Thread by @17cShyteposter

Yes—the glitch is a misunderstanding of your audience and your purpose. "Leftists are hypocrites" does have a use, but it's not to win over independents or whatever

It's to convince soft rightists to harden their stance by showing them how *they* still believe in leftism

https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1401046431574773765

This isn't something that can be achieved through cheap or superficial "gotchas." The left is always running leftward, so its right-now policies will always be in contradiction with some of its earlier "principles"

This isn't a weakness, it's a strength

Taking them at face value is to admit on some level that *you* believe in their earlier principles. Otherwise why are you attacking the contradiction and not the original principle itself?

Shouldn't the principle be the real weak point that you can slam down on?

Since you have no objection there, apparently believing it to be true, you have almost no grounds to reject their new extension of it—that extension is very rarely truly hypocritical. It's just the logical expansion of the belief

So in what way do you actually differ from them?

On this level, then, "leftists are hypocrites" is an admission that they were recently totally right about this, and so they're probably right about this ideological update too.

This only ensures you're going to keep whining about hypocrisy until you're doing so from the gulag

Now we're down to the bone of the matter—and if the bone was broken at some point, then your job is to reset it, and that's where it's going to hurt like hell

Because you're going to have to reject some level of liberalism itself, which all modern leftist is built on

And it's right here that "Leftism is hypocrisy" can actually work

Because you can show the break between the beautiful theory, and the painful reality that results from that theory. The only people this can convince are the people who already feel the ache of the misdiagnosis

Leftists-through-liberalism are high on their own opioids, appealing to them is ridiculous

"These people are hypocrites" only works when people are prepared to look at the truth: that people aren't equal, and the arrangement of society must reflect this, in some form or another.