Material conditions

It's the other side of the same coin that is

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

If society is making you feel comfortable, it kind of requires you to not understand what's fucked up about it because then you won't be comfortable.

Personally its because my experience of being ostracised at a young age made me more empathetic to the plight of others. As well as wanting to be in a group where you can be vulnerable but know that every person has your back in some form of solidarity.

I'm normals asf irl, I just hate work and love trains

And my trans comrades :cat-trans:

There was a study where the more people benefit from a system the more fair they think it is.

So the more normal and isomorphic people are the less likely they are to find reasons to question things

Spend enough time in the margins and you'll quickly ask why there's so many of you

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my experience with communists and anarchists is that we're all fukken weird.

regarding non-hetero, at least in America, LGBT rights activism has been tied up with extreme left wing politics for longer than anyone can remember, so I think that any politically activated LGBT person is most likely to be drawn in that direction.

and LGBT people, as well as pretty much any other marginalized group, are more likely to be politically activated in the first place. we're not into politics because we're all perfectly happy and having a good time, after all.

it's the small-scale version of increasing contradictions in society making the masses more politically active.

Perhaps the social ostracization at the personal level makes one more accepting of the idea of socioeconomic ostracization at a societal level. There is a cliche that radicals and extremists tend to be outcasts, though this is more often used to disregard them as losers rather than victims. Idk, I’m a Norman

Has anyone in this thread been outside?

There are plenty of 'normie' socialists, whatever that means. There are people that are straight as a ruler, have 'regular' hobbies like doing woodworking on the side or some shit, and also work 40-60 hours a week. Rest assured, they are just as fed up as anyone else.

Also don't NEETs tend to trend towards reactionary anyways? Seems more an online thing.

Autistic people are chads who are immune to social conditioning

Hopefully I'm using this term right, but it could be, at least in part, selective bias. You're more likely to notice "weird" things with people you know better, such as those with similar political leanings as you, and overlook them in strangers and just assume they're "normal", whatever that may mean to you.

But odds are if you really examined any of those "normal" non-leftist people, you'd find something "weird" about them too. Lord knows there's plenty of weird chuds, libs and "non-political" people.

No one's really 100% "normal" imo.

Being excluded from the cool groups time and time and time again has solidified exactly how much the normies suck. And typically these groups are made up of libs and/or reactionaries.

In hindsight, if the cool kids hung out with me, I'd probably be shelling for Klobuchar right now. Being ugly and weird has its merits.

I think it goes the other way around. People that are outcasts/different are more likely to discover the problems with the current system and become either incels, or transition and become communist trans catgirls.

I'm actually pretty normal.

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