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Those stories are so fake. “I used to be a leftist, then I was mildly annoyed by something. Now I’m ragingTrumpist!”
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.
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?”
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
“I had different principles and values until someone hurt my feelings on the internet.”
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.
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 /jI agree with the sentiment but I’d say in the ones who genuinely believe it, it’s a result of them being successfully deceived or manipulated
If you are a leftist it is sooo easy to troll other leftists. Right wingers are missing out on all the fun.
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.
We must be flexible, hot, and kinda stinky in order to succeed at geopolitics duh
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
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
You would think so, but there’s a certain user here who expects us all to play along with their stated gender. Their stated gender is the name of a mythical animal.
Somehow no one has played along.
Other than that specific person though, I have yet to meet a queer person who had an issue with being called ‘they/them’ even if their preferred pronouns are ‘zir’ or whatever. My wife works with multiple nonbinary people (librarians are an eclectic bunch). None of them expect you to call them by their preferred pronoun. They just don’t want you to intentionally misgender them either.
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.”
I actually operate an indoor rock climbing group and didn’t even realise how many of them were gay until years of climbing with them. 2 of them I’m still not sure. 1 of them I only figured it out because they had a climbing shirt on with a lgbtiq climbing community logo on it (and they actually operate that organisation)
The hilarious part of the whole thing is that they spent years trying to trigger libs. But ultimately online, they’ve managed to create their own self sustaining trigger circle that mainly affects them. That they use to accumulate their whining. Whereas the rest of us now just see them as crazies.
That doesn’t mean there are people on the left who aren’t crazy. But, that seems confined online. Whereas the right often seem to extend it offline because many seemingly don’t know the difference between reality and conspiracy theories anymore
One thing you’ll notice about the right wing is that so many of them have a huge number of comments. Probably because most of them I suspect are retirees who jerked around during high school. It’s easy to comment when there is no attempt at supporting evidence
For the anti-gay party they sure seem to spend a lot of their time thinking about dicks
I’ve met those walking stereotypes a handful of times but yeah, WAY less common than Tucker Carlson or whoever would have you believe
Oh other people decided to not live their life pedantically according to your opinions. The tragedy!
You seem to have missed the “shut the fuck up” part
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.
Is this Thought Slime the YouTuber? I love his shit
Yes, I think I even remember the tweet
No matter what you call yourself even within the left, someone will jump down your throat about it. And labels keep shifting so it’s a no win. You call yourself liberal and people are like “you’re a liberal?! You’re literally worse than Satan!” I thought being liberal as opposed to conservative was a good thing but ok. Nobody is good enough anymore, it’s just every subgenre of leftists arguing about who is worse
I used to think I was leftist, because I believe in things like “healthcare” and “equal rights”.
Then the leftists started screeching “bUt tHe gEnOcIdE!”
I guess I’m not a leftist.
I mean, the ongoing Palestinian genocide is important, vile, and our support of its perpetrators a stain on our national soul.
It’s just not an excuse to let fascists start an additional genocide here in the US. Without even stopping the ongoing Palestinian genocide.
I think people think voting is endorsement rather than strategic. Obviously any sane leftist would not vote for the guy that thinks “palestinian” means “terrorist” and wants to put legal immigrants in camps.
Unfortunately, the insane are very loud, and to the marginally engaged, loud insanity can sound like informed and passionate sanity.
People in this country are taught voting is a moral duty, but not taught why it’s a moral duty. So the lunatic position of “Don’t vote for anyone you disagree with!” dovetails nicely into our broken fucking civic culture. In reality, voting is, as you said, strategic - it’s a moral duty insofar as we are morally obligated, as citizens, to examine the power we have, to exercise it in the most effective way we can, in service to the moral aims we have.
Too many people in this country view voting spiritually. We aren’t Christian martyrs preparing to be fed to the lions in the Colosseum. We’re closer to congresscritters when we vote, than canonized saints. Take a look at your choices. Decide which one is closer to your goals. Vote accordingly. And be prepared to answer for it.
You get it.
I was a lefty . It’s weird that trumps 1st round is what convinced me i wasn’t. During that time, the bullshit of the left really became loud. These people seething with rage about political things…
What really became obvious to me was the “liberal media.” I noticed how left all of mainstream media actually was. One can see through the lies if one opens their eyes.
I don’t like trump. But the left doesnt have America’s best in heart. I think Harris and walz are scrubs… they are last picks. Imagining Harris as president, that’s scraxy.
Found a weak one.
Cause the self aggrandizing obvious grifter definitely has America’s best interests in his heart, give me a fucking break.
so you were never a leftist?
