I'm a leftist but I'm here

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[–]Chipit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The main problem is that leftists like yourself think that only your opinions are valid, and that this entitles you to censor and oppress others. You also have a bad case of psychological projection and tell others that they're guilty of your unacceptable thoughts.

Say, why don't you implement socialism in your personal life? Show us all that it works.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's far from exclusive to the left.

" You also have a bad case of psychological projection " - according to your subjective judgement.

It just so happens that the MSM has swung insanely to the left recently, thus forcing normies and the Overton window right - intentionally.

[–]Sal_Yodada 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The main problem is that leftists like yourself think that only your opinions are valid, and that this entitles you to censor and oppress others.

I see just as much of this from the right. Try posting something even slightly supportive of the left narrative on extreme-right websites such as Voat.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You neither addressed nor refuted the point.

You just did something very common among leftists, which is to ignore the whole thing and say "WELL EXTREMISTS DO THIS" while imagining that it somehow got the stink of blame off of you. It didn't.

"Don't believe that every member of a group is as bad as it's worst 5 percent. If you do, you're probably among the worst 5 percent of whatever group you're in."

-- Scott Adams

[–]Sal_Yodada 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If you believe that I have not addressed the point, then I am afraid we have nothing to talk about. It is amusing, because from my perspective you have done something that you accuse me of doing in your own message. You have completely ignored my point, while claiming that I am "just like the others".

Never did I say that leftists don't censor others and believe that only their narrative is correct, I have simply pointed out people from the right do it all the time too. Never did I mean you specifically when I wrote that either. But you'll chose to ignore that and attack me specifically rather than attacking my point of view.

Not everything that I stand behind is quite on the left, either.

You can't ignore the fact that plenty (note, not all, just quite a few) right-wingers chose to hide in their own safe spaces such as Voat, where left opinion is attacked and censored, but then complain about "soft baby leftists that hide in their safe spaces and censor us".

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have simply pointed out people from the right do it all the time too.

Where?

right-wingers chose to hide in their own safe spaces such as Voat

That's far right, not right. And honestly nobody goes there.

So you think that because Voat exists, that that's the same as Youtube/Google/Facebook/etc censoring? You know NBC and Google just got caught red-handed violating criminal conspiracy laws for censoring The Federalist, right? This just happened.