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[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 154 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

There's a "joke" that if you put 3 leftists in a room, out comes 5 political parties.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 55 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 4 weeks ago

No one hates extremists more than other extremists. Because they cannot decide on what they hate the most

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 42 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

People’s front of Judea or gtfo

[–] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Judean People's Front for life!

[–] Tin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 weeks ago
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh, it will be for life all right...

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

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.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

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

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 85 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Those stories are so fake. "I used to be a leftist, then I was mildly annoyed by something. Now I'm ragingTrumpist!"

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 66 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 30 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

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?"

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[–] shplane@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

My aunt was an atheist turned born again Christian but that’s only because she took too much acid in the 70s and fried her brain

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 4 weeks ago

That's an interesting tactic that no Jehovah's witnesses tried with me. That one might actually work.

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[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 25 points 4 weeks ago

"I had different principles and values until someone hurt my feelings on the internet."

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 47 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

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~~

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 44 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm in this picture, and I don't like it.

[–] kometes@lemmy.world 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You are annoying me right now.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 29 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I would expect nothing less.

[–] shplane@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

That’s it! I’m voting for Trump.

Just kidding, I already voted for Harris.

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[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 42 points 4 weeks ago (13 children)

Seeing myself as center-left...

For my family, I'm the one who is left...

For the guys on hexbear, I'm far-right.

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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 42 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

It’s true.

Rural gun owner leftist vs Seattle leftist. Cage match at 9pm central time.

Industrial worker in a union vs. woke college kid.

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[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 32 points 4 weeks ago

If you are a leftist it is sooo easy to troll other leftists. Right wingers are missing out on all the fun.

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 29 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago

We must be flexible, hot, and kinda stinky in order to succeed at geopolitics duh

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[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] auzy@lemmy.world 32 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

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

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

And then they blow up the conversation like you're crazy.

"... I don't care what they do"

"But whatabout blah blah blah"

"Yeah, whatever. Why is this even an issue to you? How many Trans people are in your life. Your life. Personally."

"That's not the point!"

"I think it is."

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Agreed, I personally voted for Kamala Harris (early voting) however I cannot pretend that she is a good candidate.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

If Kamala wins I hope Liberals can use the next four years to actually do something (unlike Biden), hopefully ranked choice voting will be in and the electoral college will be out

[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

From left to right - Student loans forgiven ($175 Billion)

Student loans that would have been forgiven without R fuckery ($430 Billion)

Total federal student loan debt ($1.6 Trillion)

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[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 9 points 4 weeks ago

Thats because the right wing is way far over and a massively broad spectrum is leftist to them. they view themselves as center lol.

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Is this Thought Slime the YouTuber? I love his shit

[–] basmati@lemmus.org 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hes a bit annoying at times and he's

🤮Canadian
but besides that he's ok.

Canadian? That's fucked up

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You can't annoy someone into becoming differently-hearted about abortion, the death penalty, religion in the public arena, taxes and their governmental expenditures, or any sort of organized culturally elite stylized policies. Even though we domesticate animals some humans have had repeatedly bad experiences with the cultural domestication process.

And politics relies upon these eternal differences.

They will hate leftist policy because it means that bullying becomes harder to do. Controlling resources is now out of their hands in a very direct way, and usually people that need to dominate resources to feel safe will not abide by others having access to resources that they can't control the tap to.

And so that gets transformed one way or another. If they are big and have no problem doing crime they roll that.

If they are big and they start with a problem with crime then they roll blue. That system creates a whole 'nather version of criminality and there is no cure for it there, either.

Then you have the leftist which is usually someone that has been bullied enough to recognize oppression yet has not the power nor the force to make change.

And yet when they do ...

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[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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:

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