I answered all of their "prerequisite/verification" questions. Mostly my answers were of the variety of "Amerikkka imperializes the planet for the 1%" and "it's not the left vs right, it's the 99% vs the 1%"

They gave me a LOT of push-back for not acknowledging the "genocide" in China. But it really went downhill when I said that the imperialism of Ukraine by both USA and the Russian was/is a fairly nuanced topic.

Obama Admits US Role in Ukraine Overthrow

Pro-US, Nazi-glorifying government

Ultranationalism, anti-semitism, neo-nazi pogroms, and attacks on LGBT groups.

Ultimately I ended with, "Every war is a banker's war" and included I was against any/all imperialist movements (including Afghanistan, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Haiti, Congo, Liberia, and Sudan), but I could definitely see why NATO advancing, despite saying they wouldn't move a single inch towards Moscow, would incite a push from Russia to get their old trade buddy back (not to mention Blackrock/JPM front-running grain futures before the invasion and then vying to steal the mineral rights away from Ukraine in exchange to build it back up)

This really set the feds off..

"OH YOU HATE JEWS DO YA?" - 'Leftist' Alternative

"Wait... huh?" - Me

"A 'Bankers' War Huh??? We could just tell you were an anti-Semite"

"Are you insinuating.. that all Bankers are... jewish?" - Me

It immediately devolved into ad-hominems from the "lefties" so I left that right-wing hell-hole :(

Is Every "Leftist" Discord a Fed Honeypot?

Or are the lib brainworms really just that deeply ingrained at this point?

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the problem with "big tent leftism" is that nobody worth interacting with considers themself on the right, so it's easy to find center-right assholes, libs, even racists and other bigots in those spaces, claiming some vague allegiance to left politics.

all "i'm on the left" means anymore, as a baseline, is that they don't knowingly embrace and publicly advocate for all forms of racism.

this is one of the practical limitations of conceptually flattening political positioning into a single axis.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is that the problem of a single axis? Sounds like you're describing the problem of a binary that would be nicely solved with an axis

[–] Tom742@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

A binary left/right would place things in absolute terms, and I’m not sure how that would look exactly. The single political axis allows for left/right to be placed in relative terms, and what happens is anything slightly left of far right becomes leftist in relation, despite not being leftist in the absolute. The single political axis is what I think enables our vibes based politicking, largely.