The left and the American left is a whole different animal. The European and Canadian left is reasonable. The American left this past election went insane and has no business telling anyone what to do. I have never had racism and bigotry thrown at me by the left until this past year. The American left has become the world police and instead of fixing the dumpster fire in their country instead want to fix everyone else
The American left this past election went insane
Oh Jesus, yes.
Sending Obama to black communities to call impoverished young men misogynistic and sending Bill Clinton up north to lecture angry Palestinian Americans was astonishing in the most tone-deaf and infuriating way.
Those weren’t the actions of the left. Those were the actions of the democratic party establishment.
True. An important distinction.
Are you conflating the Democratic Party with the ”American left?” They are most definitely not the same thing.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Are you conflating the Democratic Party with the “American left?” That would be exactly where your problem lies.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A lot of the fascist-lite party describe themselves that way.
But you are right they aren’t.
Real left in the US accounts for an insignificant percentage.
Sorry for that handfull of people but in general I’m with the other guy and hope that whole country goes to hell ASAP.
That would be great for the world.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nope, it’s the anti democrat left in the US that has become ugly, toxic and racist just like the right. Opposite side of the same coin and it’s no surprise, considering you all spawned in the same murderous empire
TheFriar@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
lol what?
I will say there is a problem worldwide, thanks to the level of discourse on social media, with people having much more shallow understanding and much more “punchy” takes without any shred of nuance (like your take). That’s not an “American left” problem. The death of nuance has eroded the entire level of discourse regardless of ideology. Worldwide. It’s why a take such as yours is even debated and not thrown right away as a trash, shallow, meaningless take.
You can ignore 95% of what I said and refuse to engage on any of those points while continuing to repeat a weak, nuance-free take with zero basis in anything anyone else can agree is happening outside of someone misunderstanding
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You complain about the level Of discourse on social media. I blame the American bombs you guys dropped on my people, how you treated us and continue to treat us like subhuman enemies. How you blame your ills on my people, who were here first by the way. And now after going through all that, I see young Americans moralizing, and preaching to my indigenous ass about privilege and colonialism. Shut the fuck up and fix your country.
You all benefited from your empires crimes, you all share the responsibility if not the blame.
I don’t like to get ugly online, but Americans are the exception, y’all need to shut the fuck up about what other countries are up to and fix your shit
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Delusional nonsense
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can’t see how fucked up your shithole of a country is from within, im outside looking at the dumpster fire. All I see is your shithole empire burning, and even then you have to moralize and police the world and look down on everyone, instead of fixing your god damn country. You are at fault for trump and the instability he’s causing all of us