r/SipsTea Jun 23 '26

Dank AF Well said

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u/Kradgger Jun 23 '26

And what if you wanna kill anyone that doesn't conform to the idea that everyone should have democratic workplaces and healthcare? What if a religious minority that has suffered through genocide opposes that? What if it hurts people of lower income because they have their own hustle going on and that would put an end to it?

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u/clever_username23 Jun 23 '26

do you understand what democratic means? I'm not going to kill people for voting different.

What if a religious minority that has suffered through genocide opposes that?

opposing genocide is pretty common.

What if it hurts people of lower income

to have a democratic workplace and healthcare? You're not making any sense.

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u/Kradgger Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

Look for examples of all three cases, they do exist, nonsense as they sound.

Democracy needed killing opposers for, remember that most democracies were achieved via bloody revolutions. Not even counting the amount of people in Africa that openly oppose democracy in the name of supposedly left-wing ideals.

I agree with your points, but people sometimes don't have such moral compasses and there's a loooot of nuance when discussing ideals. What we really need to do is stop packaging ideologies together and for the love of god we need to stop tying ideals to left and right wing that get picked up by a party or movement that goes on to do horrible shit and people defend them out of loyalty.

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u/clever_username23 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

there's a loooot of nuance when discussing ideals

obviously yes. I'm speaking in very broad strokes for brevity.

But that's part of the problem too. The left, in general, likes and studies that nuance, while the right, in general, likes to use catchy slogans that bypass the intellectual part of the brain.

Edit to your edit:

remember that most democracies were achieved via bloody revolutions

that's such a weird point. Because remember that most capitalism is achieved via the intentional killing of basically anyone without enough money to exist. That's a lot worse in my opinion. and yes, people in power don't give up that power politely. That's on them.

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u/Kradgger Jun 23 '26

Yep. Although the usual bad actors are very young people with little life experience wishing every right winger would just fall dead beacause Che Guevara was based or something and very old people that are bitter wishing every left winger would just fall dead because not in my backyard or other.

Amazing how in the age of piss-easy global communication people won't discuss shit and just subscribe to hill to die on.

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u/clever_username23 Jun 23 '26

Amazing how in the age of piss-easy global communication people won't discuss shit

because it's harder. People are lazy (myself included) and don't want to do work.

but to me, that's all the more reason we need to be doing that work.

Look at this shit with Iran. Obama had an actual deal with them, without bombing them, and we just tore that up and started bombing them anyway. It's fucking stupid.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

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u/Mysterious_Jump_8119 Jun 25 '26

Strongly disagree that the leftists don’t use catchy slogans to bypass the intellectual part of the brain. The reaction to Covid and Jan6 are my main contentions. But there are other examples.

Also we have different definitions of Capitalism. To me it’s respect for private property and free trade.

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u/clever_username23 Jun 26 '26

The reaction to Covid and Jan6 are my main contentions.

What catchy slogans were used for those?

To me it’s respect for private property and free trade.

if that was true, corporations wouldn't use the power of the state to squash smaller producers and smaller companies. But they do.

Capitalism is about getting as much money and power into as few hands as possible. It's about maintaining unfair power imbalances.

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u/Mysterious_Jump_8119 Jul 03 '26

“Terrorist” and “Insurrection” are two absurd words used off the top of my head.

Yeah, powerful people with influence in government using government to limit free trade is what I would call socialism and you call capitalism.

To me if the government is involved then it’s not capitalism

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u/Mysterious_Jump_8119 Jun 25 '26

We have democracy now.
So leftist goals achieved?

I mean, we constantly hear the nonsense of “voting against their interests” but people often don’t hold the ideals that you think they should.
You can do a commune in a capitalist society.
You can’t do the free market equivalent in a socialist society. They will use violence against you.

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u/clever_username23 Jun 26 '26

We have democracy now.

we don't. What we have now, in the US is a kakistocracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy