those weren't left leaning people, they were liberals; specifically democrats.
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yes it is, but even professionals in all of the tech fields doubt it somehow; i'm flabbergasted every time i learn of this take every time it happens since 2013.
gender-fluid in every sense of both stem words. lol
advocating for them is always a good thing; my life has been heavily impacted by people like them and this is why i responded to your comment.
you're seeing for yourself how misinformation can be spread (assuming that you didn't already know) and, to drive this point home: leftists are called as such (outside the west) because they adhere to writings of people from the past that have analyzed, studied, and trial/errored on their strategies. the term leftists is co-opted heavily in the west and especially so in the united states; so when you encounter an "overzealous leftist" know that they're not ascribing that any of those texts because those texts advocate for that same grace that you're wondering if you should afford to them.
i think of them as left-maga since they know as much about leftism as trump's maga does about politics or history.
the actual left leaning people of this country are reliable voters and the vote counts prove it since their numbers are as consistent as republican voters.
what you're likely counting as "left leaning" are centrists by the world's standards (aka democrats) and, by definition, don't have strong enough feelings to vote either way; hence the political fervor that's so weak that they don't even show up at the polls.
I truly do not understand the hostility here...
people are pissed off at our system and redirecting it at each other is the defining characteristic of the culture wars.
that anger would be better placed at the system; but we're too ignorant of it know how to use that anger effectively and willfully refuse to learn it.
articles like this one suggest that the brain drain is an intentional cultural purge:
This is the vision: take NIH scientists, coders, artists, researchers, and teachers and force them into low-wage jobs doing whatever robots can’t yet do. Not because it’s efficient. Not because the work isn’t valuable. But because they are who the far right considers dangerous—people who know how the system works—and might challenge it.
None of this is about restoring dignity to labor. It’s about stripping dignity from labor that offers autonomy, safety, or intellectual freedom. It’s about reducing workers of all kinds—whether white-collar, blue-collar, or no-collar—to servitude.
aka a real life hand maid's tale
experts are trying to convince americans to respond, but we aren't.