no seriously, i am really starting to feel the same malaise with my fellow leftists and their willingness to drastically oversimplify reality to fit their ideology that i did towards christians just before i bailed out on them

the difference here is i don't have anything to bail to

i wish i could go to the politics gods and say "yes, are you looking for any beta testers"

i am so fucking sick of simple answers and convenient dogma

Let me put a fine point on it: if you literally can no longer imagine a SINGLE decent person coming out of a hated out-group -- not one person who is questioning that ideology, had it forced on them, and are wrapped up in its social circles for reasons beyond our control -- you are the fucking problem and I have ideological commitments far beyond leftist politics that require me to dislike you intensely.

And I don't have anyone in mind here -- it was _mostly_ a Twitter thing that triggered this -- but I am increasingly willing to set friendships on fire over this fanatical shit. -___-

Although there *are* three or four conversations recently where somebody was solemnly lecturing about something that totally contradicts my experiecne, and the only reason I took a dive is that I just didn't have the fucking energy. And maybe it's time to start finding that energy.