Australia/NZ-specific subreddits, in particular, were always absolutely fucking awful (everything from city subs, to politics, to finance), but this is worse than even during ‘Rona…
For context, this week the Australian Tax Office (ATO) essentially declared war on small (but not big) business, and said that they will use every tool at their disposal to squeeze every unpaid tax dollar out of said businesses, no matter what consequences that has for insolvencies, the economy, and hell, everything that follows that.
I am not kidding when I say that they literally said “Well, if this destroys more businesses than the GFC, that’s too bad.”
In a normal world, such an announcement would have been treated with… At least some degree of disgust, but not on Reddit. On Reddit, people were literally saying they wished that the ATO could employ lynch mobs. In the AusFinance sub (the irony), they were saying they hope small business owners kill themselves over this, because they clearly deserve to…
It’s pretty crazy to me, to see how toxic this discourse has become.
That place is… Well, it’s probably worse than I ever expected it would become, honestly. And that’s just with me lurking, not even wading back in to discussions again…
Any institution that isn't explicitly based will eventually become cucked.
Neutrality is a lie we tell children to keep them from becoming disillusioned about the world before they are ready for the truth.
Gay commies only feign neutrality until they feel comfortable enough to start imposing their will. They can't not do it, not attacking the enemies of the revolution however you can is the only sin in their "religion".
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles. When I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
-- Frank Herbert
That quote is a perfect description of the left.
It's close enough. Though they don't act out of any principle. What characterizes them is the complete lack of any principle.
They act on principles even if they aren't able to articulate them.
The highest principle is "my whims are the apex value and anything that intervenes between me and the manifestation of those whims is 'evil'".
example: social expectations that I don't sleep with the hot guy from the gym because I am married are "evil"
The next one down is "the only 'good' that exists outside of satisfying my whims are the feelings I get when I attack and cause harm to 'evil'."
example: Growing a garden and using the harvest to suppport the less fortunate isn't a good. Protesting the 'evil capitalist' supermarket for 'price gouging' is a good. Supporting candidates who promise to 'crack down' on 'predatory retailers' is a good.
More like the whims of the TV.