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  • So, I left the Party...

    and it feels good But a bit sad at the same time I was a member for 8 years (which - coincidentally - was the same amount of time I was in the socialdemocrat youth organization. I wonder if that means something? ) but I never really felt comfortable or at home. The thing that pushed me over the edge was when we had a discussion about participation in the swedish general elections next year and the arguments were exactly the same as the last three times we discussed that matter, and by exactly the same people. I just felt like we were three demented parrots repeating phrases over and over again... And when one of these comrades questioned my credibility and said that I didn´t work hard enough to be allowed to have an opinion on political matters I thought "**** it! I don´t need this ****"

    The thing is I gave up on politics some time ago and the chance of ever uniting the swedish left in any matter whatsoever. So I turned my attention to more mundane things like maintaining the various party websites and e-mail lists. I also became the local party headquarters handyman/janitor/computer technician. Fixing coffee and sandwiches to meetings and tending the bar at our parties. But occasionally I get a surge of revolutionary spirit and hand out leaflets and sell the party newspaper, I also draw up elaborate plans for uniting the left, saving the welfare system, and generally making the world a better place to live. Most of the time though, I sit in my deep deep hole of despair and think that nothing will ever change (the way we want it to) and nothing matters at all. And who are we kidding, trying to change the world and trying to appeal to a working class that wouldn´t take a piss on us even if we were on fire?

    Just because I´m a bit manic-depressive I´m suddenly not allowed to have a opinion on political matters? So I left. And I doubt if I´m ever going back. I think the party thing is closed chapter for me now.
    I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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    Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
    Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
    Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.

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    • #3
      I´m not going over to the dark side just yet, Saras
      I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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      • #4
        Initiating project "dr.zoidberg"
        Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
        Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
        Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.

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        • #5
          Jeez... if the Swedish left is in trouble then what does that say about the left?

          Workers of the world - you're ****ed!

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          • #6
            Which party is that?
            Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

            It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
            The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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            • #7
              Socialist Party
              I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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              • #8
                @Dr Z: Ah.

                @Dracon II: I don't know what you count as "left", but the reigning social democrats are still the biggest party (tho likely to lose to a coalition of rightists in the next general elections).
                Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

                It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
                The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Last Conformist

                  @Dracon II: I don't know what you count as "left", but the reigning social democrats are still the biggest party (tho likely to lose to a coalition of rightists in the next general elections).
                  Well it can only go from bad to worse. Maybe a few years of right wing oppression will make people get off their fat butts and do something.

                  But then again, probably not...
                  I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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                  • #10
                    there's no sex on the hard left
                    Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                    Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                    • #11
                      No need to be pessimistic Dr. Zoidberg. One can just do his best, or not, and then hope for the best.
                      urgh.NSFW

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                      • #12
                        It seems that the far right in Sweden is much lefter than what passes for the left in the US.
                        (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
                        (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                        (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                          Az, thanks!
                          I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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                          • #14
                            Re: So, I left the Party...

                            Originally posted by Dr Zoidberg
                            one of these comrades questioned my credibility and said that I didn´t work hard enough to be allowed to have an opinion on political matters


                            You don't have to be in a party, especially with idiots like that.
                            I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
                            - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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                            • #15
                              is this really a party thing, or a life cycle thing?

                              I used to be a (believe it or not) Democratic party activist of sorts - i got involved as a campaign volunteer on a more or less regular basis, I was active in college Democrats, and then Young Democrats. But marriage, family, and just a different outlook as I got older make me less inclined to do that - I still support largely the same politics I did then, though.
                              "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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