And do you know what? The "Dirtbag Left" could be good. It could be great in all honesty. It could be a place that uses irony and humor to deflect from the spiritual emptiness that is pervasive throughout the hellscape. It could be a spiritual evolution in the vein of like an Eli Valley cartoon or whatever; disgusting, acknowledging of the disgusting nature of reality, and camaraderie in knowledge of that reality. But it isn't. It's people who listened to a podcast a few years ago recycling bits from it and the endless scrollspace of Twitter ad nauseum, people who've never read a book but have gotten ~5% of Settlers through memes arguing with people who've read 50 and never synthesized a bit of it, it's just tiring. Holy shit, be funny, be compassionate, and try to be both--but the latter takes precedent over the former.
Welcome to the "dirtbag left". It fucking sucks.
And do you know what? The "Dirtbag Left" could be good. It could be great in all honesty. It could be a place that uses irony and humor to deflect from the spiritual emptiness that is pervasive throughout the hellscape. It could be a spiritual evolution in the vein of like an Eli Valley cartoon or whatever; disgusting, acknowledging of the disgusting nature of reality, and camaraderie in knowledge of that reality. But it isn't. It's people who listened to a podcast a few years ago recycling bits from it and the endless scrollspace of Twitter ad nauseum, people who've never read a book but have gotten ~5% of Settlers through memes arguing with people who've read 50 and never synthesized a bit of it, it's just tiring. Holy shit, be funny, be compassionate, and try to be both--but the latter takes precedent over the former.