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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Happens all the time here. I do on occasion show solidarity and go down with the ship though.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

somebody needs to photoshop a hyperdetailed skeleton holding a smoking gun between the space

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I usually jump in and the guy who was getting cooked abandones ship.

[–] idunnololz 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They abandon ship because they realize that if they are agreeing with someone as terrible as you are then they are probably in the wrong. /s

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Going against left populism on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

what's the difference of left and left populiism?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Populism is basically about simple solutions for complicated problems, and blaming every problem on a certain group of people.

From the right, the most prominent example is immigrants, while from the left, it's mostly rich people.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (15 children)

well not all but most of our societal problems comes from their decisions, so i get it.

[–] Neon 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

yeah, immigrants really are destroying our planet.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i think your joke went over their heads

[–] Neon 7 points 7 months ago

Seems like it

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[–] GlitterInfection 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Centrists just blame wealthy immigrants!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Centrists blame everyone for not understanding all the complicated problems.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

"You see, it's a spectrum. Yes I'm a fascist, but I'm an equal opportunities fascist."

[–] GlitterInfection 3 points 7 months ago

I blame society.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's not what I read in the dictionary. Is that one of those things that the right twisted to mean something else, or...?

[–] TropicalDingdong 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No it's just something the above idiot made up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Good to know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The original meaning is opposing the people with the elite, but it has slid to include the demagogy (telling people what they want to hear rather than the truth) to please the targeted people.
The definition from the comment above includes left wing and right wing populist main demagogy subjects. Although there may be a difference between European and American political culture on this, I am not certain.
It is not specific to right wing, left leaning newspapers use it this way too, it has become normal politics vocabulary. I think that's left leaning: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/left-populists-working-class-voters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Populism is essentially having an ‘anti-something’ agenda without acknowledging nuance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Look at this fuckin populist

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

If the left could incorporate populism, it could gain popularity. It doesn't need to be nefarious, just easier to grasp communication is also a form of populism.

Lemmy's issue is more about right-wingers pretending to be left.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh please. The libs on .world downvote actual leftist thought every chance they get. Since that's the largest instance this is becoming more like reddit every day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Word

Fucking Hexbears couldn't keep it in their pants and now I have to hear morons ramble on about how landlords are useful sometimes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[–] MataVatnik 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What? Don't be a bitch and jump in

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I suggest taking their opinion, dialing it up to 11 and then bailing from the convo.

[–] franklin 4 points 7 months ago

Now this is a chaotic evil I can get behind

[–] Smoogs 15 points 7 months ago

Right up there with when you step up for someone who looks like they are struggling…then they befriend the enemy and they both turn on you.