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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 178 points 7 months ago

I’m a raging leftist but I’m getting tired of "deontologists" telling me they refuse to vote for Biden then telling me how great Xi Jinping is.

[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 58 points 7 months ago

I have to caulk it up to young people learning about socialism and communism for the first time, but they're only reading Marx and Lenin.

Like hey guys, they lost pretty hard. Maybe we shouldn't do exactly the same thing and in fact there's decades of work outlining what we should do instead?

[-] OKRainbowKid@feddit.de 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's the charitable interpretation. The less charitable one is astroturfing aiming to further destabilize "the west"

[-] hernanca@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Yes! Their positions and actions are suspiciously very demobilising.

No unity even in the most basic stuff. No willingness to hold a constructive conversation. Things have to be done in their way or you're labeled an enemy. Doctrine above humanity. Incessant nitpicking.

How do they intend to build socialism if they can't even have an honest, good faith conversation?

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

A "leftist" earlier this week told me that Joe Biden is responsible for Dobbs because it happened in 2022. That's a cosplaying Republican. The red hat will be back on his head end-of-day November 3rd.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago

It was crazy the amount of red scare shit circling when I started on Lemmy. It was like they were trying to radicalize people by pitting them against the "crazy leftists."

God, please never let McCarthyism make a come back. What a waste of our time and energy.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago

The problem is there are crazy "leftists" on lemmy. Your instance defederated from the instances home to the worst of them, so you probably didn't get to experience it.

Imagine people the adhere to some of the worst parts of right-wing fascism, but with "leftist" branding.

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