Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad?
Plurrbear@lemmy.world 17 hours agoTHANK YOU! This helped me understand so much! I am just trying to wrap my head around what’s going on currently and what happened in history and how it’s melting together, so honestly thank you!
I appreciate you not attacking me and being religion into it and just explaining it to me in reality and to the point. So seriously, thank you!
ethaver@kbin.earth 16 hours ago
Yeah I lurk around r/conservative and hubs still lurks on the remains of Twitter just because we both a) can't look away and b) think it's important to understand what's going on over there.
I usually see stuff said like "they're not actually antifascists that's just a misdirection to cover their real fascist ideologies." Which is a genuine strategy in political propaganda. People use all kinds of labels to cover up all kinds of awful shit.
Really the only way around that is to focus less on labels overall and focus more on individuals and either thoughts on or even more importantly actual specific real world actions. I don't know what political label people would put me under.
A lot of my local politicians last year were listed independent. I picked the one that wanted to expand the bus lines. I think a fetus is a human being but that it doesn't have a right to use a woman's body without her continuous consent. I think the rich have broken a bunch of the social contracts they made to avoid bloodshed and that something bloody is inevitable more than it even is desirable. I'm thinking that next time there's political unrest in my area I should just sit on an out of the way street corner with a sign that says "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES."
Dunno what any of that makes me but I'd like to find more of us if possible. Sometimes labels help that, sometimes they don't. Wish I had a better or cleaner answer fire you.
Plurrbear@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
No honestly, this is the best comment I’ve heard all night you came and told me exactly what I needed to hear without provocation and without hate but more or less just giving me the answers that it was actually asking in my question, so thank you! It was not religion. I know I asked it, but it wasn’t an attack to me and mine just asking if that’s why they believe, so thank you honestly, just THANK YOU!