This was fun last time, leggo again

I'll start with: libertarians have solid takes ~40-50% of the time and many of them just need to be pushed a step further in their thinking to turn against capitalist oppression along with state oppression. The libright-to-leftist pipeline is stronger than most seem to think it is.

  • Amorphous [any]
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    4 years ago

    -Related to previous point, people will be turned off by leftists being assholes and “dirtbags”. Being nice doesn’t guarantee turning them over to our side, but being a dickhead guarantees they won’t.

    I'd go so far as to say this is less an opinion and more just factually incorrect. There's a reason chapo was by far the most popular left sub on reddit. People like casual, "normal," frank people who act like assholes sometimes. The dirtbag left aesthetic drew in so many people who otherwise would never have looked into leftist thought at all.

    • vorenza [any]
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      4 years ago

      That's different though, not what i meant. I meant going to twitter and calling some guy dumbass and expecting that person to be receptive of leftist ideas.

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        4 years ago

        Yeah, I know that's what you meant. You're wrong. Believe it or not, some people get called a dumbass and think, "huh, I wonder where that guy's coming from" and look into it.