This makes me angry. I encounter it online and in the wild all the time. People have a problem with billionaires and corporations owning everything. They don't have a problem with mom-and-pop landlords living in the neighborhood (whatever's left of it) and renting out a few AirBnBs. People feel this way because they can't see a way out of capitalism except saving up some money and getting their own AirBnbs to exploit the land and proletariat, even though small landlords are neither happy nor interesting people, and they are still trapped inside capitalism.
People with an anti-corporate and anti-billionaire mindset are moving in the right direction, but they're still beholden to capitalist individualism. It's the same with local small businesses, even though these businesses are buying all their products from big businesses, selling them for a massive markup, and (in my experience) cheating their employees far more often than big business. Government jobs are the only ones I've had where I didn't feel like I was going to be fired or screwed every single day I was there.
I saw a Sysco truck a few days ago outside the only restaurant in my very small town. This place was my first job (as a bus boy) a loooooong time ago. They stiffed me on my first paycheck (I had been working an unpaid training period without knowing it, I was also supposed to be a psychic at this place) and I walked out. In the second or third year of the pandemic I saw a girl who couldn't have been more than eight years old working in an apron there (she was related to the family that owns the place). I've lived here off-and-on for decades and almost no one ever went to that restaurant; everyone knew you'd get sick if you ate their food. We suspected that it was a mafia money-laundering operation, since the owners drive red corvettes and seem to be rolling in dough. Tourists do eat there more regularly now even though the place has noticeably bad yelp reviews.
In a colonial context, big or small bourgeoisie can be revolutionary. In an imperialist context like in the USA, they are almost never revolutionary.
Also, the phrase "during the pandemic" makes me angry! A friend living overseas just told me yesterday that they had gotten sick and lost their sense of taste. Look up recent online reviews for scented candles.
Using "childish" as an insult. Bruh, have you talked with kids? Literally any kids. Easiest group of people on Earth to radicalize.
"Israel" is to blame for everything but somehow the USA is still good. This is thanks to Hollywood and the fact that the USA is a far bigger and more successful "Israel." Very few people know that Columbus was a Zionist. People around the world still dream of living here and making it big because of Hollywood movies and friends or relatives who immigrated here and somehow made it work.
In my experience, Arabic speakers are ready for a revolution, as long as it excludes women's liberation / queer liberation. Spanish speakers have profound levels of liberal brainworms. Portuguese speakers are typically pretty aligned with hexbear without knowing it. White leftists seem uninterested in returning the USA to indigenous sovereignty and paying full reparations to slaves / the descendants of slaves, and this is one major reason why their movements always go nowhere. (I hate the term "leftist" but I don't know what else to call these people since they aren't communists and yet they're still a bit more radical than the average democrat.)
What are some of your left-ish peeves you regularly encounter online?
Body shaming against reactionaries, if a reactionary has 2 characters one that harms others and is shared by people who harm others and one doesn't and is shared by people who don't harm others, why shame the one that doesn't harm others? like why care if for example Hitler got one ball? the nazi forces that he was an important part of committed a genocide, only people getting hurt are ones with genitalia not considered to be the norm. Same thing with beauty, balding, voice, birth-names and everything else.
Faux-progressive brain worms, happens with people who used to be rebels without a cause, liberals and most famously reddit atheists. talking about authoritarianism or chauvinism against the third world. liberal feminism liberal anti-racism liberal queer rights, which can be seen through tokenisation (Mamdani) or fetishization (Mamdani). There's also the hazing stuff about somdier wives.
The lionization and glazing of American soldiers, because "uhm ecery revolution neede-" you fucking larpers need soldiers not colonial cops, they have as much experience as a police officer, most combat done was calling an airstrike on a farmer's home in Afghanistan, fuck he gonna do? call an airstrike from the American revolutionary front's f35 on an Amazon warehouse?
Ugliness is a social construct. Losurdo’s book on Nietzsche begins with a quote from Nietzsche speculating that Socrates was at least partly Jewish because race-mixing makes people ugly (in Nietzsche’s mind).
Beauty as a social construct is also a tool of white supramacy and colonialism since a lot of the beauty standards are entirely built being the opposite of black (thin straight hair doesn't work) and being the opposite of trans (hairless and "feminine).
Speaking of ugliness there was a thing in the arab world where a man was considered too "ugly" to have children by "progressive arabs" that he's ruining the lives of his children because he's ugly and making their future lives difficult, instead of realising that maybe they're lives won't be difficult if you didn't bully them for how they look. The conservative religious ones were the ones talking about "he's created by Allah and therefore you can't judge that he's ugly".
Also I dislike is body shaming disguised as body positivity, like saying "Fat women are pretty it's actually the skinny ones that are ugly" like damn.
There are classist and misogynist elements of beauty standards also.
Class - because fair (untanned) skin, healthy delicate hair, unbroken nails, lack of scars, etc are indicators of a person’s social status and lack of manual labor.
Misogyny - because long hair, long nails, fair skin, and so on are often held as standards for women, precisely so that they can be confined to property status instead of active (laboring) members of the community