This reminds me of a convo I had with an ultralib friend. She was all about Pete in 2020 despite being for Bernie in 2016. I had always wondered about her reasoning since she was educated and is an adjunct psychology professor at few local colleges.
It turned out that she viewed his homosexuality as less threatening. That he could not do as much damage as a heterosexual man in the same position. She did not even care about Pete’s politics.
It was extremely confusing. I replied with something like “an entire government full of Petes would have similar results” to which she rather quickly replied that “people in positions don’t change the system.” It surprised me that she surmised what I was saying but I doubt she internalized the critique.
She’s a typical lib who is boisterously anti-Trump but mostly because of the form of his politics rather than the substance.
i swear those people are a lost cause, the anti-trump fever has melted their brains into rancid soup and there's no hope of recovery
She did at one point ask me, likely the only commie in her life, "where do we go from here?" She knows how shit the US is but lacks a materialist framework to contextualize and analyze it. Even then it is difficult to broaden the scope of people's imagination where things outside of the prescribed bounds is utopian or totalitarian.
sounds like she might be salvageable then, despite my incredible cynicism
building that framework for someone (or helping them do it themselves, ofc) is one of the hardest jobs a communist can take on. every step you help her take brings us one step closer to another comrade, so i'm rooting for your success
Everyone I've been with that studied psychology at university level has been an absolute freak, both in what they believe and in bed. As a subject it attracts all the biggest weirdos.
Completely anecdotally, the people who studied psychology were undecideds who didn’t want an LA degree. Psych was easy enough with a degree of respectability. Although most ended up in sales after graduation.
Hmm I'm not sure about vaguely undecideds. Everyone I've come into contact with that did it consider it their passion and they really wanted to do it. They were all freaks, some of them were cool but still freaks.
Someone drowning would grab at leaves floating in the water despite it all being futile
:farquaad-point: the leftist has been entranced by spectacle!
that meme of blackblock Homer Simpson disappearing into the hedges and reappearing with Bernie merch for the primary, then disappearing and reappearing back in blackblock with a molotov
Asking for refunds -- literally treating politics like a consumer product where you can just complain to the manager -- is a look that we should retire
I’ve long suspected that this site was being infiltrated with Bernie Bros
Its 2040 and the US has long collapsed. You hear the familiar gunfire exchange in the distance toward the city burning on the horizon. Huddled over a small fire, you take a sip of bark and dandelion tea from this mug and think to yourself "ive learned from my mistakes and will be voting for cyborg Hillary this November, I sure miss my treats. Blue no matter who".
I bet you pour your harry potter licensed coffee into ur bernie mug while sitting on your west wing themed sofa, lib
I still have the Bernie baseball card, and I refuse to believe they didn't make it as a dogwhistle for the old baseball meme
