https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/w79pr1/what_deradicalized_you/

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    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      So much of the shit is just "I didn't support the status quo, but than my material conditions improved to the point where I benefited from the empire, so I support it now"

      I actually hate those fucks more than any other type

      • OrionsMask [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Me too. Good riddance to them. For people like that, it was never about empathy or solidarity, it's pure self-centeredness.

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        People like this often weren't all that left to begin with. They were just liberals that liked the far-left aesthetic because it was edgy to them. Chances are that they probably agreed with US foreign policy and saw TYT, Vaush, or Bernie as being the farthest left you could be.

        • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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          sometimes they are
          it's why pretty much every leftist org is a small group of people in their 30s-60s with an endless revolving door of uni kids

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    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      Law school did a lot to bring me back down to earth.

      It did to me as well. I realised that the very serious people who occupy very serious positions in society are either a bunch of borderline alcoholic nerds with deeply problematic views or vacuous careerists. The first thing they teach you in law school is how the majestic justice of the law is a fucking joke and the more questionable shit you can get away with the more they respect you.

      No judge or lawyer or prosecutor or bureaucrat seriously believes that the legal system is a mechanism for achieving justice.

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        Business college does the same, it just teaches you that knowing things doesn't matter vis a vis making money or improving your own status; it's about knowing people and being willing to use them to your advantage at every opportunity.

        So you either go left, disgusted by that, or you become some bloodsucker keen on exploiting as much as possible.

        Most of the 'soft' classes impart that knowledge through materials (Managerial Behavior, anyone?), but we also had a guest speaker come in one day in one of my courses. He droned on about how he graduated with like a 2.7 GPA, but because he played golf with some of his dad's buddies (and daddy was a bigshot), one of them got him a start as a middle manager at some firm; this dude was an Executive Vice President™ at some overgrown firm when they brought him in for that lecture.

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      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        Corporate curated training for a retail management position was what did it for me.

        Like cool you just want me to be a cop with extra steps? Shit on my fellow workers and lick boots for $2.50/hour more than a senior clerk position? Fuck this shit.

        Well that and growing up dirt poor of course.

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          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            Even just as a matter of personal material conditions, I get wealthier but I don't get any more fiscally secure. Like one of those disaster movies where the ground under your feet falls away as you race forward, I feel more precarious than I have in my life no matter how ostensibly "well-off" I am on paper.

            Now I've got a baby girl in my care, and all I can think is the increasing horror she's going to live through as she grows up.

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              • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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                They don't even really need Socialism. They just needed an LBJ Great Society or an FDR New Deal that was still in tact.

                Enough so that the vaunted middle class was still a thing a plurality of people could easily reach. That, plus a bit of long term economic and ecological planning, and they could keep the gravy train rolling for centuries.

                But there's no reasoning with greed. Ayn Rand's Objectivism killed Western Liberal Democracy.

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    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      Destiny’s stream. Sort of lame but it worked

      Would that be the one where Destiny advocated going Sharpeville on BLM protestors