I will never understand why leftists constantly say you shouldn’t vote. Like, if you can’t even motivate people to do step one do you really think you’re going to motivate them to revolution?
I think this comment sections shows quite well just how much Lemmy is a bubble of leftists.
It’s like people insist that only two types of people exists.
Yes, there are those who thinks that there are two types of people exists, and those who don’t.
Not me. I know binary. There are 10 types of people.
CHOOSE:
freedom of thought, but you have to learn to work with people you disagree with slightly or find annoying: left
uniformity of thought, but you are surrounded by bleating sheep and must bleat along: right
It’s always funny when the right start having a lot of infighting because it turns out that “what everyone thinks” turns out to be a personal choice.
It cracks me up how antivaxxers on the right try using the slogan “Lions not sheep”. It reminds me of how Fox News used to call themselves “Fair and Balanced”.
A lot of younger (louder) leftists are not liberal so they enforce uniform thought in their communities and mock liberals.
Young people of all generations do not have full brains developed yet, they are basic and self righteous until 27ish
Leftism is intersectional. So having communities that agree with one another but disagree with others is often the state of things. One community can get more accomplished if they agree internally. Liberals are not leftists.
This is confusing. Liberalism isn’t leftwing, it’s right-of-center at best. Most often it’s right-wing economic policies with socially left-wing ineffectual lip service. Especially with how far right the Democrats have trended since the 80s and their adoption of a corporate focused form of third-wayism. There are only a handful of representatives who could even be considered slightly left-of-center progressives.
Liberalism could mean a wide variety of political positions, from left to right.
We on the right don’t view uniformity of thought as a positive.
Really? The right around here is burning books, claiming their religious beliefs should be enshrined in laws forced on others, and openly supporting a wannabe dictator while calling anyone in their party who doesn’t agree a ‘Rino’ (Republica in name only). To say nothing of the connection to churches and their ‘flocks’
That is a lot of trying to force viewpoints on others and create a uniform viewpoint
The Left, in unison : we are all free-thinking individuals!
Not like the Right at all.
The Left : The Right is to blame.
The Right : The Left is to blame.
The Plutocrats : Yessss, squabble my pawns, squabble.
