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[–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

Yea, it feels like 4chan suddenly saw the light and then turned far-left all at once. They act like what the far right imagines the left to be like, but just looks like really bad anti-leftist propaganda, or they're just tankies :/ some hexbears are ok, though, but most here are just discrediting themselves by throwing the propaganda handbook at the passersby.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    We keep throwing books at you because we desperately wish you'd read.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    nah, I got better books than yours to read, go preach your sermon to another parish.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Least anti-intellectual shitlib.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    They act like what the far right imagines the left to be like

    Good, they should be terrified.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    No, it is not good, it's sabotage, it feels like the lefty version of r/The_Donald. Supposed leftists bragging about "dunking on shitlibs" lol

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    Then maybe the shitlibs shouldn't be so dunkable.

    This isn't debate club nerd. Nobody is required to be nice to you. We can both offer well intentioned arguements, and also engage in the simple pleasure of calling people dipshits.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Ok when the word "shitlib" is used here we're referring to smug, rude, arrogant, reddit-brained imbeciles who functionally support imperialism, right wing apologia, and casual bigotry. They also operate in bad faith from the get go.

    Uneducated progressive "liberals" who are nonetheless openminded and empathetic are not the people who this term refers to.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Uneducated progressive “liberals” who are nonetheless openminded and empathetic are not the people who this term refers to.

    This still feels a little

    smug, rude, arrogant

    But I'll take it, I'm certainly not an expert on Marxism. It's a useful method of inquiry oftentimes, but there are other worthy worldviews and subjects to spend time on that hardly make me uneducated.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I wasn't referring to you in particular, I was referring to describing types of "liberals" in general. I am not implying that there is something inherently wrong with being uneducated. Everybody is uneducated in a variety of fields outside of their own expertise, such as nuclear physics, foraging, farming, etc. Similarly, most american progressives simply do not know what the terms "left" and "right" mean in a political context, therefore, they are uneducated. Rather, I was implying that these progressives are well meaning, good-hearted people who just need a bit more knowledge as to where they could direct their energy towards political change. I apologize if it came off as condescending, maybe I should have used the term "unactivated" or "new to politics".

    but there are other worthy worldviews and subjects to spend time on that hardly make me uneducated

    Thats good, keep reading. If you are interested in politics then I would recommend reading the works of Micheal Parenti.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Yeah, mostly agree, people are kept from thinking and complaining too much by being overworked, stressed, distracted, manipulated, demotivated, denied access, captured by cults, etc :/ sooo ... fuck IP law and let's get pirating, books ain't gonna read themselves :D

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yea, it feels like 4chan suddenly saw the light and then turned far-left all at once

    Exactly this. They're running around spewing barely-sensical insults acting like they're dunking on people, but all their really doing is turning off anyone who was ever possibly sympathetic to their cause. And are completely un-informed on top of that

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Are we uninformed or in the pay of sinister Anti-American forces? thonk

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So why are the comments suspicious thonk

    Is being uninformed suspicious? thonk thonk

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Is being uninformed suspicious?

    Yes. You're starting to get it. Being willfully uninformed and forcefully pushing that uninformed view in an organized way is suspicious. Ergo the comparison to the Maga's and anti-vaxxers. 🤦

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