Do you think leftists have become more radical over the years?

[IHaveRespawned]

I created this meme example. It took me a while, but I think it conveys it well...

I think leftist radicalism really exploded during the Obama era forward.

What are your thoughts?

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Visionaries, mediators, passionate problem solvers, peacemakers, chill, happily eccentric

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Militant, loud, hostile, brute, rabid, excessive boundary setting, uptight

[SotiCoto]

Sort of. The "left wing" doesn't mean what it used to though.
I mean as far back as I remember... Left Wing generally meant Liberal... as in Libertarian... while Right Wing meant Conservative... Traditionalists. Authoritarian, basically.
These days they're both different flavours of hard Authoritarian trying to get more and more extreme laws imposed on everyone to nobody's benefit.
Probably Toxic Americanism spreading via the Internet and normalising itself everywhere.

[Shiprex]

LOL the update is hilarious and ironically seems to miss the whole point of CONSERVATISM which is about KEEPING the status quo (NOT VISIONARY in the slightest)
Sticking with TRADITIONS (so NOT about mediating and all about CONFORMING)
Problem solving based on convention and not about evolving
Peacemakers while being militaristic and instigating as well as promoting conflict elsewhere (so they can profit from it)
Chill as in inciting an insurrection and INVADING GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS while government was in session AND denying the truthful result of an election because a reality TV personality didn't want to be a LOSER. Give me a break.
Eccentric? almost right downright mental nuts and bonkers is closer to the mark.

[Shiprex]

Thanks for the MHO

[Anonymous]

Leftist as they age seem to either get more extreme or ditch leftism all together

[izzyleelee]

i dont really think so, not a big politics person tho!

[MysteriousDarkness]

How do you explain the left wanting Trump 86ed, wanting to normalize sex acts in front of children at pride parades, believing all it takesto be a woman is to identify as one but the second a male identifies as a woman he has to have gender dysphoria, theybelieve children are not mature enough for (tattoos, alcoholic drinks, drive, etc but are mature enough to identify as whatever they want and to get gender reassignment surgery because they know their body so well which they don't) they want littlesboys to castrated because they claim males are evil etc

[goaded]

So did "86ed" mean kill when the right were calling for Biden to be 86ed, or not?

[IamRight]

@goaded It did not, but we have to consider the possibility that since some leftists took it that way, they might have used it that way as a dog whistle against Trump. And if we can’t consider tha possibly, then we cannot assume that leftists who think the ok signal is a white supremacist symbol can take ok sign any other way when used by Democraps.


So either we can assume it didn’t mean kill when used against Biden but it means so when used by Trump, or we can’t make assumptions that leftists who think the ok signal is a white supremacist symbol have the ability to take the symbok any other way when used by Biden.

[IamRight]

*when used against Trump, not by Trump.
Also did some other typos but that was my biggest mistake in the reply above.

[OneViewpoint]

No, I think the Reich Wing has become increasingly detached from reality from about 1980 to 2025. Coincidentally the same period of time where wealth inequality grew like a cancer on this society. Hmmmm... interesting coincidence. Or is it?

The election of a Black man as president in 2008 gave our racist traitors and Jesus Freaks who hate their own country something to rally around and focus their hate on. So, once again it's Obama's fault.

[OneViewpoint]

@Dongie ,

And yet here you are again, polluting this space.

[Danzigdawson]

@OneViewpoint Well said. 👍

[IHaveRespawned]

@Danzigdawson Satanist, you will soon be driven to hell where you belong

[OneViewpoint]

@IHaveRespawned,

There is no hell. Your religion is nothing but lies.

[Danzigdawson]

@IHaveRespawned There is no hell, but if there was, it'd be for people like you and @dongie

[Danzigdawson]

@IHaveRespawned Where's all the stuff about you harrassing a 16 year old girl?

[contentious]

Leftist have committed a slew of genocides all over the world throughout time while claiming other people that believe differently than them are fanatics. They always pat themselves on the back and call themselves rational while they savagely manicure millions of people in cold blood because that's the reasonable thing to do in their world view. Today's leftists while bat shit crazy, still have not reached their final form. They get crazier if you let them...

[contentious]

*massacre

[Danzigdawson]

That's much more accurate and it didn't take me a while to do it... I mean, how slow do you work FFS?

[IHaveRespawned]

I used Affinity designer. I am a developer who codes, not a designer. Although, I can use design software to generate images as needed.

Anyways, you want to point out riots and demonstrations by the far-right, yet you fail to acknowledge the George Floyd riots, the burning of cities by leftist agitators, the whole CHAZ/CHOP occupation in Seattle, the looting of businesses, and the Gaza riots.

[Danzigdawson]

@IHaveRespawned Did any of these violent events occur in the US capitol with the intent of overturning the results of a fair, democratic election?

No.

[IHaveRespawned]

Lol, like burning down entire cities and causing mass chaos and destruction isn't as serious?

[Danzigdawson]

@IHaveRespawned When people are treated like shit for centuries and things keep happening like the murder of George Floyd, the murder of Amhaud Arbery, the Charlottesville unite the right car-ramming and so, so, so much more that went unpunished before that, all during the term of a racist president who won't condemn white nationalists, neo-confederates, plain old nazis, the KKK and others; don't expect people to just sit there and take it.

They have too much tolerance for all of this shit, not like you, who will all go apeshit and try to depose the government by storming the US capitol just because some orange asshole is mad that he's lost the election.

[Danzigdawson]

@IHaveRespawned@ihaverespawned I assume that this is the elderly woman's story you're referring to? She was sentenced to 2 years, not 6 and she broke the law. Under the FACE act, enabled in 1994, it's illegal to prevent access to abortion clinics, which are often the target of violence from christian morons.

In her case, "Harlow was part of a group of 10 who conspired to make a fake appointment at a Washington abortion clinic in 2020, then “forcefully entered the clinic and set about blockading two clinic doors using their bodies, furniture, chains, and ropes Their actions resulted in an injury to a clinic nurse, and forced a patient to climb through a receptionist’s window, while another “laid in the hallway outside of the clinic in physical distress, unable to gain access to the clinic”.

They chose to livestream their own stunt, which gave justice ample evidence to convict them under "the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a law inspired by a spate of anti-abortion violence in the 1980s and ‘90s".

www.independent.co.uk/.../...k-force-b2693705.html

apnews.com/.../fact-check-paulette-harlow-abortion-clinic-praying-prison-839402959778

Kyle Rittenhouse is an unrepent piece of shit who shot two people because he panicked the fuck out out when someone threw a plastic bag at him. If you walk alone amongst an angry mob with an AR-15, representing the side people are angry about, it's a pretty clear provocation. I don't care if he was aware of that or not. He should have let the cops do their job and stay the fuck home. It was only a matter of time before people would either try to disarm him, confront him angrily or surround him, making him piss his pants, which is exactly what has happened. Since then, he's been selling video games about shooting a crowd of leftist weirdo zombies to fund his "defamation" lawsuits against the media. That's your hero.

www.washingtonpost.com/.../

[Danzigdawson]

@IHaveRespawned The J6 praying grandma was sentenced to a mere 6 months of home confinement and refused trump's justice-mocking pardon. She was shown entering the Capitol along with the angry crowd. Who gives a shit that she was praying? She was just as angry as any other idiot who participated in the insurrection.

apnews.com/.../capitol-riot-praying-grandma-jan-6-7e404e0e228d6e5c8f63688cc2a61f3f

Where's your acknowledgment of the rapes denounced by the #metoo movement, the sexual misconduct and rapes of which trump is accused of, the incel movement's violence and hate speech?

www.theguardian.com/.../trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-timeline

www.mccaininstitute.org/.../incel-and-misogynist-violent-extremism-read-ahead-materials-august-2.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjI1-f-wbKNAxVIElkFHV3KAgsQFnoECCIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1zDO1XarP6lqW_q440zZut

[IHaveRespawned]

George Floyd isn't a saint. He isn't a martyr or hero. The police brutality inflicted on him, however, was wrong. We do have many unhinged law enforcement officers that inflicted undue harm, yet are able to hop from one department to another. Meanwhile, EMS personnel are ruined for life for misdemeanors unrelated to the job. That is what happened to me.

However, just because Floyd was black and Chauvin was white does not mean his death was racially-motivated. Leftists employ the race card and jump to conclusions all the time. There were two white men who were murdered at a bar by a black man with racial prejudice against whites. This was quickly overshadowed by a shooting in Texas and hardly covered after that. You cannot ignore there is also racial bias against white people. The left has tried to push this narrative that people cannot be racist against white people, which is completely untrue.

Yes, there is extremism on both sides. And yes, this should be called out. There has also been a cultural war, pushing radial social engineering agendas and challenging American traditions and norms.

[IHaveRespawned]

@Danzigdawson

As for the abortion clinic arrests, I would imagine they pushed their way through the doors, chained themselves to the doors, and sat down in protest. As for the injured nurse, it does not say whether it was a direct infliction from the demonstrators or maybe an injury from the nurse trying to remove the chains. Maybe the nurse tripped in panic as she tried to respond to the demonstration. I would like to see more specifics on how that injury occurred.

Still, while this shouldn't have happened, it should have been a trespassing case at best. We don't even know if the elderly lady was the one who inflicted the harm.

Overall, this is miles less severe than the burning of cities, the throwing of moltov cocktails, and the destruction of property that the leftists have inflicted.

[Danzigdawson]

@IHaveRespawned You've got nothing. Quit wasting my time.

[goaded]

@IHaveRespawned "burning down entire cities"? I know Americans like to call villages of a couple of thousand people a town, but calling a couple a buildings "entire cities" takes the cake.

[Dargil]

Because they are ever more ignorant and uneducated. They know nothing and are easily deceived by the most ridiculous hypotheses like global warming. The will focus on some nuggetoid of nonsense and believe they are relevant. Although Trump and Vance will delay it, mass anarchy of lefties is coming. Buy guns and ammo.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

yes and you are obviously correct about the Obama era.

they are so radical now that they believe they are saints and anyone who opposes them is automatically with the right not realizing they are two wings of the same bird.

the reason behind this is because the left likes to support women, gay folks, minorities and everyone else who been outcasted in the past. but they're not really helping, they are just exploiting this same people

[DrPepper12]

No. "Leftists" have not. The right has run a sprint to the extremes.

[msmissydc]

Exactly this!

[msmissydc]

The few leftists that actually stayed true to what they were are considered extremists by today's standards. On the other hand Nazis are supported by the American president. WTF!

[MisterWack]

I believe life has gotten more extreme so it brings out more radicalized viewpoints on Right and Left.

Think of it from that perspective and you’ll see what I mean.

[Dongie]

Radical, yes! Hilariously ridiculous, definitely!! 😅

[Dongie]

Well, I won't have to read anymore of his delusional antichrist crap further! He's blocked.

[Avicenna]

They’ve always been radical, but they are more totalitarian now and control virtually all institutions.

[Syntosi]

No. Its just your perception that has warped. The left is still the left.

[Twalli]

The right wind keeps getting mor extreme when claiming g the middle moves further right as th we y so. So to right wingers, liberals seem more radical without moving further left.

[DonaldDarko]

Obviously, they're foaming at the mouth rabid Bolsheviks now.

[MangakaJ96]

The majority of leftists used to be decent people pre-2016. Now (especially in the present), they are mostly far gone into insanity.

[Anonymous]

Of course they have. It's not up for debate. Most liberals from decades ago would align much more with today's conservatives than today's liberals.

[Pohjolan]

So where's the guillotines and gulags?

OP slept in history class.

[Fromdusktilldawn]

Translator

yea they have become a real threat

[beefcakebradybatson]

Perhaps, but righties have become crypto-Fascists.

[DrPepper12]

I was thinking Christo-fascists...

[beefcakebradybatson]

@DrPepper12 That too, DrPepper !!!

[Anonymous]

Western leftists (Democrats) are not even real leftists, and yes, they have become more radical over the years.

[RavVid]

Undoubtedly. Your meme is great.

[FunkyMonkee]

Oh, HELL, YES!!! INSANELY RADICAL!!!

[BonzoInBitburg]

Not just the left. The right is more radical too

[IHaveRespawned]

That is a fair assessment. Although, I think it is a lot of anger finally unleashing from aggressive leftist ideologies. There is a lot of polarization.

[BonzoInBitburg]

I think everyone is going nuts. The US seems to like electing polarizing figures and it gives energy to the far left and far right.

[Danzigdawson]

@IHaveRespawned You're all adults who are responsible for managing your own emotions. You can't trash the capitol and expect to get away with it because you were mad about the "leftists stealing the election" bullshit.

Also, it's pretty clear that you're only whining about feminism in your lame meme. So, for it to make any kind of sense, maybe your first set of images should have been less about the left as a whole and more about delusions of women who used to be "obedient", "uneducated" and confined to the kitchen, just like you're picturing it in your gileadean mindset.

[IHaveRespawned]

@Danzigdawson Storming the capitol building was extreme. Yet, the two-tiered justice system that targeted conservatives with harsher sentences was ridiculous. Leftist judges sentenced an elderly lady to 6 years in prison for merely "blocking" an abortion clinic. They also sentenced a woman for entering the capitol building to pray during the Jan 6 incident. They tried to convict and defame Kyle Rittenhouse for defending himself and a town from leftist rioters. They survailled parents for raising concerns about woke shit their children were exposed to in the schools. They let illegal aliens and Gaza riot leaders loose to roam free.

This also goes well beyond radical left feminism.

[Anonymous]

Yes and Democrats are fleeing they're ridiculous party.

[Anonymous]

It started with the Clintons and Algore.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like an ouchie for you

[IamRight]

Yes.