#like the endless amount of cynicism i see on here particularly amongst american leftists just very much reads to me
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realizing that people who equate cynicism with intellectual rigor are often just being lazy and pathetic has been so helpful tbh
#like the endless amount of cynicism i see on here particularly amongst american leftists just very much reads to me#as a combination of moral ocd and identity politics / optics#where if you’re sad/angry enough it excuses you from participating in the real world#instead of like. funneling a real desire to see positive change into channels of action#anyways. aoc and rashida talib the only bitches out here i respect#i am never going to be a person who responds to like. paragraphs about how electoral politics are evil or america is evil like yeah. true.#but i live here. people i love live here. strangers i love live here. so now what do i do that is Real outside of the whining chamber#optimism = stupid / fatalism = intellect is like. LOLOLOL#we all have to chose to believe that we can create a world that is livable#which is not to say i am#at all aligned with the dem#establishment or the liberal agenda but like. i’m not taking myself out of the game bc i believe i can Do Something and it’s my duty to do
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#like the endless amount of cynicism i see on here particularly amongst american leftists just very much reads to me #as a combination of moral ocd and identity politics / optics #where if you're sad/angry enough it excuses you from participating in the real world #instead of like. funneling a real desire to see positive change into channels of action #anyways. aoc and rashida talib the only bitches out here i respect #i am never going to be a person who responds to like. paragraphs about how electoral politics are evil or america is evil like yeah. true. #but i live here. people i love live here. strangers i love live here. so now what do i do that is Real outside of the whining chamber #optimism = stupid / fatalism = intellect is like. LOLOLOL #we all have to chose to believe that we can create a world that is livable
realizing that people who equate cynicism with intellectual rigor are often just being lazy and pathetic has been so helpful tbh
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