• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    15 minutes ago

    my point is that they are manipulating the overton window to make even slightly left from fascism look like their evil communist caricature. plus normalize all of these crackdowns on anyone they dislike under the guise of protecting everyone from vaguely defined “leftists”.

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      46 minutes ago

      Ah ok, thank you for explaining. I think we are in agreement that the people that are being targeted by Trump’s regime are not actual leftists. My point was that even if they aren’t leftists by definition, we should still be defending them from the regime because if we don’t, we allow anti-leftist oppression to be normalized.

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        11 minutes ago

        i don’t disagree with you on that, whoever they are targeting is always our first line of defense. but it’s also important to focus up their intentional blurring of lines, as it helps everyone notice we’re on the same team.