#rightism

[imperfectmind]

sorry if this makes me an evil bigot but people arent entitled to mindlessly follow your beliefs or tolerate bad behaviour/attitudes just because you have more oppressed lables than them.

People should be able to lable idiocy and cruelty when they they see it and being a minority doesnt make it so you cant use your hardships to be manipulative, spout vile horrible things or say things that are simply not true

Its honestly why sj tumblr is such a toxic mess. Its ran by crybullies who despise honest communication and constructive community building. Its just 'im automatically right when i tell someone ~less oppressed~ than me anything and they cant question me. If they do theyre speaking over me and oppressing me by disagreeing"

'Listen to x voices' should mean not automatically disregarding a female, gay, black, asian etc persons views, and not that people should grovel and defer to others because they said so.

[caitlinclarkdimpleslover22]

Caitlin Clark is the most polarizing figure in sports without being problematic. It's so weird and sad😟

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[odiabonecessario]

Whenever I'm among leftists I sound like a right-wind extremist

Whenever I'm among rightists I sound like a left-wind extremist

Seriously, wtf

[pkspade]

got to love how both politcal parties have an equivalent of "You guys should be more understanding/accepting" thing yet neither side is actually understanding or even fuckin civil.

Conservitives: WOW This is the liberal left, i thought you were supposed to be understanding and open

Liberals: Doesn't your book say to love your neighbor or something.

LIKE OMG SHUT THE FUCK UP! YOU ARE BOTH FUCKING HYPOCRITS, IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH, GET OFF THE FUCKIN SOAP BOX AND PUT A SOCK IN IT!

(And before some asshole puts "WE ARE UNDERSTANDING", no no you are not. Lefties you support the lgtbtq community to begin with or at least most of you do, and righties you are really only supportive of people with similar beliefs as you, you are saying im understanding and accepting of people who agree with me or see eye to eye with me, THAT IS NOT BEING FUCKING "UNDERSTANDING")

[grassam]

So, we do we go from here?

[trickle-up-economics]

Ambidextrous

Some people are left-handed;

some people are right-handed.

I happen to be ambidextrous,

but what sets me apart

is that I will not use either hand

to force yours.

[sandeebridges2]

The problem with leftism is that everybody wants their form of leftism to be dominant before they take action.

This is as opposed to the right, who are fine with putting aside internal differences until after they take action.

Neo-Nazis and Reactionaries have fairly similar goals and will work together until the job is done.

Marxist-Leninists and Trotskyists have fairly similar goals, but will fight until one of them wins, who will then fail to beat the Neo-Nazi and the Reactionary.

[some-douchey-techbro]

Welp, I guess this is another four years of eating tear gas

[furryrash]

The story of the art that was stolen by Christy Kitsune

An artist friend of mine (his account has now been deleted) wrote several years ago (this picture now become CC-00):

"I want to talk about an unpleasant situation related to my work. I recently created an image for Christy Kitsune (Christykitsune) and shared it in our community. Soon after, she decided to use the image as her profile picture, but refused to credit me when I asked. At first I thought it was a simple misunderstanding and asked her again. However, instead of correcting the situation, she openly stated that she would not credit me as the author because of my left-wing political views. I was shocked by this answer. The situation worsened when Christy began to actively discredit me in the community. She encouraged other members to not only ignore my requests, but also to openly attack me. As a result, I became the target of harassment and criticism from her supporters. For me, it was a bitter lesson about how some people can use their popularity and influence to manipulate and bully."

I think he would like his picture to be used by someone with socialist views. But not right-wing radicals like Christy.

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[odiabonecessario]

Most men lean towards right because left can't shut the fuck up about how they think men suck and straight up misandry that's not even disguised. Nobody cares if it doesn't kill men like misogyny does to women, you're either a bunch of idiots who think this is helping fix things or just disgusting hypocrites

Also a reddit comment because why not

[pkspade]

tibalism in any form is dangerous, espessially in politics, there is no if and or buts about it, that is just a blanket undeniable fact conservitives are to busy kissing their own asses and shoving religion/ theological beliefs on people who don't want it/agree with it. the liberals are also to busy kissing their own asses having their views were they don't matter/should not be either. both sides all the while refusing to listen to any point the other side makes, even if they would agree with them if they were on their side, even when the person making that point is just objectively right. this tribalistic, self righteousness, echo chamber circle jerk needs to end. we are destroying are selfs in a battle to prove we are better then the other, all the while using the same tools stategies and logic the other side uses, proving that the more we try and prove we are diffrent, the more we are the same

TL;DT everyone shut the fuck up about how you are right and others are wrong, you are acting like ass clowns and honestly it has turned into a "Kettle calling pot black" off

[maaruin]

As far as I can tell, the vibes that dominate the current political polarization are based on those two different visions of democracy: The left is broadly wants people to vote like enlightened altruists, who take into account what every person and every groups needs the most and stay true to moral principles. The right broadly advertises that it will give benefits to its voters (an imagined national core) instead of giving them to others.

This article on how the Teamster's union turned away from the Dems and couldn't even endorse Biden/Harris due to a split membership reminds me of a point I wanted to spell out more explicitly. As the article details, the self-reported issues (which aren't 100% reliable but are perfectly valuable) that caused "switch" voters were increasingly cultural ones, people actively opposing liberal values and all that. At this point the data is quite firm on this point, this is just data source #871 I have read of swing voters talking about these as priorities, so for now I am operating as it being true.

You can imagine an ideal democracy as one composed of voters who vote based on enlightened altruism. They have a sophisticated understanding of how politics and policy works, only value the collective, and their choices aim to maximize utility or uphold moral axioms or whatever. Most votes are unanimous as you can imagine, and everything is great. You also will never have this.

But paradoxically, you can argue the opposite is also quite good; a system where every voter is a selfish asshole. They respect the fundamental norms, but otherwise vote for whatever benefits them most. Because people's selfish preferences are very heterogeneous, and economics is so often not zero sum, you generally have to build coalitions of compromise, and they can be pretty welfare maximizing! "making 51% of the country better off" is a bar many, many political systems do not clear. This is the "patronage" model of yore - Ol' Union Boss Tweed sits down with the Dems and says "give us X, and you got my vote".

You used to have a lot of that, but nowadays you can't even swing it. Voters are not selfish, they are ideological. Loosely so, and they are also selfish, but they have a lot of grand ideas about The Country that they slot those desires through. People vote on immigration despite never interacting with a single immigrant except maybe their house cleaner who they like and get for cheap. People vote on education issues over how "the system" is falling apart despite loving their local school and having no problems. Vibes dominante, and that tears apart the patronage network. Boss Tweed can't turn out votes because this members don't care about union shit the way they care about crime.

Some of this, to be clear, is that the political system is too complicated to hand out massive benefits to subgroups these days (if you wrote them all blank checks then you'd prob get some votes). And there are real local issues that people authentically care about, it's all margins here ofc. But generally it is a genie out of the bottle of culture - you can't hold coalitions together like this anymore. People have a vision for how "the country" should be, and that drives people more. Inflation will make people mad even if they personally are doing fine, because they perceive the country as doing worse. You increasingly need to meet those visions in elections, and every year another "interest group" fractures and decays.