Leftists don't have to hate leftists. We could learn to celebrate each other.
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Fuck you, pal!
That would make me deeply happy, and significantly increase our ability to accomplish any of the changes we'd like to see in the world
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All leftists are my comrades!
Except for those damn Trostskyists!
I feel like purity testing has been less of a problem lately, due to the urgency of... pretty much everything.
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Hates leftists
That shit sent me
Only note is Liberals should be labeled "thinks leftists and conservatives are the same thing"
Liberals should be labelled "Thinks they're the leftists and that conservatives are needed for good bipartisanship"
Liberals (vote blue not matter who dems) are the actual conservatives. The conservatives (republican party of today and its followers) are better labeled as reactionaries. Liberals are sitting on a further right shifting world and looking at it through horseshoe theory.
I'm using a definition of "conservative" to mean maintain the status quo. Which is literal in its definition and not really based in material actions of those that say they are "conservative". Tongue in cheek a bit i guess,
As a leftist I do not like guns. I guess that is the lie.
To me leftists are revolutionary. I'm curious to know how you're going to be part of a revolution without an actual threat to power.
I’m a leftist who doesn’t much care for guns but I’ll use one if I fucking have to.
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There are reformist and pacifist leftists too (like democratic socialists, syndicalists, anarcho-pacifists), not that I agree with any of them completely.
Leftism at its simplest definition is just opposing social hierarchy (which right wing ideologies like capitalism, fascism, and monarchism promote) in favor of socialism (which can also include communism, anarchism, and syndicalism).
It's because leftism is so broad with differing methods that many leftists hate each other. If you narrow down the definition of leftist to only your own political beliefs, then there wouldn't be much leftists to hate.
Reformism is liberal, you won't be able to reform capitalists within the system they created and control.
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Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered. Any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
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I think we tell liberals and conservatives apart in the way that you'd tell two species in the same genus apart
Or honestly, two breeds of the same species these days
Conservatives and liberals should be one circle called liberals with a smaller circle inside called “conservatives: the most hated liberals”
Conservatives and liberals should be one circle called liberals with a smaller circle inside called “conservatives: the most hated liberals”
*gestures at “Leftists don’t bother telling conservatives and liberals apart.”*
You’re just proving the chart accurate.
They're right when it comes to politicians though. They both cater to billionaires and corporations, they both support bombing random ass countries, they both support sanctioning Cuba, etc. Not shaming anyone who votes for liberals, because they're less bad domestically, but even then they're constantly moving right, now throwing trans people under the bus and such.
In terms of ideology, both believe in capitalism and US hegemony first and foremost.
I'd argue liberal voters are more likely to be decent people, but their politicians aren't very different, and that's normally what we think when we talk about just how similar they are. Hell, even among liberal voters I find their support for the US military appalling.
I kinda see liberals as generally fitting into two categories.
One is straight up horrible people who just want to maintain a decent image. (This includes like 99% of the politicians)
Two is generally well meaning people who just aren't that politically savvy, and they hear scary stories about the "far right" and "radical left" so they figure "somewhere in the middle" must be the sweet spot.
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I like leftists in general, even moderat ones are miles better than roghtwing morons. likes guns is the lie tho. Leftists might need guns to fight against nazis but its a necessity not enjoyment.
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Liberal meme detected 
Why tell things apart that are the same thing?
The meme suggest they are not, and to be fair they do have some differing points. But really only libs think it's some very important point to not lump conservatists with them for their support of capitalism, which is also the moment where socialists do usually lump them.
I read it as “we are aware that these two ideologies are different and frankly they are both such absolute garbage that we don’t really care to distinguish them all that much.”
It’s to show that there is literacy and understanding of nuance there, but that at the end of the day it’s more of a “fun fact” when the centrists keep supporting the conservatives as their general default. Even when Liberals do nothing is about how that nothing is consistently helping the far-right get away with shit while aggressively discouraging progressive change.
Conservatives are nationalist morons who are trying to conserve and bring back a lot of the systems that let low-quality privileged people in their given society keep all the power. Liberals don’t have hating minorites as a policy goal but they also refuse to believe that doing nothing will not, in fact, make up for hundreds of years of systemic issues. Conservatives will try to fix capitalism by ethnic minorities and Liberals will try to fix by getting rid of rules which “might stifle economic expansion”. Neither of those ideologies are worth anything though they are different.
So leftist hate leftist? And they love guns?
I think the joke is all the inner fighting between different leftist ideas and sects.
Oh, you mean like the inner fighting between the right groups between different rightist ideas and sects?
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Seems accurate to me.
The lie is the omission of the fourth group of the people who hate guns.
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