What are minimalist loser politics?

Take your pick:

  • Everyone should live in small tightly packed apartments (bugman shit)
  • Don’t eat meat
  • Don’t have a car (15 minute cities)
  • Eat bugs (it’s good for the environment!)
  • Don’t have kids (it’s bad for the environment)
  • If you have a car, make it a boring small one
  • AC should be banned

All of these are loser politics that make mainstream people (aka normies) disgusted and unwilling to support leftist causes. And for good reason! Why should the working classes give up the little comfort and luxury they have, while the rich buy carbon credits to offset a transcontinental private jet trip to the ocean-side to board a mega-yacht orgy?

We have enough resources (especially when we do away with the capitalist class) to give everyone a nice house in a city that looks more like a forest because public and private transportation now happens underground. But people still have nice cars to ride out into the countryside or use on racetracks.

And so on. There are enough resources that everyone on the planet could have a lifestyle of a medium-developed Eastern European country like Czechia. And when the left starts using resources in a more rational way (no more profit motive) everything just gets nicer.

So why then do leftist pick these horrible restrictive policies?

  • cooopsspace@infosec.pub
    31·
    1 year ago

    OP is a fucking idiot.

    Apartments are needed to house an increasing population. You’re not required to live in one, just don’t expect to own acreage in the city where land is at a premium.

    A reduction on meat is scientifically better for your health and the environment. At the very least one day a week meat free.

    Accessible cities is great for everyone including people who require cars. You shouldn’t be opposing this. But “lefties” are calling for better urban planning that don’t assume everyone has a car. Simply put, if you have to drive to get to the supermarket, or that drive is 10km though you’re 5km away from the store - that’s the fuck up.

    People want a choice whether to have crotch goblins (kids) and you shouldn’t be expected to have one if you don’t want one. But nobody is stopping you from having one. It’s not hard.

    Experimenting with food has been done since the dawn of man. Meat free and bugs is yet another experiment in an attempt to answer the question “how can we feed everyone”. Becoming increasingly difficult due to man made climate change and population.

    You don’t have to have a small car, just have one that’s safe on the road. Not those big grotesque trucks. You’re not towing bro, and you can’t even see over the grill. Once again, people don’t want to be required to have a car to live. Walkable cities, good public transport.