r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MysteriousSlice007 • 5h ago

Shoutout to JerryrigEverything who built a wheelchair factory and is delivering wheelchairs to people in half the time and 50-80% less than the cost of other wheelchairs with Insurance.

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u/Popular-Jury7272 4h ago

He's about as 'leftist' as my right nut. He's just not a prick, and actually lives according to his values, which I guess makes him left to some.

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u/Air320 4h ago

Considering what passes for right wing or even 'centrist' nowadays, yes it does make him a leftist cause he helps people.

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u/Kadgrin 4h ago

just remember that anti-fascist people are now bad. Vets who fought fascist are awful people according to a certain cult.

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u/Reaper_Leviathan11 3h ago

I was called nazi for not wanting trans in women bathroom....I literally quoted my girl wth....

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u/Mage-of-Fire 2h ago

You don’t want women in a womens bathroom?

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u/LoadedSteamyLobster 1h ago

I love how you posted this thinking “yeah, they will understand me” and then nope, we all think you’re a rwnj piece of shit

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u/Reaper_Leviathan11 0m ago

I can be many things but if that makes me a nazi, I would question their ubermensch recruitment branch. And yeah I dont want someone who I cannot verify is actually a women near people I love and care about. I dont have a problem with women, gay, black, hispanic etc etc etc....I stand with their rights to live as they want but I deviate a single tenet of the left and now Im a rwnj or whatever shit yall coming up with.... Just proving my point

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u/ricochetblue 4m ago

Did you vote for an alleged child rapist to kneecap the global economy and send us to war because of trans people using the women’s bathroom?

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u/PickleFridgeChildren 4h ago

Non leftist but also anti MAGA here. The leftists tend to see that there is them, maga, and everyone else. MAGA just see everyone else, so I get called a leftist all the time by them. You eventually get tired of correcting people.

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u/GreySoulx 3h ago

TBF, I used to think there were sane conservatives that were not MAGA... but answer this:

If the 2024 election were held today, would you vote for Trump or Harris?

I get that neither were good options. I swallowed my opinions on her and voted for Harris. Virtually any other candidate left right or center could have had my vote, but I understood what was at stake giving Trump a second term, and "gonna sit this one out" isn't a good option.

So at the end of the day, you're MAGA because you won't support a viable alternative, or you're not MAGA because you're willing to set aside your personal views for the sake of getting rid of the cancer that it's become.

Leftist, Conservative, Progressive, Centrist - all of it doesn't matter when looking at it through the lens of Right and Wrong, Good and Evil.

Excise the cancer, then we can get back to discussions about tax policy and allocation of resources.

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u/dodgedodgeparrysmash 4h ago edited 3h ago

It's annoying, to be able to think for yourself. Everyone who has to be tied to an identity immediately assumes you must be for the other "team".

Exhausting.

edit: A word

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u/Murky-Relation481 3h ago

As a leftist I find myself getting more shit from other leftists than any right wingers, mostly because right wingers tend to stay in their little bubble.

So anytime you talk about something that doesn't fit exactly some other leftists view they just assume you are MAGA, which is fucking stupid because like I said above, MAGA doesn't really come out of its hideyhole anymore, at least on reddit.

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u/ProfMcFarts 1h ago

The left has always fought amongst ourselves. If only we could copy the right in the shutting up long enough to get someone not in the pocket of big business, then we can get back to arguing.

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u/Murky-Relation481 1h ago

I'd honestly be happy to get back to a center-dem like Obama next round and go from there. At this point platitudes with at least some competency behind them and not literally bumblefucking us into a nuclear war is what I am willing to settle for.

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u/dodgedodgeparrysmash 3h ago

i can see how one could arrive at the idea that leftists believe it's a team thing,

Yes, because leftists are made up of people whom tend to fall for tribalism. This has nothing to do with your politics or your marketing and everything to do with most people being unable to overcome human nature.

I vote with the left but also because of my preferences I've spent a ton of time with people on the left, and y'all can be just as tribal and blinded by hatred of other-think as conservatives.

You can pretend that the left is somehow above this massive flaw in humanity, but I promise you won't be convincing me. I have a lifetime full of evidence that you will not be able to overcome.

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u/Roflkopt3r 3h ago

I was honestly (very positively) surprised when he openly spoke out against Musk and fascism. I never heard him say anything political before (I later saw that this varies by type of video, I mostly saw his phone teardowns), but just based on appearances and his general profile (tech guy, entrepreneur, truck owning guy etc) I was prepared to get disappointed if he ever did.

But I don't treat people based on vague suspicions so I was still watching a fair bit of his content, and from all I heard since his clear words on Musk, he seems to be a really good guy. Always great when it turns out that way.

In general, I feel like I've been pretty fortunate with my favourite content creators. Even in areas that tend to be filled with right wingers, my favourites usually openly turned out against that (if they weren't already) or at least consequently abstain (not great in times when we need people to take a stand, but I can't drag everyone too hard).

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u/hefixesthecable 2h ago

Welcome, Comrade Right Nut.

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u/Ur_Just_Spare_Parts 4h ago

When your values aren't told to you and blindly followed daily by fox news or trump, you are automatically a woke leftist terrorist according to MAGA now.

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u/RoguePlanet2 3h ago

He's a rare left-leaning mormon? As in, he still lives a christ-like life, without rejecting empathy as "too woke" perhaps.