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Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why, then, is there still such a significant commitment towards mocking your rural conservative idiot voter, in the rhetoric of the left? I think there’s a lot of people who still hold onto some semblance of liberalism in their culture, their rhetoric, their attitudes, even after they become a part of the left. I think there’s probably also a significant proportion of actual liberals which, being controlled opposition, seeks exclusively to widen that divide and sort of, function as the pepsi to the coke, even as that strategy actively drives us towards more and more extremism and destroys the country.

Because I support policies that would help everyone, even "your rural conservative idiot voter" (your words), no matter how much disdain I have for their willingness to hurt everyone not like them. And that brings me to the point.

I could give a shit about them being rural. You won't find me ever attacking them in a way that includes that facet of who they are. They support the party that is visibly, publicly, actively, destroying everything they claim to hold dear, AND they support the party who is ready and willing to do harm, big and small, to anyone outside a very specific demographic. In many cases, they are the people doing the harm, not just supporters of the people doing harm.

I can understand them just fine, from over here, where I will continue to keep myself and those who are dear to me out of their destructive path as best I can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You're not really who I'm talking about in my post, then. I agree with most of what you say. I was mostly talking about liberals who explicitly mock them, I was talking about "FAFO" shit, I dunno if you've seen it or not, but it's become a prevalent reaction. Just the same as, say, when you see people online mocking the idea of a starbucks boycott because palestinians didn't vote, right. Posing with their starbucks cups. Most of these people weren't ever committed to a boycott, which, sure, fine. But it sees that sort of a politics as explicitly transactional, rather than being founded on just doing what's right and good. That's the sort of thing that I'm getting at, rather than people just, I dunno. Not going out of their way to talk to conservatives at all about their ideologies or try to convince them. I think people should do that still, sure, but I'm not going to personally fault people for not going out of their way to do that, or being like, explicitly focused more on the people immediately around them, and their safety.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

You’re not really who I’m talking about in my post, then.

Ah good. It did feel lke we were talking past each other a bit.

I was talking about “FAFO” shit, I dunno if you’ve seen it or not

I have zero FAFO towards people who took a principled stand on Gaza with their vote. I really, really wish they hadn't, but I understand why, and IIRC if they hadnt it wouldn't have swung the election anyway.

OTOH, I do think the "Trump will be worse for Gaza" argument is proving true.

I have plenty of FAFO for your general bigoted shitstains who have proven (and continue to prove) that their commitment to the "values" they preached about for decades is entirely hollow. They are going down in this flaming wreckage with all the rest of us, and when they realize Trump isn't just going to hurt the people they wanted hurt, it will do nothing but salve my own pain over seeing what they have done to our country.