Circular firing squad
I've seen situations here on lemmy where I would cause it if I where to argue with someone
I am leftist
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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We are enemies now
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One thing the right is good at doing is falling in line, no matter that the agenda being pushed.
That's mostly due to the rights belief in hierarchy. It doesn't matter if the person above you has different views than you if you believe their right simply because they're higher up the pecking order.
One thing I've always wondered, who/what decides their hierarchy?
Thry guy who finds himself on top determines the hierarchy until someone supplants him ny whatever means.
Money
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Yeah the flaws of leftists is understanding what they are voting for and not operating purely on loyalty.
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The right opposes free thought and favors conformity to support the privileged few.
The left favors free thought and opposes conformity, because that would impede social progress.
Yeah, I wonder why one of those groups is likely to have public arguments.
Not necessarily. Some leftists demand conformity in beliefs. "If you don't believe XYZ, you're a shill/neoliberal/fascist etc."
I feel like favoring free thought and opposing conformity leads to arguments, but demanding conformity leads to enemies (like this meme).
Some of the most authoritarian people I come into contact with on any kind of regular basis are “leftists” on Lemmy.
The ones in real life are not like that. I feel like Reddit’s moderation model really encourages it, and some of them started really taking it to heart when they came to Lemmy which copied that same model.
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The problem is not public arguments, but groups rejecting other groups for ideological reasons. I personally know people who are like "you can be a communist, or you can be wrong".
The reality is that there are left groups, especially far-left groups, who will already dismiss your opinion on everything for not categorically rejecting a (social) markets economy. Doesn't matter if you agree in all other points.
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I don't hate most leftists (or even non-leftists for that matter). I hate the kind that hate other leftists. The lemmy.ml tankies always complain that people who disagree with them are splitting the left, when they're the ones calling everybody who vaguely disagrees with them a liberal. Not purely an ML thing though, there's plenty of this kind of person in all camps.
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Yugopnik made a good point on the term "Leftist" and how its so broad that it includes many different idealogies that are quite honestly conflicting, i.e. stalinists, anarchists, etc., so that it appears leftists are always fighting since they are all lumped into the same category.
I approve of any leftist as long as they are anti-authoritarian.
so that it appears leftists are always fighting since they are all lumped into the same category.
I always say it is because the left in general has its roots in old school liberal value of "think for yourself". So there typically tends to be maverick attitude and in-fighting. The best example is the Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War; you have soc dems, communists and anarchists fighting together not just against fascists, but also themselves. The right, meanwhile value order and hierarchy, so they tend to easily set aside their differences. Again, the Spanish Civil War is the best example, with the Spanish Nationalists also composed of various factions with competing agenda, but managed to set aside their differences, which made it easier to do because they had a strong man figure to rally to.
And the right won that war, which goes to show the value of unity
And the right won that war
I assume you are from the US. It may be the case in your country, but it is not necessarily that the right as a whole won the war, considering that other parts of the world still have leftist and liberal politicians ruling. As a matter of fact, they have gotten more popular as Trump's brazen corruption and incompetence is setting example why not to elect populist right wing politicians.
For what it's worth, if nothing existentially happens that would stop US from becoming a nation anymore like a civil war, politics typically swing back like a pendulum. Even at the extreme, politics could dramatically swing back to normalcy and empathy. We have had countries that were under dictatorship, but are now democratic like Spain and Portugal. Because the problem with dictatorships is that they become too corrupt and reality eventually catches up to those who were swooned by initial sweet promises of demagoguery.
Of course, what I just said now may not be reassuring to you because I am speaking from a place of relative safety, so you can take it or leave it.
I am American, but I was more making a point about how the rights tendency to fall in line makes them more effective, and maybe we should emulate that
Yeah sometimes I get frustrated because I wish "the left" could be adults for five minutes and deal with the issues at hand. Like I don't care about the socialist alphabet soup if you're from PSL, or DSA, or ISA or whatever, we all agree that people are being kidnapped by I.C.E. is evil and alarming, can we just deal with this right now? We can get back to bickering about philosophy later.
But even that is complicated since there are disagreements that can't be ignored, like whether to work with democrats, who time and time again undermine and cripple movements whenever able and divert them for fundraising.
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Look what they did to my boi.
I'll start my own leftism, with Blackjack and hookers! If fact, forget the blackjack. Ah, screw the whole thing.
I have never met a leftist I didn't like
but I only consider somebody a leftist if they respect human rights.
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I made this for a comment (about small-data images, jpegs) days ago:
Half the replies in this thread: so true bestie, except fuck those guys for not being left enough
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Why can't we have Leftist Unity? The fucking Rightists can agree on hating "The Libz"
Why can't we agree on hating cons? Sadly I can't even get Leftist factions to agree on "LGBT Rights are based and cool", because Left-Learning TERFs exist and I've had Tankies pull "LGBT Rights is racist because it means forcing Western Ideals where they don't belong" crap on me.
Because being a leftist just isnt as fun when you dont hate everyone and everything. Hate is fun
We can't even use the best slurs because we're too considerate.
People on the left love to "well actually..." every issue, every opinion, because nothing in the world is 100%, but when something is 85%+ we should just stfu about it, agree and move on to more pressing issues.
But of course we can't, so we keep losing.
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I fucking hate this dynamic
Nobody is left enough for anyone else on the left. You agree with me on an issue but differ on execution? You may as well be Trump!
Is this Anime Futurama?
(Seriously, wtf is this shit?)
Edit: Lol okay, they did a weird episode.
Futurama is gonna look so funny if they actually committed to doing Japanese-Style Animation for future episodes 🤣, like it'd be comedy gold.
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