• ???
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    452 months ago

    The Left as a single monolith is the work of fiction.

    • @dejected_warp_core
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      182 months ago

      True. But it needs to be one to be an effective boogeyman in a speech like this.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        152 months ago

        Authoritarians fall in line. Anarchists fall in love.

        • @[email protected]
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          Yeah, authoritarians from either extreme. Big up to you, for your Anachro-evangelism once again.

          • @UnderpantsWeevil
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            62 months ago

            Anachro-evangelism

            Feel like I know more Anarchists who are pagan, but I’ve never stopped to count.

            • @Cryophilia
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              02 months ago

              Ok, this guy sounds like a right wing moron, but he’s got a point. Among a lot of Leftists, ideology is fairly religious, especially the ones waiting for some revolution to broadly remake society. Or the accelerationists pushing for a purifying apocalypse.

              • @UnderpantsWeevil
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                22 months ago

                Among a lot of Leftists, ideology is fairly religious

                What?

                • @Cryophilia
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                  12 months ago

                  Yeah. It’s got purity tests to separate the faithful from the nonfaithful. It has vicious infighting about heretics/apostates. It’s got a series of myths about a revolution and then a promised land.

                  • @UnderpantsWeevil
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                    12 months ago

                    I don’t understand what you’re talking about.

            • @[email protected]
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              -42 months ago

              Evangelism doesn’t only apply to those who push the story of that West Bank-ian born guy with the Mexican name… but I did wonder whether to wordswap before posting.

              • @UnderpantsWeevil
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                32 months ago

                The Animist Evangelical showing up with an encyclopedia of deities?

                • @[email protected]
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                  Thanks. Now I’m having an existential crisis about whether an Encyclopaedia of Deities would be filed under Reference or Fiction. Animism is something I don’t know about; but each to their own I suppose. I remember one girl saying it was tantamount to paganism but the reception she got suggested the room didn’t agree with her. I can’t really comment.

                  • @UnderpantsWeevil
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                    22 months ago

                    I remember one girl saying it was tantamount to paganism but the reception she got suggested the room didn’t agree with her.

                    “Paganism” carries a lot of political and theological baggage, particularly among Christian Evangelicals, such that calling something “pagan” can be seen as derogatory rather than explanatory.