I very much understand all of this. Do you truly prefer maga? You would rather have ICE raids than student loan forgiveness? You would rather have Medicaid cuts than the CHIPS act. I am not a liberal but I have to admit I am extremely embarrassed by the short sightedness and lack of care from modern leftists. Letting Trump won is causing so much harm to people who don’t deserve it. Is the DNC the answer, fuck no. But letting republicans win everything is clearly pushing America to the far right.

My main point as an older leftist is that nothing happens in a vacuum. The teachings of Marx have failed to progress society in any meaningful way because young leftists are overconfident in their position. There is zero chance of a revolution with the numbers that currently exist and sitting out elections has let maga rise to power at an alarming rate. Liberals aren’t the answer but they have ideas that could demonstrate that socialization of goods and services will be better for the collective. I truly believe that American leftists having no understanding of our actual political climate is leading America to some obscenely dark times. I am not a a liberal but watching ICE raids, and Medicaid cuts does not seem worth it to own the libs. Also, due to us being snobby idiots who are often wrong about modern politics, and recent history, we have lost a giant portion of the youth, realistically for good. So, what is being achieves by not participating?

Thank you, I had no idea. I’ve never had a hermit crab and now I’m considering buying a giant habitat and rescuing all of the little guys I can find.

I’ve never encountered this type of liberal. Neolib, sure.

Thank you for this! I had a lot of knowledge I needed to catch up on.

I’m more of a last couple hours of work grumpy.

Marx was explicitly not anti capitalism. He thought it was a necessary step in the March towards communism. His most famous works are dedicated to explaining capitalism. Weird that you just made up stuff and felt confident about it.

I would say you succeeded!

I had slacked for a few years but I came back with some passion for 2025!

It’s perhaps the greatest tragedy of my lifetime, I’m truly not exaggerating. We went from the free sharing of the majority of human knowledge to forcing people to sell their souls for YouTube money.

I personally hate work, but I understand what they want to see from me so I provide it.

I believe it is the best way for a society to function. I am also keenly aware of modern history and current power dynamics. I’m guessing you call yourself a socialist, how did things work out for Trotsky and Lenin. The only thing that makes me cringe about socialism is that many of it’s modern adherents seem like whiny children who are too lazy to put in the work on research.

Missing the Internet of my youth makes me feel older than almost anything else.

Work is more a play than an actual thing.

I honestly think that the whole internet is in decline.

The first indication that they would be able to just walk into Mordor.

They never will if leftists don’t start voting.

Leftists won’t vote for the DNC yet get shocked when it tries to get votes from the right. If leftists could be counted on to vote, people would try to appeal to them.

I feel like not voting is the single greatest help fascism has ever received.

That is amazing, congratulations!!