I like guns and some parts of capitalism, I like some ideas from the ML people and anarchists. The complete evolution of human thought and philosophy is worthy of consideration without bias or prejudice.
Addendum not racial supremacy, though
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As a Leftist there are a few types of leftists I hate
- Fake Leftists: People who think Socialism is when "government does stuff" and they just want the government to do everything
- Ignorant Leftists: People who blindly hate capitalism but make no real attempt to look into leftist theory
- "Anti-imperalists": People who support "anti-imperialism" by supporting the other empire. These people will blindly support Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, the Taliban, Assad's Syria, HTS, and occasionally blatant terrorism.
- Aesthetic "Leftists": People who see leftism as nothing more than an aesthetic which they can use. They make no real attempt to understand leftism but rather then simply being ignorent they actively attempt to subvert the term. These people will say "leftism just means left of center" and use that to justify Capitalism, western imperialism, and other very non leftist ideals under the justification that "leftism has no hard definition" (it does).
Aesthetic “Leftists”
Absolutely infuriating. These are people who spend a lot of time on discord, closely nurturing a group of diverse people of specific ethnic or gender/sexual identities because it makes them feel very progressive but makes no effort to see their "friends" as humans and won't hold them accountable when any of them become abusive or hassle other friends in the group. These are the college-kids who will commit all their energy to fighting a school-mascot which bothers nobody, while literal nazis march on another part of the campus. These are the ones who create campaigns to "take down" another popular leftist for saying something like the word "retarded" while actual threats to humanity rise in power. And generally just find it a lot easier to attack people ostensibly on their side than the actual challenge of fighting for actual community organization efforts against a rising tide of fascism and hate.
For these kids being progressive or leftist is entirely about preserving an in-club of specific people who can hate outsiders, but they feel they have a broader societal blessing for the exclusionary and wildly performative attitudes.
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the worst by any margin are the leftist gatekeepers ! I hate those guys, they're not real leftists
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American leftists, perhaps. The vast majority of the developed world wants nothing to do with guns, on either side.
Even then, I don't think that this is necessarily true. I'd probably swap that part with free healthcare, as it's something that's equally true across the world.
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