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Anyone have any advice on hating people less? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyone have any advice on just kind of hating people in general less? I look at people, I know they’re huge on religious doctrines and societal models I have no place in, and I just can’t see any good in them worth considering. I try to go outside and connect with people, but everyone looks like a 4channer, or someone two slights away from becoming a 4channer. I can’t restrain the fear or loathing. It’s like the past twenty years have reduced my very capacity for compassion and my capacity to respect anyone period to molten slag.

Heteronormative society and all who uphold it fucking blow, but I’m expected to keep it in my pants re: how and when I take it out on them.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What drove you to the left other than compassion for your fellow human?

So people here say this a lot, but I think there's a bunch of different things that draw people to the left besides empathy.

For one I would point out, most of us, myself included, are massive smarty pants nerds who like digging up random historical sources to own Libs and CHUDs. I think the self satisfaction of being right about fucking everything is a big draw. I think this was the case for a lot of historical communists too, Marx and Lenin def smart boys who liked being right about everything.

I think there's also the belief that this is the right direction for human history to progress. I may not care a ton for a lot of humans alive right now, but what does my personal distaste matter? History marches on and I want to be on the right side of it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is incredibly sad to me.

If the reason you’re a leftist is that you want to win internet arguments, you will never actually organise or contribute to the cause. Then what is the point other than feeding your dopamine addiction?

Be useful.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

1: I would point out you don't know anything about me and what I do in my actual life

2: You can still organize while finding people frustrating and annoying, if anything it makes it more commendable when you do. Example: Lenin.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

you will never actually organise or contribute to the cause.

yeah i mean the rank ableism of society was preventing that anyway, the same way it robbed me of my opportunity to be socialized properly and makes it impossible to do anything that requires another person

Be useful.

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