#far left radicals

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Michael Deacon

Published: Apr 3, 2024

For young people today, finding a partner of the opposite sex must be dreadfully hard. But this isn’t because of the pressure to look like an Instagram gym buff, or the horrors of dating apps, or the fact that no one under the age of 30 seems to drink alcohol any more.

It’s because these days, young men and women have got absolutely nothing in common.

Seriously. All of a sudden, they appear to have developed completely different values. It’s unprecedented. In the past, the two sexes tended to hold roughly similar views on politics. But research compiled over the past five years shows that in Britain – and indeed other Western countries – young women have become more progressive, while young men have become more conservative. And the resulting ideological gap is now staggeringly vast. 

Alice Evans, an academic at King’s College London, is writing a book on this phenomenon, entitled The Great Gender Divergence. She says it’s been caused by a variety of factors, including “social media bubbles” and “economic resentment”. Whatever the reasons for it, though, I think there is a vital point we’re in danger of missing. Which is that only one of the two sexes is strictly responsible.

Recently, the Financial Times published some charts illustrating how the gulf between young men and women has grown in each Western country. And in every chart, there is an unmistakable pattern. The political views of young men haven’t actually altered all that much. Their drift to the Right has been really quite gentle.

The political views of young women, however, have changed dramatically. Their move to the Left has been abrupt and profound. In truth, then, this cavernous ideological divide is almost entirely attributable to them.

Which is curious. Because, whenever the divide is discussed by politicians and commentators, they make it sound as if the problem is young men. They fret endlessly about how young men today are being “radicalised” by nasty Right-wing YouTubers such as Andrew Tate, or horrid Right-wing politicians such as Donald Trump. 

Yet they never apply this word “radicalised” to young women. Why not? I suspect it’s because these politicians and commentators tend to be progressive themselves. Therefore, they see no problem with young women becoming drastically more progressive. In their view, the more progressive someone is, the better. So the fault lies entirely with young men, for failing to emulate young women’s lurch to the Left.

Personally, though, I think this lurch Leftwards should alarm us all. The future of Western civilisation is already threatened by our collapsing birth rates. And this sudden ideological chasm between the sexes is only going to make the crisis worse. No one’s going to be forming couples at all any more, if, on every first date, the woman asks, “What do you think of Gramsci?”, and the man replies, “He’s the type of striker Man Utd are crying out for.”

It’s a chilling thought. So clearly something must be done. Politicians must spend less time obsessing over the radicalisation of young men, and start paying attention to the radicalisation of young women, instead.

As it happens, the Labour Party has announced that, when it’s in power, it will help to combat the influence that Andrew Tate has on boys. Surely it would make more sense to help combat the influence The Guardian has on girls. 

Otherwise, the only way young men are going to get a girlfriend is by frantically boning up on George Monbiot and Owen Jones. And if that’s what the future has to hold, perhaps Western civilisation isn’t worth saving, after all. 

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Apparently, it's not "radicalization" when you're calling for the extermination of the Jews; so sexist and racist that you call everyone else "oppressors"; teaching kids about the objectively true mythology of metaphysical "gender" thetans; advocating for the compulsory elimination of all privately-owned property and its forcible redistribution; and/or chanting for the dismantling of society itself.

No, that's not radicalization. It's just the self-evident values of all right-thinking people.

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[rottenpoetofthelord]

a little something i wrote last night that i felt like sharing.

blah blah blah yeah anyway eat the mother fucking rich.

[sscrambledmeggss]

guys we need to keep tumblr irrelevant so donald trump doesn’t take it over as well.

we are sooo dead here, literally nobody posts or cares about tumblr anymore. trust

[myfootyrthroat]

There are now flyers up on campus that are along the lines of "Republicans are fascists. Democrats are complicit in fascism for not convincing me to oppose fascism."

Oddly, not being convinced that fascism is worth opposing does not seem to make one complicit in fascism. Also, like... fuck off?

[milfygerard]

literally so many people my age who were online in 06 have talked about how they were targeted and groomed by strangers on the internet. Kids have been sold extremism and abuse from the internet since theyve had access to it. I do think the internet is worse but dont pretend it was ever a safe or healthy place for kids to hang out

[wild-wombytch]

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Everyone should watch this video ☝️!

Also as a bonus, here's the top comment and I think it explains well the issue and how it ends up being about male privileges again :

[dreamteamemojis]

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[gf-boyfriend]

[thecreepycrawlersss]

our mother is so poisoned by propaganda that she literally called us sick for saying “this country is built on harming people and stealing land, do you really think that our government isn’t corrupt ?” like... and you say WE don’t know basic us history 💀💀

white cishet liberal is confronted with basic facts about the usa, yells and cries in response

[sapphia]

only just realising tumblr genuinely believes that everyone else shares their political opinions

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: John Burn-Murdoch

Published: Jan 26, 2024

One of the most well-established patterns in measuring public opinion is that every generation tends to move as one in terms of its politics and general ideology. Its members share the same formative experiences, reach life’s big milestones at the same time and intermingle in the same spaces. So how should we make sense of reports that Gen Z is hyper-progressive on certain issues, but surprisingly conservative on others?

The answer, in the words of Alice Evans, a visiting fellow at Stanford University and one of the leading researchers on the topic, is that today’s under-thirties are undergoing a great gender divergence, with young women in the former camp and young men the latter. Gen Z is two generations, not one.

In countries on every continent, an ideological gap has opened up between young men and women. Tens of millions of people who occupy the same cities, workplaces, classrooms and even homes no longer see eye-to-eye.

In the US, Gallup data shows that after decades where the sexes were each spread roughly equally across liberal and conservative world views, women aged 18 to 30 are now 30 percentage points more liberal than their male contemporaries. That gap took just six years to open up.

Germany also now shows a 30-point gap between increasingly conservative young men and progressive female contemporaries, and in the UK the gap is 25 points. In Poland last year, almost half of men aged 18-21 backed the hard-right Confederation party, compared to just a sixth of young women of the same age.

Outside the west, there are even more stark divisions. In South Korea there is now a yawning chasm between young men and women, and it’s a similar situation in China. In Africa, Tunisia shows the same pattern. Notably, in every country this dramatic split is either exclusive to the younger generation or far more pronounced there than among men and women in their thirties and upwards.

The #MeToo movement was the key trigger, giving rise to fiercely feminist values among young women who felt empowered to speak out against long-running injustices. That spark found especially dry tinder in South Korea, where gender inequality remains stark, and outright misogyny is common.

In the country’s 2022 presidential election, while older men and women voted in lockstep, young men swung heavily behind the right-wing People Power party, and young women backed the liberal Democratic party in almost equal and opposite numbers.

Korea’s is an extreme situation, but it serves as a warning to other countries of what can happen when young men and women part ways. Its society is riven in two. Its marriage rate has plummeted, and birth rate has fallen precipitously, dropping to 0.78 births per woman in 2022, the lowest of any country in the world.

Seven years on from the initial #MeToo explosion, the gender divergence in attitudes has become self-sustaining. Survey data show that in many countries the ideological differences now extend beyond this issue. The clear progressive-vs-conservative divide on sexual harassment appears to have caused — or at least is part of — a broader realignment of young men and women into conservative and liberal camps respectively on other issues.

In the US, UK and Germany, young women now take far more liberal positions on immigration and racial justice than young men, while older age groups remain evenly matched. The trend in most countries has been one of women shifting left while men stand still, but there are signs that young men are actively moving to the right in Germany, where today’s under-30s are more opposed to immigration than their elders, and have shifted towards the far-right AfD in recent years.

It would be easy to say this is all a phase that will pass, but the ideology gaps are only growing, and data shows that people’s formative political experiences are hard to shake off. All of this is exacerbated by the fact that the proliferation of smartphones and social media mean that young men and women now increasingly inhabit separate spaces and experience separate cultures.

Too often young people’s views are overlooked owing to their low rates of political participation, but this shift could leave ripples for generations to come, impacting far more than vote counts.

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On average, men are more moderate and centrist in their views while, on average, women are more extremist in their views. Anyone suggesting that men as a whole, or on average, have shifted is gaslighting you, as the evidence does not support this assertion.

"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy." -- George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

[rustchild]

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[samaspic31]

My irl social circle became so so trans dominated while dropping out i had forgor how bad it feels being in cis dominated institutions

[straynoahide]

just what men need to hear: "you're by default unworthy, unless you do what we deem useful, and that is: kill people!"

leftist romantization of the weaponization of male bodies is super progressive, and not misandric at all!

just like traditional disposability of males as cannon fodder in warfare. progressive like all-male conscription.

even the thickest fatherfucker here should not miss why this sociological left is incompatible with healthy masculinity: you fail to see males as human.

[persistresist]

Far-Left Radicals

Hey y’all! Welcome to Persist and Resist, the blog where I try to make sense of everything going on in the world and in America right now! But first, a story…

I woke up to the sound of the factory whistle, sharp and punctual as always. I opened my eyes and stared at the plain, white walls of my apartment, the paint peeling a little in the corner. It was small with enough space for a bed pushed under the window, a nightstand to the left, a modest desk and chair to the right, and across from the bed stood the kitchenette.

‘Beauty is a bourgeois distraction,’ the posters around the city said. I would appreciate a bit of beauty, though.

Outside, the streets pulsed with the uniform steps of workers, each face a mirror of my own: determined, yet tired. The mural of our Leader watches us all from the building across the square, his gaze hard and his smile fixed like the promises woven into our anthem. I once found comfort in this mural when I was a child. His watchful eyes made me feel protected.

Now, I’m not so sure.

But I can’t think those thoughts. Thinking too much can be dangerous.

When I got to the factory, my hands found their place instinctively. There’s a strange kind of freedom in monotony, knowing exactly what each day holds. We all have the same ration cards, the same gray overalls, the same forced smiles.

At night, as I lay in bed again, I stare out my window at the rows of identical homes, each a mirror image of the next. Sometimes, I imagine that there is more, a place where nothing looks exactly the same and the posters aren’t the only things bold enough to speak.

Imagining is dangerous, too.

So, I close my eyes to go to sleep, ready to repeat the day again tomorrow.

The “Radical Left” and the “Far-Right Fascists” that you might hear about on the news or in conversation are more complicated than just Democrats vs. Republicans.

Political ideologies, or beliefs, fall on a spectrum that ranges from left to right.

You might hear Fox News and the Trump administration referring to Democrats as the “radical left,” but what does the “radical left” actually look like?

Far-Left Politics

Far-Left Collectivism (Communist Anarchism)

While there are no nations governed entirely by far-left collectivism, there have been regions in the world that have experimented with these ideas.

The Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities established communities that shared ownership of their land and governed themselves based on direct democracy. Far-Left Collectivism focuses on achieving economic and social equality through collective ownership.

Anarchism

One of the best examples of an anarchist society was during the Spanish Civil War.

In these territories, the people organized factories, farms, and communities that rejected government control and favored direct democracy and communal ownership. Anarchism is anti-government and prioritizes individual freedoms within a cooperative community.

Communism

The first example of a major communist government was found in the Soviet Union.

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union used a one-party system with government ownership of resources and strict political control in an attempt to create a classless, stateless society.

Socialism

One of the most well-known examples of a socialist government was Venezuela in the 2000s.

Venezuela’s socialism shifted control of major industries from private corporations to the government. They heavily relied on oil revenues to fund social programs like free healthcare, education, subsidized food, and housing for the poor. However, authoritarian tendencies increased and restricted political opposition and civil liberties. These political instabilities and falling oil prices led to hyperinflation, food shortages, and mass migration.

Groups on the left are only considered “radical” when they want to dismantle and replace existing systems, like capitalism, in favor of transformative alternatives like communism, anarchism, or revolutionary socialism. Going back to our story from the beginning, the society that is described is ruled by a communist government. Do you see any similarities between these far-left societies and the “radical leftists” that American Republicans oppose?

[bigbroemen]

Oh and I'm getting okay with not being very respectable. So I don't have to think about hiding parts of myself that I'm embarrassed of anymore