https://twitter.com/iNeal/status/1420221303840071682?s=19

https://nitter.snopyta.org/iNeal/status/1420221303840071682?s=19

  • zxcvbnm [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Have y'all read Ted's manifesto? Most of it is him trashing leftists.

    • Kanna [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      He's pretty reactionary and not great

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I was going to ask how was he trashing leftists? Because leftists disappointed with the movement trash leftists all the time. Adam Curtis, for example.

        • Civility [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Kaczynski's not a leftist tho.

          He's a straight up reactionary, or at least he was when he wrote the manifesto.

          Like, the "trashing leftists" in question isn't sectarian infighting or theoretical criticism it's shit like

          The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.

          and

          The leftist’s feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness and of the utility of IQ tests. Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individual’s ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is “inferior” it is not his fault, but society’s, because he has not been brought up properly.

        • mr_world [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Adam Curtis isn't left. He lacks the materialist philosophical foundation to his analysis. He may be leftist on some policy things but his understanding of history is liberal.

          • panopticon [comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            Apparently Curtis said he doesn't exactly know why people put him on the left, and that he's more of a neoconservative (?)

            • Nakoichi [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              Because neoconservatism is still to the left of the current right wing political environment, the right have gone full on fascist and they will paint anyone that isn't mask off fascist as far left.

        • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Vikki just recently did a video summarizing his manifesto, a quick one-sentence summary would be that the unabomber was a boomer.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwFLsPBdqgY

      • zxcvbnm [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah he groups libs in with tankies and says its all bad authoritarianism.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Clearly no. Dude wasn't on our team, folks. Dude was misogynistic and racist as all hell and return to Monke is stupid. I will happily do sectarianism against anprim. You can just go die of dysentery in the woods right now, the material conditions are there. No one will stop you