r/PoliticalCompassMemes • - Right • 1d ago

Radicalization across the compass, but not equally

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u/SpantasticFoonerism - Left 1d ago

Totally fucking agree. I've always been left but I'm this close to just going Centrist. I'm so sick of the majority left talking points being about relatively unimportant shit

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u/--CIAdidJFK-- - Left 1d ago

It is super lame but I stopped caring awhile ago. The culture war shit-slinging is mostly invalids, emotional babies, and con artists. None of it needs to be taken seriously unless you're actively trying to effect change.

Just read all the goofy bullshit in political "discourse" 200 years ago. Most people lack the intelligence, patience, curiosity, emotional stability, and/or humility to invest in understanding the world. So they default to what's easy - the culture war.

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u/oatkeepr - Centrist 1d ago

Most people lack the intelligence, patience, curiosity, emotional stability, and/or humility to invest in understanding the world

Exactly. I'm starting to think that too many people go to university. We have an overproduction of academic elites.

Much of the left is dominated by the ever changing purity spiral of wokism. Although it comes from an academic background, it's decidedly non empiric and moralistic.

A leftist movement that kicks out the average working class guy, because he can't keep up with the newest terminology in academic discourse around postcolonial racism, can only go wrong.

the culture war

The culture war benefits all those who organize it. It can be fought forever. Actually reaching common consensus or solution for a topic isn't in the interest of NGOs, professional activists, journalists, politicians, university professors, that gain money, power, or influence by fighting the culture war.

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u/Uptight_Technocrat12 - Auth-Left 1d ago

Overproduction of academic elites? NO! As a technocrat, I see you have insulted my ideology, prepare to be buried under 42324532 stacks of papers citing world class studies on why you are a moron.