autismdragon

https://xcancel.com/deadline/status/1826321822746321386

https://xcancel.com/dexerto/status/1825985438017802688

Remains to be seen if its any good of course but I'm into them trying.

https://xcancel.com/kos_data/status/1825903524926062661?t=hmOBTdMzF5BtBkrs2KsLiw&s=19

Please I want to stop pretending to be a youtuber while I talk out loud to myself about the subject while I lie away or get stuck in the bathroom doing it in front of the mirror in a hyperfocused way while I forget to eat and drink water.

https://xcancel.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1825715532873757157#

I was thinking about how. When i was like 5, and i watched the Princess Bride and my stepdad was there. And there's the scene where Fezzik (Andre the Giant) catches Buttercup when she falls out of a tower or something idk its been a long time since I've seen the movie. And my stepdad goes "oooooo, she likes him". and my barely not a toddler self was baffled and confused that this grown man had apparently not seen the rest of the movie we were watching because the whole thing is about Buttercup and Wesley

Now, as an adult, I realize, he was just crackshipping!

(I mean in reality, its just because my now ex stepdad is extremely dumb guy lol, but its funny to think about)

Originally I didnt feel like making a thread about this, but I changed my mind.

Why cant people just be normal.

Like ok. When I was a lib, I had a lot of communist values already. I was already socdem leaning (though an Obama supporter because I foolishly believed he stood for those values). The vast majority of times I moved left involved some sort of confrontation with a person to my left on an issue. Sometimes there was resistance on my part, but that usually involved just like, a single argument, me realizing they were right, and moving left on the issue. Other times it was just... receiving information I didnt previously know. The closer to ML I got, the harder the struggles were, as some of the current geopolticial issues and also historical issues involved in that were the hardest to deprogram and the most hard coded. But I still got there.

Even simply openly calling myself as a communist was as simple as seeing someone else on Tumblr openly do so and realizing "oh wait thats an option?"

Oddly, "lesser evilism is not actually the correct way to approach electorally" was kind of my final gate? Despite being a poster here I sort of secretly still was a lesser evilist up until the recent stuff with Gaza. So it wasnt a straight line admittedly, but what it did do was give me a certain line of thinking about what the mindset of people who vote Democrat were.

In the midst of autistic myopia, I sort of for a long time believed that most libs were "communists in waiting" too. I sort of assumed you just had to spread the word, and they'd get there. Maybe they'd struggle on some of the same points I did, like not automatically believing a protest movement is good because its a protest movement, or that "America bad" isnt actually a bad way of thinking and critically supporting anti-American forces in the world is in fact the correct thing to do, and of course as I mentioned lesser evilism. But for the most part, you just had to give them permission to be communist. You just had to normalize it.

So seeing liberals like, be presented with the option to move left and slamming the door closed violently. Even on the most basic and obvious things. It was disheartening. I really thought it would be easier than that!

Theres this recent awful trend on TikTok (one Ive mostly only just heard of, because I'm not on that platform) of people "turning in their leftist card" over real leftists not flocking to support Harris and being principled about opposing genocide. One particular one, the only one I've seen with my own eyes, was a guy saying he "just found out he's not a leftist, he's a liberal, and [he's] turning in [his] leftist card". Like, whats happening there is a liberal is learning for the first time that he's a liberal. But like, my experience with that realization was to go "oh, so THATS what leftism is? OK. let me travel there" (yaknow, like I said, on average lol, it wasnt always that easy). So seeing the door slam for me is kinda weird? Still to this day despite being somewhat used to it now?

https://xcancel.com/komaniecki_r/status/1824460155137986646 https://xcancel.com/mannyfidel/status/1824424613444563447

Theories

1. Its literally just because Hillary Clinton sucks so hard and people didnt want to hear that shit from her
2. Deplorables is too much of a vocabulary word, weird is a word everyone knows. So deplorable just comes off more elitist, from a woman who is already seen that way. To quote a friend I asked "I think deplorable has a negative connotation that speaks to core personhood, in a way that comes off as both mean spirited and elitist"
3. The GOP hadnt gotten unhinged enough yet, so America wasnt ready for a campaign that is dismissive of them and still expected bipartisan respect and shit, but are now because the "weird" shit is so out there all the time
4. "Weird" is simply a more effective word to describe the situation at hand
5. Deplorables would have worked fine with the young people who can vote now but couldnt in 2008.
6. Kamala and especially Walz are better representations of "not weird" than Hillary was a representation of "not deplorable".
7. "Weird" hits them harder, insults them worse, and thus makes them spiral more in a way deplorable didnt
8. Deplorable would have worked fine if it wasnt just a one off comment but a sustained campaign message (this one im thinking probably not)
9. The Vance effect, he's just that weird.
10. People who are tired of Democrats being respectful like weird a lot