• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    5 months ago

    Apart from the huge logical leaps, the KKK’s agenda so closely aligns with the GOP’s and Trump’s, can you even imagine a single member of the KKK being a democrat? Being a democrat is like an excommunicable sin for these groups.

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      5 months ago

      Being in the KKK is a good way to be shunned by every single progressive too.

      Really weird thing he’s trying to do here, but logic certainly was abandoned long ago.

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        5 months ago

        It’s an incredibly common talking point fed to reactionaries by right-wing media.

        Try telling a Republican that everyone in the KKK who votes does so for Republicans and watch the denials and accusations fly despite it being perfectly obvious.

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      5 months ago

      can you even imagine a single member of the KKK being a democrat?

      A lot of local politics takes place in these very well-financed and well-organized partisan units that operate independent of the national scene. A big part of the Democratic Party in West Virginia has always kinda sucked - putting up guys like Joe Manchin and Jim Justice (who won as a Democrat and immediately flipped to Republican) - without any real respect for popular sentiments in the state. Kentucky Party Democrats put up a “Pro-Trump” candidate Amy McGrath in 2020. Ohio Democrats (other than Sherrod Brown) are almost universally awful, in their habit of supporting climate denialism and copaganda. My own mayor, John Whitmire, has been friendly with Greg Abbott, Rick Perry, and the Bushs since he took office in the state senate in 1983.

      So yes. I can very easily imagine a batch of die-hard Zell Miller democrats camped out in a backwater Florida county that think their party has been taken over by Woke Soy Antifa Communists like Joe Biden.

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    The wack part of this is that he said it in a closed door meeting with a few of his peers or staff, not to a crowd of people. That shows he actually believes this bullshit.

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      5 months ago

      Believe might be a strong word. He probably just says things like this to drown out the suffocated, croaking voice of his conscience

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    Trying to sort through the projection, is this why they’re so afraid of Antifa? Because the GOP has a military wing with the KKK, they assume the Dems want to create a military group with Antifa or something? Certainly explains how they try to portray Antifa.

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    So standard projection from the GOP. Nice of them to confirm that they consider the KKK to be their military wing, not that that’s a surprise to anyone.

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    Rightists once again chowing down on rancid bullshit and calling it foie gras. They remain a repugnant blight on humanity.

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        iOS autocorrect generates them. I discovered this while attempting to use vim in an embedded terminal emulator.

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          That’s kind of evil. I hate it when I paste source code from a document and I have to fix non-ASCII characters that some overly clever UI inserted.

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      5 months ago

      Equally true as the GOP being the stalwart supporters of a woman’s right to choose, the champions of sensible gun control, and the sacred guardians of single payer universal healthcare.

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    5 months ago

    He talks about supporting legal migration like his ancestors but honestly it’s way more American to just show up here and do what you want, how else would this country have gotten started if not for unsanctioned migration and crimes against humanity?

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    This chucklefuck can’t even get his story straight.

    According to him, is the DNC pro or anti immigration?

    According to him, is the KKK pro or anti immigration?

    Reactionary asshole.

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      To be fair, Biden and Eric Adams can’t quite seem to figure out where the fuck they stand on immigration either. Hell, The Obama Administration RAMPED UP deportation during it’s era. Ignorance and irrationality are endemic among both parties