@MuseZack I think it’s because it’s an easy way of both signaling your own morality, and controlling other people’s behavior. Very appealing to a particular type of person who mixes narcissism with paranoid moral Puritanism
@Sama_lambda_dng@RachelKasten@leylaaa31 Yeah, so much of this dynamic is all about narcissistic weirdos taking advantage of utterly selfless people who are too bought into the ideology to resist their own clear exploitation
@eggtheescallion The really crazy thing is that Greenfield is NOT big, and mostly very working class. All this drama is happening among like 30 people, while surrounded by 5,000 oblivious dudes named Cody whose biggest concern is who the nearest person willing to share a vape is.
@PonuryAbsurd@tsmith8976 It might look that way, but not really. At this point these sorts of people are mostly “anti-electoral” anarchists of some sort making passive aggressive aggressive Instagram posts calling the DSA “social fascists” or something.
@LinkofSunshine Yeah, the fact that enough of society in very liberal areas caters to these people for them to continue to exist is evidence that a MAJOR culture shift is needed for the left
@ORhunter This would make sense if republicans were a normal opposition party and not the “Diarrhea Forever” party. I don’t like Oregon Dems either, but republicans are obviously not an option, so the only real move is to primary Dems, and we already lost that opportunity this cycle
@harbingerofwoke I swear to God, DSA members are getting so delusional about the American electorate. Socialists of any flavor are like, 20% of the country at best. The best 2028 scenario would be to run a muscular SocDem of some sort. A Chris Murphy type or MAYBE Khanna. There is just 1/2
@MojaveFreeman@GamingAndPandas I don’t think they are substantively identical. My point is that the Senate having equal state representation makes sense when they are dealing with what are essentially foreign policy questions about cooperation, interstate commerce. but what it does now is mostly “domestic”