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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 14 hours agoRight, I guess leftists can do no wrong and are never responsible for their failures. When liberals don’t get elected, it’s “stop blaming the voters and examine your own platforms for once!” But when leftists don’t get elected. It’s “the voters are so ignorant and malicious and they all deserve to get exactly what they voted for!”
I swear, leftists can be just as bad as anyone else when it comes to self-awareness. And I say that as a leftist.
Face it, the virtue signaling and performativism is strong on our side of the spectrum, and it does more damage to the movement than the right-wing caricatures we only validate whenever we rabidly chase away anyone who doesn’t intuitively grasp our social scripts on-the-fly at a fluent conversational pace…
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
It has way more to do with capitalist interests blocking leftist candidates and literally sewing anti leftist ideas throughout media than it does with the actual voters. The feds have literally admitted to entering online spaces and doing exactly the things you’re talking about while pretending to be leftists. Cointelpro never ended.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
And a lot of people eat that shit up. It wouldn’t be so effective if we were immune to it.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 5 hours ago
I know but it just seems so obvious and stupid. Idk what to do when people are this easily manipulated.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
Just sit back and watch the world burn. It’s all we can do sometimes. I don’t have much fight left in me.
Cast your vote and cross your fingers hoping enough people see reason. Maybe we’ll get a pleasant surprise? I’m cautiously hopeful about these midterms.
Other than that, all I can really do is argue with people on the fediverse. It’s not much, and I don’t expect to convince the people I argue with. But if I can show a few bystanders another perspective which makes them think for themselves and come to their own conclusions, then maybe just maybe it’ll be enough to combat just a sliver of the concerted disinformation campaign that’s already done so much damage