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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

As a Leftist there are a few types of leftists I hate

  • Fake Leftists: People who think Socialism is when "government does stuff" and they just want the government to do everything
  • Ignorant Leftists: People who blindly hate capitalism but make no real attempt to look into leftist theory
  • "Anti-imperalists": People who support "anti-imperialism" by supporting the other empire. These people will blindly support Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, the Taliban, Assad's Syria, HTS, and occasionally blatant terrorism.
  • Aesthetic "Leftists": People who see leftism as nothing more than an aesthetic which they can use. They make no real attempt to understand leftism but rather then simply being ignorent they actively attempt to subvert the term. These people will say "leftism just means left of center" and use that to justify Capitalism, western imperialism, and other very non leftist ideals under the justification that "leftism has no hard definition" (it does).
[–] ameancow 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Aesthetic “Leftists”

Absolutely infuriating. These are people who spend a lot of time on discord, closely nurturing a group of diverse people of specific ethnic or gender/sexual identities because it makes them feel very progressive but makes no effort to see their "friends" as humans and won't hold them accountable when any of them become abusive or hassle other friends in the group. These are the college-kids who will commit all their energy to fighting a school-mascot which bothers nobody, while literal nazis march on another part of the campus. These are the ones who create campaigns to "take down" another popular leftist for saying something like the word "retarded" while actual threats to humanity rise in power. And generally just find it a lot easier to attack people ostensibly on their side than the actual challenge of fighting for actual community organization efforts against a rising tide of fascism and hate.

For these kids being progressive or leftist is entirely about preserving an in-club of specific people who can hate outsiders, but they feel they have a broader societal blessing for the exclusionary and wildly performative attitudes.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Leftist here: I swear to fuck if I hear one more Tankie put a "Trump winning is actually a good thing because Kamela's literally the same person as Trump" card on the table with a "Actually North Korea is this amazing paradise and EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING PLANET is just pretending it's awful. Source: Trust me bro!" stat booster

So help me God I will.... Roll my eyes and drown my sorrows in another round of Dead By Daylight where I hope to find a Joshua in the lobby because I'm a Killer Main...

Seriously, why can't we have unity like the Rightists do? I mean they just point and say "Look! It's a gay!", they all form in a line.

If I point and say "Look! It's a fascist!", the whole squad starts pointing at each other and somehow I'm "cancelled for being a rape apologist" because the way I pointed was actually a dog whistle because it vaguely resembled the ancient Anti-Black symbol called "Ligma" popularized in the year 19Dickety2 in response to white men being annoyed that black people could afford chewing gum or something... Which obviously everyone totally knows is a real thing!

I just want us to ya know, save the fucking world from Neolibs and Literal Nazis before we start doing purity tastes on each other. Like, can we wait to do the "Everyone in the group gets chronic backstab syndrome." shit AFTER we win?

I mean fuck the Deadly Alliance had the fucking patience to wait till they killed the main cast, Raiden included, before that shit.. and they're literally Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, the exact two people I expect to constantly lose Among Us by reporting each other when they're both the Imposter! In a SELF-REPORT! Because I'm reliving all of my negative experiences with other socialists, and when I'm angry I try to make the nerdiest references I can make while still ensuring there's a chance for others to get them.

starts frothing, dies of self-inflicted rabies

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

I haven't seen anyone say Trump winning is a good thing, nor have I seen anyone say the DPRK is a paradise (closest to that is people saying the DPRK has living standards around the level of Cuba these days). Where are you finding these people at significant enough numbers to cause you anguish? Legitimate question here, you're calling for Left Unity but it seems like you're misframing others at best, which goes against that ideal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I will admit that I'm exaggerating out of frustration, but the idea that North Korea is "Actually a real nice place to live, preferable to America in some respects" is one I hear a lot (I do hear about China being a paradise)

And for the record I was kicked out of my local Socialist Chapter for refusing to endorse a Green Party Candidate who was openly transphobic and talking about nixing expanding healthcare access in favor of just "curing autism with crystals", the head of which responded to by calling me a rape apologist, which doesn't make any sense. (Also a white cisguy calling a transgirl a "Rape Apologist" for not going along with transphobia and ableism is sus)

I was hardly the only nay-sayer, he got a lot of backlash for supporting this person, but the fact that I wouldn't play ball with one of my oppressors seemed to really piss in this guy's cornflakes.

Wasn't the only odd thing about the guy, he actually condemened Bernie during the 2020 primaries, citing a "Refusal to advocate for violence against the police" as "Proof that he just doesn't care!", when that was never a realistic thing to expect a candidate to do.

So I have dealt with a lot of crazy unreasonable types "on the front lines" so to speak.

Also I sadly have dealt with a lot of "Even though it means letting Trump win, we can't lift a finger to help Biden/Hillary/Kamela because they're literally not as bad as Trump on this one issue."

My point still remains, can we please just focus on actually being productive before we turn on each other?

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