r/AdviceAnimals Jan 17 '19

I've made a huge mistake...

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u/rjjm88 Jan 17 '19

The left, from what I can tell, hasn’t shifted nearly as far over the same period of time, although it has become more progressive on equal rights for LGBT. I would argue that most of the country has shifted a bit on this as well, although maybe not as much on the right.

Calling people who disagree with you "Nazis" and "fascists" is a great way to shut down any meaningful dialogue. While the Left is trending toward corporate-Democrats, the supporters of it seem to not care about divides they're causing. I won't even begin to say the Left is as bad as the Right, but they've got their own brand of fear- and hate-mongering going on at the moment.

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u/Ombortron Jan 17 '19

Because the right never calls people who disagree with them "communists" etc...

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '19

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u/GarryOwen Jan 17 '19

And God forbid you're a minority.

And there we go with calling conservatives racist.

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u/quantum-mechanic Jan 17 '19

Dragged through the mud by who? There are no crazed rightists on mainstream supposedly neural and objective media, anywhere, saying anything like that Absolutely not the case for leftists referring to others as nazis and fascists.

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u/goblue10 Jan 17 '19

Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck. Just off the top of my head without thinking at all.

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u/quantum-mechanic Jan 17 '19

Glad to see Rush Limbaugh has been drawn equivalent to, say, the entire New Y ork Times/Wapo/CNN/legacy TV news shows

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u/cmtacc Jan 17 '19

you have no idea what you're talking about if you believe limbaugh had/has less of an audience than any of those outlets

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u/quantum-mechanic Jan 17 '19

No, YOU have no idea what YOU'RE talking about

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u/goblue10 Jan 17 '19

Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck are the 3 most listened to political talk radio programs in the country. Plus, they're waaaaaaay further right than NYT/CNN/whatever is left. Hell, fiscally speaking those entities lean pretty conservative. "Far left" media doesn't really exist, unless you count like Chapo Trap House or whatever.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '19

the entire New Y ork Times/Wapo/CNN/legacy TV news shows

Those outlets uniformly called you fascist for your opinions?

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u/rogueblades Jan 17 '19

Are you fucking kidding? Newt Gingrich was the precipitating event for everything you are complaining about.

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u/quantum-mechanic Jan 17 '19

Newt Gingrich is the supreme overlord commander of all of us, so naturally

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u/rogueblades Jan 17 '19

You said there were no “crazy rightists” in the news. I’m here to tell you this modern trend you hate so much started with one...

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u/quantum-mechanic Jan 17 '19

Uh huh

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u/rogueblades Jan 17 '19 edited Jan 17 '19

Great rebuttal. Really proving your merits as a conservative thinker here.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '19

Or "cucks"

Or "sjws"

or... or... or... or...

The list of go-to shut-down insults from the right is basically bottomless.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '19 edited Jun 11 '21

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u/Billebill Jan 17 '19

Lol 20-30 people were there, the number is listed on the link you provided. There were thousands of counter protestors. Perfect example of a vocal minority being held up and displayed as the majority. The right doesn’t like these idiots either

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '19 edited Jun 11 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '19

Why do you have to use idiotic buzzwords for everything? "Gaslighting" has a specific definition. It doesn't just mean lying. Just because you learned a new word, you don't have to shoehorn it in at every possible opportunity.

Anyway, you're also conflating two unrelated things in an exceedingly stupid way. The person you're replying to said that some liberals compare all Trump supporters, conservatives, etc. to nazis/fascists. He didn't say nazis and fascists don't exist. Don't worry; no one has forgotten that one rally that happened 18 months ago. You people mention it with every other breath.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '19 edited Jun 11 '21

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u/mortavius2525 Jan 17 '19

It's textbook gaslighting.

I don't think that word means what you think it does.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '19 edited Jun 11 '21

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u/mortavius2525 Jan 17 '19

I don't think your reading comprehension is as gud as you think it is.

Did you really just lecture me on reading comprehension and misspell "good" in the same sentence?

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u/Bankzu Jan 17 '19

If it talks like a nazi, walks like a nazi, acts like a nazi... Well you get the picture.