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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait, genocide is a progressive ideal?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe that's what centrists mean when they say that Biden is the most progressive president since FDR.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What, what “centrists” are saying that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The ones who think progressives are fools who will believe any cockamamie bullshit and like insulting their intelligence. So it happens a lot on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In other words, the centrists that live in your head.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a fucking talking point. Gaslight someone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

But that centrist was trying to debate you bro!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now they’re trying to co-opt the word “progressive”

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Now?

"I'm a progressive who gets things done." - Hillary Clinton

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mondaire Jones in 2020: "defund the police!" votes to impeach fascist American president

Mondaire Jones in 2024: Hooray for the fascist apartheid regime currently committing genocide! So progressive!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The diff is that sweet sweet aipac money

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Absolutely! Classic sellout.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Anyone pro Israel state right now is borderline fascist. I don’t think progressive means what they think it means.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Fuckin these pricks. Don't kill kids how hard is that?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

It most certainly is not.