• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Optics and phrasing matter. For as much criticism as Democrats get about being inept at it, ACAB and Defund show that the critics aren’t a whole lot better.

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      9 months ago

      Arguably, the way people perceive your project is more important than what it actually does. Probably a combination of both dems being shit at optics and repugs having the most well oiled propaganda machine in the world, cause it keeps fucking happening.

      Planned parenthood

      BLM

      ACAB

      defund the police

      Communist/socialist policies

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        9 months ago

        The left in general just seems terrible at this. I suspect it’s because we hold ourselves to morals.

        I will say that Buttagieg had the perfect rebuttal to being called socialist – “they’re going to call us socialist anyway, that shouldn’t stop us from making socialist policies”, paraphrasing.