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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by cambalache on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:49AM (#26312265)
Because the American mainstream left became bananas. The Democratic and Republican parties would still be right-wing/conservative all across the world except in America, but the woke/sjw/faang crowd is socially hard-left also all across the world (not in economics or international politics, they are very conservative there,even hawkish). So, for example, me, a very leftist third world person has now more in common with your average mid-westerner republican than with a coastal google employee.
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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by saila on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @01:25AM (#26312437)
Your average Republican is going to be more authoritarian-leaning and hawkish than the not-actually-left FAANG caricature you're describing.

Republicans are pretty unlikely to support such leftist notions as democratizing the means of production, whereas your average FAANG employee just might.

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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by cambalache on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @01:17AM (#26312395)
The looneys in the right also are plentiful.

the "American mainstream left" has been:

Silent on their idol Biden bombing a middle east country.

Hawkish on having a confrontation with China. Even a military one.

Calling for any people with real or perceived criticism of them to be cancelled.

Organized the BLM protests which caused 100X more economic damages than the crazies in the Capitol.

They are in bed with the mainstream media, the technology oligopolies and the entertainment industry where their worldview is relentlessly pushed and any dissenting opinion is squashed. They still call themselves victims.(Victims who act like executioners)

They are silent on their hero Biden expanding jail facilities for latino children. Total silence and the few mentions are just euphemism= "expanding facilities"

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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by danbolt on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:54AM (#26312937)
Wait, what? Leftists are meming about how disappointing they find Biden and third-way Democrats are all the time.
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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by saila on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @01:47AM (#26312556)
Everyone I know (personally or otherwise) who is an actual leftist is very vocally unhappy with the bombing of Syria, the lack of stimulus checks, ICE's policies, and Biden generally. He's most certainly not a leftist hero/idol.
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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by cambalache on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:29AM (#26312767)
A beautiful not-true-Scotman in the wild.

AOC -> Silent

Bernie -> Silent

Krugman -> Silent

Reich -> Silent

Faang Employees -> Silent

Ilham Omar -> To her credit, she spoke out.

If by "actual leftist" you mean people like Rania Khalek, I would agree, but unfortunately people like her are a tiny minority and constantly belittled, ignored or called tankies or something along those lines.

The mainstream left is dominated by the tech companies, by the mainstream press, by the universities and by the entertainment industry, all coastal highly privileged, 2% of income elites. Those are the people dominating the discourse and as Chomsky said they are "Manufacturing Consent". That includes a big portion of the "commentariat" here too.

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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by rtpg on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @03:11AM (#26313030)
The fact you think Krugman and FAANG employees are in this group of people, I feel like you need to spend some time talking with "leftist" a bit more.

But also you're just wrong.

AOC on relief checks (Feb 7th) https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1358244213918494722

AOC on abolish ICE (Feb 24th) 1364349732760518657

Bernie forcing a minimum wage vote (7 hours ago!) https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1366545093876924416

30 seconds of searching on the leftist's favorite communication platform. I think the problem might be more that you're not in the right echo chamber... or something.

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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by input_sh on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @03:44AM (#26313225)
On Syria:

Bernie Sanders: https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1365361968513744897

Ilhan Omar: https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1365150215708299271?s=20

This took 10 seconds to find. You can make an argument that they could be louder (and I'd definitely agree with you on that), but you can't in good faith make an argument that they're "silent". As for Krugman and Reich, I don't see how they're any relevant.

AOC is so vocal about abolishing ICE that I don't feel the need to even back that up.

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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by cambalache on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @01:05AM (#26312336)
That is not a trope, much less an old one. The "I am ideologically pure and anyone against me must be censured, silenced or even more" is an old trope. You a white guy, are calling a POC a neonazi because I dont buy your discourse of being an enlightened superior being. Get lost.
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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by Igelau on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:30AM (#26312776)
How do you know they're a white guy?
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