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Pwnallthethings@pwnallthethings.bsky.social |
If your leftism isn't fundamentally centered on the idea of human dignity and freedom as universal and immutable values of everyone, frankly, what is the fucking point of your philosophy.
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Raymond Price
@darthbob88.bsky.social
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Generally, it's simply hating on The Bad Guys, the one entity that is the fount of evil geopolitics, opposed by The Good Guys. It's inverse American exceptionalism, believing that the US is uniquely bad rather than uniquely good. (Not original to me)
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Jimmy L 📚
@jimmylabe.bsky.social
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the right-handed people don't need my support.
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Wendell B
@wndlb.bsky.social
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Was thinking: this was true in the 60s too. North Vietnam was not one to cheer for, and Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh had been kicked upstairs to figurehead status, so they really were Le Duan fanbois.
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Lee Rowan
@leerowan.bsky.social
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A year or two ago, Beau of the Fifth Column pointed out that "leftism" covers a wide range that includes the sort of Communism Stalin practiced. I'm not polysci major but when ideology drives, basic compassion is often sacrificed to dogma.
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Potomatic
@onbluskysku.bsky.social
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Moral luck and/or hating your parents
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Alex (he/him) 🇺🇦
@tsrhg.bsky.social
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I have had leftists screaming at me about Gaza who seem to have not one care about what Putin is doing in Ukraine.
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Hot *ǵerh₂os summer
@calieber.bsky.social
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But what about the people I don't like? Surely we can make an exception for those people
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Aardvark Cheeselog
@wades.bsky.social
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Revenge against the ancien régime? I think that motivated a lot of the OG Left.
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Sarah Weinman
@sarahweinman.bsky.social
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This was true in Russia after 1917 too
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Alex Wallace
@spanishspy.bsky.social
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the highs of self-righteous contrarianism
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Estarianne
@estarianne.bsky.social
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And yet traditionally that hasn't really been a requirement for leftism. There are still old school authoritarian communists who really are gleeful about the idea of oppressing their enemies.
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Matt Baldwin
@thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social
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A few weeks ago I had a pretty active leftist on here tell me that the ruling militia regime in Angola (responsible for lowering that country’s life expectancy to 40 and recruiting 6,000 child soldiers) the “good guys” in the Angolan Civil War just because they call themselves “communist.”
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Ethan “κακοθερής” Harfenist
@harfenist.bsky.social
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~aesthetic~
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wembley
@bananashirt.bsky.social
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this, plus: "hurting people is always wrong and violence should be the very, very, VERY last resort" is such an easy, understandable, self-evident and obviously good principle. and yet.
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Timlagor
@timlagor.bsky.social
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I'm not very comfortable with limiting it to humans
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Chris Vermilion
@verm.me
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Christopher Hitchens had a line about at some point having to choose between the anti-totalitarian and the anti-imperialist left, which is obviously a false dichotomy, and yet,
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BeefReeferLives
@beefreeferlives.bsky.social
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Vibes.
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Malaclypse the Fetus
@omfproductions.bsky.social
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Manufactured Consent bought him far more grace and consideration than he warranted.
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Andy Craig
@andycraig.bsky.social
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That’s not even a leftist premise as such, it’s the fundamental principle of liberalism, in all its variants. So it’s not surprising it’s shared by left-liberalism but not by illiberal kinds of leftism.
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@123xyz.bsky.social
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I think the point is supporting brutal authoritarian dictators who proclaim themselves the enemies of those in power closer to home who you resent-probably due to some fucked-up relationship with your father or both parents-so much you can't see they're 1000 less bad than the ones you're stanning.
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Willow
@rockshrimp.bsky.social
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economic benefit and self-satisfaction.
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Buttadeus
@thewanderingjew.bsky.social
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He was one of those guys who seemed to have a really well established leftist persona but never managed to put out anything but the most bland leftist analysis.
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