I consider myself a leftist. I wanted some insight on my labor union’s internal disagreement. So, I thought asklemmygrad might be a good spot (bad idea).

After mentioning I’m an engineer, this guy explains that shooting highly educated people in the head is actually a good idea. I think its safe to say I’m not welcomed there.

  • Rottcodd@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My theory is that the desire to kill people comes first, then something that seems to be a justification is hung on it.

    So for instance, tankies aren’t leftists who have come to defend or even advocate for mass killing - they’re psychopaths who happen to have adopted leftist ideology.

    I’ve come to believe that because over the years, I’ve engaged with people from all over the ideological spectrum who advocated for killing these or those people for this or that reason, and I’ve never seen any significant differences between any of them. In all cases, one could take the things they say and go through and simply replace each reference to a specific group of people and a few of the key terms with the labels and terms appropriate to some entirely different murderous ideology and end up with something that could have been, and most likely has been, said word-for-word by someone from that ideology.

    To me, the only reasonable conclusion is that they share much more than they don’t - that the central thing that defines them is that they want to kill people, and the rest is just sort of filling in the blanks.