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"Why I left the Left" - A substack article (thecassandracomplex.substack.com)
submitted 10 hours ago by satxdude@lemm.ee to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

Choice quotes:

"I also fell in with feminism ... initially drawn to the anti-violence aspects but always somewhat repelled by the girl-boss twist."

...

I also thought of myself as “anti-capitalist”, until a wiser, older friend astutely pointed out that everything I complained about was better described as “globalism” and “corporatism”. I’m not opposed to hierarchies, or to competition. I don’t believe that all people are born equally smart, talented, and/or hardworking, but I dislike the incentives that push top-talent into careers I consider to be unethical or exploitative (e.g. investment banking).

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I quickly became disillusioned by the socialist activists I met and by many of their political stances (e.g. abolish or defund the police).

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It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly I gave up on the left. It might have been when my provincial NDP government tweeted that it was a “dangerous myth” that having adequate Vitamin D levels would protect against Covid. It might have been when I saw “leftists” and “socialists” celebrate the burning of Catholic churches. ... I attended a socialist rally in a local park ... and everyone except for me, my husband, and one Indigenous speaker were wearing masks. They praised China for their Covid policies and said Canada should be more like them. They served chips and other junk food. They vilified the police and landlords, without making distinctions between law-makers and the working people responsible for enforcing them, or between slumlords who owned multiple buildings and small-time landlords renting out their basements. They pushed for decriminalization and legalization of hard drugs such as cocaine, meth, and fentanyl...

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...even in a more equal society, crimes like rape and murder would still occur and require police action. I said if anything the police needed more funding...

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I’ve done a lot of reading and podcast-listening. I started engaging with content and content creators that mainstream liberals maligned as “right wing”, “conspiracy theorist”, evil in one way or another. I discovered that I quite liked Joe Rogan and many of his guests, and frequently agreed with him. Many of the people I’d been assured were “bad” actually seemed pretty reasonable,...

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The totalitarian aspects of the “woke” movement became impossible to ignore.

Pregnancy and motherhood further changed me. I became more critical of mainstream feminism.

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Race Realism:... there are average differences between different races and ethnicities and because of this racial parity in certain careers is not desirable. If medical doctors are disproportionately Indian and Jewish, that’s fine because I think what’s more important is we all get fairly good healthcare. If the majority of airline pilots are white men, I also think that’s a good thing because it’s in everyone’s interests that planes don’t crash. I also think that “white” people, in particular those from within the Hajnal line, are unique (note: not better), in particular that they are more “autistic” (for lack of a better word) on average than other populations

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Jewish People: Yes, the Jewish advantage in general intelligence is clearly a real thing, and in a pure meritocracy, Jewish people will disproportionately be represented in “elite” professions. Jewish people seem to be unusually capable, and that means that individually they are capable of great good and great evil. Whatever path humanity turns toward, whether to light or darkness, I suspect it will largely be Jewish people who lead us there. (She has a Jewish husband)

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[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 7 points 3 hours ago

I dislike the incentives that push top-talent into careers I consider to be unethical or exploitative (e.g. investment banking).

Yeah, we should push them into a volcano

it seemed to me like a lot of [socialist activist's] ideas would hurt small businesses.

Mom and pop hitler strikes again

[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 4 points 3 hours ago

You know an article is going to be insightful when the first several paragraphs are about the author's blood quantum. /s

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 8 points 4 hours ago
[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 14 points 5 hours ago

is this not just a fascist larping

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 16 points 5 hours ago

Lmao fascists always write an article or make a video like this and it's always the same nonsense. Totally bullshit, I'm going to hazard a guess that this person is trying get an online following

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 12 points 4 hours ago

It really is wild they think it's fooling anyone.

"I was a card carrying communist until somebody told me I shouldn't spit on homeless people while calling them racial slurs and I think we can all agree a man has to draw the line somewhere."

Although the entirety of the democratic party apparatus seems to have fallen for it considering how hard they've been tacking right but who knows.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 7 points 4 hours ago

Fascists, literally all the time: “Awww did I huwt the baby’s feewings? Lol snowflake! You having your feelings hurt means I’m right!”

Also fascists: “A leftist was rude to me, so that’s why I’m a fascist.”

[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 20 points 7 hours ago

First thought: literally who?

Brief search: oh, an idle rich kid turned D-tier author and opinion-haver.

Shocked that a nominal socdem "in the top 10 percent of the 1 percent wealthiest in the country" would "leave" the "left."

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 17 points 6 hours ago

Jewish People: Yes, the Jewish advantage in general intelligence is clearly a real thing, and in a pure meritocracy, Jewish people will disproportionately be represented in “elite” professions. Jewish people seem to be unusually capable, and that means that individually they are capable of great good and great evil. Whatever path humanity turns toward, whether to light or darkness, I suspect it will largely be Jewish people who lead us there. (She has a Jewish husband)

big-yud yes-hahaha-yes-l

[-] thetaT@hexbear.net 21 points 6 hours ago

literal fucking anti-semitism and then they accuse us of this shit

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 6 hours ago

"The (dehumanized people) are both less-than-human and have cool superpowers" chud belief was leveraged against autistic people, too.

[-] thetaT@hexbear.net 7 points 6 hours ago

and against asians, aswell

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

big-yud is one of those caliper-enjoying cryptofascists that likes to assign high stats and dehumanizing mysticism to Asian people too.

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 21 points 7 hours ago

Writing a "Why I left the left" article on substack.com is in and of itself a parody

[-] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 27 points 7 hours ago

can-excuse-1 I can excuse police brutality, 1000s of daily deaths from COVID, and race realism, but serving chips and junk food goes too far!

can-excuse-2 gunpoint-alt Get in the mineshaft.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 3 points 4 hours ago

If I let people know that I might have been a Republican but literally started moving left because republicans were rude to me, I’d be laughed out of the room but chuds can justify racism by saying the left rudely told them racism was wrong.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 14 points 7 hours ago

Idk how any serious person can reject Feminism and not be completely throughgoingly evil. For one, there are so many feminisms. Just pick one that appeals to you. But it's also such a basic idea. The "feminism is the radical idea that women are people" cliche really does sum up the basic demand.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 6 hours ago

A thief believes everyone steals.

A supremacist believes everyone is trying to get supremacy for their own team.

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 41 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I will never understand how many Westerners' brains just completely bricked at the thought of wearing a fucking paper mask

Just the tiniest little imposition on their fReEDumS - to halt the spread of a deadly virus, no less - and they immediately began to petulantly fill their diapers. Fucking pathetic

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago

NGL, I am slightly embarrassed on behalf of lifelong conservatives, specifically Catholics.

Imagine making a firm commitment to live a moderate, ascetic life and even going through lent annually and then your entire political philosophy is flooded by people who specifically join your ideology for hedonistic reasons.

Then they call leftists weaklings even though they’re too decadent to sacrifice their own pleasures for any idea. Progressives and conservatives alike should mock these people.

[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago

morshupls Ah, but yuo see, if they really cared about public health they wouldn't be serving junk food and simping for big pharma.

[-] sinstrium@hexbear.net 24 points 9 hours ago

Because it means "limiting" their "life" for the sake of others. A grave sin in western culture which sees only others to be burdensome or a feast to suck dry to advance their own station.

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 10 points 7 hours ago

That bit about Jewish people is uhhhh something

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 25 points 8 hours ago

It was a sunny day, and everyone except for me, my husband, and one Indigenous speaker were wearing masks.

Fucking LIB

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[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 49 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Can't leave what you were never part of. She dipped her toe in the water, encountered actual left-wing ideas, got scared, and backed out.

[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 12 points 7 hours ago

She might as well have said Im too uppity for you non white people so I'm "leaving the left" instead of vomiting all the usual white moderate horseshit takes as shown.

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 22 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

En caul deliveries are defined as a fetus that is delivered completely contained within an amniotic sac and are considered to be less common than 1 in 80,000 live births.

Imagine lying about this, what a fucking loser

(Grim that the level of arcane racism isn't remotely surprising on the internet)

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 20 points 7 hours ago

Wary about having an October 7 baby

Suspiciously fine with the baby weighing 8/8

Hmm.

[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

1588 is only one digit off from the chud number.

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[-] MidnightPocket@hexbear.net 47 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Uhg, that last quote about average Jewish intelligence; Liberal's eagerness to accept that "pleasant" myth betray their corrosive latent racism.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 36 points 8 hours ago

"I'm not antisemitic I just think jews run all our hospitals" is some serious "I'm not racist I just use the n-word against n-words" energy.

I really, really fucking hate nazi crocodile tears. They accuse others of antisemitism out one side of their mouth, while spreading Holocaust denial and blood libel out the other.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 13 points 7 hours ago

No no, I said you have a racial bonus to that stat, not a debuff. Why can't you people take a compliment?

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 21 points 8 hours ago

Happens to Asians too

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 19 points 8 hours ago

They served chips and other junk food.

Put the burgerlander in the burgher chipper

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 10 points 7 hours ago

Crunchy/Granola/Gymrat fascism is so real.

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