U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), an ally to President Donald Trump, is in hot water over a social media post.
Lee on Sunday took to X and posted a photo of a man accused of posing as a police officer and shooting two Democratic lawmakers and their spouses.
Along with the image, Lee confusingly wrote, “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way.”
What makes these people “marxist” in their mind? I… just don’t get it.
Some kinds of people (often conservatives) don’t use words to convey consistent meaning. They use words for the effect it has on the audience. It’s emotions.
They see something bad, they reach into their bag of bad-thing-words, and pull out “Marxist”. That’s it.
They are in a fundamental sense stupid.
Neither do they.
When you don’t know the actual definition of words, you can use them to mean anything.
Kinda like how they don’t know what Marxist, Leninist, socialist, globalist, woke, trans, leftist, liberal, or DEI actually mean, so the right just uses them all interchangeably to mean “things I don’t like or that scare me”.
Exactly. It’s just an insult to them.
A while back, one of my Trumper neighbors decided that she didn’t use an elliptical work-out machine that she had bought over 2 years prior. She took it back to the store without a receipt and demanded that they give her money for it - not just store credit - even though it was well past the return date.
When telling me this story, she acknowledged her crazy behavior by saying “haha I was acting like such a liberal.”
In her mind, it’s as simple as “liberal = bad”. The actual definitions of words mean nothing to them.
Insert Sartre quote about arguing with antisemites here.
They don’t hate minorities.