This is why I fucking hate the political spectrum.

The left wing is for state managed finances, and putting the collective ahead of the individual. The right is for completely unrestricted economic freedom, and putting the individuals desires far ahead of any collective need. Meanwhile, we also tend to associate social freedom with the left, and conservative tradition with the right. So which of these systems defines anarchists?

It’s just a false dichotomy, and we need to stop simplifying everything to a binary. The 4-point grid is “better,” but it’s honestly just time we stop reducing complicated and nuanced ideologies into “this or that.”

Yeah, you gave me the benefit of the doubt and I appreciate it, but I want to say clearly that Hitler was anything but a genius. He had a penchant for sticking his nose into professions that he had no business involving himself in, and making decisions that he had no background in, education on, or understanding of. Like Trump, he was a narcissist who thought he knew best just because he is who he is, and was not self-aware enough to let the professionals work.

Perhaps eloquent was the wrong word, as I wrongly assume Mein Kampf was his words, when in reality it was likely the words of his editor, followed by a translator. Instead, I would say that when you hear him speak, Hitler’s voice is powerful. I cannot the same for Trump. One feels like a commanding leader, and the other feels like a toddler throwing a tantrum, though they were both, ultimately, the latter.

Also, just so it’s on the record, I read Mein Kampf as part of a minor in history. This was not personal interest, though it is an incredibly interesting text. It was fascinating to discover he devoted ~2.5 chapters to the importance of the same kind of simple, yet powerful finger-pointing rhetoric used by right-wing ideologists to this day. I joking say it’s one of the earliest texts on meme theory, and it’s only half a joke.

It literally took until the “signed America over to Canada” line before I was confident it was fake.

Fuck, this is a weird timeline. At least Hitler was eloquent.

…the gag is that this isn’t ironic, right? Like, people dropped their /s, so shitpost?

You expect people who are bad at driving to need to attend a driving school, and it is therefore a place where you are more likely to see accidents. This image meets what one would reasonably expect. It is not ironic.

The vast majority of the Bible was simply guidelines to keep people healthy and happy. All this “the skin of the pig is unclean” stuff? They hadn’t figured out germs yet. No sex until marriage? No contraceptives, so don’t create uncared for children. I won’t waste my time on it but, when examined in context, this is the vast majority, if not the entirety of the bible: lessons on how to be safe and happy relative to the time, made digestable and relevant to the common person.

Sucks they had to get there via fear of imaginary, post-life pain, and it sucks twice as hard that they’ve neglected to rationalize that part as the rest of the belief structure has modernized.

Holy fuck the throwback meme.

“You can’t treat the Chinese government’s opinion as universal to all Chinese people”

“Everyone on Reddit and Lemmy are morons and lying hypocrites.”

Alright, buddy. Perhaps turn that hatred of hypocrisy inward before you embarrass yourself further.

But considering how many straw men you had to build and how many contradictory blanket statements you had to make just to make that post, I suspect that would be too much to ask.

Not American, and yes to most of that.

The “both sides” argument is a dishonest one aimed at making people feel powerless. It can fuck right off.

“That person has different opinions from me, such an obvious troll!”

Fair though, I would troll the shit out of tankies at every opportunity I have the energy for. Fucking .ml.

I respect you for doing it, but the .ml at the end of their name really just means you’re wasting your effort.

None the less, good on you for fighting the good fight. I’m sick and tired of people pushing powerlessness and apathy under the guise of good will.

Oh no, I angered the tankies.

Both parties suck. The world would not be experiencing economic bipolarism, and we would not be spreading memes about American born citizens rotting in prisons in El Salvador just to cope had Trump lost the election. The two parties are not the same.

No, I just misread the first time. Fair enough.

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Both sides aren’t the same, but their choices produce the same results.

The last few weeks are clear evidence of the opposite.

See, comments like this…

Yes, because having a visible sexual fetish deviating from normalcy makes them a child predator. Fuck off with these chud talking points.

I’d argue that sexual expression is insanely repressed, and that celebrating it openly is more in line with the LGBTQ+ movement than you realize.

I mean, look at this thread. We have a majority upvoted comment calling this person mentally ill. Another insinuating that they’re a child predator. Just for being willing to express a non-normative opinion on sexuality. That’s not that different from the right-wing chuds calling trans people mentally ill as the modern stand-in for the r-slur, which in turn is a modern stand-in for “doing a socially unacceptable thing that I don’t like and should be ashamed.”

Personally, I think this person’s choices are in poor taste. But I get it. I get why someone would want to do this in a world where they’re constantly told they’re strange and wrong for the way they’re wired, so long as that wiring doesn’t cause harm to others.

Then why did you describe the US and China?

Only one.

Describes both.

We look down on all autocratic imperialist regimes equally around here. Fuck the USA, and fuck China.

I don’t inherit the sins of my father solely because of my skin color.

Correct. We inherit the responsibility to do what we can to make those wrongs right because of the advantages we are afforded by our historical background.

Because of the family I was born into, I was afforded easy access to food, shelter, and education, and easily able to find success and prosperity. This allows my children the same, and that’s, in large part, a result of history. Those coming from less advantaged socio-economic backgrounds do so because, again at least in part, my distant relatives stole from them to my benefit.

When these issues are divided by skin color, then yes, it is racist to ignore them in their entirety over the argument that we had no direct control over the actions of our forefathers, as we continue to benefit from them today. It’s really some trolley problem stuff: we are advantaged by being the ones hanging out around the lever, not tied to the tracks. When we are asked to switch the tracks, or heaven forbid stop the trolley, we should not respond, “it’s racist to tell me I should be doing something about this! I didn’t build the tracks! I don’t own the trolley!” Okay, cool. But they’re down there, on the tracks, and we’re up here, next to the lever. Call it luck, but by the nature of our birth, we have an advantage that minorities do not. It is not racist to identify that.

You want genuine people, friend, taking the time to try and discuss these perspectives to someone is about as genuine as it gets. It’s not easy to accept that, despite massive personal struggles and relative low wealth and prosperity in a world owned by billionaires, I’ve been at an advantage just because I was born European descendant Caucasian. Don’t mistake disagreement for a lack of authenticity, or being poor of character.