Easier said than done, unfortunately.

They don’t really fit on a lot of US roads either but people still drive them here. Almost every day they have to haul one out of the way of the light rail in my city because it sticks out too far.

Don’t be silly. You can’t sustain carbrain by reading. Just react emotionally and move on. That way you never have to feel any cognitive dissonance about the bullshit our culture teaches people.

They may become popular though. There is a large subset of the population across the world who uncritically consumes American media and seeks to blindly replicate what’s fashionable here.

Great points, I think you’re spot on with the differences.

I thought you meant actual leftists. I see now you had it in quotes so if you mean anyone to the left of MAGA then yes there are many such people. Probably about 60% or more of the country.

To me, diffuse harm is very obviously just as bad, but it is more difficult to quantify and fix. Furthermore, these types of harms are not comparable to a mass shooter where the danger is ended by killing or capturing them. The harms are produced by systems. Does killing Charlie Kirk end the harms he committed or will the billionaires propping him up simply replace him with another identical mouthpiece?

Individual assassinations don’t usually solve systemic problems.

This is wishful thinking. Polling shows MAGAists are many times more numerous than leftists.

I mean this dynamic is not only found on the right. Many Lemmings seem to be caught up in the same mode of thinking.

I hope we can all agree that people suffering and dying, in isolation, is bad. Obviously the implications of a death can vary widely and that’s where things get complicated. But the basic moral principle should be widely shared.

America is in a violent mood. It used to be mainly the right but I think it’s fair to say everyone is feeling it at this point.

They have lots of arguments but they’re all bullshit. Leftism is about more than economics, that’s a particular Marxist obsession. Leftism is broader than that. But even if you want to focus on economics alone (which is ridiculously myopic since other political topics obviously have a direct impact on economics), workers in the USSR lost control of the means of production almost immediately. State control is not liberation, particularly when that state is repressive and undemocratic.

And being left of the Tsar doesn’t make you a leftist in the modern context. If that’s the case then Donald Trump is a leftist.

A lot of anarchists do seem to want a big purge. I’m not saying that’s inherently part of the ideology as a whole—I’m fairly sympathetic to anarchist ideals. But I’m not as sympathetic to terminally online weirdos who just want an outlet for their impotent rage. And a lot of such people do call themselves anarchists.

They’re not wrong in this specific case though.

No. People can’t get past the propaganda and the fact that while the revolution started as a leftist movement, it was quickly captured by reactionaries who transformed the liberatory movement into a repressive police state. Police states cannot be leftist, full stop.

So the emperor is you in this meme? Telling choice.

People who worship dictators are really pathetic. I wonder what happened to people like this to have a moral compass that is so backwards?

Is there supposed to be an image?

What’s with this fascist propaganda?

Search for keywords that interest you. And pay attention to links to other communities/posts and subscribe whenever it seems of interest.

It really makes you pessimistic about human nature that you can build a society where freedom is widely celebrated as the highest ideal, yet somehow still have it be incredibly oppressive.

There’s absolutely nothing about the original tweet that makes sense. India was a major contributor to the allied war effort, albeit not entirely voluntarily. Though I suppose the same could be said for most countries due to conscription and even the cancellation of elections.