I wish I could say this to people in my life without it being met with a massive sigh...
nothx
joined 1 year ago
Technically nothing can be "uncooked" i dont think... lol
However, yes you are right. I don't think the political ideology of your average liberal can be redeemed at this point.
I want to print it to every printer in the building and leave it, but someone would be able to check the print server logs if they wanted to. I might still print a bunch of them at home and just leave them scattered around.
Public protest isn't a viable strategy in the west in regards to reliably extracting victories in the time span people fucking need them to happen.
This is exactly the sentiment I fail to express to my one lib friend who I talk the most politics with. They’re not a resistance lib, but they are also not a leftist. They know the system is severely broken, but are still supportive of the establishment and think it can be fixed.
I try to explain to them that I just don’t think we have adequate time left for slow progress; there are way to many immediate ramifications that will cause way too much irreversible damage by the time the slow roll of “progress” catches up. I just don’t think we can afford the slow moving Overton window that normies assume is happening. They disagree and still think change can happen by electing hundreds of AOC’s and Bernie’s as a counter to the thousands of Pelosi’s and Schumer’s.
It’s exhausting being a leftist in a world full of civility radlibs.
Fuck all the investors
Full stop, no further context needed. Fuck all the investors of everything, everywhere, forever.
The president doing twitch react content is so funny.
The most popular democrat podcaster I know is already willing to take the reins.
If I had to guess, it plays out like this.
- Refugees are taken in.
- The host country does the bare minimum to support them.
- Poverty ensues and petty crime amongst a small subset of people in the poverty stricken refugee camps start.
- Western media blows it out of proportion.
- Now here we are acting like it’s a huge problem.
Don’t take that as fact, it’s just my vibes based analysis based on how we normally see rich western countries demonize immigrants in general.
100% agree. Most people wont look at how their position fits in with the larger picture. They are haplessly self-absorbed in their own story-line, which I can only fault them for so much, I am a miserable sad-sack because of my inability to do this.
Sounds like we are around the same age and I can say that I had a very similar shortsighted worldview at the time. Especially because I grew up in a very privileged bubble with a conservative family. It wasn't really until I went to college in a major city that I started to see and experience what the world was really like, both good and bad. I became way more progressive and had my Obama arc as well. Then I had my Bernie arc, which started to really push me away from the centrist liberal ideations. My full radicalization came in 2020, COVID and the piss poor reactions/response to it is what got me to the point I'm at today. Watching as the world around me did everything it could to fake normalcy for the sake of "the economy" was extremely eye-opening and made me extremely resentful of the establishment and everyone's unfeathered support of the capitalist machine.
All that said, back to the initial response, I think at this point its very hard for the adult liberals of our generation to make the turn anymore. They have established themselves, started families, are in the middle of their careers, all within the confines of the current system. I think we are seeing them slowly become part of the "fuck you, got mine" demographic that for a long time has been reserved for boomers and genX. Not to say that's everyone, I am definitely making a few broad strokes with some of this, but by and large its what I have seen from people in my life.