Forum Infected With Left Wing Brain Worms - What To Do?

ironically i'm serious

fuck the racist capitalist piece of shit labour party forever btw

maybe the left would be slightly less shit if it wasn't constantly demanding uncritical support for its self appointed leadership in the name of avoiding "left wing infighting" or what have you. this goes for keir or jezza or party drones or lefty pundits or whoever

ps abolish britain

"a country where corbynism passes for "hard left" needs to be put out of its misery"

well this is it, but the thread-starter lives in a parallel universe to most of us plebs where politics is just a message board game, absolutely unconcerned with challenging the current status quo, because he has no motivation to do so and likes to talk a lot of bollox.

do people think the greens are a left party?

also are american's complaining that there's more than one UK politics thread bc

Yes, that's a bit rich.

It wasn't really even a swipe at the greens, it was obvious tongue in cheek tomfoolery with soupcon of skullduggery just for a little spice. I don't even really have a particular opinion of Greens.

On Brexit I'm not sure who it is thats stating the opinion? More accurate is "regardless of whether Remain is good or bad, Remain lost (and on a constituency level very heavily). Fighting a losing battle is a poor use of political capital, especially when a relative compromise was on offer all along".

But neither Leave nor Remain are brainworms, they're opinions/beliefs. Something we disagree with isn't a brainworm, thats diluting the term to the point of meaninglessness.

That said, there certainly are LW brainworms, but lets try and be more specific and less abstract

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ

Fantastic, a thread for mixing a bit of posturing mb masturbation and beating on the politically homeless, a real antidote to all the prevalent despair and death. Bookmark added.

just enjoy the music imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snnCKVFzjHE

which brings us by an ineluctable process of association to CLASSIC COMEDY ON ILX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=almMI-cm7eE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z6yh9SBybo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlarLZAIeM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ0RmBRK9yU

The UK politics thread is a safe space for venting about the nightmare world which is UK politics, it can get pretty angry but it mostly stops way short of personal attacks on board members. If you find this (UK politics, not just the thread) too much to deal with, you can leave it alone for a while (I know I do!), that is, unless people start making spin-off threads, in which case all rules are probably off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlShyEn3cjY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L3UQp11Wjk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbMv0UkAswI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t1R6rkCmQw

Occasional poster on my FB page, very much a person on the left, "DNC rigged it against Bernie," loves Mike Gravel, Biden is worse than Trump, now also saying "can't believe people still trust Fauci and Big Pharma" and "85% of C*VID deaths would have been prevented by early treatment and the asterisks are so I don't get censored by Big Tech" -- in case you are lucky enough not to have people in these circles, "early treatment" means ivermectin or sometimes hydroxychroloquine -- I think the ranks of left-wing ivermectin people are maybe not as small as I might wish

Oh a guy I know is all "Big Pharma is in cahoots with governments (all governments)" now.

I think the ranks of left-wing ivermectin people are maybe not as small as I might wish

Give it time.

Conspiracy theorism was a pandemic before the pandemic, and the pandemic has only made it worse

O god why'd you have to go and bump this one

yes i noticed the 'way of the bern' subreddit was all anti vax shit

the centrist mindfulness ladies are also posting anti-vax things on nextdoor so

Not to get all “no true Scotsman” but realistically none of these people are actually left wing? Wasn’t the way of the Bern subreddit was all right wingers cosplaying?

This has been increasing rapidly the last 18 months, even without Covid. Jimmy Dore's a big part of it unsurprisingly. Don't think its right wingers cosplaying exactly more just kind of hatred of 'shitlibs' (their version of libtard). But the Nazbol pot has been bubbling away on high heat since Bernie dropped out, even without the vax stuff

kind of my point though i don't know what the subreddit is (xp). these anecdotes mean nothing except there are people of every political belief that have lost it wrt covid, some of whom already had some type of brain worm. this situation has just changed their brain worm expression, so to speak.

xp id be a little worried about anyone who knew all the terms in that post tbh

I haven't done the booster shot yet but I intend to

the centrist mindfulness ladies are also posting anti-vax things on nextdoor so

― towards fungal computer (harbl), Monday, December 27, 2021 9:17 AM (one hour ago)

please share some of the best of these! You have the best horrible nextdoor posters!

in case you are lucky enough not to have people in these circles,

oh, I have a handful of these ... I think I haven't hid all of them just to remind myself that they exist ... it's like some social media version of making sure the batteries in my smoke detectors work. I don't want the sense of false complacency that everyone "on my side" is a total comrade or is not batshit crazy or a bigot.

this situation has just changed their brain worm expression, so to speak.

― towards fungal computer (harbl), Monday, December 27, 2021 9:49 AM (forty-three minutes ago)

that's a good way to put it! I now am thinking about the previous brain worm expression of some of these people --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

yes i noticed the 'way of the bern' subreddit was all anti vax shit

― global tetrahedron, Monday, December 27, 2021 5:12 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Last time I was on Reddit there were multiple subreddits with significant followings in the grips on this shit. /r/PoliticalRevolution was a big one among Reddit 'leftists' for awhile -- I was banned for asking why the sole active mod was repeating right wing smears of Mueller (at the time I phrased it somewhat more respectfully).

And not to stir the pot but gotta lol at the folks here gatekeeping Corbyn as not a true leftist. Where do these people live? Or are there actual tankies here?

Actually I recently got into a Twitter flame war about 'leftists' defending Let's Go Brandon. It's not just Reddit and the Zuckerverse, but I do think Reddit is basically made for manipulation of discourse by moneyed interests, of course their manufactured userbase is going to do their best to coopt any realistic leftward movement.

And not to stir the pot but gotta lol at the folks here gatekeeping Corbyn as not a true leftist. Where do these people live? Or are there actual tankies here?

What does "defending" Let's Go Brandon mean? Thinking it's funny?

It is funny, just like Tea Party boomer nicknames for Obama were funny, they're so stupid and angry. Anyway, saying mean shit about Joe Biden, who cares?

Liberal versions like Drumpf were not as funny because they weren't dumb and angry enough, the people doing that actually seemed to think it was part of the #resistance.

“let’s go brandon” is not funny and has ruined saying “fuck joe biden” for me forever tbh

what is "let's go brandon"? ... or should I remain ignorant of this for the sake of my sanity?

*yeah I know I could google it, I am interested in ilxors' interpretation of it

it is really just maga code-language for “fuck joe biden” afaik

it’s so goddamn stupid

I would just blow it off but I have heard groups of belligerent looking white guys here in ATL chanting it, in this mostly black city. Similar feels as when I was in LDN early last year and was a bit shocked to see a gang of similar belligerent wypipo chanting some hooligan nonsense (I assume?) while marching through a tube station -- maybe Paddington? Isn't that a pretty big one?

ive heard it from wrestling crowds and it really ruins the show, gotta say

xpost

However

Fucking state of this thread.

― gyac, Saturday, 6 June 2020 23:00 (one year ago) link
― mardheamac (gyac), Monday, December 27, 2021 7:26 PM

Point taken, and no personal jabs intended.

the unclear family

lol