just because I’m curious. I like my writing to be at least somewhat proper.
but, you know, english isn’t everybods native language, so i don’t give a fuck, if someone puts a comma somewhere, where they shouldn’t.
I don’t mind all of the commas except the last 3. I think the comment should have ended after “fuck”.
Well yeah obviously. One picture is people that care about their country.
Spot on.
White man’s overbite included.
Not a meme
Yes exactly
What is the Grey Wolves Salute.
