I'm a leftist but I'm here

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

I don't like that everything is politics, there's no casual entertainment, and also about those politics : there's a lot of nazis, far right extremists, conspiracists, racists and anti semites.

I know the feeling, I hope it grows so those people become a smaller portion of the discussion. It's really annoying talking about a certain unrelated topic and "the usual suspects" just keep dragging the discussion to whatever involvement they perceive the jews to have.

I think it tends to become about politics because that has been supressed for so long and many people are now letting it out. There should really be more content about cats and funny accidents, but the user base here is small and a lot of such content on reddit are reposts of people trying to farm karma anyway, something I don't really want to see here anyway.

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all entertainment has become politicized though, and the right-leaning guys weren't the ones to try to infiltrate it and do this in the first place

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

They've been called off to make them seem sane, thus generally pushing more people right.

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called off? I don't understand what that means.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

The right used to be the crazy ones, especially the hard-line religious ones in the 80s. I expect many still are, very much. They won't be focused on anymore by the media who makes the narrative and "who's been called off". Further, now you get people like Tucker who used to be rabid in the 2000s turning 180 and being one of the sane compassionate ones now.

/s/memes/comments/44k9/why_is_it_so_hard_to_make_classic_oldschool/

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I know there's a narrative that "aah religious people don't want you to play video gameeesss they're so craycray" but in my opinion their criticisms are for the most part pretty valid. People spend billions of dollars trying to influence the messages people see, it seems absurd to me to suggest it's not possible for the messages to have any kind of influence that might affect the direction of society as a whole, or have an impact on anyone besides the individual viewer.

I don't like being controlled, and I do think the narrative right or whatever you want to call them, seemed pretty controlling and not very explanatory about what they were doing. NOW I have lots of good reasons for why the things they were advocating make sense from a secular perspective, but all I had back then was "well the bible says so," and that wasn't enough for me, so I didn't think they had a good enough reason.

A lot of the "leftist" stuff now seems just overtly anti- well, anti-straight, -white, and -male, overtly so. I don't like it. It doesn't feel universally uplifting the way I thought the left was about.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Insightful.

There are 2 rights and 2 lefts. Don't confuse the corporate corrupted perversions pushed in the media and schools to the actual mainstream centrist libertarian versions. The old left still exists, but it's not promoted in this era of hyper-normalization.

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Where can I find this "old left"?

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Good question. The infiltrators have corrupted so much of it, and many even call themselves progressives when they are anything but. I recommend the Green Party or check out many of my posts. I like to post old-left stuff except for the climate change carbon tax scam and/or scientism stuff. I think you'll also find a LOT of anarchists/voluntarists also lean old-left. There are some AnCap / Libertarian folks I might post on occasion but I usually find them too selfish and/or narrow minded to promote much.