Simpsons did it!

One thing the right is good at doing is falling in line, no matter that the agenda being pushed.

The right opposes free thought and favors conformity to support the privileged few.

The left favors free thought and opposes conformity, because that would impede social progress.

Yeah, I wonder why one of those groups is likely to have public arguments.

I don't hate most leftists (or even non-leftists for that matter). I hate the kind that hate other leftists. The lemmy.ml tankies always complain that people who disagree with them are splitting the left, when they're the ones calling everybody who vaguely disagrees with them a liberal. Not purely an ML thing though, there's plenty of this kind of person in all camps.

Yugopnik made a good point on the term "Leftist" and how its so broad that it includes many different idealogies that are quite honestly conflicting, i.e. stalinists, anarchists, etc., so that it appears leftists are always fighting since they are all lumped into the same category.

Look what they did to my boi.

I'll start my own leftism, with Blackjack and hookers! If fact, forget the blackjack. Ah, screw the whole thing.

I made this for a comment (about small-data images, jpegs) days ago:

this whole platform be like:

Half the replies in this thread: so true bestie, except fuck those guys for not being left enough

Just so we're clear, democrats are blue conservatives and are not leftists.

The meme is still accurate though. Why does Futurama look so anime? Did i miss a new episode?

Why can't we have Leftist Unity? The fucking Rightists can agree on hating "The Libz"

Why can't we agree on hating cons? Sadly I can't even get Leftist factions to agree on "LGBT Rights are based and cool", because Left-Learning TERFs exist and I've had Tankies pull "LGBT Rights is racist because it means forcing Western Ideals where they don't belong" crap on me.

Are we talking about actual leftist infighting, or mistaking liberals for the left and calling it infighting?

Also I'm almost certain that the actual left infights far less than the right. The only reason two Trump administrations hasn't started the literal fourth reich yet is because they infight so hard that they can't stick to any plan.

I fucking hate this dynamic

Its almost as if a single dimension is not big enough to describe the diversity of human political thought.

The better strategy would be to change what a Republican is and stands for, then we could all have our cake and the idiots in our country can still feel like they won.

Democrat can mean or represent literally anything, even if they did a 180 and began supporting Trump, and my mother will still hate them, because they're Democrats.

you can't spin those fascists into anything but shit!

ehhhhhh... Traditional, old school Elephants were still very environmentally conscious, turn nationalism into a positive trait. Patriots for nature and equal pay from the established woke billionaires! Be a real American, soldier!

This meme reminded me of all the different flavours of Christianity.

There are inherently more ways to imagine changes than to point at the status quo.

If there's an actual debate you've got to define terms. People's definitions of 'leftist' can be pretty wild, especially if the debate is between an American and... mostly anyone outside America.

I have seen people waxing poetic about Imperial Japan and the Jakarta Method who consider themselves leftist, while at the same time associate outright NazBols with the left.

So 'what do you actually mean by tankie/liberal?' will usually cut through a lot of debate perv noise.

I would like more unity with people who share alignment with me. Except for anyone who has a slightly different opinion than me on certain issues, screw those people.