• OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    I mean, really to follow the theme, a third founder would need to die as a result of not having access to abortion, not themselves be aborted.

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.ml
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    i really hope charlie and erika kirk’s children come out as lgbtq and starts a leftist equivalent to turning point usa.

    in fact, is there a leftist equivalent to turning point usa?

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      a leftist equivalent to turning point usa

      If there is, I hope they call it “Just Keep Going Global”

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      Given that the US went through 2 wholesale leftist purges in its history and zero rightist purges, I would say that looking for an existing equivalent of any rightist phenomenon is asking a lot.

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      There was something called The Gravel Institute, but it didn’t last very long.

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      I have seen smaller ones, but it doesn’t really matter if they don’t have the virility of Turning Point.

      Part of Turning Point’s whole pitch is to counter overwhelming “leftist” voices in universities and such. There can’t really be an equivalent to that unless US colleges get mega right wing.

      • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.ml
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        i was thinking of the democratic socialists of america and other socialist/communist organizations - oh and donations from supporters. it worked for the progressive news channel freespeechtv. seriously!

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          Sure, not saying it’s impossible to secure funding. Just saying that it would pale in comparison to what billionaires are able to throw at organizations like TPUSA and you can’t expect it to be at the same level or grow nearly as rapidly as a result.

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    Between the Trump voter immigrants getting deported and anti vaccine people or their kids dying of preventable diseases, I don’t think US ever before had any period where “it won’t happen to me” was falsified so rapidly.

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    I feel like the joke doesn’t really work, they are conservatives, drowning during baptism or something like that would’ve been more to the point

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      Yeah, like an anti-seatbelt activist dying in a car crash.

      Or a anti-Obamacare person dying of a common infection.

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      You do realize there is a difference between the way the left and the right approaches gun ownership and pandemic responses, right?

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        More like a minor dying from childbirth complications. But regardless, none of this works because they would never invite a woman to found a conservative media organization unless its explicit intent was to reach conservative women.

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              Yeah, that’s a very specific requirement. They (conservatives) invited Bari Weiss to run CBS. I think this shows they don’t mind women being in charge of media organizations as long as they are loyal.

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                that’s a very specific requirement

                Not really when the topic at hand is Charlie Kirk and the guy that gave him a bunch of money to skip college and start TPUSA.

                Aside from that, Bari Weiss does not own CBS. She was given her position by someone who can just as easily take it away, because whoever actually owns CBS decided it was convenient to their interests. Yeah she has a lot more power and agency than the rest of us, but she is still a subordinate. The spoils of her work belong to someone else at the end of the day.

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                  People that receive money from someone to fund an organization are also subordinates. I though you were saying that conservatives would not appoint a women to a position of power and Weiss is a example disproving that. Of course if you narrow it down to a very specific case of someone founding an organization it will be more difficult to find someone because there are simply not that many organizations being founded all the time. Women are totally being sponsored and promoted by right wing king pins (Candice Owens, Megan Kelly).