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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I don’t know if I’m in the wrong circles… but I’m not seeing any of this… even on the internet.

[–] Album 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I only see MAGA folk on Lemmy talk about it.

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

MAGA and Russians.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think a certain grouping is trying HARD to insert it into the discourse. Case in point, this article, which wraps up a core of an original fair statement (that Biden is being ignorant and stubborn in refusing to acknowledge reality and that that's a problem) in layer upon layer of interpretive dance so as to make the phrase "blue MAGA" fit that situation, even though they acknowledge at the end of the article that it doesn't really make any sense at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Everyone knows MAGA and anyone who supports it are complete idiots who've been brainwashed.

They're just trying to do the same thing they've always done which is "See the other side is also just as bad as us! We're all the same."

Same old bullshit coming from brainwashed conservatives from the fascist playbook but it only works on other MAGA idiots because normal people aren't as stupid and gullible as they are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

blocks OP problem solved.

[–] Album 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes the spectre like Blue MAGA. An invisible enemy where no one can find anyone who identifies with it.

Straight out of the fascist playbook.

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

Both infinitely strong and weak at the same time

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

I hardly think it's cult like to rally around an incumbent when all the next best choices aren't even trying to get the nomination. I think it's foolish to seek to oust Biden now, and damn stupid to pledge not to vote for him in November. I'm just thankful there's plenty centrists who aren't as foolish as my fellow leftist are being this cycle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I doubt very much "real" American leftists are behind this push. Vatniks, maybe.

Is Biden a genocidal boomer who should be tried in the Hague?

Yes, obviously, like all living presidents, but that doesn't mean he's not also the lesser evil and replacing him is a pipe dream.

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

I've met a few, though I suppose that's just the ones who fell victim to the propaganda

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

calls for Joe Biden to step aside have been met not with thoughtful critiques or reasoned counter-arguments but with furious accusations of treason, disloyalty, and betrayal.

Holy shit fuckin TREASON? I mean, honestly that's a fair point. Trump actually does want to put people to death for disagreeing with him, so if Biden's gone that far, that actually does make it a pretty fair analogy. Maybe I was wrong to say that the people saying "blue MAGA" are laughably full of shit.

And so, eager to hear how wrong I was, I clicked the link and read the rest of the article, looking for where treason came into the picture. It turned out that mostly what they mean is that people on Twitter wrote hostile comments, and that sometimes Biden says things in interviews that they don't think are accurate.

FUCKIN

UN

PRECEDENTED

Basically no different than shooting protestors I tell you

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

Yup just idiots parroting the same insults they receive to try and muddy the waters and make it seem like both sides are the same. Nope, only one side wants a fascist dictatorship that completely supports a conman child rapist with a third grade education.

Also it's hilarious that they're still using maga. Make America great again again? Did they fail at it the first time? What a silly question. Of course they failed at it because they did literally nothing except damage the country as much as possible.

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

These "Blue MAGA" people, are they in the room right now?

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

And what’s one of the main reasons why they won’t say it on the record? Because they’re afraid. That’s not my opinion – it’s theirs. “I wish I was more brave,” NBC News quoted one anonymous Democratic state party chair as saying. “I would be crucified by them if I spoke out of line.” This person spoke on the condition of anonymity, according to NBC, “because they fear retaliation from the president’s camp”.

Again, sound familiar?

So let’s talk about the Democratic president in the White House, who is fast becoming an unlikely and unexpected cult leader. And yet, do you remember Trump’s infamous declaration that “I alone can fix it”? Here’s Biden, in his interview with Stephanopoulos:

“And who’s gonna be able to hold Nato together like me? Who’s gonna be able to be in a position where I’m able to keep the Pacific Basin in a position where we’re – we’re at least checkmating China now? Who’s gonna – who’s gonna do that?”

Do you remember how Trump obsessed over the And what’s one of the main reasons why they won’t say it on the record? Because they’re afraid. That’s not my opinion – it’s theirs. “I wish I was more brave,” NBC News quoted one anonymous Democratic state party chair as saying. “I would be crucified by them if I spoke out of line.” This person spoke on the condition of anonymity, according to NBC, “because they fear retaliation from the president’s camp”.

Again, sound familiar?

So let’s talk about the Democratic president in the White House, who is fast becoming an unlikely and unexpected cult leader. And yet, do you remember Trump’s infamous declaration that “I alone can fix it”? Here’s Biden, in his interview with Stephanopoulos:

“And who’s gonna be able to hold Nato together like me? Who’s gonna be able to be in a position where I’m able to keep the Pacific Basin in a position where we’re – we’re at least checkmating China now? Who’s gonna – who’s gonna do that?”

Do you remember how Trump obsessed over the size of his crowds, both at campaign rallies and at his inauguration? Here’s Biden, responding to a question from Stephanopoulos on how he plans to “turn the campaign around”:

“You saw it today. How many – how many people draw crowds like I did today? Find me more enthusiastic than today? Huh?”size of his crowds, both at campaign rallies and at his inauguration? Here’s Biden, responding to a question from Stephanopoulos on how he plans to “turn the campaign around”:

“You saw it today. How many – how many people draw crowds like I did today? Find me more enthusiastic than today? Huh?”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Blue MAGA? Is this like when the nWo wolfpac split off to feud with nWo hollywood?