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Repost because @[email protected]'s original post got removed from [email protected] for dunking outside the dunk tank
left leaning
only liberals talk like this
EDIT: lol. a landlord
By left-leaning they mean leaning 2° left of total fascism
"I think that trans people shouldn't be genocided. I think it's safe to say that I'm very left leaning!"
Anyone who openly identifies as "a leftist", "extremely progressive" or "socialist leaning", or any other variation of some mealy-mouthed description gets all of my skepticism and disdain, especially when these people always do it to insist upon themselves.
When tell people that I'm a Marxist it's because it's relevant to the discussion (e.g. when discussing theory) or that I'm an ML when it's a matter of stating my political biases or using shorthand to skip over describing that I adhere to dialectical materialism etc., or that I'm a communist if someone accuses me of being a liberal. That sort of thing.
But when people hedge their statements or they feel the need to qualify what they're about to say by asserting their political identity, I look on it with about the same enthusiasm as a statement that opens with "I'm not racist but..."
At least have the guts to say "I'm an anarchist" or "I'm a communist" or plain old "I'm a liberal" ffs.
It's also worth noting that the pearl-clutching anti-"tankie" left often spends time in their echo chambers lamenting the fact that the evil MLs have sullied the good name of socialism amongst the unwashed masses (completely whitewashing the ongoing history of McCarthism and liberal indoctrination btw - and in fact I'd argue that this is an example of internalising this), and how they either must abandon those terms or they must redouble their efforts to exclude MLs from their precious definitions.
I mean, to be honest the majority of MLs I've come across have a very lukewarm attitude towards identifying as a socialist at the best of times. The idea that MLs need to be forcibly excluded from the label of socialist is largely a non-issue because they already avoid the term in most situations and saying this stuff just serves as in-group reaffirmation and grandiose statements of intent from the Anti-Praxis Aktion gang.
"MLs are the ones who are responsible for anti-communist sentiment in the US! We should all concede ground to liberal indoctrination and use a more palatable term which is more amenable to liberals to describe our political identities with!! Tankies bad!!! Updoots to the left."
Reposting from the other thread
ConfuzedAZ: "I'm a pretty left leaning person"
Also ConfuzedAZ:
Value of assets doubled, mortgage is paid by tenants
of course theyre a landlord
“im a pretty left leaning person but i also want to leech off peoples wages and drive up the price of housing”
oh, how magnanimous of you, barely making a profit. YOU ARE GETTING SOMEONE ELSE TO PAY FOR YOUR HOUSE. it’s all profit since it all goes to equity in the houses, maintenance, or straight to their pocket. these scumbags will say anything to make themselves feel better when they know they are despicable
a bare minimum profit
YOU GET TO KEEP THE HOUSE MOTHERFUCKER. How the hell is "a free house in 30 years" not a shit load of profit? Dingus doesn't even do his own maintenance.
Doesn't even do their own landlording, they pay a property management company to do the villainy for them (pay them out of their tenants' rent checks, that is)
i tied the future of my kids to these houses, have you thought about that huh? every house you take from me you're taking from the tiny toddler hands that i personally put them in, stop being so mean :(
liberals my god
Hexchan
HEXCHAN
lmao the pearl-clutching is so hilarious.
THE RUDE LITTLE HEXBEARS HAVE POINTED AT ME AND CALLED ME A 
but hexchan ain't helping either
These people so goddamn precious it's unbelievable
"Hexbear were mean to me one time because I was transphobic so now I will continually compare them to sites that are full of hate, slurs, and child pornography!" 
Hitler posting on lemmy.world: "Vell, I consider myself pretty far left, but diese giftigen Tankies von Hexbear"
I really don't fucking understand why some people post shit in a public space and act so taken aback when people don't agree. Like, why the hell are you even posting this shit if you don't want to open it up to discourse? Just talk to yourself in a mirror if you're so terrified of someone thinking you're a complete dullard.
Yeah, it'd be like if one of us posted something pro-communist on a mainstream 
sub expecting not to get a stream of attacks or instantly banned.
hexchan ain't helping either
There is a spectre haunting lemmy and the libs can't cope
Ahh yes, the cuddly pioneering era of where one of the biggest subs was barely veiled child p*rn.
That's one of the things they consider a virtue.
"AKSHULLY it's called Ephebefebehebefillia and it's totally normal."
We are chapo once again. We are fated to be chapo.
Chapo was SRS once again
Hexchan was here first. Fuck off liberals.
The funniest thing is confusedAZ is a .world user so they haven't even experienced interacting with "tankies", even the normal left liberals on Lemmy are too far left for them lol
Literally 
I was around on Reddit a long time ago. The last couple of years I had so many posts removed because a bot decided I had used a bad keyword, or my post wasn't properly formatted, or something. It was very strange. At some point people just stopped having anything new or interesting to say, and actually posting anything became more and more restrictive.