• CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      To be fair it would be infinitely more ironic for us to be tolerant of people who want to see us and the planet die for the sake of markets

        • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
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          2 months ago

          You’ve made one crucial error, you’re assuming people open to our political thought are ideological liberals and that the majority of the population are the same

          They are not, the average person is idiosyncratic without any firm commitment to ideology beyond unconscious conditioning, those people are not liberals and are open to persuasion and that doesn’t require tolerance of liberalism

          Ideological liberals on the other hand are not persuadable, they are committed to the project of advancing capitalism and will kill me and you for a paycheck

          There is no advantage to our position in pretending liberalism holds any truths which is what toleration would require

          They do not tolerate our worldview and seek to undermine it at every level of society from the lowest internet forum to the halls of congress, we have to do the same to overcome that chilling effect