• buttnugget@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    What are we considering far left in this scenario? I’m asking genuinely, because I think we can all acknowledge there are a handful of loonies on the far left, but I think you’re talking about me because I sometimes like to joke about being a dictator and executing right wingers.

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      8 hours ago

      There is also a group of people who cannot take a joke but I mean the people who would scream/yell, shame you, criticize you or call you a Nazi just for having an opinion you don’t agree with or so much as catching a whiff that you can’t yet empathize with their problems. Threats and acts of violence.

      You know it’s the youth that’s tipping the voter’s scales by in large because they’re not able to rationalize other people’s emotional damage including those of wing influencers and left wing doomers and blow hards.

      You agree? Do the work, or your the problem. Disagree? You’re a Nazi. Wanna just live your life? Complicit Nazi.

      There’s a thing in criminology called labelling theory. It transcends the idea of criminality. Combine this with a strong thrust of financial hardship and you start sinking ships

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        6 hours ago

        This is actually pretty true. I think the reason lots of decent folks balk at this is because there are so many right wing traitor lunatics who say “you just don’t like opinions that are different from yours,” when in fact we’re talking about them saying things like, “Deport them all, I don’t care if it costs $1 trillion.” Then I’ll tell you that you deserve the death penalty.