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[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Don’t expect consistency from these folks. Words are for wielding power, not for communication. Requisite Sartre quote.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

yeah haha that's what I was thinking of with

nor should I expect them to be unaware of the absurdity of these arguments

still infuriating as hell though

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Democrats are also surprisingly inconsistent when the White House changes parties. For some reason AOC isn’t crying at US concentration camps anymore.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

no I mean true but I don't see what that has to with this above? Leftist rhetoric has shown itself to be popular these days, so they're all using leftist rhetoric while going about business as usual. When Trump was in power we had the #resistance and a bunch of leftists thought hey maybe we can push the dems left, now we have the GOP branding themselves as antiwar and working class and some leftists think that this nominal turn can somehow be turned to communism. The hypocrisy should be called out.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

They are different kinds of hypocrisies. When you call liberal hypocrisy out, they will sometimes actually care. But reactionaries usually DGAF if you call them out, and often get off on owning the libs in this way.

You’re right, though, that the radlibs who think they can ally with the disingenuous reactionary “doves” are a confused lot.
Case in point: WSWS, Feb. 2023: The “Rage Against the War Machine” rally: A reactionary political freak show

[Chris] Hedges, along with Max Blumenthal of the Grayzone, Jill Stein of the Green Party, and comedian Jimmy Dore and a few others were there to give a progressive gloss to the “left-right” coalition and legitimize the extreme right. Their principal message was that unity with the fascistic right was permissible and should be actively pursued. Those who oppose collaboration with the right are viewed as political enemies.

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