• ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Let’s not. Leave the dumb names to the Republicans. We got better things to do than fling shit. Let them debase themselves to the point their party can’t be recognized. People will see it for what it is. And the ones who don’t, weren’t interested in anything but flinging shit anyways. You don’t wanna look like them.

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      11 months ago

      Exactly right, but also… MAGA is a good thing to most republicans. So this is a failure from all angles.

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        11 months ago

        Calling names is a grade school level, low intelligence thing to do and it seems to me that they’d be stooping down to Trump’s level to do that.

        Not to mention that millions of Americans love the MAGA movement, and they’d see this as an endorsement.

        It would be a stupid move.

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          11 months ago

          Not to mention that the psychological difference between liberals and conservatives means that Right-to-Left namecalling makes Right look strong and Left look weak, and Left-to-Right namecalling makes Left look infantile/desperate and Right look vindicated.

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          11 months ago

          Calling names is a grade school level

          Yes, it is. Most voters have only a grade school level understanding of the world. One of the biggest problems liberals have is that they think everyone thinks like them and on the same education level. That’s why they ignore you. That’s why they call you an elitist. When you’re talking to fellow liberals, use your big words. When you talk to the general public, dial it down ten notches.

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            Right, but telling Republicans that their representative wants to make America great again while thinking it’s an insult. That’s dialing the stupid up to 1000.

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              11 months ago

              It has shown to be effective. MAGA is a dividing point and Democrats are using it to brand hatred and Anti-American views to the name.

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                11 months ago

                It’s going to be when Hilary called Trump supporters a basket of deplorables. They embraced that, it energized them, and it got them to turn out to vote for a POS.

                I think this has the potential to do the same.