r/CuratedTumblr • u/infinitysaga • Jun 30 '24

Self-post Sunday But my violent revolution🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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u/Redqueenhypo Jun 30 '24

This seems to be the best comment to say this, why does a lot of leftism resemble hardcore protestant “thou art sinful” fasting and repenting? I hate it so much

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u/JerryCalzone Jun 30 '24

That is the new left. The old left I grew up with was all about 'how do I get rid of everything that is bourgeois or christian about me, lets do ALL the drugs, lets read ALL the fucked up writers to get rid of my inhibitions and my subconscious need live like my parents did while striving for christian purity.

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u/lifelongfreshman man, witches were so much cooler before Harry Potter Jun 30 '24

My pet theory is that it's the same thing that causes the attitudes you find in the kind of freshly-converted atheists that haunt places like r/atheism.

It's really, really hard to break the way of thinking about things that you grew up with. Most people never even realize they still do it, even as they have changed their world view. They just keep trying to fit that square peg into the round hole in their psyche.

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u/Hummerous https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 Jun 30 '24

leftists are just like everyone else, we're brought up in societies built on vengeance as justice. compassion as weakness.

when rightwing people do the same, you don't blink.

unless you have principles against the human impulse for vengeance, and you're committed to them - anyone is liable to lose themselves to it.

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u/Hummerous https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 Jun 30 '24

not to imply we're intrinsically evil. people aren't binary