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What kind of political viewpoint thinks /ISIS/ is on the /left/?

Aggressive fundamental Islamic theocratic dictatorship without human rights, without equality, without trial before jury ... what does that have in common with the left and representative democracy, equality, helping the poor and sick, regulating corporations and environmental pollution, pro-peace, anti-warfare, and etc?



None, it's just a poor insult.

A lot of the far left does hate America, though. Associating people that dislike America with ISIS is a really poor attempt at guilt by appropriation to avoid hard questions.


Dude, 3 out of 5 posts on there straight up have "death to america" comments. Almost all have the flag on fire emojis. The only folks in recent memory that were cool with saying those things were ISIS and the Taliban. It wasn't a joke, it was a fair comparison.


> it was a fair comparison.

Again, what do ISIS, the Taliban, "death to america" and burning flags have to do with the left? When did you last see Bernie Sanders burning the American flag? When did you last see Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez calling "death to America! Death to the Infidels!"?




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