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[cw TERFism, SA reference] Ana Kasparian writes 'Why I left the left' style essay

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[cw TERFism, SA reference] Ana Kasparian writes 'Why I left the left' style essay

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  • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    I don’t know what my political identity or label is

    You might wanna figure that out if you’re going to opine about politics

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      • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        Said it before and I’ll say it again. Reactionaries see themselves as the absence of politics, not a political idea.

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          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            I hear this all the time and I absolutely hate it. You go to church once a week, go to bible study/cell groups, you follow all the traditionally conservative rules around protestant Christianity. You are part of a religion. Just because you believe you can personally communicate with God and don’t need to go through the priests, it doesn’t change the fact that you are still very much part of a religion.

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                that’s some specifically american brainworm tho. it no doubt builds on the anglo anticatholic nonsense, but i dont think brits have this advanced 2.0 version of it.

          • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.net
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            gah my PARENTS do this, frick

        • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Cuz politics, to them, is anything intrusive and obstructive to them, that brings discomfort to power

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            “why won’t the unworthies just lay down and die?”

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          Being political is anything that questions the status quo

          Accepting the status quo requires no action and is therefore “non-political”

          Fish not seeing the water around them basically

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      It’s liberal.

      You’re a fucking liberal.

      That’s just not fun to write an attention seeking essay about, because you’re just another dumbshit liberal trying to seem unique and redeemable.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      I think she means fascist

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        Also what ever will get her the biggest pay day

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    Once again proving TYT are fucking morons and I feel vindicated about never liking any of them.

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      The best one was Hasan and he got fired or whatever proving that they were never committed to having good opinions

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      I’m so glad i figured out these guys were performative hacks when I was like 14 lmao.

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        same

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    ppb-gigachad Don’t care what she has to say, not reading it

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      If you’ve picked up on any of her shit takes over the last three or so years, you’ve already read it.

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        sicko-no

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    As expected, going the way of Bill Maher and Destiny. Being a reactionary liberal who hates the Republicans while increasingly agreeing with them. Also known as a scratched liberal.

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    surprised-pika-messed-up

    I’m waiting for her/TYT to start working with David Rubin again lmao

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Dave Rubin returns to TYT arc that no one say coming michael-laugh

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        She was so pissed when he left and became an explicitly right wing grifter. It’s funny to see her say the same shit more or less

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          she was pissed that he beat her to the punch

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            Beat to the Putsch kelly

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Ana and Jimmy make up.

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    Okay so I’m just gonna say some stuff and I haven’t really thought about this too much so I’m shooting from the hip here but it seams like being a TERF takes vastly more effort than not being a TERF. Like it’s way more work than being a bog standard misogynist. So the issue isn’t that they are lazy, per se, it’s that they’ve chosen to die on this very frustrating reactionary hill. So you can’t even kinda defend them by calling it ignorance. No, they had to do work to get here, and they still concluded the worst fucking things.

    I try to be nice to people and be patient and tolerant because, partly, I can. That’s a privilege I have as a cis man. Somebody saying “I hate trans people” isn’t a direct threat to me. I still condemn it, I tell them to shut the fuck up, but I can afford to try to talk them down from those rhetorical ledges because I’m not in the cross hairs, if you know what I am saying. I can try to interrogate them and be a little more objective about it because I’m not having to defend my right to exist. Like it’s one of those fucked up ways where you can use their bigotry to shut down a bigot and I’m willing to use any tool I can to combat that stuff. Again, it’s how I can use my privilege. Privilege doesn’t go away because I pretend it doesn’t exist so I should use it tactically.

    The point I’m trying to make here is that I don’t extend that to TERFs because they’ve clearly thought about it! They’ve rehearsed talking points and stuck their heads in sand. So they should be bullied into oblivion.

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    Why I right the right

    Why I centrist the centrist

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      I did Nazi myself leaving the Nazis

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    cognitohazard

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    I can’t quite remember who she is. Could I get summary - I hope it’s a couple paragraphs.

    -–

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    Out of curiosity - I read her post.

    I don’t know what my political identity or label is, and I’m not even sure I want to be pigeonholed.

    Does that mean she’s a libertarian?

    This comment made me laugh.

    “I am not altogether on anybody’s side, because nobody is altogether on my side, if you understand me" - Treebeard

    The first time I read those words I couldn’t understand how much I would come to relate to them…

    [Liked by Ana Kasparian]

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      “I am not altogether on anybody’s side, because nobody is altogether on my side, if you understand me" - Treebeard

      screm-a aaaa aaaa

      So what happened to Treebeard next?

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        Turns out he realized he is on the side against the people killing all his friends. Since liberals can not have friends it makes sense they’d miss that part. Stupid fucks.

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      Oh god the Enlightened Centrism is unbearable

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      Does she argue for the elimination of age-of-consent laws?

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    No one is surprised. Everyone saw this coming like 6 years ago when she’d go on unhinged anti homeless rants

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      Her parents are LA landlords, too, lmao costanza-maoist

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        And she’s married to a gusano. She’s gone on anti-Cuba rants about how Castro caused so many Cubans to “lose their jobs.”

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          She just gets better and better.

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        So her own family are at fault for the homeless crisis she despises so much, and she predictably blames everything except the thing causes homelessness

        Class interests strike again

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    This person claimed to be white passing for being Armenian. Rephrasing, this person claimed to be passing for Caucasian because she was from the actual caucus.

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      I thought Armenians were considered white

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        Depending on how much money they have.

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    You’re right, I’ve changed.

    astronaut-2 astronaut-1

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    Who? nkrumah-baffled

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      I feel like I’ve never heard of most of these former left grifters till after they come out as former left grifters.

      One exception being that annoying podcaster who was pretending to date Adam Friedland so people wouldn’t think he’s homo.

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    Holy shit I hate her so much.

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