The salon plumber

Richard Wilson4 said:What's the difference?

They’ve got their own little "gods." They cling to this idea that a better life is coming, even though it's never actually happening in this lifetime. They’ve got their martyrs, their extremists, and their victims. Honestly, this whole religion? It doesn't look any different from any other one out there.

An ideology is just a religion, and a religion is just an ideology.

It means you aren't actually a Christian; you're just some high-society socialite. 😁Christians don't really exist—there are only the salon dwellers. 😁

A fitting illustration—if we’re looking at historical parallels from the American Civil War—would be this:
The armchair radicals: Andrew Jackson and Franklin D. Roosevelt
The true revolutionaries: Che Guevara and Eugene V. Debs

But then you have to wonder what to make of Robert La Follette and Douglas MacArthur. By any standard classification, they fall firmly on the right wing.

And that is precisely where the whole thing starts to spiral into total nonsense.....

She’s just a high-society leftist,
all she talks about is bumping up benefits for veterans, large families, the unemployed, daycare subsidies...

Real leftists actually organize community service projects for veterans instead of just drugging them up with Zoloft.

Jamie Nelson90 said:She’s just a high-society leftist,
all she talks about is bumping up benefits for veterans, large families, the unemployed, daycare subsidies...

Real leftists actually organize community service projects for veterans instead of just drugging them up with Zoloft.

Where does she even get this stuff?
When you're stuck choosing between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, you basically just pick how you want to be ruined... 😍

Jamie Nelson90 said:She’s just a high-society leftist,
all she talks about is bumping up benefits for veterans, large families, the unemployed, daycare subsidies...

Real leftists actually organize community service projects for veterans instead of just drugging them up with Zoloft.

Real leftists actually despise veterans and try to paint them as criminals.

A true leftist should be a real blue-collar worker—someone grinding away in a factory or maybe even out on the picket line, protesting, clashing with the police, or even engaging in more radical acts like sabotage or revolution. They’d be the ones actually taking down class enemies and leading the charge as true revolutionaries.

Then you have the "bougie" leftist, who is essentially the polar opposite. Still, they spend all their time romanticizing the idea of a revolution without ever grasping the reality that such upheaval would cause immense suffering and loss of life for millions. They just talk and talk, constantly patting themselves on the back for being so enlightened and progressive, while never actually lifting a finger to make anything happen.

mistyseal8 said:A true leftist should be a real blue-collar worker—someone grinding away in a factory or maybe even out on the picket line, protesting, clashing with the police, or even engaging in more radical acts like sabotage or revolution. They’d be the ones actually taking down class enemies and leading the charge as true revolutionaries.

Then you have the "bougie" leftist, who is essentially the polar opposite. Still, they spend all their time romanticizing the idea of a revolution without ever grasping the reality that such upheaval would cause immense suffering and loss of life for millions. They just talk and talk, constantly patting themselves on the back for being so enlightened and progressive, while never actually lifting a finger to make anything happen.

Real leftist 😍

Some local heavy machinery operator after crushing a dozen boulders, lighting up a Legit, and washing it all down with Hennessy starts rambling about how wonderful life is in North Korea....

mistyseal8 said:A true leftist should be a real blue-collar worker—someone grinding away in a factory or maybe even out on the picket line, protesting, clashing with the police, or even engaging in more radical acts like sabotage or revolution. They’d be the ones actually taking down class enemies and leading the charge as true revolutionaries.

Then you have the "bougie" leftist, who is essentially the polar opposite. Still, they spend all their time romanticizing the idea of a revolution without ever grasping the reality that such upheaval would cause immense suffering and loss of life for millions. They just talk and talk, constantly patting themselves on the back for being so enlightened and progressive, while never actually lifting a finger to make anything happen.

I’d go so far as to suggest that a true leftist is nothing more than a die-hard Bolshevik—a full-blown totalitarian, really, a Stalinist who likely keeps framed portraits of Stalin hanging in every room of his house. I can just see him now, standing half-naked on some freezing hilltop in the dead of winter, clutching a knife in one hand and a Soviet flag in the other, shouting at the wind about how long live the revolution and how much he adores Comrade Stalin. 😁

neonhound18 said:I’d go so far as to suggest that a true leftist is nothing more than a die-hard Bolshevik—a full-blown totalitarian, really, a Stalinist who likely keeps framed portraits of Stalin hanging in every room of his house. I can just see him now, standing half-naked on some freezing hilltop in the dead of winter, clutching a knife in one hand and a Soviet flag in the other, shouting at the wind about how long live the revolution and how much he adores Comrade Stalin. 😁

Oh, absolutely. You nailed it. Except for one little detail: when the moon is full, they start eating toddlers.😒

wearyowl29 said:Oh, absolutely. You nailed it. Except for one little detail: when the moon is full, they start eating toddlers.😒

Well, not quite, though he does have a rather nasty habit of executing enemies of the state—without any sort of trial, naturally. 😛

rowdytiger13 said:Real leftist 😍

Wouldn't we all be better off with Commander Shamil in charge? 👏

neonhound18 said:Well, not quite, though he does have a rather nasty habit of executing enemies of the state—without any sort of trial, naturally. 😛

Oh, right! So they just don't go after kids or dig up any old mass graves... totally clean. 🙂

neonhound18 said:Wouldn't we all be better off with Commander Shamil in charge? 👏

To each their own. 😁

rowdytiger13 said:Real leftist 😍

Che was nothing more than a bloated, hypocritical scumbag.
Not to mention he was a straight-up sociopathic killer and criminal.

And honestly? A complete and utter failure at everything he did. He spearheaded two failed "revolutions"—which were really just glorified looting and terror raids—and ended up getting killed during the second attempt.

The only reason anyone knows his name is because of that one iconic photo everyone loves to obsess over.

In my book, those people are the ones who:
- preach socialism while their wealthy parents footed the bill for an Ivy League education
- rail against corporations despite using an iPhone, driving luxury cars, and wearing designer labels
- pine for the old communist days while simultaneously blaming religion for every war and genocide
- miss the glory days of the USA, even though they were just kids or hadn't even been born yet during that era
- claim to be all about tolerance, yet they've got a massive arsenal of insults ready for anyone who disagrees with them

goldenrider90 said:In my book, those people are the ones who:
- preach socialism while their wealthy parents footed the bill for an Ivy League education
- rail against corporations despite using an iPhone, driving luxury cars, and wearing designer labels
- pine for the old communist days while simultaneously blaming religion for every war and genocide
- miss the glory days of the USA, even though they were just kids or hadn't even been born yet during that era
- claim to be all about tolerance, yet they've got a massive arsenal of insults ready for anyone who disagrees with them

Sounds like Skandinafacs to me! 🤔

Elizabeth Allen92 said:Che was nothing more than a bloated, hypocritical scumbag.
Not to mention he was a straight-up sociopathic killer and criminal.

And honestly? A complete and utter failure at everything he did. He spearheaded two failed "revolutions"—which were really just glorified looting and terror raids—and ended up getting killed during the second attempt.

The only reason anyone knows his name is because of that one iconic photo everyone loves to obsess over.

Maybe.

But look, Che actually went into the jungle and died there.

Yeah, okay, he was an absolute disaster of a commander, and his only real impact was back in Cuba, but at least he was out in the mud. He wasn't some pampered, silver-spooned poser wearing his t-shirt in a fancy living room.

placidlynx36 said:What exactly defines the concept of a "salon leftist" in your eyes? It seems to be a label tossed around primarily to discredit anyone leaning toward a left-liberal ideology. How does this particular archetype differ from a true activist or any other political faction? Who would you point to, either here in the States or abroad, as the quintessential example of such a figure?

If you ask me, the true salon leftists are that whole crowd at gong led by Zelić. They’re basically just deeply entrenched bureaucrats who back leftist administrations and live off donations from people like us—and if that dries up, they turn to Soros.
I honestly think this sudden push for some preferential voting initiative is just a desperate move. You have to realize he got absolutely crushed by the University of California, so now he's trying to act like he's actually doing something.
Where on earth has he been all this time?
Probably sitting in some fancy lounge, sipping coffees that we all end up paying for, while debating "crucial" topics like gender ideology with his buddies.

Take a site like MUF.HR, for instance—it's a perfect example of salon leftists. We all chipped in about $33333 last year, and for that money, they sit there rambling about masturbation, smut, porn, feminism, and gender transitions...

Meanwhile, the workers over at Boeing, who are pulling in $667 a month, are essentially funding these endless debates about smut, feminism, and gender ideology. I highly doubt any of that actually matters to them in their daily lives.