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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is no substantive difference between "MAGA" and the traditional GOP.

[–] TheFudd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LMAO the "traditional GOP" was killed by MAGA.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More like MAGA is the traditional GOP dropping the mask

[–] TheFudd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Naah, I like my version better. More accurate.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, your version implies that there was ever a traditional GOP that was meaningfully different from MAGA

[–] TheFudd@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, my version is simply the correct one.

Then again, you sound like a tankie so you'd probably favor a Stalin-esque communist-style rule where the government disappears people on a whim like they had in the Soviet Union.

With that in mind, I'm surprised you don't agree with Trump's policy of sending dissidents to El Salvadorian gulags. Tankies love making dissidents disappear, after all.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Liberals not descend into lazy insults and strawmen challenge (impossible).

Good to know the definition of tankie has continued to expand that it now includes "people to the left of George Bush"

[–] TheFudd@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LMAO I don't trust any "challenge" offered to me by some godless pinko commie.

Also, I'm not a liberal, I'm a libertarian. Your kind pretty much just want me either dead or gulag'd.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it does seem like a challenge not to descend into lazy strawmen is beyond you.

[–] TheFudd@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LMAO as if I give a damn what some godless pinko commie thinks of me.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheFudd@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well you keep replying.

Pot, meet kettle.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You should probably have thought that one through before posting it.

[–] TheFudd@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's adorable coming from someone who's ideology teaches them not to think at all.

Anyhow, that's enough from you, pinko.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

You're still failing at that "not lazy strawmanning" thing

[–] TheFudd@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LOL again: I don't trust any "challenge" offered to me by some godless pinko commie.

And no, "tankie" doesn't mean "anyone to the left of Bush". It means commies who think violence is a solution. That's why they call them "tankies" - Because they're the folks who think bringing in tanks and infantry to "bring about the revolution" is a good idea. Disgusting people, really.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well you called me a tankie for saying the pre-trump GOP wasn't meaningfully different from the current one, but "a tankie is any communist who isn't an obligate pacifist" is also a pretty stupid definition.

[–] TheFudd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, you're defending tankies elsewhere in this thread, so there's that.

Let me put it this way: Pretty much the only thing we have in common is the fact that we both think Trump is a fucking wannabe fascist dictator. I reject your entire ideology. Sorry, but communism just doesn't work.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a very ironic thing to say, coming from a Libertarian.

[–] TheFudd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nope. A fucking dictatorship is the least libertarian thing ever and I am morally obligated to oppose such a system of government.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you missed the ironic part (hint: it's the part where a libertarian thinks they're in any position to accuse other ideologies of not working.)

[–] TheFudd@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just keep your grubby commie hands off my money and my property, since your entire ideology revolves around stealing from others.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Seems like you're still struggling with that "not lazy strawmanning" thing