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Guys, at this rate I don't think the revolution's going to happen anytime soon.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They suck because nobody is left enough for anyone else, this past year the left splintered and if you so much as lean a little bit left or right of another leftist, you’re a fascist and they don’t want your support.

Meanwhile the right is unified, so no wonder the left is getting its ass handed to them.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

No. The most important thing is to gain virtue points by pointing out other people doing something wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, of course. Always place fighting other leftists before fighting capitalism!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

This so fucking much

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago (18 children)

'Centrists' don't help much either because they too hold the left to a higher standard than the right and always seem to be looking for any excuse to whip out the ol' "so much for the tolerant left" so that they can feel better about themselves when they vote for who they really wanted to vote for anyway.

People on the right can say in plain English "I want to dismantle women's rights and put all gay people into camps" and the 'centrist' will be like "hmmm yes that seems like a valid political opinion". But the moment someone on the left drops the high road shit for once and bites back, the 'centrist', clutching pearls is like "See? This is why I'm supporting the bigots that hate everyone, because you SWORE and that's unacceptable!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

A large portion of "cancel culture" also was the left (and liberals) choosing the "moral high road", because they convinced us someone's 8+ year old mistake made them unfit for anything. This got so bad, the right started to manipulate it, even on the old internet, and nowadays there are a lot of callouts astroturfed by kiwifarms and other far-right doxing groups (some of it moved to Discord/Matrix).

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You can see it plain as day in the last election's rhetoric. Democrats insist that a simple Republican Majority is enough to end democracy nationwide. However, they also believe Republicans can trivially block any liberal initiative from the legislative minority.

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