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In reply to the discussion: Can someone please give me names of some in the alt-left [View all]Blue_Tires
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which is a left bros paradise... At least a third of the 'prominent', high-follower leftist accounts are emo...
The telltale signs --
Does the person spend more than 90% of his/her time hating on Obama, Bill/Hillary/Chelsea, and so-called "mainstream" Dems?
Does this person give Trump a pass on issues that he was up in arms about when Obama was running things?
Does he use words like "establishment", "neoliberalism", "imperialist", etc. way too often?
Does he think Putin is a cool guy, and Assad an sympathetic figure?
Does he ignore innocent victim counts from Russian airstrikes?
Does he try to connect EVERY global problem to U.S. policy somehow?
Does he try to connect EVERY national problem to the Democratic party?
With a straight face, is he able to argue why Ossoff wasn't "progressive" and why Mello is?
Does he criticize the anti-Trump crowd more often than he criticizes Trump?
Does he blame Hillary for Trump winning, while ignoring the Comey letter and Russian interference?
Did he scream for weeks about KremlinGate being a nothingburger with no evidence and now that evidence has come out (and continues to come out), has he tried to pretend that story doesn't exist?
Late last summer, was he screaming up and down about either staying home or voting third party, with his "Both candidates are the same" -bullshit? And is he still unrepentant for doing so?
Is he a hardline binary thinker? Is he one of those "Either the Dem candidate matches my personal politics 100% or I'm staying home!!" -absolutists? Does he have a purity test that no one person will ever meet?
Is he one of the people this week railing on Obama for daring to accept money for a speech? Did he rail on Chelsea and the Clinton Foundation last fall, but is silent about Ivanka doing the same and worse?
Is this person an self-styled unqualified expert on managing campaigns and winning races from a "Monday Morning Quarterback" perspective? Does he act like it's only the 'other people' who have skin in the game and never him? Does he seem like the type who has never done real volunteer legwork for a campaign in his entire life??
Did he support Brexit and Calexit? Is he indirectly supporting Le Pen in French elections? And do you have the sneaking suspicion that this is the first time he's EVER paid fucking attention to the French election despite pretending that he's some well-read worldly pundit??
Is every other sentence from him "BERNIE WOULD HAVE WON!!! BERNIE IS THE MOST POPULAR POLITICIAN IN THE COUNTRY!!" And is he still trying to reverse the outcome of the 2016 primary??
Did he not seem all that sad after Trump won? Even worse, did he grow some smug, smirky, shiteating celebratory "I told you so!" demeanor with fellow Dems, and continues to wave it in our faces today??
Does he not really seem to give a rat's ass about local/state/congressional races? Is he hellbent on building his "revolution" from the top-down? Is he one of those once-every-four-years voters??
Does he tweet/post angry? Is he a little too glib and snarky for his own good?
Did he ever say "But Bernie doesn't even need the black vote to win the primary, we'll win easily without them!"
Does he think Julian Assange is Jesus?
Does he think The Intercept and The Young Turks are the best sources for news?
Is he perfectly willing to post an anti-Dem piece from Breitbart, Infowars, Drudge, Daily Caller, etc. in an argument just to prove his point??
Does he still believe that bullshit lie about the so-called white working class voting for Trump out of "economic" concerns? And is he hellbent on throwing all the party principles out the window in an effort to win that crowd?
Has he ever said the left needs it's own "Tea Party?"
Does he seem hellbent on directly or indirectly "teaching the party a lesson"? Is he a believer in some glorious mythical lefty utopia of perfection that will rise from the ashes of the Democratic Party? If only, you know, someone or some cataclysmic event had the ability to actually burn down the Democratic Party?
Has he ever concern trolled the criticism or attention to Trump scandals, because it's going to make him a "sympathetic figure" if we're too harsh on him? Has he ever said we should stop paying so much attention to Trump scandals and focus on legislation instead?
Seriously, how many more you need? Because I can go on for the rest of the week...