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  • 7bicycles [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I have been saying (not in leftist spaces) for fucking years that this trend is basically just people being self interested in a capital system, which tended to work out along the axis of age for a while.

    Like even if you're a "me, mine, also me" type asshole if you're a 20-something student with no cash being a leftist makes sense, politically. It's what promises more resources (to generalize) to you. And then if you have the sort of make-believe-once-in-maybe-two-lifetimes-life that our previous generations (or rather, those that survived) had, nothing about your core beliefs needs to change to turn you from a leftist into a conservative asshole.

    I have been boo'd and shouted at, but I am right!

      • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        On the one hand a better income and better controlled living expenses, on the other hand culture war.

        I don't know you guys, I'd really like to see the energy and medical sector nationalized, along with a possibility of living accommodations being made a human right, but on the other hand I'm really worried about more black people in Star Wars.

      • duderium [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Liberals promise civility while crushing the poor, fascists promise incivility while crushing the poor, Marxists promise eliminating the material conditions which make people poor, liberal, or fascist. Tough choice.

      • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        It would also just be neat to live in the presence of justice. If I look up and there's no imperial war, I'd feel a little dopamine. If working in a kitchen wasn't awful and there was no ghoul of a manager hovering over the place "disciplining" the people that worked there, then maybe fast food wouldn't be such a meme. Maybe people could care about feeding the community. Maybe casual conversation with a customer wouldn't be such a nightmarish experience. These things would be nice and antithetical to what either party is suggesting.

        • star_wraith [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Maybe people could care about feeding the community.

          My dream scenario socialism involves local cafeterias where people who like cooking can feed the community while those who don't can just eat and not have to worry about preparing shit 2-3 times a day every day.

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

            This is my dream, too. If I woke up and suddenly didn't need to worry about money ever again, my family and I would probably spend the rest of our lives gardening and making community soup like Big Kinook.

    • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      That's probably the majority of it, for sure. But like I went to a particularly conservative unisex private school growing up and still know plenty of former classmates from that sphere.

      The people who were supposed to be the next Brett Kavanaughs, essentially, and it's just not materializing. Maybe a 30/30/40 left/lib/fasc split. This was supposed to be the demographic they had the most purchase with.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        I suspect that young people can not escape the feeling that there is no future. It becomes in your interest to move left if you feel like there is literally no future due to climate collapse and the mountain of other issues. Survival is a higher priority than wealth.