Every dang day

Yeah, I probably shouldn't have posted that. I didn't get enough sleep and I'm grouchy. Sorry.

To be fair, I'm sure there are dozens of legit good Christians out there...somewhere

I live in Czech Republic. Atheism is the default here. Almost nobody talks about faith, since most people don't care, so you can't really tell if someone is Christian.

To me, internet atheists are annoying as shit. I get it that the USA close to being an open theocracy and a lot of pushback is still needed before things are even close to normal, but still. Forceful atheism you usually see online is obnoxious, goes to extremes, the smugness is off the charts - simpmy annoying.

We eat our own.

You think that doesn't happen on the right? There's a huge fight in congress now about which idiot is the Republicanest. They're all calling each other RINOs.

Ok, I'll bite, give me an example of "one thing wrong" that gets you labelled as an alt-right fascist.

I consider myself a communist, I have been called a nazi or a fascist (I don't remember) by some people here because I don't share 100% some of their ideas, I'm still on the left, I still have empathy, I fully support individual freedom. But they are annoying nonetheless.

I thibk what thwy're saying is, is that it is proof you have horrible moral axioms or no axioms at all if you're willing to shift entire poolitical directions over annoyance. Constructing society MUST be done by people who are less petty and judgemental.

Apart from my wife's entire family, sure.

I've known (and know) many conservatives. While they all had very diverse reasons, the through-line is always hate. Either hate of LGBT people, women's bodily autonomy, immigrants, POC, workers, or the poor (or all the above).

I don't consider most of these people bad people, per se. People are complex, and many are good people in other aspects. Most don't have any kind of power, and aren't overt about their hatred in strange company, so it doesn't matter much who they hate. If anything, their hatred is damaging to themselves (emotionally and socially). Though, I guess on the grand scale, they end up voting for politicians that worsen the conditions of the people they hate; and, in most cases, worsen their own conditions.

The fact that Trump has made it his life's mission to be a fucking cartoon villain, and that people actually follow him, is not a moral failing of the guy you replied to.

People on the right wanting to take away medical treatment from trans people that we all know will result in more of them being miserable and committing suicide. That's hateful.

Laws passed to censor any discussion of homosexuality, ensuring gay people stay isolated, closeted, and unaccepted by larger society. That's hateful.

Silence any talk of racism lest we work to overcome it? Hateful.

We hear Trump telling us he will lock up the lefties. Believe it or not, hateful.

Trump making fun of disabled people and Republicans laughing along with? Again, Hateful.

Putting brown kids in cages, or yanking them away from their families and then losing them? Hateful.

And on and on.

Rabid right wing extremists have taken over the GOP over the last few decades. They're the hateful ones.

Things it's okay to hate people for:

• Their race
• Their gender
• Who they are attracted to
• Their ethnicity
• Their religion

Things it's not okay to hate people for:

• Their shitty opinions

Thank you for saving us from the cancel mob

It does not mean they are hateful, you silly billy. It means they cannot observe the reasons for the hate.

That COULD be because they agree with it and do not want to admit, but you MUST understand how wishful thinking and ignorance to evil ABSOLUTELY produces the same result.

MLK Jr. was not calling everyone who sat on their butt evil. He called their inaction the banality of evil. It does NOT take an evil person to do a horrible thing. The fact you do not realize that means it is you who has a lot of growing to do.

Yes, inaction because of ignorance is bad. Though calling people evil because they're ignorant is utterly counterproductive and frankly, pathetically judgemental, too.

Except they literally are, looking at the US. I’m European and I see most right-wing European politicians as just “assholes I disagree with”, but the US Republicans are literally cartoon villains at this point. Like, Trump would get labeled as unrealistic if he was an antagonist in a remotely adult-oriented movie.

Problem is that I genuinely do struggle to think of an issue that I think the right-wing are correct on. It's not mere tribalism, it's not "other team bad". It is a fundamental difference in values, and worldview.

Compromise and finding a middle ground is absolutely worthless unless the middle ground is the superior stance, which it rarely is.

And the problem of modern US politics is that the middle ground is already what is called “left”. Biden would be seen as right-wing in Europe. If they keep finding a “middle ground” they’ll just shift the Overton Window more and more.

They never have infighting about how to make things better though... Like they don't fight weather we should help single mothers with X or just Y... No they argue if billionaires should get pay no taxes or negative taxes...

Leftism is intersectional. So having communities that agree with one another but disagree with others is often the state of things. One community can get more accomplished if they agree internally. Liberals are not leftists.

Young people of all generations do not have full brains developed yet, they are basic and self righteous until 27ish

This is confusing. Liberalism isn't leftwing, it's right-of-center at best. Most often it's right-wing economic policies with socially left-wing ineffectual lip service. Especially with how far right the Democrats have trended since the 80s and their adoption of a corporate focused form of third-wayism. There are only a handful of representatives who could even be considered slightly left-of-center progressives.

lol

Really? The right around here is burning books, claiming their religious beliefs should be enshrined in laws forced on others, and openly supporting a wannabe dictator while calling anyone in their party who doesn't agree a 'Rino' (Republica in name only). To say nothing of the connection to churches and their 'flocks'

That is a lot of trying to force viewpoints on others and create a uniform viewpoint

Why are people getting cancelled for opposing leftist views?

From the people who tried to cancel D&D, Rock music, The Dixie Chicks, Drag shows, LGBTQ....

Why are you automatically considered a nazi if you don't agree with every facet of the left?

From the people who started asking if the ultra-religious speaker of the house was "secretly a Democrat" because he simply acknowledged the difficulties his adopted black son has that his white son doesn't.

I may be wrong here, but none of that sounds like freedom of thought. The right is full of dumb ideas, but at least they let them all be heard.

From the people who shouted down a reporter for simply asking the question "do you believe the 2020 election was stolen?"

Why are people getting cancelled for opposing leftist views?

They aren't

Why are you automatically considered a nazi if you don't agree with every facet of the left?

You aren't

I may be wrong here, but none of that sounds like freedom of thought.

You are wrong here

The right is full of dumb ideas, but at least they let them all be heard.

Why is this even a positive lol

Dude, people on the left don't agree with everything on the left. That's the entire point of this post. Grow up and have some nuence in thought. Learn to analyze what you're told and think critically, not just repeat things you hear other people say.

Everything you said is bullshit and d r I p p I n g in so much propaganda filth I don't think you are an actual real person! Literally Nobody talks like this.

You're both profoundly ignorant of the subject matter and very confident you know a lot about it, a.k.a. an excellent example of the Dunning-Krugger effect.

Consider the possibility that what you hear about "The Left" (just the idea that it's an unified thing is ridiculous) from the media you consume (American, right?!) are the shocking things that will make you form the opinion others want you to have - in other words, you're being treated as an useful idiot.

Even in the US, were whatever passes for "Left" is very much captured by the local Duopoly Of Power politics and doesn't really tries to effectivelly achieve the "Greatest good for the greatest number" (otherwise they would be way, WAY, WAY more worried about wealth inequality and not obcessed with fragmented identitarian infighting), leftwing thinking is a range - though narrower than elsewhere - not a unified anything.

Disagreeing with a gay person's lifestyle doesn't make you a nazi. Wanting to punish a gay person in any way because of their lifestyle does.

Save it for the final episode.

I am politically nb.

Lol, made me spit my coffee out.

Are you suggesting political opinions are actually unary?

They know deep down they are supporting the trainwreck, they just want a media ecosystem that blames others so they don't feel personally responsible for it.

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You've got it wrong here, they care about fixing 'problems'

When you make up problems so the solution can be physical violence, ANY 'problem' is 'solvable' if you stir up enough 'vigilantes' to solve it!

I honestly would probably vote Republican if they put up a candidate that had solutions to economic problems they swear is caused by the left.

But they don’t have any, because all their candidates bluster about the economy while they run on platforms centered around identity politics, religious law, and reducing women’s bodily autonomy.

Every day I have to hear conservatives complain about how “Biden ruined the economy” but they don’t seem to care all that much about fixing it. They just want to ban abortion, suppress the gays , and put Christ back in Christmas.

It honestly feels like the left doesn’t know how to fix the economy and the right just doesn’t want to.

Not me. I know binary. There are 10 types of people.