For me the easiest tell is the up front, unprompted, and unsolicited declaration of nonpoliticalness. When someone takes the time and expends the breath to announce how nonpolitical they are, what follows is almost always a rant about how everything/everyone else is too political these days, and that of course leads into something between status quo advocacy and outright reactionary/regressive sentiments for some fabled time before those wicked politics were visible to the nonpolitical ranter. centrist

People that are hostile to service workers. Some just want to take some ideological stand against tipping when the service worker doesn’t really have a choice and needs those tips to survive in the current unjust system in a way where ideological purity gestures toward that service worker just look like being a greedy and sanctimonious asshole. The worst of such people will actually declare, shamelessly, that they believe that service workers don’t deserve a living wage. The implications of that are gulag worthy.

I may get shit for this, but I’ll say it anyway: this hair and beard combo, seen on living people. yes-chad I have yet to meet anyone in person with that look that wasn’t a chud.

(If one of you is a comrade with that look, I am sorry in advance for the prejudice and if I ever meet you in person I will atone by buying you a drink or something.)

  • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    There’s really no way for liberals to win with this one because their wealth is predicated on rising property values—which naturally produces homeless people. If you even adopt the milquetoast liberal approach of constructing affordable housing, that lowers property values. If you just pretend the homeless people aren’t there, that lowers property values. So as a liberal, there’s really nothing you can do. Capitalism has fucked the planet for the last couple of centuries; now this monster, in its vicious hunger for ever-dwindling sources of profit, is finally coming for you, too. The death camp approach is also pointless (purely from an economic perspective) because rising property values will continue to produce homeless people, which will mean more tax money for death camps, which themselves will produce ever-larger numbers of radicalized people who will increasingly adopt violent and organized methods to oppose you, etc. The only way to deal with “the homeless problem” (actually the landlord problem) is to eliminate landlords and establish quality universal housing—which means that dwellings cease to be an investment and you, Mr. Liberal, have to actually get a real job and work for a change.

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      The death camp approach is also pointless (purely from an economic perspective) because rising property values will continue to produce homeless people, which will mean more tax money for death camps, which themselves will produce ever-larger numbers of radicalized people who will increasingly adopt violent and organized methods to oppose you, etc.

      The bourgeoisie wouldn’t mind doing another holocaust.