Agreed, I personally voted for Kamala Harris (early voting) however I cannot pretend that she is a good candidate.
Agreed, I personally voted for Kamala Harris (early voting)
It's a shit situation to have the candidates we do, but unironically, thank you for making the choice that makes it less likely that millions will suffer needlessly. I'll be limping my ass down on election day to cast that same vote.
RIGHT? Like I'm voting blue no matter who at least until the GOP fixes its fascism problem (if it ever does), but at the same time shut the fuck up I don't care about your 37 gender identities or pescatarian diet or whatever
The only people who rant about that stuff is the right wing
I'm straight but have lots of lgbtiq friends, and conversations like that never come up.
It's oddly enough the right wing who bring that conversation up constantly and exaggerate it
Oh other people decided to not live their life pedantically according to your opinions. The tragedy!
Seeing myself as center-left...
For my family, I'm the one who is left...
For the guys on hexbear, I'm far-right.
You are on a heavily censored instance.
The only instances I ever got censored by, were hexbear and lemmy.ml
It falls down to your opinions and not what flag you carry.
I think his point is when you are far enough on any side of the spectrum, everyone else gets lumped together with the more problematic version of the opposition.
Capitalists aren't fascists but I wouldn't be surprised to read an essay from someone on the far-left making that point.
Socialists aren't communists but you can frequently see this point being made by the far right.
Anyone who says they became a right-winger because they hated their fellow left-wingers is lying.
But, of course, every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Every word.
not fellow left-wingers - one way many people get pushed right is by watching right wing content that just shows lefties acting like idiots and then goes "omg look SJWs so dumb". So people get turned off from feminism or progressivism before they have a chance to actually engage with it. Then, there's only one direction to go when frustration sets in - right.
Just look at the amount of ragebait on (conventional) social media showing feminists or queer activists or woke people acting cringe. It's the first step of the right-wing pipeline.
people seem to forget that the GOP has been mastering propaganda and echo chambers since the 60s. so as soon as the Internet came alongz they knew exactly how to utilize it to get this effect. it's honestly terrifying, and I think it at least partially explains the rise of alt right nutjobs in the last 20 years
Or they engage one too many times with hexbear and lemmygrad and .ml posters and now associate "left" with tankie.
I agree with the sentiment but I'd say in the ones who genuinely believe it, it's a result of them being successfully deceived or manipulated
yeah exactly, imagine abandoning your entire worldview because someone was mean to you one too many times. You'd need to have no moral compass nor a spine to do that
if a fellow leftie is mean to me i just call them a tankie and move on with my life /j
There's a "joke" that if you put 3 leftists in a room, out comes 5 political parties.
That makes sense, one for each of them, and two to span their differences whilst keeping the most extreme differences furthest apart (so 5 all up). Typical lefties, reproducing the parliamentary liberalism that society is currently based on.
I suspect if you put three conservatives in a room you'd either get one dead, one too scared to talk, and one covered in blood... Or, three far right loonies calling for the death of all gay people, who all just had their first gay experience and plan to keep that fact secret.
Conservatives, they'll either kill something or fuck it, and either way they're gonna lie about it later.
who all just had their first gay experience
You mean because one of them (the one pushing for death to gay people) sexually assaulted the others? That’s my assumption and seems on brand.
No one hates extremists more than other extremists. Because they cannot decide on what they hate the most
Mostly that works because what the establishment thinks of as left is really centralist. Real leftists would advocate for socialism.
Of course the US goes even further into the insane category by basically just having everyone be right-wing with different flavors.
Did you do that on purpose? Illustrate the truth of the joke by no-true-Scotsmaning leftism, I mean? Because if so, bravo, and if not, lol
Real leftists would advocate for socialism.
True, but there are there differing approaches to socialism: MLs want authoritarian socialism (government runs everything), while Democratic Socialists usually want a hybrid of market socialism (co-ops) and government run socialism for needs that free market co-ops cannot address. And then there are libertarian socialists who want only worker owned co-ops and syndicates. Finally, we have SocDems that want indirect socialism where strong regulations and labor protections try to achieve socialist goals through capitalism.
Oh, so is my syndicalist ass a centrist? What about my mutualist wife? There’s the MLs vs the MLMs (who almost nuked each other). We managed to form two separate armies in most socialist revolutions
There's nothing more leftist than saying other leftists aren't real leftists. Congratulations.
Those stories are so fake. "I used to be a leftist, then I was mildly annoyed by something. Now I'm ragingTrumpist!"
Same energy as born again Christians trying to convert me from atheism.
"I used to be you!"
No, you were a slightly less annoying version of you. You don't know me at all.
Sorry to dump this out here, but I have dealt with this shit since I was a teen and I'm mad tonight about some other shit.
That's because they think everyone who isn't hardcore christian is unhappy and questioning their choices every day, just waiting on god to help.
I'm hard agnostic. That doesn't mean I'm questioning. That means I believe that we can't possibly know any more than a bacteria can fathom what I am. They're convinced that means I'm not sure if their god exists and I desperately want them to show me the light.
You know how I know what they think? It's how I was raised. It's the literal words that came out of their mouths. Luckily it's been years since anyone other than a Jehovah's Witness tried to convert me to anything and I just tell them "I think god is dead so I'm trying to get on Satan's good side by having sex outside of marriage and killing. Which do you prefer?"
"I had different principles and values until someone hurt my feelings on the internet."
If you are a leftist it is sooo easy to troll other leftists. Right wingers are missing out on all the fun.
It’s true.
Rural gun owner leftist vs Seattle leftist. Cage match at 9pm central time.
Can I ask why it’s at 9 PM central if it’s taking place in PDT?
Industrial worker in a union vs. woke college kid.
Unless he recently moved to Seattle, I'm fairly sure he lives in Vancouver (BC, he's Canadian) and his current name is some kind joke.
EDIT wow I can't read, this is from 2020.
Probably a joke about being the ruler of the CHAZ.
Literally annoyed right now because some dimwit fighting ghosts, saying that I was advocating for tolerance of right-wing fascism, because I said that the Balkanization strategy was not the strat in reply to a third individual's comment.
Also trying to say something about vulcanization, but idk what the chemical process of mixing rubber with sulfur has to do with geopolitics.
We must be flexible, hot, and kinda stinky in order to succeed at geopolitics duh
I'm also annoyed but for some other reasons that I can't share with you right now.
Lol if it makes you feel better I enjoyed the read earlier today.
I just left the lefty memes instance because people were so far up their own asses, they couldn't tell you their own right hand from their left. Don't even ask them about the left/right political spectrum. Well, unless you want to get angry.
Relatable.
I felt that an upvote is not enough but I don't have a meaningful thing to comment so here is a jerma gif showing that I agree with your post:
Thats because the right wing is way far over and a massively broad spectrum is leftist to them. they view themselves as center lol.
Is this Thought Slime the YouTuber? I love his shit
Hes a bit annoying at times and he's
🤮
Canadian ::: but besides that he's ok.
Canadian? That's fucked up
Yes, I think I even remember the tweet
I was a lefty . It's weird that trumps 1st round is what convinced me i wasn't. During that time, the bullshit of the left really became loud. These people seething with rage about political things...
What really became obvious to me was the "liberal media." I noticed how left all of mainstream media actually was. One can see through the lies if one opens their eyes.
I don't like trump. But the left doesnt have America's best in heart. I think Harris and walz are scrubs... they are last picks. Imagining Harris as president, that's scraxy.
so you were never a leftist?
Cause the self aggrandizing obvious grifter definitely has America’s best interests in his heart, give me a fucking break.
Very scraxy indeed. We clearly should have a dictator. You have opened my eyes!
Found a weak one.
The white-winger was talking nice with you. You are on his side, idiot tankie.
Leftist =/= Liberals. Liberals favour capitalism, leftists are anticapitalism. The Democrats and Republicans are both out of touch. It's disheartening.
