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Mom, I did it again
(hexbear.net)
I made an alt account on a general instance to try and educate libs around misconceptions of socialism. After several days of back and forth with one of them, I finally got to their source of information. Wikipedia, and:
:it-is-known:
God I fucking hate western "leftists". "I haven't read your sources nor will I be doing any reading beyond a cursory glance at a Wikipedia article, despite you presenting 5 different books contradicting my pre-established beliefs. Here's a Wikipedia article and some supposed hearsay anecdotal evidence from 37 years ago. Yes, I'm a socialist, why do you ask?".
It's the classic liberal thing to be severely misanthropic, to hate the idea of the masses getting what they want while still professing to believe in "democracy".
Reminds me of my Russian mom who left the USSR as a young adult during perestroika. Very cynical, keeps going on about "people these days" being selfish and/or not following the rules and gets very scratched lib about that at times. Also prejudiced against immigrants and working poor while viewing herself as one of the good ones.
So when she told me that she likes Sahra Wagenknecht and saves clips of Alice Weidel on Facebook, I went: