Shalashaska@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · edit-22 days agoOpenly admitting that you're fine with government officials being corruptlemmy.worldimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1423arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1417arrow-down1imageOpenly admitting that you're fine with government officials being corruptlemmy.worldShalashaska@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · edit-22 days agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
Source https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/21/trump-administration-bribery-probe-homan/
minus-squarekibiz0r@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54arrow-down2·2 days agoLeftists be like: “If you’re anything less than perfect, I don’t want you on my side” Fascists be like: “I don’t care what you do, as long as you’re on my side”
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 days agoThis defines conservatism. Ingroup loyalty is the only force in their moral universe. It’s all they think you’re doing. It’s all they think there is.
minus-squaretrashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoLeftists be like: “I want to make the world a better place” Fascists be like “I don’t care what you do as long as I get to turn on the torment nexus”
minus-squarezzx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 days agoBut also even if you’re on my side, you will be consumed at my whim
minus-squareCassanderer@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down5·2 days agoPeople claiming to be leftists will impugn false beliefs on you any chance they get. You can be totally perfect and still be drummed out of the corp. The so-called left is fucked, much by Design, and controlled by the right.
minus-squareDoomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoIf you are speaking about US politics you are correct. There has not been a left since McCarthyism when the government purged all the leftist. We have a right and a far right.
Leftists be like: “If you’re anything less than perfect, I don’t want you on my side”
Fascists be like: “I don’t care what you do, as long as you’re on my side”
This defines conservatism. Ingroup loyalty is the only force in their moral universe.
It’s all they think you’re doing. It’s all they think there is.
Leftists be like: “I want to make the world a better place”
Fascists be like “I don’t care what you do as long as I get to turn on the torment nexus”
But also even if you’re on my side, you will be consumed at my whim
People claiming to be leftists will impugn false beliefs on you any chance they get. You can be totally perfect and still be drummed out of the corp.
The so-called left is fucked, much by Design, and controlled by the right.
If you are speaking about US politics you are correct. There has not been a left since McCarthyism when the government purged all the leftist.
We have a right and a far right.