>radical leftist>beloved by libertarians chudswhy
because one day OP, they knew you'd ask
Druggie degenerates love him. Libertarians are druggie degenerates who don't want no lawman tellin' them they can't do cocaine and fire off a rifle while buttfucking a dog. Open borders and mutlinational corpos raping us to death is seen as a plus, too.
Hallucinogens are based and he's funny. It's pretty simple stuff honestly.
>>25161288aren't radical leftists libertarians wtf? do political definitions mean anything now
>>25161610Yes and hunter was a prototypical american libsoc but you know what I mean
>>25161288Didn't he murder someone?
>>25161610Radical leftists are authoritarian to the bone. They're just angry that they are not the ones in power.This can easily be seen by their behaviour the minute they do get a bit of power.
>>25161638don't think so
The hate boner modern 4chan has for Thompson is so fucking gay man, you LARPER cocksuckers are so fucking lame. I GUARANTEE you jerked off today you fucking "conservative" hypocrite.
>>25161642https://files.sproutdistro.com/leftism_101-SCREEN.pdf
>>25161646Nice headcanon.
>>25161653You should put a handcannon to your skull and pull the trigger.
>>25161610Radical leftists aren’t libertarian. You're confusing libertarianism and leftist anarchism
>>25161665https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarcho-what-it-means-to-be-libertarian
>>25161638Himself. >>25161288He’s a fairly beloved leftwinger on the right possibly because right wingers are better at separating the valuable art from the artists’ most shittiest opinions without conflating the two. Thompson was a politically active and vocal left winger in the 60s and 70s. By the time I was born he was already held up in the woods somewhere blowing up propane tanks with a desert eagle and by the time I was voting he was dead. If I was in his shoes I might have believed the same things he did back then, who knows? And since his personality and personal belief structure were all guided by the North Star of Freedom>Oppression his works speak to anyone who believes in the same, regardless of the path they think will lead them there.
>>25161656Childish.
>>25161682Yes, you are.
>>25161677 You haven't read any of his writing. His art is literally his political opinions, he's famous for being the opinioned journalist writing about america from the perspective of a jaded leftist radical. Separating the art of the artist is so funny to gonzo journalism lmao.
>>25161686I read Gonzo which was a biography on him by his wife and friends, fear and loathing in Vegas and on the campaign trail and I read Hells Angels. I agree that Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail can’t be separated from politics, but that’s it. You might be the one who needs to do more reading if you think fear and loathing in Las Vegas is just more jaded political ranting about Nixon.
>>25161708F&L:LV yes does require a critical comprehension deeper than him just simply saying “nixon bad”, it does include avert references to particular political events and ideas, but it is his conception of the world post ‘68 and his place in an america that has moved past moral political possibility in the age of nixon. He lampoons the police, consumerism, capitalism, selfishness, anger, and violence in american culture – these are not apolitical positions, it is a particularly political book. Perhaps decades later his attitude has been removed from its context and may be misinterpreted within the broader boomer adoption of libertarian rhetoric, but thats not what it is. You can incorrectly read into his words, or omit the political nature of it, but if you are educated on him you know that’s not what he intended lmao. There is no reason to argue this really
>>25161730Maybe your problem is that I used the word “separate”. I don’t know if you’re trying to pretend like you don’t know what I meant or if you really don’t, but by “separate” I didn’t mean completely ignore or attempt to misinterpret. My point was that right wingers and people who don’t agree with Thompson leftist positions are better at accepting them and him for what they and him are and moving on without allowing it to blind them to the author’s good points. Obviously
>>25161737my point is that you can’t separate it without fundamentally misinterpreting the work and his ideas. Right wingers are not “better” at separating art from artist they are better at misunderstanding art
>>25161739Lmao yea right bro
>>25161740Just take the L chud. He bodied you.
>>25161934You think people who don’t agree with you are incapable of appreciating art and literature without fundamentally misinterpreting it. Your standard isn’t some measure of intelligence or education, it’s how much their politics align with yours that dictates this for you. That’s a joke.
>>25161934NTA but no he didn't. This is itself an extremely regressive view of lirerature. Not only is it possible to both understand the emotion and meaning a leftist is trying to convey and to appreciate it, it is also possible to disagree with it at the same time. I've read and enjoyed plenty of books by leftists while being able to both separate what it (the text) is trying to conveyband the ideology that warps how the text conveys the world. The most recent example from fiction I read was The Hate U Give just out of curiosity. I could see why people enjoyed it.You are just an utter moron and a waste of space that doesn't understand what literature is.
>>25161642>hey're just angry that they are not the ones in power.Yet the people in power pander to every one of their beliefs from open borders, racial inclusion, and gender ideology... interesting that.
>>25161685>>25161682>>25161656>>25161653itt two six year old girls find out they're lesbian
Pretty sure he was homophobic. So at least he had that going for him.
>>25161288beloved? hell no. i wouldn't want to be anywhere near the guy. his exploits were entertaining, though. he was a pre-internet lolcow who also happened to write books.
>>25161498This. The thing is, everyone is by default a liberal. Until liberalism starts stepping on their toes. Until it takes away their pot farms or taxes them heavily, at which point they become a libertarian. Or until it starts replacing them with browns, at which point they become an identitarian. Either way they remain 90% liberals on everything, except the one pet issue liberalism is offending them on. This is why the 20th century was unable to mount any effective resistance against liberalism.
>>25161686Right wingers are open minded enough that they can tolerate even that, they will read a lefty guy give his opinions on America or whatever and think he has some points.
>>25162635>This, so much this!Go back.
>>25162685All I said was "this." Kind of an overreaction. Especially since my post was the least reddit position possible.
>>25162841>umm, yikes! Overreaction much? Also-I know what you are. Go back.
>>25162851No :)
>>25161638>Didn't he murder someone?No. Are you thinking of William S Burroughs? He shot his wife, though whether or not it was an intentional murder is up for debate.
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>>25161677>And since his personality and personal belief structure were all guided by the North Star of Freedom>Oppression his works speak to anyone who believes in the sameYeah this is the thing. He believed in a radical kind of freedom. Some of his writings dealt with America having freedoms but unable to deliver them while his persona was a "be the change you want to see in the world" type attempt to realize that freedom. It's anti-authoritarianism, and there were people on the 1960s left who vibed with that, but a lot of people on the left have lost that, in my opinion. A lot of weird authoritarian LARPing going on today.>>25162608>Pretty sure he was homophobic. So at least he had that going for him.He's use faggot as an insult (you cheap honky faggots!) but I took that as more like an old 4chan kind of vibe, he had no truck with moralfags on the religious right.
boomer leftism doesn't really count they were low information and idealisticI find boomer leftoid art really charming and sweet for this reason
>>25163601America during his era was probably the freest place in history. He managed to be one of the idiots who ruined that.
