The right has a few different branches of the same kind of base: groups with actual political capital, the most basic, orcish kind, but it works and progressives broadly have not found a way to unify with any kind of alternative group identity.
Seriously, I am not sure what the left/progressives really think is going to happen here doing the same things over and over, expecting different results. They are still tone-policing, lecturing, and purity-testing as a fucking culture, meanwhile the right is forming war-bands of people who embrace the American flag, carry weapons and will march in lock-step with their leaders.
Groups like that are the power that has formed nations and held up empires. Why is it so hard to imagine having the same kind of force and political capital but without the hate and xenophobia and anti-science rhetoric?
Meanwhile I will spend hours arguing with people on Lemmy trying to convince other people who loved Duck Tales that the show is problematic. Everyone has their own little branch-off faction where they argue with other progressives about the pettiest, performative lines-in-the-sand to virtue signal how incredibly progressive they are while letting the country erode to dust.
The only other alternative just barely left of center is fucking liberals and I don’t even want to start on them.
Yep, that was just one example. As adults we can objectively understand how some of that stuff portrays things that aren’t good in reality, and the idea of a wealthy… duck, diving around in a money bin hits a little different when you have a lifetime of struggling already, but by taking it so seriously and trying to tell people to stop cherishing their childhood memories you are pushing people away from progressivism.
That’s just it, there isn’t one.
The right has a few different branches of the same kind of base: groups with actual political capital, the most basic, orcish kind, but it works and progressives broadly have not found a way to unify with any kind of alternative group identity.
Seriously, I am not sure what the left/progressives really think is going to happen here doing the same things over and over, expecting different results. They are still tone-policing, lecturing, and purity-testing as a fucking culture, meanwhile the right is forming war-bands of people who embrace the American flag, carry weapons and will march in lock-step with their leaders.
Groups like that are the power that has formed nations and held up empires. Why is it so hard to imagine having the same kind of force and political capital but without the hate and xenophobia and anti-science rhetoric?
Meanwhile I will spend hours arguing with people on Lemmy trying to convince other people who loved Duck Tales that the show is problematic. Everyone has their own little branch-off faction where they argue with other progressives about the pettiest, performative lines-in-the-sand to virtue signal how incredibly progressive they are while letting the country erode to dust.
The only other alternative just barely left of center is fucking liberals and I don’t even want to start on them.
I’m guessing it’s because Scrooge is a greedy billionaire?
Yep, that was just one example. As adults we can objectively understand how some of that stuff portrays things that aren’t good in reality, and the idea of a wealthy… duck, diving around in a money bin hits a little different when you have a lifetime of struggling already, but by taking it so seriously and trying to tell people to stop cherishing their childhood memories you are pushing people away from progressivism.
Ah, I see. I actually like over-analyzing things I liked in childhood. I can acknowledge what’s problematic while still having fond memories of them.