It’s a similar to MAGA in a way. MAGA’s biggest problem, as an ideology, is that it revolves around blind loyalty to a single idiot and therefore the entire movement starts and stops with his whims, no matter how contradictory, damaging, or nonsensical. You could say it’s confirmation bias that I have this opinion, but I think given recent events, this opinion does have a basis of fact to it. The same applies to the left when it comes to purity testing. It’s really not hard to see how prominent purity testing is in leftist discourse.

I worked in retail too before. You’re going to meet every type of person, and a lot of them aren’t pleasant. It’s in the best interest of everybody to simply complete the transaction as quickly and smoothly as possible. I don’t want to see their ugly mugs nor do they want to spend time with me. If I let every customer like this get under my skin, I would gone insane long ago. The people in retail who actually do spend the time messing with customers usually just end up provoking them, which leads to the crazier ones to flip out and cause problems for everybody else.

You’re right, BUT it will never happen. Hearing different perspectives and understanding other viewpoints will not only broaden your horizons, but it will also deradicalize you… but the people who you are asking to do this are the radicals who are allergic to ideologically diversity. Purity testing is one of the hallmark defining traits of the modern left, and the further left you go the more extreme it gets. The far left will excommunicate anybody who doesn’t agree with on just about everything. You simply can’t have a serious movement with this type of mentality being as prominent as it is.

The modern left-right political spectrum only makes sense in a modern sense. Trying to apply it like it’s some sort of universal law is stupid. Monarchism, for example, can’t be placed on the spectrum because there are different types of monarchies that are radically different from each other and there are different monarchs within each of those systems that are radically different from each other.

Liberalism is antithetical to fascism both ideologically and historically. Literally only online Marixsts are ignorant enough to think that liberalism is just fascism lite.

Idk why you’re downvoted, horseshoe theory has proven to be correct over time. There’s that much that separates Marxist Leninist authoritarianism and Fascist authoritarianism

Literally only tankies are stupid enough to believe old Soviet Propaganda about how Holodomer was not a genocide. when it clearly was.

The Holocaust was so devastating because the Nazis were incredibly efficient. Soviet genocides didn’t rely on efficiency, but malicious negligence.

The issue is that you’re a minority in your camp. Broadly speaking, the left sees compromise as weakness, neutrality as cowardice, working with opposition towards a common cause as treachery. These are all symptoms of purity testing, and it’s the reason why the left in so many places is completely paralyzed.

The infighting amongst the left is entirely self inflected

A lot of the far left types would rather have fascists rule and ruin everything just to spite their opposition rather than make compromises by working with them.

A professor in college once said something that stayed with me. He said that “bad ideologies will always find ways to self implode”.

This stuck with me because it’s true. Good ideologies tend to be pragmatic and flexible, and so they’re able to adapt and evolve. However, bad ideologies tend to be more rigid and focus mostly on theories and ideals, and therefore they’re unable to adapt or evolve. Far left ideologies firmly fall in the latter category which is why they are where they are.

Employees like this are even more annoying than these types of customers. You knew what toy she wanted so just hand her the toy and move on. It’s such a waste of everybody’s time when someone who has a job with customer service tries to ack slick with the customers.

Allegations of sexual crimes should always be taken seriously and addressed immediately, however, that’s not the same as taking the words of the victims words as the truth. A due process has to be mandatory and proof must remain a non negotiable requirement to arrest and punish someone. That’s the one and only way justice can be served.

Why would want to move a country that’s worse in every capacity?

Wait, you want to move to South Africa?

Begone tankie

I choose to believe that Carter was a genuinely good person throughout his life

This depends on the guy. Some can pull it off, others can’t. I’m one of those who can’t. If I put on make up, I wouldn’t look goth, I would look like a serial killer lol

I downvote anything that I deem worsens the quality of the community. This includes, but is not limited to:

• misinformation

• trolls

• bad faith engagement

• uncalled for hostility and incivility

• very lazy, low effort posts/comments