honestly amazes me how the left are so fucking eager to lynch their own ingroup. like why would anyone join an ingroup that's more likely to turn on you than the outgroup?
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knee-jerk answer: because they "enjoy" the drama, even when it hurts. it's kiiiinda like a form of sadomasochism
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i don't think so. i think the left is composed of people who are hypersensitive about paying the Correct Amount of Attention to Every Single Issue, so they all genuinely hate each other for deviating the right, while (imo) having worse ideology, is better at the social game
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(i am saying this, if it isn't clear, as a leftist)
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based on the parties ive been to the right is better at operating a functional small scale society but the left is better at impersonal social warfare. see
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Replying to @parafactual @visakanv and
for the first one, i went to a loosely righty meetup on a farm a couple years ago maybe fifty people everyone contributed to cooking, cleanup, slaughter, chores, shopping spontaneous order everywhere, zero infighting, great bonhomie
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when i hung out in lefty spaces there was also much love, often, but I always came away with the sense that no one had their shit together and everyone was also on the verge of personal implosion, things felt very cobbled together and tenuous and everything was dramatic
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hmmmm correlation != causation i could think of many reasons that unstable people tend to become left leaning
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im not sure the direction of causality matters much here :)
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i think it does! one might imagine the many scientific geniuses who are socially/emotionally fucked one would not refuse to accept their discoveries because *just look at them!*
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i think rousseau the man is reason enough to reject rousseau the social theorist
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