>>25683651. it's not oikophobia to dislike people who aren't similar to you. today, identity and culture is determined by fandoms, politics, cults, celebrities, sexuality, and a million and one other things other than where you're from. a 20 year old furry transsexual social policy graduate and DSA activist has nothing in common with a 60 year old evangelical guy who barely graduated high-school and now runs the largest chain of car dealerships in the tri county area and throws a chunk of change at the Republican party. "oh, they're both Americans" - so what? what does that mean in a world that is connected by telecommunications 24/7, a world in which it's easier to talk to someone in new zealand or botswana or in alaska as it is to talk to your next door neighbor.
it's not just the left, either! the right (the racist xenophobes! the upholders of tradition!) has become a
global trump cult - you want to play-act being a real marxist? how about you consider the material conditions that drive this cultural shift rather than blaming "leftards"?
2. the left is not a counter-culture, there is no longer such a thing. the right has a much more oppositional culture than the left, however. (
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/conservatism-as-an-oppositional-culture )
3. while it is true that the left are 2cool4u virtue-signalling posers for the most part, the right are deeply uncool vice-signalling sociopaths. one of these things is clearly better than the other.
4. gatekeeping this is good. the very fact that you (a vice-signalling and uncool weirdo unable to read the room and still throwing out dated references to tumblr) are filtered by it is
precisely why.