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this is what really sets leftists apart from liberals imo.
liberals like to decorate themselves with the nimbus of morality but when it comes to stepping up to fascism and protesting even if it's not like a fun parade but serious and uncomfortable. Or just if the weather is bad.
Or when it comes to being self critical about your own learned patterns of behavior and thinking.. they are nowhere to be seen, not to be relied on and it does real damage, as we can see.
Honestly, Seattle really is full of holier-than-thou assholes who want to think they're farther left than they are.
I've run into a wide variety, starting at the "I'm a leftist, but ecofascism is kinda cool" kind, to "I know you're homeless, but you're white, so that makes you more privileged than me, a POC landlord", and running all the way up to "Eugenics is okay, but I have a karl marx shirt and think I'm one of the vanguard" types.
It absolutely turned into crabs in a bucket when I got a job in palliative care for developmentally disabled elders, and it's part of why I burnt out so bad and tried to kill myself.
Sorry to hear you tried to kill yourself, glad to see you failed.
Yeah, I used to be the co lead of the data and IT department at Mary's Place.
Then a series of ludicrous events caused by my own family made me homeless.
Absolutely no one cared, either that I made my living by trying to help the poor, at scale, or that I joined their ranks, not any of my friends, my extended family, nor my own former employer.
Not exactly a suicide attempt, but goddamn if a year or two with all the fentanyl addicts didn't nearly kill me, I'm still recovering from all the physical injuries that caused me, 2 years on from it.
Fuck Seattle, its exactly as you say, everyone is unimaginably absurd in their own personal victim / moral superiority mindsets, and they're also delusional when it comes to thinking that some policy they support is going to do anything like what they think it will.
Leftism is just a trend in Seattle these days, almost everyone is actually just a corpo or a nepo baby of some kind, cosplaying a leftist with all the pretentious meta/double irony of wearing a designer Che Guevera t-shirt, which is actually cool and proletarian, but I guess you just wouldn't get it.
I swear, if I run into one more hipster that tries to mansplain feminism to me...