• sping@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    I am giving you an opportunity to explain what you mean.

    In the numerous discussions I’ve seen on this I’ve never seen it done. Recognizing a reality of our predicament is choosing a particular monstrous ethos in response, apparently, and no, they won’t explain.

    • eleitl@lemmy.mlOPM
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      9 months ago

      You’re correct. The poster has called me names and refused to explain what he meant.

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      9 months ago

      A lot of these younger leftists are authoritarian and anti-intellectual, and react with hostility to any disagreement with their beliefs. This was a problem on Reddit and it’s a problem on Lemmy. I don’t know what happened to the left, but when I was young they were the intellectual and rational ones. These days, anything other than “fully automated luxury communism” is ecofascism I suppose. Yes, they do take the view that an accurate assessment of our predicament makes you a terrible person.

      Also blaming white people for this is inappropriate as there is basically no part of the world today that’s on a sustainable trajectory in the scenario of energy descent.

      • eleitl@lemmy.mlOPM
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        9 months ago

        That’s an easy one. These people are not left. The movement as a whole has died. There are still individuals who are left, but organizations no longer.