The Unvaxinated = the Taliban

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(09-01-2021, 02:59 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I stated people I encountered, but if you want to go to the national level, then sure. 


AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, Talib, basically the whole "Squad" (dumbest nickname ever btw).  Your list contains some names for obvious reasons, but McCarthy, Greg Abbott and Cruz don't belong on that list.  You can dislike their politics, intensely, but they don't belong in the same category as Greene or other QAnon types.

Yeah they also do not belong on a list with AOC et al.

One main reason amongst many others being that they all can not bring themselves to condemn the Capitol storm and rather are compliant with the person who says he loves those guys, that the election was stolen and rigged and that police flat-out murdered that one female insurrectionist.

That is not even about intensely disliking their politics, it's intensely disliking their approach to democracy and I do not see anything remotely comparable from the likes of the AOC's.


Oh and btw. it is very unfair to compare democratic socialists to sommunists. Case in point, I grew up in a country that was to a large extent formed by social democrats' policies. We had nothing in common with our eastern neighbors, neither in theory nor in experience, that were formed by communist policies.



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@thread topic: I understand the point of view. I am extremely annoyed by Nazi comparisons, often brought by very compassionate left-wing types that demand to either agree with them on all counts or "being with the Nazis". Quite common in my country, and sure common in the US as well. 
On the other hand though, I think it has to remain fair to make certain comparisons with the rise of past authoritarian regimes and the deeds and especially the rhetorics of today's politicians from the right. In some cases, these comparisons are hard to avoid. Eg. in my country, the comparison to the rise of the Nazi regime. And there are just certain similarities in said rise and the rise of Trumpism. That's not me trying to paint the American right as a whole in a particularly bad light, it's just an impression that has some merit at times (and no merit in many other instances). Demonizing the 'elites' and the media comes to mind, or operating with oversimplifications and appealing to a person's most hateful notions. All things Trumpism imho does and all things that also are a key component in the rise of authoritarian regimes, up to the Nazis.