I try to keep it positive there, as I've seen similar communities turn into spiraling pits of self hatred. Making fun of weakness is productive, but feeling ashamed is not.
"He clearly became weak for rejecting masculinity and standing against us anti-woke fascists! We're obviously stronger because we follow strong leaders. We totally aren't cowards for only bullying those who are weaker than us!" 🤬
Never could be. That said, there is a function to life that is very similar to a meaning, but it's somehow even less satisfying.
Life is a sequence of self perpetuating chemical processes that occurred by pure chance and were allowed to build in complexity over time. The processes that were able to self perpetuate the best would be the ones to continue, leading to the iterative feedback loop that defines evolution. As they grew in complexity, the replicators not only trended towards mechanisms to respond to challenges to their own existence, they also became better at iterating and improving as quickly as possible. At this point, the first lifeforms would actively improve their own chances, shaping randomness in their favor beyond what pure luck would provide.
Coming back to us humans, we're effectively driven in the same way as all life: work to exist with the goal of continuing to exist. We exist to replicate and endless sequence of chemical reactions. We work because if we didn't, we wouldn't be able to work anymore. It's not a meaning, but a simple fact. It's a circular argument that only needed enough lucky dice rolls to start.
This is the closest to objective meaning, but like I said before, I don't give a shit about living by it. Evolution is a cruel process that designs suffering and death into our lives to maximize that objective goal. Everything we want and desire evolved to point us to action, so there's no real way to work against it. We'll just end up at a dead end, or actually help the process advance, so we might as well just do what we find best. I personally favor maximizing human well being over the well being of any larger construct.
It's about people who identify strongly with the Democratic party not fighting enough for the working class against the capitalist interests within. They're upset that so called "progressives" refused to see that the rich would never work with them. The only people who seriously stood against that shit were always viewed as outsiders. When the chips were down, people who weren't pariahs didn't push the party strongly enough. This has been confirmed more strongly with hindsight, but the leftists were always saying it, while the Democrats refused to believe it.
However, I don't think most politically educated Americans would understand wtf this user said. I'm just terminally "politics minded" compared to almost anyone. I actively try to understand how far left, far right, AND various establishment types view things. Regardless of how accurate their beliefs are, all people believe their own perspective to some degree. Even those that say things cynically can't help but internalize their lies.
