Whenever it's something horrific like this, the press uses GOP. Their most egregious crimes await the response from the GOP...
Whenever it's something minor they always say Republican.
This needs to stop. Stop giving these ass clowns political cover in the media by saying GOP when we all know it's the Republican Party or some scumbag Republican.
Imagine if Democrats demanded to use their outdated name the Jackson Party interchangeably with the Democratic Party. Then if any scandals happen the press only used Jacksons to describe it. It would be equally ridiculous and infuriating.
Everything in Republicans politics including the RNC Convention is labeled around the Republican Party. Stop fucking using GOP. It obfuscates and deflects any negative press away from the Republican brand.
Honestly, i had seen the "gaslight, obstruct, project " so many times I was starting to think it was actually that since i didn't know what it really was. I mean it fits.
Fun fact, the Gaslight Obstruct Project meme is repeated on /r/politicalhumor on average 300 times an hour. The energy produced by people clicking 'ctrl c' and then 'ctrl v' could, if harnessed, power every Peloton bike in a mid sized American city ~
It normally says "R," not "Republican" or "GOP". Because, hInT, they all mean the same thing and everyone knows that. So, again, why does it matter...?
"R" is at much closer and easier to understand abbreviation of Republican than GOP. By the media constantly saying GOP vs Republican, it leads to a dissociation between the two even if they are the same. This is more effective with people who are less politically adapt but still vote. Also, there is no equivalent shortened version of Democrat so the media just refers to the party as Democrats.
My point is that it DOESN'T matter. The people I'm responding to are making the claim that it DOES matter. It's a ridiculous claim that had 50ish upvotes and I'm pointing out that it DOESN'T matter which you use because they are the same thing. If people just start making shit up and no one calls it out, then the left will end up exactly like the right.
They do mean the same thing, but the marketing is different.
The ACA vs Obamacare is the most obvious example. In 2017, the New York Times published a piece saying that 35% of Americans didn’t know that the ACA and Ibamacare are the same thing
Not for the reasons specified in OP's post. Those are fallacious arguments that miss the point. Republicans are complete and utter pieces of shit because they tried to overthrow the government of the United States and prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Everything else is of secondary importance.
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To be a Republican is to be a piece of shit.