the left i'd say, by basically trying to virtue signal, like "look at me, im fighting the good fight, taking it to THEM"

and i mean decieving for personal gains, not deception to stick it to the left

Eh, I just look at this whole thing, and I just don’t give a shit. Like, why the fuck am I suppose to care who Chelsea Manning spends her free time with? Why does anyone care? Why do I care what her relationship with Cassandra Fairbanks is? Like, I understand why Tim cares, since Cassandra is his friend, but why does anyone who’s not actually friends with either Chelsea or Cassandra give a shit?

Presumably because she is an influential activist figure

I personally don't care, Chelsea doesn't seem to be building a platform for herself

i dunno i only learned this Chelsea manning existed today, and that its in fact a he

but googling around said he/she displayed interest in running for senator, might be trying to ride on some quick fame for being anti-"alt-right" or something, thats usually what progressives gun for these days

So what? Why should someone’s personal life have any barring on their activism?

It shouldn’t.

in a normal society, it wouldn't

in todays politicized society, if you're an activist, your personal life doesn't exist

Martin Luther King Jr. had affairs and was a pretty sexist guy. Who cares when his message is all about equality for all races, and bringing blacks & whites together.

Martian? i think i missed a few chapters 😛 he's from mars now?

Nobody’s perfect. Everyone has flaws. Flawed people can still have good ideas

Stupid autocucumber

Some of the left wants to tear down statues of the founding fathers because they owned slaves.

😄 it was too funny for me to ignore

My tablet likes to make dumb corrections all the time

and well, these days it doesn't matter who you are, what you say or think

Its the public opinion of you that defines you in the eyes of the people

Very few people are 100% good or 100% evil. Even the best people have terrible ideas, even the worst people have some good ones.

well the thing is, we're all human, any person is capable of great heroics and great horrors

and as such it is our actions that should define us, not what we claim to want to be

Guess the left takes going to a party with some people as actions that define manning. Which I find funny but am not surprised by.

well in their eyes, thats fraternising with the enemy

Ffs stop referring to left wing media and far left activists as "the left"

what should they be refered to as?

Anti liberal clowns

Regressive left.

It's just for convenience.

Fair enough

Yeah pretty much.

We all know who’s being referred to.

Even if they're not what the left is suppose to be, they are the current face of it in it's current form, unfortunately.

I think using the term 'liberal' is even more of a misnomer.

I mean, the Antifa crowd ain’t liberal

Definitely not. lol

With their whole “liberals get the bullet too” slogan

depends by what political template you go by,

If you go by purely left-right, then its acceptable

if you go by left-right with a Y-axis of Authoritarian/Liberal

then saying "the left" is wrong because its the "authoritarian" branch that imposes this, not the liberal left (and right-wing respectively)

its just corrupted definitions

like how "Liberal" is now just the term for Authoritarian Leftist

Newspeak

whilst the word Liberal means freedom

Leftist?