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I'm on a mailing list for Claudia and got this today. Kind of funny since last week the Democrats tried kicking de la Cruz off of the Georgia ballot.

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 73 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Surely the DNC can find a non-PSL sign to use, right? Or even crop it or white it out. What underpaid intern did this? Half-way think it's a Comrade intentionally making the DNC look bad makima-think

[–] roux@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago

There are definitely protest signs about abortion rights made by people that don't even know what the PSL is lol. I'm betting on lazy intern though.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 69 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is the perfect visual metaphor for how the democrats depict themselves as being further to the left than they are. Especially as this isn’t the first time this has happened.

[–] roux@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago

They love our swag lol.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago (65 children)

Shameless fucking ghouls I am glad they have dropped all pretense of being any better than the fascists they claim to oppose.

That recent interview where she said she wouldn't ban fracking, wouldn't stop arming genocide, wouldn't even support M4A which is almost as close to universally popular as any thing the American people agree on.

They won't stop fascism, she even said she would be open to have a republican in her cabinet.

I also heard some dumb fuck lib the other day speaking positively of Gavin Newsom, believing the bullshit about him actually wanting to help homeless people by getting them off the street and into housing which is obvious bullshit but I repeat myself.

Don't let these people gaslight themselves.

Bully them fucking all, and I don't necessarily mean go out of your way to be mean to them IRL (I will but I understand not everyone is safe or capable to do this)

But by all fucking means we have enough receipts at this point to shut down any harm reduction argument.

At least with republicans at the helm libs were more willing (not by much but demonstrably more so) to actually get out and go to a protest or something even if it only served as a place to have them mad enough to be open to getting agitated by our bolder comrades.

Fuck every single one of them.

Anyone that I know in my life that still votes for one of these people after the next political discussion they start with me is irredeemable and I consider my enemy.

Fuck these people so fucking much.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago

Actually seriously can we get like a master post for the harm reduction thing?

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago

this has happened before, I distinctly remember them doing this during the 2020 primary

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I'm no graphical artist but I'm pretty sure I could roughly disappear the PSL stripe with GIMP if I tried. They really don't give a fuck they just blurred it because their supporters are drones

[–] axont@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah blurring it just makes people curious, doesn't it? They could have easily censored it to look natural but like you said they don't care

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[–] roux@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For real, if it doesn't have any messy gradient stuff going on, blocking it out with the surrounding color in GIMP is super easy. I do it all the time lol.

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[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 3 months ago

The background is a solid colour you can do this in ms.paint

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 3 months ago

This isn't the first time that the PSL's signs have been blurred out by media outlets covering protests.

[–] MineDayOff@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago

Blur yourself and everyone around you

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Republicans: Kamala is a Communist

Democrats: No we aren't posts stolen communist agitprop

Actual Communists: lenin-rage

[–] axont@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago

They've done this a bunch of times, with PSL even. I remember there were a bunch of PSL signs at the 2017 women's march that got blurred out by some Democrat Instagram or twitter

[–] Waldoz53@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

they couldnt crop the bottom part out instead of blurring it? lol

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