"progressives" be like "I love China, and Russia, hate the US and NATO, I support Hamas, and I never vote Democrat because 'I won't choose the lesser of two evils'" then call us 'libs' on Lemmy like it's an insult because we like Biden. 🤷♂️
creates an aggregate of the most annoying people on the internet in the least charitable way possible and paints everyone left of center with it… wow I can't believe these "progressives" these days.
I mean, I put quotations around progressives because the small subset of online self proclaimed progressives in places like Hexbear and lemmygrad are like the above.
For me a real progressive is someone like Biden who just got an agreed 5 day ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, kept other nations from escalating, and has a record of passing progressive legislation, especially as president. Also, for me, a "progressive" is someone like Jill Stein who has lunch with Putin, supports the Ukraine invasion, and only runs to get Republicans elected.
"progressives" be like "I love China, and Russia, hate the US and NATO, I support Hamas, and I never vote Democrat because 'I won't choose the lesser of two evils'" then call us 'libs' on Lemmy like it's an insult because we like Biden. 🤷♂️
creates an aggregate of the most annoying people on the internet in the least charitable way possible and paints everyone left of center with it… wow I can't believe these "progressives" these days.
I mean, it's a pretty accurate aggregate of Hexbear and lemmygrad and they're pretty popular.
Oh now I get what you mean. You and I, we don't have the same definition of progressives: neither in scope, nor in stances.
I mean, I put quotations around progressives because the small subset of online self proclaimed progressives in places like Hexbear and lemmygrad are like the above.
For me a real progressive is someone like Biden who just got an agreed 5 day ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, kept other nations from escalating, and has a record of passing progressive legislation, especially as president. Also, for me, a "progressive" is someone like Jill Stein who has lunch with Putin, supports the Ukraine invasion, and only runs to get Republicans elected.
Jill Stein doesn't support the Ukraine invasion
she didn't have lunch with Putin