I have always wondered... why is this predominantly leftist board so fucking elitist?

>Americans
>Leftists
All you showed with your post is that Americans are still stupid, intellectually isolated little shits.

>contigency.
contingent != contingency

Starting with the greeks are one of those rare memes that have non ironic value tho

Leftists are all basically elitist.

Especially the ones that think college education is the sole value-determiner for a person. omg this 78-year-old man doesn't have a degree in ~~~~~~~~sociology~~~~~~~~~~ so he's le dumb sheep and thats the only reason why he voted for Trump. Who cares if he's been watching elections since before even your fucking parents were born, he's le dumb!!!
America is left wing because it theoretically should remove hierarchies.

In actuality, it is just re-ordering them.

America is one of the most leftist countries in the world. Leftism isnt just "LGBTQ WE WUZ KANGS THE PATRIARCHY" . Maybe before the late 20th century. Lurk more

I'm a leftist but also an aesthete.

>America is one of the most leftist countries in the world
What the fuck are you on

>why is this predominantly leftist board so fucking elitist?
Because leftism is patrician and everything else is for plebs

>What is the appeal of trying appear 'patrician' or other nonsense like that?
sounds like something a pleb would say

>Who cares if he's been watching elections since before even your fucking parents were born, he's le dumb!!!

It's kind of embarrassing how 12 hours of college credits in political science, American history, and economics can overpower a lifetime of unstructured experiential knowledge

They really don't. Theorizing doesn't matter when it comes to voting, what matters is at least some experience with how politicians do their thing and how that effects you.

Your post is confusing liberals for leftists.

No serious leftist publication is blaming Trump's election on (((stupidity))), that's a liberal meme you come across on HuffPo and Vox. Rather most leftists (here I'm talking about democratic socialists, Marxists, unaffiliated anti-capitalists and so on) are at pains trying to explain to liberals that no, there is an economic component here that you cannot ignore, and to pretend in the face of it that it was the result of the ignorance of downscale white working class voters will only reproduce the event in the future.

People are tired of being talked down to by the technocrats, the moral elites, and the policy wonks that neoliberalism has produced.

Trump is a liberal, all American politicians that are not underground are liberal.

Not even American you twat.

>leftist

Nigger, we are above politics here because they, and the state itself, are nothing but spooks.

that's pretty political

Where did this meme about Veeky Forums being leftist come from? This is a board that praises Schopenhauer, Stiner, Nietzsche, Spengler, Evola et al.; all of whom are disliked by the left for one reason or another.

I don't get this meme.

it starts with the letter l
that's pretty much it

t. oscar

>if they're more liberal than me they're *a* liberal

Dude, almost every hobby board here is elitist, what are you talking about?
/v/ has hardcore vs. casual gamers, /tv/ has kino vs. flicks, /mu/ has patrician vs. pleb.
Veeky Forums is really no different.

Holy shit you're dumb.

Veeky Forums is elitist because it's funny and it separates us from a lot of the idiocy that the rest of Veeky Forums partakes in (it being this boards type of idiocy).

It's that /mu/, Veeky Forums and even Veeky Forums influence that makes Veeky Forums influence.

And, hell, /a/ is incredibly elitist.

I would also say that if everything looks left it just means you're v far right.

I didn't say elitist, I said leftist. Improve your reading comprehension.

>leftist

This is an egoist board, user.

>This is a board that praises Schopenhauer, Stiner, Nietzsche,
Yes.
>Spengler, Evola et al.;
No.
>all of whom are disliked by the left for one reason or another.
No.

Fry's a twat

This board is now my property.

>America is left wing because it theoretically should remove hierarchies.
A liberal state is not a leftist one. This is a fundamental misunderstanding by americans.

It's mine, to be honest.

Well now it's mine again.
Gotcha.

Let's start a Union, senpai.

Please stop, you're spooking me.

That was a response to op you fucking dolt.

Trump lost only in the two lowest income brackets.

Nice back-pedaling you sad burger.

They really, really do.

>Who cares if he's been watching elections since before even your fucking parents were born, he's le dumb!!!
This. Old people are retards too.

Degenerate spotted. The difference between Trump and Clinton in all of the brackets is absolutely minimal and should be ignored.

Most hardcore leftists suffer from inferiority complexes and I expect the same is true for most Veeky Forums snobs regardless of their political leanings. What you see as elitism is just their underlying insecurity causing them to lash out at people to protect their ego. It is necessary for people with inferiority complexes to tear down confident people to feel good about themselves.

This is the main reason why people who post confidently about books they like or think are good are targeted for shitposting and harassment. Their positive energy is intolerable to posters with inferiority complexes. This is also why the snobs can only ever criticize, they can never talk about things they genuinely enjoy.

Because this was a board for CLASSICISTS and you ROACHES began to INFEST us when we became DECADENT and DESPONDENT, subsequently you ADOPTED and STOLE parts of OUR culture to create your own GROTESQUE, SHAMBLING, FRANKENSTEINIAN PSEUDO-MORPHOSIS you REDDITOR PIECE OF SHIT

GET THE FUCK OFF MY BOARD

was there a leftist in this election?

this describes Veeky Forums perfectly, to be honest. People cannibalize their own views for ironic value. It always starts with memes, and it never stops being memes, but at some point the irony circles around itself and becomes condescending irony rather than satirizing.

Yeah, but he didn't get to be candidate.

oh right, Sanders was a hypermoderate leftist, I remember. he lost the primary by something like 4 million votes, right? So I guess if not having popular support shows that he's not supporting the working class then I guess there's a point there.

>why is this predominantly leftist board so fucking elitist?

Why do you think? A true leftist obviously wouldn't make it in a market economy, hence they turn to artistic shit like writing, but also academia.

And we all know that academia is infested with Frankfurt School critical theorists.

Donald J. Trump

pretty well post modern in here.

He is.

This board isn't the property of any political faction, in fact its the only place on Veeky Forums where I've been able to have proper, decent discussions with people of radically different belief systems than me and come to respect them.

because you're spooked and i'm fucking your mother.

That's because it's the only place on Veeky Forums where people deem normal politics beneath them.

You're not going to find a Mishima or De Maistre conservative on /pol/. You'll find underageb&s that want to feel special. The difference is that e/lit/ists want to feel REALLY special.

>Sanders was a hypermoderate leftist
In the US now that's full blown communism though.

>American liberals
>leftists

>He thinks stirner is right wing

Also I'm an unabashed commie and schoppy is my favourite philosopher

Behold you fucks! A trace of light for you faggots

We're not elitist, it's just impossible to treat shitposting kindly.

LIT BTFO BY RANDOM DUDE COPY PASTAING THE UNABOMBER MANIFESTO! WILL IT EVER RECOVER?

>why is this predominantly leftist board so fucking elitist
You answered your own question, desu.

All radical groups suffer from inferiority complexes. That's where their radicalism comes from. A violent / deep desire to absorb and effectively eliminate an opposing force permanently always stems from a lack of appreciation for conflict and lack of self-confidence.

I think at its core it's soul/identity searching and the elitist pretense is for minmax testing the waters for social proof. "Is this cool? Is that cool?" vs "This is cool and you're a idiot for disagreeing".

>Cunningham's Law: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

Only that it's not about posting the wrong answer but to act really really smug because your iq is over 9k because you want to see if anyone buys it, as an end in itself
so you have at least that to hold on to when you're an insecure virgin neet in your mid 20s with no education

or maybe das just me

>Look ma! I'll post a picture of laughing to imply the statement is silly, without stating any argument or idea of my own!

I don't think you understand the appeal of Veeky Forums in the first place

>REALLY special
How so?

"We're just in it for the lulz haha"

Question dodging desu

>"We're just in it for the lulz haha"
If you are referring to the first part, then you simply dont understand the strand of elitism and contrarianism that exist in all boards, whether /a/ shitting on a certain anime/studio, /v/ doing the same for games, etc etc. Only focusing on Veeky Forums's elitism and blaming on its leftist nature is just /pol/faggotry

If it is second part. How does ironically worshiping a variation of pepe and then unironically worshipping, Christ LARPing when internet atheism is on the rise override reading some books?

stop arguing over spooks
ok

they're not actually elitist they're just garbage

If you think this board if predominantly leftist you should pull your head out of your ass

newfag plz

George Orwell made an interesting claim in The Road to Wigan Pier that a good portion of the left isn't interested in fighting for equality and the poor, and possibly don't even care about the plight of the working class and the poor. They simply notice who have power and who don't, and thus are fighting to obtain power by fighting on behalf of those without power; giving them power.

By doing this, the left has smugly undertaken the position of being on the right side of history. Ayn Rand saw this coming miles away.

stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RandAyn-The-Comprachicos.pdf

Everything about correcting children of their inherent privilege, to white guilt, stems from a collectivist tool of shaming until you obtain power over them. If you cannot be shamed, then get the government to take your position.

The left are elitist because they desire power over men for the good of men and think that they know better than them on how they should live their lives.

There's literally nothing wrong wrong with cultural elitism

*Squeezes nose*

There is nothing wrong with any sort of elitism so long as you open the door for new blood and don't remain dogmatic.

What's the appeal of predominantly alt right boards to be such mongoloids

They're fighting collectivist who think that destroying (or criticizing) western culture and values is the best way to go, and the only tools they've found that can match collectivist, are collectivism rhetoric.

They have this feeling that the left is pushing against the establishment but to an extent where they don't care if everything is destroyed, and are feeling left out culturally. Whether this is true or not does not dismiss that it is what they are feeling. As such, they have to act like mongoloids as their last ditch effort to obtain power, fighting leftist collectivist with collectivism of the right, but not upholding tradition and Christianity as its shield. But by simply not having a core identity, anyone who disagrees with neoliberalism and the old right can be considered an alt right. It lacks an identity. It only has an enemy and nothing else.

The appeal is that they have a purpose in protecting values they hold to be what makes western civilization great compared to the rest of the world.

wtf i love /pol/ now

Veeky Forums is pretty left, newfriend

/a/ is full of moeshit, best girls endless battles and shit like that

That's not Stephen Fry; that's Oscar Wilde.

>George Orwell made an interesting claim in The Road to Wigan Pier that a good portion of the left isn't interested in fighting for equality and the poor, and possibly don't even care about the plight of the working class and the poor. They simply notice who have power and who don't, and thus are fighting to obtain power by fighting on behalf of those without power; giving them power.

No shit Sherlock.

This thread is now my property.