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No, that’s all due to leftism. Liberals just took credit for them, and have prevented leftists from protecting them.
Okay but “leftism” is just a made-up word like “cromulent” and “hypothetical”.
I mean...if you want to be pedantic, and I always do, every word is made-up. That's how words work. Don't have a word for something? Make it up from nothing, or by smashing two or more words together (lookin at you my German fam 😘👉) or just borrow a word from a different language. That's literally just how words work. It's all made up.
So true. Or as William Burroughs said, “Language is a virus from outer space.”
yeah but "leftism" really embiggens the wordostrophe
You’ve really ponked on the big kamimbo there, no refutinating that.
This is a post talking directly to MAGA women. Right-wingers generally don't know the difference between leftism and liberalism. You gotta talk to people at their level. Being pointlessly pedantic doesn't convince people.
No, it’s just one group of rightwingers, talking to another faction of rightwingers, trying to take credit for the left’s work to increase their recruitment.
It’s not “pointlessly pedantic.” It’s crucial distinction we have to constantly make, because liberals have been trying to steal that credit for as long as there have been liberals. And nice job throwing in the standard liberal condescension, straight up admitting the tactic is to talk down to conservatives as if they’re children. Because that’s worked so well?
First off, I'm definitely not a liberal.
No idea why you think I'm being condescending, please explain so I can avoid giving that impression in the future. I'm just explaining something that you seemed to have missed in your original comment.
And credit doesn't matter when the person you're talking to doesn't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Talking to someone at their level doesn't mean talking to them like they're a child. It means stopping to think about where that person is coming from and using that to more effectively make your point. Empathy is an incredibly useful skill when you're trying to communicate with someone, especially someone with very different beliefs from you.
So why not just tell them conservatives accomplished all of those things? If we’re just trying to make them feel good, and giving credit to people who had nothing to do with it, why not just reinforce their bias?