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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

When the left tries to organize to effect change:

Chalking Bans and ID Checks at Protests Repress Palestine Solidarity on Campus

There’s a reason the right has no problem organizing. It is tolerated, and condoned. Why?

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because it infiltrated the system and gained power from within, a prospect that for some reason horrifies leftists. Even though that is the only way to achieve your goals.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It didn’t infiltrate the system. It is the system.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is now. The tea party started as an outside movement.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did it, though?

An Astroturf campaign is a fake grassroots movement: it purports to be a spontaneous uprising of concerned citizens, but in reality it is founded and funded by elite interests.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you desperately need to believe it was astroturfed, because otherwise it would too starkly contrast with the absolute failure of Leftism.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago