Some say Pastrami is moving "to the Right".
He's not. He's still a commie, and he always will be.
It's just that he's been doing this Corbo-commie stuff for 12 years or so now, and he's getting a bit bored with himself. So he wants to branch out a little. Talk about other stuff.
...and in that process, he's slowly finding out that the Left, even though they've somehow managed to convince all the dim kids that they're the cool ones, are all pearl-clutching puritans and bores, who freak out when a fellow Leftie talks to a non-communist for half an hour. ImageImage
"The “Basedani” meme [...] shows right-wing desperation for approval. I’m a right-winger who’s a vegetarian and has defended Corbynites but none of our cousins on the left would think me a potential comrade."
thecritic.co.uk/out-of-left-fi…
"What’s funny, though, is that some of Bastani’s fellow leftists seem to agree with it. He’s a “dangerous liability”, claims the “anti-colonial political ecologist” Lisa Tilley. [...] [I]t’s quite unfair. Leave him alone, guys. He’s not a secret right-winger. I promise."

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