You could probably help me name a dozen good life long political leftists on this site. Everyone else is a "former" shithead conservative, liberal, libertarian, fascist, gamergater, white supremacist, tradcath, transphobe, homophobe etc

And that shit never washes out.

If you think I'm fixated on leftists, it's just that I have never tried being friends with fascists so I don't have a lot to say about them. Right-wing fascism sucks, is hostile to life and dignity and is impossible to tolerate, that is given.

"I'm a liberal" is the mark of a baseline 21st century human. Anyone who identifies differently is suspect. Anyone who claims to not be liberal should be assumed a ticking bomb. I don't maintain impossible friendships. The disappointment is mutual.

Perhaps you are not a "bad" leftist but even so, I see you retweeting and liking the most toxic nihilist leftist personalities on this site. Adult children of rich socialites, depressed shitposters, redbrowners. You like their tweets, you buy their books. You don't even know.

No matter how much you dunk on "tankies", you are one or two clicks removed from crazies and mean spirited nihilists who would rather believe a meme or conspiracy if it trolls liberal democracy and Jews than listen to actual boring, depressing, tangible but disappointing facts.

Your comrade who "never said a racist thing" and who "hates all dictators" is about to defend a nazi childhood friend or drinking buddy and they are about to say Ukraine and Bosnia should never have existed and before the day is over they will laugh about trolling a Jew.

Real evil to your comrade is not torturing prisoners of conscience but Nancy Pelosi saying you should pay your student debt or some imagined liberal "centrist" strawman who wants to bomb brown people for corporate/"globalist" money.

Your comrade has never known political progress or victory and they don't care. Either they get the safe liberal democrat status quo that babies them for another term or they get the vaunted fascist populist victory that kills liberalism and ???? and then leftism happens.

It's all of them. All of online leftisism like this. Nihilists, vindictive sadists, shitposters. Their only near equals are right-wing fascists. Some of them are true equals with aesthetic leanings only ("I'm a progressive").

And you. You're still friends with leftists.

Did you see the talked about list by @ifthedevilisix ? It was all true.

"Liberalism for me, socialism for thee". Reminds me of the salafists who talk to me about usury, womens' modesty and lowering your gaze but rationalise why they are buying laptops and phones with loans, why they play football in shorts and small talk with their friends' wives.

You know who else says "I'm not a racist" and "actually, nazis hate me"?

Richard Spencer.

He also says "Long live Bashar al-Assad".

Cheap shot? Yes, but I'm on my way out. I know, there is no real "last day" on twitter, we all come back unless our accounts are suspended and sign up is too tedious, but I'm having mine. I genuinely like some of you, and some I tolerate with pressed lips.