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[-] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 92 points 11 months ago

Preogressive feels like such a shit word now I would never touch any person with a twenty feet pole who describes themselves as progressive or support some figure who does. The totality of my expection from progressives is that they won't say slurs in public.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 66 points 11 months ago

I would never touch...

Anybody who is plugged into politics and uses that word is somebody to be avoided. But not everybody is politically sophisticated and American political language broken.

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Progressive" only really became a thing during the Late Clinton / Early Bush Era, when talk radio heads were trying to turn "liberal" into a slur. Which, in hindsight, very funny. The folks that adhere to the word tend to be ones who grew up in that time period and were hunting for leadership that was farther to the left than Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

As they pivoted, lots of conservative media shifted in turn. And so you got a bunch of talking heads tying "progressive" back to the eugenics movements of the early 20th century and the Girl Boss Capitalism of the 1980s. So the term soured among younger millennials and zoomers, while the post-Soviet world denuded terms like Socialism and Communism of their nationalist energy.

In another ten or twenty years? Idk. Alphas will all call themselves something new, maybe? Or maybe we'll all go back to calling one another Radical Centrists while winking and nudging? Who can say. But its all just verbage, one way or another. What's really the difference between a Liz Warren Liberal, a Bernie Sanders DemSucc, and an Infrared Patriotic Communist, anyway?

[-] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

I didn't mean that literally

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago

I'm progressively genocidal

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 88 points 11 months ago

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I just woke up:

Is this about Fetterman?

[-] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 67 points 11 months ago
[-] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 59 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 46 points 11 months ago

Senator Christian Cinema

[-] Anne_Teefa@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Fuck in the Senate chamber(or house of representatives) and get shizz all over each "progressive" seat as they admit they lied until eventually the smell of shum is everywhere from copious amounts of vigorous ass stretching (feel free to smear shijaculate all over republican chairs too). This is just a modicum of what should happen too.

[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago
[-] Anne_Teefa@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

Sorry, I'm an absolutely feral bisexual

[-] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

Mods we got a new tagline here

[-] Anne_Teefa@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

I would be honored

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago
[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago
[-] Anne_Teefa@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

I penciled them in between the margins and paragraphs sicko-jammin

[-] Dirt_Spider@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is how Bernie can still win

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

Now I'm scared of what would've happened if Bernie actually did win.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

In some alternate universe - President Sanders is doing exactly what President Biden is doing here. The only difference is that Bernie Panders feels guilty about it.

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