>>807267>Only in very broad aggregates, but also not really. The zeal of the Stalinist LARPer about executing Romanov children, while sometimes vice signalling, takes place in a basically virtue signalling framework (look how far I'll go to build a better society for everyone / cruelty as a means) while the zeal of the average Trump-type or Nazi for deportations or arbitrary detention or whatever takes place in a basically vice-signalling framework (cruelty as an end, even if you were to demonstrate that this was not an effective means of building their ideal society they would just laugh about how it's based anyway.)Now this is major copium.
The Stalinist LARPer who rationalizes killing children for heir parents sin is vice-signaling. He’s just using “for the proletariat” as a convenient cover.
That’s the same rationale that the right uses. Punishing children because of what the adults did.
Virtue signaling would at the least have those kids being re-educated.
>The skeleton key to this is the right's underlying love of "owning the libs", leftists do not really have an "Owning the libs" tendency. Insofar as a Stalinist tries to own the libs, he posts industrial production figures or "who put what in space first" charts. When a rightist tries to own the libs, he winds up somewhere between rolling coal, 'jakposting about transgender suicide, and the whitehouse posting crying families being deported on Twitter.(Rolling coal perhaps being the archetypal example. You make your truck waste more of your money to annoy environmentalists that live in your head rent free?)
You keep using the Stalinist larper as a leftist analogue for right wing inclinations.
Also, there’s a lot of “own the right” on the leftist side but it’s not as prominently advertised as much. At least outside of Leftypol and Leftychan.
How many expose threads are there on here about some right winger getting caught in 4k over CP or adultery or toddler/teen molestation or some academic inaccuracies in political cartoons?
Along with constant stereotyping chuds as being all physiognomically and socially challenged and being pedophilic if they like anime.
Also, leftists do try hard to “own da libs” by doing comparison pics of overdeveloped uncoordinated cities in capitalistic nations compared to more simple decent urban planning of socialist nations
>There is no leftist "based ritual" ( https://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-based-ritual ) and psychologically speaking: The left would be plenty viable in a world without the right (consider that the average left-wing website slop is an article about some dead martyr'd leftist and how nice they were. Take away the martyr-makers and you're still left with the article!), while the right would sincerely struggle in a world without the left and hated-minorities. (consider that the average right-wing website slop is an article about ethnic minority criminals, transgender people, immigrants, seething that countries trade, etc. Take away the outgroup and you've got nothing!)Again, for the third time, copium.
Leftists do have “based” rituals.
All the talk about spiting patriarchy and constant criticism of male-oriented nuances/activities, complaints about how capitalism is affecting prospects of getting laid, whining about any and every piece of action-adventure media as “promoting imperialism”.
Also, believe it or not, right wing chat spaces can and do exist without leftism or minorities. In fact, if you studied the majority of right wing journalist pieces, they focus more on domestic civil aesthetics
They cry more about “decline of religion” or “decline of birth rates” above all else.
They also especially antagonize young people for having differing cultural practices than their elders.