• andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Dude, where did I characterize you as an “enemy”?

    Yeah we definitely need to be enlightened centrists in a time when the government is going full on fascist.

    Where in that random guys blog post is even the confirmation of the mythical trans girlfriend?

    I’m glad you’re such a “community organizer”, making sure that we are as fair as possible to the people who made up the “Bowling Green massacre.”

    I also love the idea that “conspiratorial thinking” might “drive people away.” No. They don’t fucking care. They want blood. They want to attack trans people. They don’t give a rats ass what anyone on the “Left” actually says.

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      8 hours ago

      Ken Klippenstein isn’t some random dude. He wrote for the Nation (one of the only media outlets that pushed back against the right’s angelic charactetization of Kirk) and the Intercept. He is definitely a leftist, definitely opposed to the right wing, and a good serious journalist.

      When you call me an “enlightened centrist” then to me you are calling me an enemy. I am not a centrist, I’m a communist. I am active in national and local politics through DSA, and part of a faction (R&R) on the left of the largest american socialist org in 100 years. I have my own entry on KeyWiki (a site that doxxes left wing organizers) and consider it a badge of honor. I care about facts, because I care about being credible to people we need to win over to our side.

      I believe these issues are serious and I take them seriously, as do our enemies. I think you may have talent as a polemicist, but that’s not my role and I resist the quixotic insistence that polemics are objective fact.

      You’re trying to discredit me but I don’t need your credit.