• trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This is true, the left deploys these evil ideas like “science” to brainwash you into believing their “actual ways to improve people’s lives” it’s devious.

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      7 months ago

      the left deploys these evil ideas like “science”

      There is legitimate honest it-really-exists propaganda put out by folks to the left of John McCain. PETA is a real thing. The Sierra Club is a real thing. The ACLU is a real thing. The DSA is real.

      But the deck is stacked when you assert an advocated policy needs to be some kind of cosmological truth. I don’t need “science” to tell me that Trans-people deserve equitable treatment or that shooting your 11-month old dog in a gravel pit is bad or that billionaires shouldn’t exist. These are decidedly political views.

      What’s more, when I advocate for a position, I’m not going to argue “fairly” with a bigot, a dog-murderer, or a plutocrat. I’m going to make my strongest points and my hardest digs, then leave the opposition to make its own case. Given that I’m being outspent $1M:$1, I don’t feel any need to develop a case for the TERF or a South Dakota governor or the megalomaniac profiting off lead paint sales on their behalf.

      You don’t need to be objective. You can have an opinion and still be a good leftist. You can even make a passionate, moving case that’s intended to grip people on more than a purely logical level.

      Don’t let the right-wing asshats scare you away from showing your humanity when you’re engaging in progressive politics.

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      I’m sure this meme is aimed to the US but “the left” is very broad from where I’m from and I don’t see any “science” in their propaganda to be honest. And improving people’s lives is very subjective and have various interpretations. Let’s just hear everyone from all political spectrums and vote about it shall we?

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        I guess you never stopped to wonder why your brain didn’t explode in a puff of PragerU-branded nonsense when you discovered that all humans are capable of wearing trousers, huh?