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[–]bopomofodojo 26 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 0 fun27 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Yup, they've fully infected any non-rightwing discourse. As I put it in a previous thread:

Donald Trump really was the worst thing to happen to progressivism. Sure, this shit was being pushed before him, but 2016 really ramped up the "drink any cool-aid that calls itself progressive because if not you're WITH TRUMP!" Thus every "progressive" in the Anglosphere was suddenly completely onboard with every drop of TRA rhetoric because it's "progressive" and "fighting Trumpism".

US politics was already fucked beyond repair, but the Trump derangement syndrome causing the radicalization of run-of-the-mill progressives to "leftist" radlibs was really the nail in the coffin.

It's everywhere. I can barely watch most media because they always find some way to bring "twans" into it. Always. To be "a progressive" in 2021 it seems requires constantly repeating TWAW and "I hate t3rfs" every 5 minutes or you'll be cancelled, and I've always been a and identified with progressives. This shit is indeed cancerous.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was a progressive until 2016. Not anymore. The events in 2020 and 2021 have ensured that I will never be a progressive again.

[–]eliminate_osa_disord 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That alone is the case for Trump.

[–]bopomofodojo 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I mean, no, not really. He's a very broken clock who happens to be right about this one thing. Supporting Trump for his T stance in comparison to, just for one example, his LGB stance, is not just throwing out the baby with the bathwater, it's throwing out the entire neighbourhood with the bathwater.

[–]eliminate_osa_disord 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, it isn't, and why should the people who sold us out to the T get anything?