caketastydelish
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Since there's an Alt-Right, we need an Alt-Left to combat the Alt-Right. I'll be the founder. Does anyone want to join?
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onejayhawk
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caketastydelish
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I have one. But this isn't the time nor place.
Perfection
The Great Head.
we need to delete alt control
There already is an alt-left though and the alt-right came about as a reaction to it. So you can't be the founder of something that already exists.
caketastydelish
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What's the alt left?
*giant novelty town crier bell*
Bring us your definitions!
*giant novelty town crier bell*
Narz
keeping it real
Left just needs an inspiring message rather than being the boring, repressed 'good guys'.
onejayhawk
Afflicted with reason
I hear the conservatives I know complain that their people do not respond as a organically as the liberals do. If a conservative has a point, he/she makes it and sometimes someone else repeats it. On the left, any point is echoed from top to bottom. When I thought about it, it was the worst indictment I had yet heard of the left. They had forsaken independent thought in favor of a unified message.
That said, I think the future is in the Bernie brigade. They need to outlast the Clinton and Obama legions, but those are mostly old guys/gals. Bernie may be old, but his people are not.
J
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I wanted to reply to this message but moveon.org won't give me any tips on how to respond.
onejayhawk
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Broken_Erika
Play with me.
Alt-Left just makes my browser go back one page.
aelf
Ashen One
That's what makes it the "regressive" left, innit?
I would say the alt-left would be those that are more commonly referred to as SJWs. They were around before the alt-right and those that identify as the alt-right didn't really start doing what they are doing until the whole SJW/Tumblr crowd started becoming more vocal.
yung.carl.jung
Hey Bird! I'm Morose & Lugubrious
Will it be a happy ending?
There's absolutely a Regressive Left element. And the best the center-left can do is to try calling to our friends to come in out of the darkness.
Gori the Grey
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The term "alt-left" has already been coined. By Sean Hannity. He has a formula that he uses: "the alt-left, propaganda,* destroy-Trump media." Watch him some time. He never uses the word "media"; it's always the "alt-left, propaganda, destroy-Trump media." When he started using it to smear the left, it seemed to me a tacit admission that he knows the "alt-right" are dangerous extremists. That is to say, "alt-" can only function as a prefix with assumed negative connotations if one recognizes that what is named by "alt-right" is a negative thing. At the root of his coinage is the stupidest knee-jerk partisanship: "If there's a negative development on our side, there just automatically must be an equivalent on yours."
So, to the OP, no, the last thing we need is an actual alt-left. At least, the last thing we need is anything labeled as such. Because it would come pre-tarred, and play into Hannity's framing.
*bothers me that he can't even use the adjective propagandistic, but that's a gripe for another time.
So, to the OP, no, the last thing we need is an actual alt-left. At least, the last thing we need is anything labeled as such. Because it would come pre-tarred, and play into Hannity's framing.
*bothers me that he can't even use the adjective propagandistic, but that's a gripe for another time.
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Lexicus
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Broken_Erika
Play with me.
Leftists can be regressive too? What a great country of regressive freedom!
Narz
keeping it real
Ahaha, either Freudian slip or autocorrect or both. Not sure if happy endings are PC. Probably depends on whether it's from a Chinese lady in the country under questionable circumstances or an 'empowered' white one paying for her college with blood, sweat and...
