Quote Originally Posted by spoon
A big part of that is that they believe you cannot make a decision to no longer be oppressed.
Indeed, and the fact that I "did" proves that actually I wasn't oppressed in the first place.

The more oppressed you are, the bigger the victim you are and the better you are as a person, etc.
This victimhood is the main reason I took a sharp turn away from the left. Everyone's a fucking victim one way or another, the left's obsession with it is a shameless attempt to tap into people's insecurities and good nature.

Something like 15 years ago, when I first started getting into politics, the left was largely made of of nice, naive people who wanted to do things like travel, learn new languages, volunteer for the local homeless charity, that sort of stuff. But now it seems like they have become utterly consumed by hatred for anyone who doesn't fit into their naive view of "nice". Suddenly, calling someone a faggot made you a hater, like it's somehow worse than calling someone a cunt.

It's funny. Poker has helped me move away from the left, too. In my younger days, there was a naive part of me that thought the world could be fair for everyone. Then poker made me realise in the simplest way imaginable how that isn't possible. My gain is someone else's loss, and it's either because I'm better, or I got lucky. Suck a dick. Suddenly, all those times I felt shafted, all those times I felt "that's not fucking fair", I accepted it because life isn't fair and it never fucking will be. Make the most of what you've got and what you can get, fuck everyone else.

That's why I shifted to the right. Because I come to terms with the fact that "fuck everyone else" is an instinct that should be nurtured, not supressed. It's what drives humans, and it's what will continue to drive us into the very distant future. Accept it or be a victim, your choice.