Kulturkampf

[benji]

[Polident]

Just embrace it and make her Princess of America. It’ll help the economy, tourism, morale, etc.

Seeing right wing types trying to dethrone her is short sighted. She’s a testament to why America is great. Offer her what she wants and get her on your side. Seldom does a great person emerge like this.

[HaughtyFrank]

[Nintex]

Just embrace it and make her Princess of America. It’ll help the economy, tourism, morale, etc.

Seeing right wing types trying to dethrone her is short sighted. She’s a testament to why America is great. Offer her what she wants and get her on your side. Seldom does a great person emerge like this.

Trump/Swift would be unstoppable

[RetiredSkunk]

Ya'll chose such a mid Singer/Songerwiter who would be a Beer Goggle 7 in Des Moines as your queen.

[HaughtyFrank]

[benji]

[benji]

https://twitter.com/alitlstrawberry/status/1755382060649247186?s=20

This is fine:

Totally fine:

[Nintex]

[benji]

I love these people:

[Nintex]

So many things broke people mentally the last 8 years or so.
2016, COVID, January 6th, Climate, Palestine

I'm starting to think most peoples brains just aren't equipped to handle the modern digitalized world.

[Potato]

https://twitter.com/alitlstrawberry/status/1755382060649247186?s=20

This is fine:

Totally fine:

Insane people being enabled by other insane people.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

[Polident]

This is so revealing and depressing. Not just the defeatist mentality, but the initial post coming from a place of spite. Not self improvement or helping others.

Ask anybody into fitness about their most rewarding moment from getting stronger. It’s not winning a fight or whatever. It’s helping an old lady with her luggage or something like that.

There’s an argument to be made that leftist beliefs have always be spiteful race to the bottom. I don’t necessarily agree, but it’s been explicit in the loudest voices these days. There’s no promise of progress anymore.

[HaughtyFrank]

I'll never understand the "why do you care" argument. It's like admitting that you can't actually think of a counterargument anymore

[Polident]

we’re not gonna make it

[HaughtyFrank]

Not sure if pro-racist or anti-racist

[Uncle]

we’re not gonna make it

in the inscrutable randomness of youtube autoplaying songs, as I saw this post, little dark age was playing

[TylenolJones]

[Nintex]

what shoe sez

[benji]

There are so many in that thread:

I swear I saw one that said fitness is "Israel-coded" but I can't find it now.

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[benji]

From the replies (that have been swarmed with people making fun of the earlier ones) is the evergreen:

[Uncle]

really need a collection of all the "useless leftist twitter user" videos in one place

maybe there's a subreddit for them

so we have the exercise is ableism one

the probably originating one "what will your job be on the commune"

the "I'm not allowed to stay strapped because I'm a danger to myself and others"

I've seen at least two others

[benji]

what shoe sez

Actually, let me sperg off this because it's one of my bugaboos. Marxism is about the essential purpose in life being labor. This isn't even an extravagant claim focusing only on Marx or Lenin who believed labor to be the prime want of life. You know the phrase "doing the work?" How you aren't supposed to enjoy whatever cartoon or six hour YouTube video because you're supposed to be being challenged by it? This is labor that's supposed to be improving you by bringing you closer to the perfection of the ideology. The entire framework of this form of leftism is that "reality" is a lie, that it's "false consciousness" and you need to forever fight the "easy" life in order to uncover all the systemic forces that actually control reality. Mere "existing" is a crime because your duty is to achieve human perfection by aligning perfectly with the correct ideology that should control reality*. Marxism was not "everyone is in one of two classes" that is the standard binary version that so many [whatever] studies are built off of, there's a "third" class that included criminals, lazy workers, etc. The Soviets, and China today, harshly punish them:

essentially parasitical group was largely the remains of older, obsolete stages of social development, and that it could not normally play a progressive role in history. Indeed, because it acted only out of socially ignorant self-interest, the lumpenproletariat was easily bribed by reactionary forces and could be used to combat the true proletariat in its efforts to bring about the end of bourgeois society. Without a clear class-consciousness, the lumpenproletariat could not play a positive role in society. Instead, it exploited society for its own ends, and was in turn exploited as a tool of destruction and reaction.

They reject historical leftism, they accept certain individualist tenets but in a somewhat twisted way because they don't allow for other people to be individuals.

I actually know where I've seen this before and I can't believe I forget it so often.

It's Objectivism. Except even Rand allowed for capitalism in her cult because she comprehended that not all people can be perfect, only the elites. It's an Objectivism where everyone can just "identify" into the elites and somehow therefore make demands of everyone else. But at the same time it has this unthinking glorification of anyone who "resists" or "rejects" the system, so that what were once considered "parasites" are the new elite.

It's a "leftism" that basically says the prime want of life is to personally exploit as many other people as possible. Narcissism + sociopathy = leftismaxing.

*This is actually an older idea dating back to Aristotle, you may recognize his notion of the "good life" though more than a bit different in his version. Marx, as is typical, shrank it down to the "core truth" that he personally believed.

[Besticus Maximus]

Ayn Rand of course grew up in the soviet union as a middle class fop and internalised marxism leninism, and her objectivism was essentially an individualist reinterpretation of it all in the first place.

[benji]

Ayn Rand of course grew up in the soviet union as a middle class fop and internalised marxism leninism, and her objectivism was essentially an individualist reinterpretation of it all in the first place.

I forgot to remark on the parallels between because how Objectivism has that libertarian political aspect an Objectivist society has no legal penalties for not having the true "taste" you'd just get socially shamed by your betters into absolute poverty and the "cancel culture" that doesn't exist.

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Though most of the latter are quick to want legal penalties, Objectivists tend to hate cops enough not to go that direction.

[Besticus Maximus]

Ayn Rand of course grew up in the soviet union as a middle class fop and internalised marxism leninism, and her objectivism was essentially an individualist reinterpretation of it all in the first place.

I forgot to remark on the parallels between because how Objectivism has that libertarian political aspect an Objectivist society has no legal penalties for not having the true "taste" you'd just get socially shamed by your betters into absolute poverty and the "cancel culture" that doesn't exist.

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Though most of the latter are quick to want legal penalties, Objectivists tend to hate cops enough not to go that direction.

Also, polyamory. Wait, hold on 

[benji]

Worked out as well for the Objectivists as it does for them too.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

we’re not gonna make it

We get what we deserve

[benji]

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