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  • It’s not gatekeeping to point out that ‘leftist’ historically doesn’t mean ‘left of center’. It’s used as a reductive - but that’s the nature of trying to reduce political ideologies to a single term - label for ideologies that are anti-capitalist. Nothing Linus said in this post points to him being anti-capitalist, he only commented on social issues.

    He might still be a leftist, I’ll give you that, but this post doesn’t really show that.











  • What your original comment suggested was not that you acknowledged the human capacity for violence, which nobody can deny and I am not debating.

    The comment implied - and this is an assumption so ingrained in our western society that nobody could blame you for it - that the only thing separating humans from violent, animalistic, or selfish impulses is societal structure and policing.

    our institutions are our attempt to crawl out of the jungle

    That just isn’t demonstrable, as much as it may feel intuitive. It’s a Hobbian philosophy.

    I’m not here to pretend I can convince you otherwise in one comment thread, took me a long time to change my mind on that and I’m not anthropological authority. That’s why I recommend the book, it’s quite eye-opening. At least it was for me.





  • Untrue. We both still disagree on whether threatening to withhold our votes from the democrats in order to get policy change is a strategy worth employing, no? Isn’t that the central point I’ve been making and you’ve been talking past this whole time? We’d still have an argument because you think my position is privileged and you think I “love all the genocide and want that to go faster in Gaza”, no?

    You got me tho. I had assumed your comment was left in good faith and that we actually had some fundamental disagreement worth exploring. I started typing away thinking this was going to be productive. I’m a dumbass for that.