MudMan

Hey, be nice. Being nice is good PR. You can campaign on “nice”.

Just be smart about it. Get people on board. Turn it into votes.

But I don’t care about you. I care about winning elections.

You seem already convinced, which makes you irrelevant. It’s about building a mass movement that is zealously on board. Even if you were lost to the cause, that’d be a good move if ten people came in to replace you.

So what is it? Is hate “far easier to get people on side”, or is it a fruitless “shallow thing”? Either way it’s been incompetently mismanaged by leftist movements, with fascist extremists successfully leveraging it to excite and engage voters, and younger ones especially, while left-wing parties languish.

So why is the left not pushing hate and rhetoric?

I don’t give a crap how they do it, I just care about them actually having some degree of policty control. It’s called politics, they should try it sometime.

It’s not like there aren’t left-friendly targets for hate, and yet left-wing parties have been remarkably incompetent at pushing the same demagoguery on billionaires or corporations than the right uses for migrants or trans people.

Once again, deflection instead of self-assessment. The dog ate my campaign strategy, apparently.

And this, kids, is what this “lack of self-reflection” thing looks like in the wild.

Students should start trying to “it’s not me, it’s capitalism” their grades. It’s an airtight defense.

And, for the record, the rise of neofascism was built on the rhetorical template of a grassroots 4chan sexist psyop. It’s not capitalism.

The shocking inability of left-wing parties worldwide to capitalize on literally anything is mystifying to me. How little that seems to trigger self-reflection is, sadly, not.

Look, I appreciate what you’re trying to say.

But man, do I really not care. When they say “at the US”, it means “at the US”. If there is one silver lining to this whole mess is that it is extremely, fundamentally, not about your feelings right now. We had to watch that trainwreck in slow motion, wondering what entitled nonsense of an excuse you were going to ride all the way to fascism (Gazan eggs, was it?) and now we don’t have to give a crap anymore because it’s done. I intend to take advantage of that.

But hey, you do all those things. If you guys ever come out of the sinkhole send a postcard. I’m sure our own survivors would loooove to know how it all went down from the Commonwealth of Eastasia or whatever is left at that point.