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Michael's avatar

No, little dummy.

I live fully in 2024, aware of a whole world existing in 2024, unlike the provincial jingoballs that populate these threads.

Seeger was a lifelong socialist.

Now you can pretend that the gap-toothed halfwits and iron-pumping bros of the New Right/MAGAt Populists are inheritors of the old folkie left just as you can probably pretend that the millions of people killed by the American Capitalist War Machine were actually just killed by a soft ice cream machine gone loopy. That would be typical.

But "the left" doesn't love Dick Cheney. Your mirror image "America Fuck Yeah!" warpigs of the Democratic Party loves Dick Cheney.

The left loathes all of y'all.

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William Taylor's avatar

So, Harris/Waltz for you then?

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BookWench's avatar

Michael is a Canadian Maoist, which explains a lot.

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Michael's avatar

I honestly think if I were American I wouldn't have voted after about 1976.

But these days I'd vote Trump just to watch the fucking shithole burn.

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Bull Hubbard's avatar

And what glass house in what shithole do you infest, wise guy? I'm sure you're afraid to disclose it to avoid criticism.

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Anti-Hip's avatar

There are Rightists who prioritize the fundamental right of freedom. There are Leftists prioritizing equality/fairness in justifiable reaction to excesses of Rightists. And there are Totalitarians who prioritize themselves. Guess who runs the West?

The pro-democracy Left was hijacked long ago by pro-vanguard (Totalitarian) Marxists in order to upend the ideal of intranational diplomacy ("liberte, egalite, fraternite") in favor of war, until the Totalitarians achieved complete psychological and physical control. They did this by conducted war between classes until 1950s, when they began switching most of the effort to the harder boundaries of "identities". All their wars are deeply hybrid. So their path upward was paved with free speech (a big thing in the mid-20th century), but now that they have wide control, is now on the path to eradication.

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trembo slice's avatar

I think you are stuck time traveling. Also think you’re conflating left and liberal. Dont worry you’ve got company in these threads. Must be a European thing?

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Michael's avatar

It wasn't me who decided that a 1960s protest song written and performed by a socialist and assorted other fellow-travelers was somehow related to a crowd of right wing yahoos howling for Democrat blood in the name of "free speech".

You do get that, right?

And I never conflate "left" (socialist, Marxist, materialist, pro-union, class-based) with "liberal" (capitalist, SJW, race-gender-whatholeyoufuckin obsessed, elite).

Americans, especially those on the right (like most of Matt's fans and followers), are always conflating the two: according to the morons, Kamala is a Communist and Obama was a socialist Muslim and transgender activists are Marxists.

Retarded doesn't begin to describe these people.

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BookWench's avatar

I watched most of Rescue the Republic & didn't notice anyone "howling for Democrat blood." What I saw was a stream of speakers & singers pushing Free Speech. Walter Kirn correctly pointed out that John Kerry had recently wished that he had a hammer so he could create consensus, by eliminating "disinformation." Walter's use of his own childhood memories of protest songs worked perfectly in this context -- at least for those of us who aren't obsessed with communist imagery.

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

Retarded does describe you, though.

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Michael's avatar

It's a pre-existing condition, though.

I thought you money-grubbing fuckwits weren't allowed to concern yourselves?

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Debbie Mitchell's avatar

hmmm so you post:

"I thought you money-grubbing fuckwits weren't allowed to concern yourselves?"

I think you perhaps thought you were thinking, when in reality you were simply spewing. I observe that tendency quite a bit these days. I am curious, though. So if you wouldn't mind answering a question.

How many times have you been Vaccinated and Boosted?

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Michael's avatar

I can’t remember.

My doctor wrote me so many Oxy scrips that he won a trip to the Bahamas and I live in a fog of hunger for fentanyl now and when my blood sugar goes haywire and I can’t afford insulin my local hospital won’t help me because they only do boob jobs on blonde bimbos of the right.

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

Money grubbing? Are you referring to my profession? For like 90+% of my career, I worked for a salary.

As far as liberals, there are none left & they co-opted to term, formerly describing those advocating for classic market economics, & those that survived were driven out of the Democrat party in recent decades, with the coup de grace being Obama’s presidency.

Liberals, leftists, socialists, communists, crony capitalist (aka fascists) end up all being corrupt and exploiting the system for illegitimate profit; & are difficult to dislodge.

That you are still in the camp defending leftist ideology of whatever stripes, reinforces my moron assessment.

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publius_x's avatar

No, but it does describe people with an affinity for Mao Tse Tung.

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Michael's avatar

He was a communist and an active heterosexual who loved to swim and eat spicy food.

What's not to like?

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Bull Hubbard's avatar

The pile of corpses that fertilized the hundred flowers.

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Billy Bob's avatar

Seems Trudeau’s love of China’s form of government has sprung a virus…better close the border again.

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