Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) urged her Democratic colleagues to stop attacking the "oligarchy," arguing that the word did not resonate with most Americans.
An Oligarch & a King are not the same fucking thing.
Sorry if people use big, scary words that mean things.
EDIT: What’s actually pretentious is talking down to people b/c you believe they are too stoopid to understand what an Oligarch is or learn if they don’t. She’s talking down to the Democratic Party for not talking down to their constituents. Pretty fucking pretentious if you ask me.
LMAO I’m well aware far-left lemmy will downvote me for saying this, but the fact that you’re copping an attitude with that person is funny because lefties are absolutely TERRIBLE at messaging. Democrats and lefties suck so badly at communicating with voters that a guy who rambled incoherently about immigrants eating pets was able to beat them.
Sadly, no, most Americans don’t know what the hell an ‘oligarch’ is because that’s what happens when you have decades of Republicans de-funding education. Pointing this out isn’t ‘pretentious’, because it’s sadly true.
… Saying a word resonates better isn’t the same as saying someone is too stupid to understand it.
She wasn’t talking about who to push back against, but about messaging. “Stand up to oligarchs” doesn’t have the same impact as “stand up to would-be kings”. We sort of have a national history of opposition to kings, so it touches on some more foundational themes that mesh well with a push for constitutional order.
It’s not an academic paper. Your speech doesn’t get points deducted for using the wrong word for a domineering political ruler.
Have you just decided to be angry, and if you have to pivot from anger that “she’s pro-oligarchy” to anger that “she’s falsely implying that the oligarchy believes they rule by divine right”, so be it?
An Oligarch & a King are not the same fucking thing.
Sorry if people use big, scary words that mean things.
EDIT: What’s actually pretentious is talking down to people b/c you believe they are too stoopid to understand what an Oligarch is or learn if they don’t. She’s talking down to the Democratic Party for not talking down to their constituents. Pretty fucking pretentious if you ask me.
LMAO I’m well aware far-left lemmy will downvote me for saying this, but the fact that you’re copping an attitude with that person is funny because lefties are absolutely TERRIBLE at messaging. Democrats and lefties suck so badly at communicating with voters that a guy who rambled incoherently about immigrants eating pets was able to beat them.
Sadly, no, most Americans don’t know what the hell an ‘oligarch’ is because that’s what happens when you have decades of Republicans de-funding education. Pointing this out isn’t ‘pretentious’, because it’s sadly true.
They’re not? Have you looked around?
… Saying a word resonates better isn’t the same as saying someone is too stupid to understand it.
She wasn’t talking about who to push back against, but about messaging. “Stand up to oligarchs” doesn’t have the same impact as “stand up to would-be kings”. We sort of have a national history of opposition to kings, so it touches on some more foundational themes that mesh well with a push for constitutional order.
It’s not an academic paper. Your speech doesn’t get points deducted for using the wrong word for a domineering political ruler.
Have you just decided to be angry, and if you have to pivot from anger that “she’s pro-oligarchy” to anger that “she’s falsely implying that the oligarchy believes they rule by divine right”, so be it?