• 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      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”.

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      A lot of younger (louder) leftists are not liberal so they enforce uniform thought in their communities and mock liberals.

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        Young people of all generations do not have full brains developed yet, they are basic and self righteous until 27ish

      • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        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.

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        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.

      • 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.works
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        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

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      1 year ago

      The Left, in unison : we are all free-thinking individuals!

      Not like the Right at all.