Some lefties have been calling on folks to abandon the Dems for ages, using the #DemExit hashtag.
It appears that the right is now attempting to manufacture their own version, but with their own hashtag.
Mixing in an attempt at stoking division within PoC communities.
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There was a related tweet upthread, but this one has a photo and more context:
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Searching the phrase “braver than the troops” on Twitter gives a nice summary of the US radleft attitude to militarism.
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It’s aimed at suburban PoC, the original was a video on Facebook about how a rich gay man left the Democrats for Republicans after 2016 because identity politics made him the bad guy for being white.
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Oh, and t is directly tied to the alt-right with the proliferation of talking about Q.
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MarjaE
July 1, 2018, 5:20pm
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The Bond character? The Trek character? The crawlway connecting Unknown and Mammoth Caves?
Q is a conspiracy theorist’s source for all things satanic Democratic Party.
QAnon, also referred to as Q, is the originator of a conspiracy theory popularized by supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump. The theory involves a series of cryptic internet postings by a person claiming to have access to classified information involving the Trump administration and its opponents in the United States. QAnon's posting campaign is also referred to as The Storm, detailing a supposed secret counter-coup by the Trump administration against the alleged "Deep State". Adherents belie...
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Nate just had a good rant:
https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/1013499063050924032?s=21
I literally don’t care about “how will we pay for this?!?!!!?” We paid for a $1 trillion plus tax cut and increased the defense budget. We paid trillions of dollars on wars that we lost. We can afford whatever we want, and every smug MBA cheese dick in the mentions knows it.
we could not spend $800+ billion a year on “defense.” We could raise taxes on the super wealthy and have financial transaction taxes (and close the loopholes!) we could nationalize our healthcare system and provide better care for far less. Every other developed country does this
We’re the wealthiest country in the history of humanity and our currency is the global reserve. We could absolutely do this, and in fact if we don’t do this then our country is headed for a hideous and murderous decline
I want:
We don’t need the incorrigible racist vote. We don’t need your Meemaw or your Facebook Uncle. We just need people who don’t vote to realize that all of this is within reach if we want it badly enough.
Also if you agree with this or like the direction this is going, join @DemSocialists and help organize your community. With enough of us working together, this can happen. We don’t need the fash vote, or the racist vote, or the misogynist vote, or the nativist vote. We need us.
Also, I forgot:
I have also made a critical oversight: there needs to be an absolute guarantee of healthcare, nutrition, income, accessibility, treatment, and social support for people with disabilities and those unable to work
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Thread in response to the “CIA self care ” thing:
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Oh look, the rich libs have diversified their nationalistic warmongering homophobia:
https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1013125035916005382?s=21
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This is how I feel about every conversation with an MBA.
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It works for the GOP and like all GOP political moves the Democrats copy/paste but worse.
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