The moment someone thinks they’re right, they’re wrong by definition. Thinking is memetic and reductive, it has no connection to reality.

You seem to be very confused about what leftism is, though I can’t blame you. With your condescending tone it sounds like you’ve probably thought yourself the smartest person in the room for quite a while because you’ve been surrounded by extraordinarily stupid people, and now you think that that means you’re smart, and not just slightly less stupid. That leads to some serious blind spots.

Leftism is whatever the majority of the people identifying themselves as leftist believe it is - it doesn’t have anything to do with the Democratic party, every politician is in that for different reasons, and most just to enrich themselves and avoid having to do an honest day’s work.

US Politics is just realpolitik, I’m sorry to tell you but if there even is one or two actual sincere politicians in either of the parties the system is designed to make sure they never get any real power. You saw that with Sanders. And that’s if we pretend he’s actually sincere. His actual track record doesn’t prove him to be interested in anything other than his own virtue-signalling.

Mamdani is not a Leftist, he’s a Muslim, he champions a faith that would out right kill a large percentage of leftists for their beliefs and life choices. You can’t be a Leftist Muslim, obviously. Religion and religious fanaticism is Right-wing.

You’re of course right that the Left is the lesser evil by far, but people don’t want the lesser evil, they want something that isn’t evil. Like I said, nobody wants to live in either of the two dystopic hellscapes the left or the right envisions. They don’t even want to live that way themselves, they just become more and more extreme due to their war with each other. They both represent false extremes that only exist in relation to each other, they’re not real ideologies anymore, they’re counter-reactions.

Nothing will change if you keep going along with the two-party system. Your argument for the lesser evil is just your own self-serving desire to have your own guys win. Neither of you should win, and you don’t even have an identity without each other. You’re a manifestation of two opposed aspects of human psychology that refuse to integrate with the other half. Whatever you do will become sick and toxic because it rests on the suppression of the other half which will simply rule from the unconscious instead, becoming much more dangerous.

It’s like if sunshine and rain were deadlocked in some kind of ideological battle while the whole world would perish if either side actually won.

The whole thing is like some kind of Jungian satire piece.

Leftists think that, for sure, but nobody else does.

The Right wants to hold on for the sake of holding on, the Left wants to burn everything down for the sake of burning everything down, both exist only in relation to each other as two extremes, ordinary people just can’t relate to that kind of fanaticism.

Ordinary people aren’t ideologues, they just want practical solutions to concrete problems. They don’t want to live under a holy authority, nor in some nihilist sexual degeneracy.

You’ve got feminists saying things like they’ll abort male children, when people on the right read that they get even more extreme, and so on.

In many ways the left is motivated by tearing down anything people on the right believe in; which makes the right react even more extremely as well, which in turn aggravate the left further, and so on.

It’s a cycle that never ends because neither side wants to create anything, they just want to destroy the other side.

That’s what culture war is.

And it will only get worse.

The rise of the far left.

4th wave feminism is a big one, for example.

As always these things feed off of each other.

How so?

Donning-Kruger means a permanent confirmation bias, so it’s both.

If we do talk again, I’ll try to put myself in the shoes of someone who is euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessings. But because he is enlightened by his own intelligence.

🎶 Never moind I’ll foind…🎶

“He brought me ultimate liberation”

People never stop to consider that “life” and “control” are diametrically opposed.

Choose wisely - no one on their deathbeds wish they had ‘controlled’ more.

Yes, it’s classic Donning-krueger.

Anything that would disprove your confirmation bias is simply filtered out.

And it just so happens to confirm how much smarter you are.

It’s actually pretty simple, if you’re superior to everyone else you’re living in a delusion created to couch your own inferiority complex.

Don’t confuse your capacity to understand with other people’s capacity to explain.

Ah yes, to hear your own opinion through someone else’s mouth. Echochamber ventriloquism.

It’s literally an online discussion forum. Why are you here then?

Meditation.

There was never any stability in the world, but in times such as these it becomes painfully apparent.

The only place of stability is within.

That ironically also leads to the highest stability without.

I can’t tell you whether the post is fake, but I can tell you this exact situation was researched in my country and found to be correct and then was never heard from again

Sure, there are many arguments for many bad ideas, but the statistics don’t lie. A hostile police force, an adversarial legal system, only leads to miscarriages of justice.

It’s just an extension of capitalism; if you can get away with it your actions are legitimized regardless of what you did. It’s the paradigm of the End justifying the means.

So pur system is designed for miscarriage of justice and so as such cannot be said to result in miscarriages of justice because we do not care about justice in the first place.

Yes, because our system isn’t designed for justice. The police doesn’t try to find the truth, they just try to find someone to charge. The defender doesn’t try to find the truth, but to escape conviction for his client, likewise with the prosecutor. The judge is there to follow the letter of the law as well as possible, there is nobody that cares about justice.

The very idea that you need a prosecutor and a defender makes no sense if you think about it. At sociey that wanted justice would just have a bunch of independant experts colaborate to find the truth and sentence based on that.

The idea that the process of justice must be carried out like a competition in which both sides are trying to trip each other up and trying to win at any cost through manipulation and omission with no regards to truth or justice means that the system has no interest in either.

The law is the will of the people so if they weren’t convicted they shouldn’t be. The law does not exist independently of humans, because it is an imaginary concept we made up.

So the law is just an excuse for us to punish the people we want to punish and not punish the people we don’t want to. All abstract concepts disappear when there are no more humans, so they are not things onto themselves.