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    8 days ago

    this is something i’ve learned in my experience over the decades, which means it’s anecdotal and probably wrong:

    leftists are like cats: they do whatever they want whether or not other leftists agree with it; they sometimes have circles of other leftists that they get along with; and will be aggressive any other leftist who isn’t already part of that circle.

    someone taught me that leftists today operate like native americans and their chieftains in the past before the american settlers turned the chiefs into war leaders and forced the surviving populations to live in reservations: leftists mostly don’t recognize a leader and “walk away” rather than follow direction from any majority that tries to impose their collective will onto them; like the natives americans in the plains, the south east, the pnw, and the east coast used to do; but they do have figures/people that they respect and follow (aka their chiefs) so long they don’t try to impose their wills on them.

    it was sort of like a “live and let live” groupings of societies back then and leftist seem to have copy/pasted it for themselves and so having difficulty reaching out to other leftist is natural due to the way the majority have forced us to live.