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[–]Nombre27 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Maybe it's a form of insurance for cancel culture?

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

This. The 'Left' (as an ideological movement) has become so powerful that capitalism, religion, etc. have all become subordinate to it. If capitalism really controlled the Left, why is it that the corporations seem utterly subservient towards its manifestations, the obvious example being BLM? BLM barks 'dat rayciss' and the corporations can't bend over fast enough to appease them. We even have guys making extensive lists of 'woke companies' to avoid, for we tend to despise the Left so thoroughly that anyone who stands against their hegemonic stranglehold has come to seem heroic. Leftism is a full-blown religion in the West. You can say 'Screw capitalism' and people cheer you on. Yet you'll probably be physically attacked by Left-wing sectarians if you say 'Screw feminism' or 'Screw multiculturalism' in public.

Can anyone come up with a convincing argument for the Left being a 'false opposition' that secretly assists in entrenching capitalism? Even if left-Liberals mount no serious challenge to capitalism's fundamentals, and there are not yet enough Antifa-types to effectively challenge it either, capitalism still seems to be in a crisis situation (look at those surveys which show that a majority of Americans under a certain age prefer socialism over capitalism, for starters).

[–]Nombre27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Leftism is a full-blown religion in the West.

Just like the historical separation of Church and State, and the reasons for that, so too does that rule need to be applied to the religion of social justice. These people have no business legislating their "morals" onto the rest of society.

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

Especially when they've undergone a practical 'Talibanization' that leads them to bizarrely believe that they have some sort of 'moral right' to uproot everything about history that they don't like, e.g. to destroy practically every historical statue bar those, unsurprisingly, of Karl Marx and his acolytes. That historical Marxists are noticeably exempt from their attempts to demolish and reshape history is perhaps the most obvious giveaway regarding what these people really want.

What's fascinating is how they have accumulated so much power that their attempts to gain more no longer even require violence. They act with practical impunity, and thus do not even need weapons. Governments won't touch them, because any crackdown on the likes of BLM would obviously be 'racist'. Likewise, they come up with the most absurd excuses for refusing to declare Antifa a terrorist organization. 'They're not organized and have no obvious leaders'. Yeah? A group that has chapters in practically every notable Western city (complete with social media groups and pages, with which they organize their sympathizers) and has obvious chapter leaders? The 'Alt-Right' has no organization (actually, far less than Antifa, given it has no city-wide chapters, and has no equivalent to 'Acab', the anarchist circled 'A', or other Antifa symbols which are ubiquitously found in the form of graffiti, and are evidence of Antifa being practically everywhere) or obvious leader/s either, but notice how the same excuses suddenly don't apply anymore? If a bunch of Cartels or Islamist groups (or even worse, if 'MAGA' or the 'Alt-Right') did a fraction of what those in the CHOP, Antifa, BLM, etc. have done (e.g. mass arson attacks, clashes with police, declaring 'autonomous zones'), it would be considered an 'invasion', as 'terrorism', etc. practically without hesitation.

[–]Nombre27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wonder if there are any legitimate comparisons to them essentially being Bolsheviks 2.0, except that today they have far greater institutional supports. Instead of killing royal families, they're going after the "royal" blood line.