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Am I wrong for looking at soc dems with the same level of disdain I have for conservatives? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by Hohsia@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Well, not the same level (conservatives are clearly worse) but the line is increasingly becoming blurred in this day and age. Maybe I am looking at this wrong, but they are far more likely to shit on communism (while calling themselves lefist) and making excuses for the United States

I know "leftist infighting" has been a thing since forever, but it really seems like they're closer to reformed capitalism than anything resembling socialism...

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[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lots of frankly terrible replies in this thread. Our project is not a secret club where you get to hang out with your cool friends and sneer at the normies from the sidelines.

We're careening towards ecological collapse. Right this moment billions are suffering under the boot of capitalism, and billions may soon die to disasters, famines, climate wars, fascist crackdowns on the desperate poor, imperialist flailing in the collapsing world order.

We don't get to write off 99% of people as "too far gone". We agitate, educate, organise. We bully, pontificate, cajole, do whatever it takes. If the communist dream is to have any hope for a future we simply cannot afford to emulate the Western socialists of yesteryear and passively watch from our high towers as the world burns.

All that said, it's completely understandable to get frustrated with libs and this site is here for us to vent and feel sane for a bit. Things can get a bit doomer at times, but this place gas genuinely been a boon to my mental health.