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A lot of very vocal people on the online left (particularly those around here on Lemmy and twitter) love to scream that they are the true leftist and all others are centrist or worse liberals. (I’m sure you’ve seen people “on the left” calling people they don’t like liberals around here, I see it all the time. They use it in the same breath of calling people fascist.)
It’s stupid as hell and is so prevalent that it seems like an organized effort to make leftist spaces online unfriendly to leftist so that they can’t actually unite on anything.
Absolutely on point. I actively debate with these knuckleheads to substantiate counterpoint for the more passive users. There’s no changing their minds, but I’m not leaving disinformation unchallenged just to linger and create misinformation through others.
A lot of very vocal people on the online left (particularly those around here on Lemmy and twitter) love to scream that they are the true leftist and all others are centrist or worse liberals. (I’m sure you’ve seen people “on the left” calling people they don’t like liberals around here, I see it all the time. They use it in the same breath of calling people fascist.)
It’s stupid as hell and is so prevalent that it seems like an organized effort to make leftist spaces online unfriendly to leftist so that they can’t actually unite on anything.
Liberals are not the same as fascists or conservatives. They are preferable to either.
But not as good as leftists.
Depends on how far left. Three lefts make a right, and I won’t stand for that
Absolutely on point. I actively debate with these knuckleheads to substantiate counterpoint for the more passive users. There’s no changing their minds, but I’m not leaving disinformation unchallenged just to linger and create misinformation through others.
Based take and something I try to do as well but there’s so fuckin many of them out there.
It’s like trying to walk up a raging river at times.
We all need to work together.
Many of those are fascists or authoritarians cosplaying as leftists.
“Everyone to my left is all the way to my right.”
You’re one of the ones who have inconsistent and conflicting viewpoints depending on the topic tho.