I had to look at this three times to figure out whether it was a troll or not, and I’m still not sure. But ok, I’ll bite.
I’m an American citizen, and while I was a pretty angry neocon as a college student in the early 2000s, I settled down into a much more open, responsive, empathetic conservatism by 2008-2010 or so. And for about ten years, my politics didn’t change a bit. I still voted for smaller government, I still voted against wars (super funny in retrospect), I still voted in favor of my values (which also didn’t change).
But in that timespan, the far right worked themselves into a lather about Obama, a fury that I didn’t (and still don’t) quite understand apart from cable news stoking the fire; yeah, I disagreed with a lot of his policies, but I certainly never wished him dead. To everyone else, though, he was the antichrist. And so I watched as friends of mine went down the rabbit hole, getting more and more worked up and rabid. When Trump came down the escalator in 2015, I thought it was a blip, and we (conservatives) would collectively realize how far off the rails we had gone.
Instead, I got death threats. My kids got death threats. From people who used to be my friends, all because I dared say that I didn’t think Trump was a good choice. And, remember, my opinions and values hadn’t changed over the previous decade or so.
Since then, it’s gotten much, much worse. And, in fairness, I’ve seen how much I had been lied to, even before Trump, and moved over to the left as a result; but the right wing has gone so far over the edge that some of the posts I made on Facebook in 2005-2006—at the peak of my conservative rage, the stuff that was basically just Sean Hannity talking points—I’m seeing MAGAs pillorying Democrats making those same points for being “radical woke communists.” I’m not talking about similar viewpoints. I’m talking about nearly identical wording, in some cases.
So, no. This meme is absolutely bonkers, in a way that’s so obviously backwards as to bewilder, and the best way to prove it is to point out that George W(MDs in Iraq) Bush opposed Trump. MAGA has moved the window of acceptable political thought so far to the right that today’s Democrats sound like 2008’s Republicans, yet they’re being called socialists. Some of MAGA’s “centrists” are actively looking to rehabilitate the words “nationalist” and “Nazi.” “Small government,” “personal liberty,” and “values voters” are considered left-of-center ideals. At this point even Ronald Reagan would’ve been considered a “lefty” to this new-look GOP.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Oh fuck off already
It’s the exact opposite of what you’re showing here, and at this point you can’t be that naive to believe what you just posted. Stop trolling
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, that picture is pretty accurate. Im 48 years old. I live in Scotland, Im a left wing socialist. But to Americans, which is a fucking laugh considering they have no left wing party, Im pretty much a nazi. Even though, I havent moved my opinion on any issue in over 30 years.
Social media has made you all insane. You dont have opinions of your own, you the endless chase for up arrows. At best you get your opinions for talking heads on youtube, telling what you think, what to feel about whatever fucking nonsense is making the rounds to get your engaged and clicking. Make no mistake, if being an actual nazi was the popular thing, youd all be doing it. Thats how fucking sad you are.
sexhaver87@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I believe you’ve got the political spectrum confused. I’m not sure, as you’re going on about the woes of unregulated social media while actively posting memes as a form of discussion on a social media and then going on to complain about guns being removed from posters, so I’m not too entirely sure what you’re on about. I think I can understand that you’ve got things mixed up, however. The NSDAP, despite their name, was extremely far-right.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, Im not talking about the woes of unregulated social media. Im talking about all the spoon eating cunts who cant think for themselves anymore, and repeat popular thing for up arrows. Regulation isnt going to stop dumb people from being dumb.
The connection between the two, is that you’ve all gone so far off the reservation, you associate the image of a gun on poster for a light hearted action adventure movie as condoning violence. Or worse, removed it because it might be triggering to some people.
I really didnt think it was that hard to follow, but here we are.
TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I don’t remember deciding (as a member of the global progressive committee) that Amazon needed to censor James Bond posters. And the page you linked doesn’t indicate the censorship pressure came from any government agency.
It sounds like something a company did for their own reasons. Surely you know this, so why would you blame it on the left, especially in the context of the American left?
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Prominent internet leftist: Amazon.
My dude if you’re upset with what Amazon is doing, nobody here is going to be able to help you and pretty much everybody here is in agreement that Amazon sucks.
How does this have anything to do with what you’re talking about?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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I think, from what you’re saying, that you’re saying the exact same thing as all of us, just accidentally the other way around.
It’s the right that is moving the goal posts completely