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What are your favorite liberal insults? (hexbear.net)
submitted 11 months ago by duderium@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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“You must be fun at parties.” Uh why would I want to party with Nazis?

“So edgy.” If I cared what liberals thought, I wouldn’t be a communist.

“You’re just a larper.” Larp it till you make it, am I right? Also, what have larpers ever done to you?

“Nazism and communism are the same.” Yes, Nazism is when you want to destroy Nazism forever rather than fund it the way you do.

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

These or rough equivalents...

  • "People don't understand how politics works." / "You don't understand how politics works."

  • "What do you want __________ to do?" The fill-in-the-blank is Biden or whoever.

  • "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."

  • "Do you want Trump to win?" / "This helps Trump." / etc.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago (4 children)

"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."

I hate this phrase so much. The funniest thing about it is that I've seen it attributed to different people over the years, depending on the libs affiliations/frame of reference. Some says its a Reagan quote, others say its Obama lol

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

Some says its a Reagan quote, others say its Obama lol

same-picture

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Back in 2021 for a couple months I had some fun needling the libs who were lecturing me that I was "unrealistic" and I didn't know how politics worked. I'd wait for the right time and then I'd say something like "Oh, I get it. You think we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. That Joe Fucking Manchin phrase is going to get so much stuff done!"

archive.today • Joe Biden Says He Has Infrastructure Deal With Bipartisan Senators Group - Bloomberg

June 24, 2021

One of the key moderate Democrats and a member of the bipartisan group that worked on the infrastructure plan, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, urged progressives to support the deal. “I would say please don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” he told reporters Thursday.

Of course the joke ended up being that the actual enemies of the good - Manchin, Sinema, and other shit but silent dems - got everything they wanted.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."

For some reason it never applies to the libs themselves. It's never:

  • We shouldn't let our dreams of ice-chewing austerity stand in the way of our chance of winning elections by doing economic populism.
  • We shouldn't let our dreams of total global hegemony stand in the way of our chance at being one important voice among others in a multipolar world.
[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 11 months ago

Don't let perfect be enemy of the good, but also if revolutionaries don't create literal heaven on earth after overthrowing the bourgeois state that means communism is a failure.