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ELEPHANT IN THE ZOOM Meltdowns Have Brought Progressive Advocacy Groups to a Standstill at a Critical Moment in World History (schadenfreud alert)
The Intercept ^ | June 13, 2022 | Ryan Grim

Posted on 07/16/2022 7:45:50 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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To: DoodleBob

What do they want?

More black & green ink adorned paper!


21 posted on 07/16/2022 10:27:29 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Aeneas2112

I thought that was Sun Tzu?


22 posted on 07/16/2022 11:35:47 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Lurker

Undortunately, there really is only one way to totally destroy these leftist orgs but that harkens back to the middle 1800s.


23 posted on 07/17/2022 12:45:10 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: DoodleBob

It’s like the orcs and trolls are having a civil war. Good! May they make themselves miserable.


24 posted on 07/17/2022 2:24:34 AM PDT by Dragonspirit (CNN is the enemy. Ashli Babbitt is the hero.)
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To: DoodleBob

My nephew who has worked for years for one of these non profits for Gaia worship is starting to come around and see the light. He’s always been a bit idealistic but was not just a Democrat Party activist.

Anyway, the group he’s in a management position with became fat and bloated and was hemorrhaging cash. So he had to take a few modest steps to at least slow down the rate of spending including reducing a few perks. The Wokester college age kids under him went ballistic calling him all sorts of names, posting crap about him online, trying to get him fired, etc etc. (Gee, who didn’t see that one coming).

He and I met for dinner one night about 6 months ago. I was explaining to him how the “Right” right now includes people who would have been called liberals 10-15 years ago. For example:

-Pro free speech
-anti war
-suspicious of the 3 letter agencies
-for women’s sports (ie real actual women)
-for energy independence - which goes hand in hand with being anti war
- for securing the border (doesn’t crush the working class with a flood of cheap labor)
- for fair trade rather than “free” trade (see above)
- think monopolies (like Big Tech) need to be broken up
- suspicious of big pharma
- think the media should investigate government and expose government malfeasance rather than be mouthpieces for the government
- think people should be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin
- against segregation
- against racial discrimination
- for election integrity (paper ballots, no mass mail in voting, etc)

You’re now a “Right Winger” if you support any of the above. ALL of these were supported by the Left my entire life until the last 10-15 years.

We also agreed the Left has gone completely insane and WILL eat their own. He told me its already happening. I told him he’s far more of a populist (like me) because we both agreed on all of the above.


25 posted on 07/17/2022 3:35:35 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: DoodleBob

You said “birthing sisters” instead of birthing people. You might have given yourself away. Work on perfecting your cover a little better. :^)


26 posted on 07/17/2022 3:38:04 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: DoodleBob

Eating their own, more popcorn please


27 posted on 07/17/2022 3:51:39 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: FLT-bird
Yeah, this new English thing is as hard as was new math. I keep on it sir, um, ma'am, um, it, um, person, um, being, um, non-binary thing.

One more thing for your reversing of the political poles...it used to be that radicals questioned authority, now they obey authority. Back in the day, The Who sang We're Not Gonna Take It at Woodstock. Now, Dave Grohl and Flu Pfizers play at concerts to people with vaccine passports who want to "be safe."

28 posted on 07/17/2022 4:05:04 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DoodleBob

What you have is competing factions (environmentalists, feminists, trans-rights, blacks, pro-immigrant, etc) competing for funding and legislative attention.

You also have factions that do not get along well (trannies vs women who don’t like people with penises in their locker rooms; white people who don’t like getting mugged and their neighborhoods burned).

And finally, you have the fact that a lot of these Leftists are just batshit crazy.


29 posted on 07/17/2022 4:13:55 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: SauronOfMordor; DoodleBob

From my FR profile page:

“The left is not made up of friends and allies. It’s made up of competing parasites.”
~Grover Norquist - CPAC 2012
(While I am generally not a Norquist fan, that nails it!)


30 posted on 07/17/2022 4:22:44 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: DoodleBob

The woke eating the woke and their massive adherence to strict “diversity, equity & inclusion” agendaa will only produce worse leadership and management, and even more radical, as the non-merit based leadership and management will have to get more radical and militant to defend why they got their positions. More of the woke will wind up waking up to actual reality, and see the wokeness they espoused as a sham.


31 posted on 07/17/2022 4:30:14 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: FreedomPoster

“The left is not made up of friends and allies. It’s made up of competing parasites.”

These groups don’t produce anything of value. From the article, they get most of their funding from foundations. That means that each group is competing with all the others for funding from the same pool.


32 posted on 07/17/2022 5:27:22 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: DoodleBob

Stop in at Reddit, and you can watch leftists tearing themselves apart, calling their “comrades” vile names and threatening each other.


33 posted on 07/17/2022 7:16:55 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: PTBAA
Hitler is supposed to have said "rule or ruin".

The corporate left and/or Democrats are about "rule AND ruin".

34 posted on 07/17/2022 7:50:24 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: lapsus calami

Every marxist “advocacy group” is a democrat money laundering organization that will continue to get taxpayer “grants” to keep their organizations running.


35 posted on 07/17/2022 8:24:04 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: DoodleBob

“Progressive organizations are run like sh—,”

When the weak are in charge nothing good happens.


36 posted on 07/17/2022 8:52:47 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: pingman

Castro / Stalin / Lennon / Hitler tap box.


37 posted on 07/17/2022 8:53:48 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: DoodleBob

Let’s help destroy themselves. That would be fun.
It’d be pretty easy.


They are all focused on what they don’t want. If I don’t want to go to New York, where do I end up?

Thus they are easy to manipulate if done right.


38 posted on 07/17/2022 8:58:44 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: DoodleBob

very good, LOL


39 posted on 07/17/2022 10:47:16 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!you)
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To: SauronOfMordor

...foundations....
________________________

Foundations represent the billionaire class. At what point do the stunning & brave take on the source of their operating capital?

Could be a Jacobin moment.


40 posted on 07/17/2022 12:44:26 PM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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