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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

These people don't want to hear about reality, they just want to complain while proposing no practical solutions, and call anyone a coward who doesn't express uncritical willingness to immediately resort to escalation.

The moment they get a figurehead, they'll tear him or her down, because they're allergic to any semblance of authority. They keep talking about a revolution, but they'll never organize effectively because they're allergic to the ideas of discipline and hierarchy.

I believe in leftist socioeconomic policy, but man is there an over-representation of imbeciles who seem to be dominating the narrative. It's no wonder the right-wing thinks we're all MLs. Any leftist who's not an ML is either afraid to speak up, or gets trashed whenever they do.

It's fucking hopeless, I fear. And then they get upset when we say our only hope is to vote in a lukewarm Dem. I'd love to see more progressive candidates winning, but the left shoots itself in the foot every time because they'd rather have reasons to complain than actually work on solving any problems.

I don't know what their long-term plans are. Anarchy? As if that would be any better for women and vulnerable minorities?

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 point 10 months ago

I honestly think it's a downstream effect of putin's hybrid war against the west. FSB trolls aren't only focussing on radicalizing right-wingers (cause that's what Qanon was, let's be honest). They've stoked both sides, deliberately promoting discord and escalation, and they've effectively created an unmendable rift straight down the middle of the body politic.

So yeah, they seed all this divisive and violent rhetoric, using bot farms to promote it. Then it catches on and like a virus propagates itself throughout the collective conscience. All of the sudden safe online spaces for wholesome debate are rare, and everyone's at each other's throats, and even people on the left can't seem to agree on a course of action because these provocateurs and accelerationists are dominating the narrative.

It fools half the left into following that narrative, and it fools the right-wing into viewing the entire left as unreasonable and violent. It's kind of mirrored on the other side too. Growing up, I remember not every republican/conservative was a bloodthirsty racist. Surprising, I know. But now so many of them have caught the maga mind virus, and all the sane ones if there are any left are invisible. There certainly are anti-maga republicans, but they've lost control of their party.

Reactionary, sensationalist, and dehumanizing rhetoric is just too easy for people to fall into. It must have some deep-seated appeal to the reptilian parts of our brains (the limbic system, that is), because it defies all reason and empathy.

And there are adversaries with decades of institutional knowledge in psyops (disinformation, propaganda, and radicalization) who have been patiently exploiting this vulnerability for years. It's scary to think how this will impact the long-term evolution of the human psyche...