Bruh look at the reddit/tumblr posters bruh

I too love to construct my worldview through word association.

I actually prefer tumblr posters over most cos their takes are hilarious bad not depressing bad. For example:

Wild that changing the words in a sentence can change the meaning.

except that socialism offers concrete solutions to real world problems whereas religion offers pie in the sky promises which is the actual origin of the fucking phrase

Christians believe in a heavenly afterlife overseen by a benevolent god. Leftists believe humans, removed from exploitative relationships, can create a better world that puts people over profit. I, an idiot, can't see a difference between these things

Lol this reminds me of some bullshit I saw on the Vaush sub today. Some guy claiming that he watched tons of "normie news" and how it shows that leftist are "completely disconnected from reality" cuz we aren't always as familiar with the legal frameworks of the US government as policy wonks.

I was like, dude what fucking "normie news" are you watching? Neither Fox nor CNN really gets into the minutia of policy making, it's 90% current events and culture war shit. Yeah some 17 year old TilToker ain't gonna know as much as a lawyer, but honestly leftist sources I follow probably do an overall better job of getting into the finer details of legal policy than fucking Rachel Maddow. Clearly you just came up with this shit to have another excuse to complain about the left that you hate but nevertheless want to consider yourself a part of.

when mad libs do mad libs

if there was a revolution leftists would eat anyone who can afford an apartment by themselves

who would they be paying? all the landlords would be dead, L-

Those lifestyle choices?

Being a landlord and slaughtering Palestinians

Hard to do but they're wrong on both counts. Even evangelical Christians attempt to make progress.

Communists also want to condemn infidels fascists, send non-believers anti-communist militants to hell the Gulag, they also hate blasephemouslords landlords

I want to go to the leftist megachurch

i always forget there are people like this on tumblr because everyone i follow is cool

real 'Demons are the same as Angels' energy

been gradually seeing a lot of the whole "DAE le horseshoe theory but for radical leftists and evangelicals" talking point being spread in radlib spaces in the last few months, so im willing to bet that some libtube talking head debate bro said it a few times in some video or something

So I'm not in a communist party but I have attended some open meetings. Interestingly, not once were celibacy, single-bedroom apartment dwellers, banana consumption, and whether or not straight people should use the term "partner" were brought up. So I can assure you that these are just things people like to debate on the Internet for fun and rarely affect IRL organizing.

Yeah this person doesn’t seem like a full on reactionary, and they have a pride flag in their PFP, so unless they’re a radlib (possible if not likely), this seems like a solid critique of the sort of heaven-like futurism many leftists have

Nah, he has a point. I think a non zero part of my highly binary thinking comes from my early childhood education into evangelical protestantism

These examples are nonsense but the v*lcel police shit absolutely is just repackaged puritan sex panic

So those things are the same because they both fit into the same sentence structure of "Noun verb subordinating conjuncture subordinate clause."

I like to drink iced water hot coffee on a hot cold day. Hot and cold are the same temperature because drinking iced water sure does sound an awful like like drinking hot coffee. Horseshoe theory confirmed.

Missed that we both have ancient tomes we believe hold the answers to all worldly problems (capital / bible) but neither of us ever actually bother to read them

There's a lot to be said about socialism, as an ideology, functionally mimicing religion. It is both a way of both precieving the world and making moral judgements. A completely isolated socialist without any grounding theory would behave as described. But is that real Socialism? Is Seventh Day Adventism real Christianity?

Imagine going on a website in order to look at a different website. What a group of freaks.

wanting [Good Things] and disliking [Bad Things] is basically the same thing as Evangelical Christianity, you redfash tankie meanie-heads!

A worrying number of neoliberals are just fascist with the serial numbers filed off

They almost have a point when it comes to highly utopian Western leftists. Rather than embrace nihilism, left politics can offer another way to hope without a material grounding, buy of course this only works if the strain of leftism has been stripped of its material grounding.

You will actually see this pretty often among various idealist parties and orgs, even ones that claim to be Marxist but bamboozle themselves with naive electoralism or becoming detached from their communities or supporting all unions no matter how reactionary.

But once you actually have a material grounding, it's the exact opposite. Socialism provides a material goal and outlet and a project to work for in your own life and together to achieve revolution. Christian revivals are just the incoherent fusion of apocalyptic prophecy about how nothing but belief in Jesus matters and the United States' most reactionary political tendencies that emphasize that every marginalized group must be invalidated and crushed.

I feel like if I also did word substition I could make anyone sound like anyone else. I could probably make slavery abolitionists sound like they're naive and asking for utopia by using the same paragraph. Anything can sound like anything else if you change what words you're saying.

"I love drinking tea because it's warm" ok just change drinking tea to arson

i mean i agree. moralism is not particularly useful to the revolutionary. a politics which focuses almost totally on individual culpability, identifying it in others and reducing or downplaying one's own, is a dead end. neoliberalism already encourages this kind of individualist moralism in its subjects, why would those of us who call ourselves leftists automatically be free of it?

Ok, but I've definitely seen online leftists like that

serial numbers filed off

way to troll the vangies saying we're the ones who've evaded mark of the beast

Famously anti-organizing lefties who don't tell each other to touch grass all the time.

Hey lets do some incrementalism to be more pragmatic to appease the Dicks and Bushes we rolled out the red carpet for. Then when the fraction of a crumb doesn't do shit and the Republicans rightly call us out on it, we can cry about a Republican majority or how we just did that and it's non viable now so we won't mention it. We'll also shame and berate anyone who tries to "told you so us".

and that's the reason why everything sucks.

Tumblr is mostly used by north americans, most north americans have appalling political education, thus most political takes on tumblr are worthless, and this one is too. Hyuck hyuck.