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this is what really sets leftists apart from liberals imo.

liberals like to decorate themselves with the nimbus of morality but when it comes to stepping up to fascism and protesting even if it’s not like a fun parade but serious and uncomfortable. Or just if the weather is bad.

Or when it comes to being self critical about your own learned patterns of behavior and thinking… they are nowhere to be seen, not to be relied on and it does real damage, as we can see.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    81·
    2 days ago

    Mostly Seattle.

    How do I know?

    They were my friends, and their friends of my friends, untill they started giving me shit for… actually doing something like half the things I listed out above.

    They were more interested in their IG profiles and Twitter reputations, whole lot of rainbow flavored idpol.

    I was being ‘unrealistic’ and ‘ridiculous’ by actually doing things. I’d ask what they were doing, and well that question was rude, actually.

    See, anybody can call themselves a leftist, make all the mouth noises, use it as a way to be smug and superior, and just… not actually be one.

    I’m not saying ‘all leftists are fake untill they personally prove otherwise to me.’

    That indeed would be a rather silly standard.

    Thats why I asked … questions, and didn’t make much of a statement beyond the actual point of this original post; your values are exemplified bynwhat you do, talk is cheap.

    Maybe I’ve just had a bad run of fake friends comapred to most?

    My personal experience isn’t exactly a statistically valid unbiased survey, but it is my experience.

    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Honestly, Seattle really is full of holier-than-thou assholes who want to think they’re farther left than they are.

      I’ve run into a wide variety, starting at the “I’m a leftist, but ecofascism is kinda cool” kind, to “I know you’re homeless, but you’re white, so that makes you more privileged than me, a POC landlord”, and running all the way up to “Eugenics is okay, but I have a karl marx shirt and think I’m one of the vanguard” types.

      It absolutely turned into crabs in a bucket when I got a job in palliative care for developmentally disabled elders, and it’s part of why I burnt out so bad and tried to kill myself.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Sorry to hear you tried to kill yourself, glad to see you failed.

        Yeah, I used to be the co lead of the data and IT department at Mary’s Place.

        Then a series of ludicrous events caused by my own family made me homeless.

        Absolutely no one cared, either that I made my living by trying to help the poor, at scale, or that I joined their ranks, not any of my friends, my extended family, nor my own former employer.

        Not exactly a suicide attempt, but goddamn if a year or two with all the fentanyl addicts didn’t nearly kill me, I’m still recovering from all the physical injuries that caused me, 2 years on from it.

        Fuck Seattle, its exactly as you say, everyone is unimaginably absurd in their own personal victim / moral superiority mindsets, and they’re also delusional when it comes to thinking that some policy they support is going to do anything like what they think it will.

        Leftism is just a trend in Seattle these days, almost everyone is actually just a corpo or a nepo baby of some kind, cosplaying a leftist with all the pretentious meta/double irony of wearing a designer Che Guevera t-shirt, which is actually cool and proletarian, but I guess you just wouldn’t get it.

    • whoisearth@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Anecdotally but you’re not wrong. Everyone talks a talk not many do. That’s irrespective of political beliefs.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        22 hours ago

        Yep, completely correct.

        Another way you could phrase the same idea is:

        There does not exist a philosophy or worldview that one can simply profess to adhere to, which makes one de facto immune to being a hypocrite.

        Or maybe, more succinctly:

        You are not immune to performative virtue signalling.

        • whoisearth@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          21 hours ago

          As someone who has reached various stages of self-congruence in their life (most recently this month) more people would benefit from understanding that deep down we are all hypocrits in some way or another. That does not make us bad people, but ignoring it prevents us from growing.

          • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            19 hours ago

            Thats a very good way of looking at it.

            ‘You’ are not a model kit, that is just, fully assembled at some point, with the right modules, no room left for improvement.

            ‘You’ are a process, a river that flows, a path that is walked.