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DrEvil » Sat Jul 01, 2023 12:14 pm wrote:^^Pretty sure that guy is just amused to find out his aunt is just like him and not actually a liberal or leftist at all.
In other news, it's now legal to discriminate against gay people in the US again. Damn those filthy liberals. No wait, it was the conservative fucknuggets on the supreme court who did it, because some absolute fucking disgrace of a "christian" lied about being asked to make a gay website for a straight man the day after she filed the case.
The good news is it cuts both ways. Can't wait to see the dumb fucks realize it has consequences for them personally (which obviously wasn't supposed to happen, ever. Perish the thought!).
Oh, and trans people now risk a year in prison in Florida if they use the bathroom they identify with instead of the one that corresponds to their gender at birth, which should also be fun, since bodybuilder dudes with beards now have to use the women's bathroom, which of course will end up with some of them getting the shit beat out of them, which is exactly the point (it's already happened a few times).
At this point I'm honestly just waiting for some republican to seriously suggest that trans people should have to wear some kind of identifying mark in public (to protect the children, obviously). Perhaps a yellow star prominently displayed on the lapel.
Can't have a real conversation anymore at RI and maybe that is the point.
Harvey » Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:54 pm wrote:Can't have a real conversation anymore at RI and maybe that is the point.
Perhaps ya'll should try it having both just signalled that discussion about 'affirmative action' is forbidden.
Have either of you actually given any serious thought to the issue? Can you state your position coherently? I can. What's stopping you?
Stuart Parker, social antibody and career Moop
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In my 36 years as a climate activist, no conservative who has disagreed with me on climate has ever tried to destroy my career, my home, my relationship, my friendships, my social media accounts, my radio shows, my podcasts or my recreational activities.
People working in the fossil fuel industry who feel my efforts are destroying their employment prospects, people who think climate change is a hoax, a fraud I am helping to perpetrate, people who falsely believe I receive money from shadowy European interests: none of these people have felt entitled to go after my ability to earn a living or have a romantic partner.
In my 3 years of opposing genderwang, dozens, likely hundreds of progressives, many of whom I considered comrades or friends, have felt it totally appropriate to engage in unapologetic concerted public efforts to destroy these things, to even come after my fortnightly tabletop Runequest games and try to stop those.
In a social partition of contemporary North America, I would rather be in a conservative society, even if it were significantly more on fire, because I wouldn't feel unsafe disagreeing with my neighbours.
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5:15 PM · Jul 5, 2023
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I’m a die-hard lefty who is also utterly dismayed by the left’s adoption of the nonsensical notions that A) there is a pure position in all matters; B) they are uniquely qualified to know what it is; and C) they therefore have the right to police everyone else
I was at a conference in Prague just now, where a left wing US civil rights lawyer and prof. told me that now, in his classes, the students that are willing to discuss positions other than their own are almost entirely the right wingers.
Unfathomable, really
... among the most problematic is the shutting down of actual diversity ( ie of viewpoint) among the ranks. E.g., According to the left, middle-aged middle-class, white, secular, lefty, educated women do not oppose vaccine mandates and lockdowns. In other words I do not exist
So the confrontation with the actual reality of real life left-leaning people who beg to differ from the current orthodoxy leads not to discussion but to the impulse to, first deny and, second, erase their existence.
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No offense, but if you believe those things (and I agree with you 100% on them!) you’re not as die hard a lefty as you think
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The thing is that those points have nothing whatsoever to do with left/right division.
But we are increasingly confronting package-deal politics on the left that admits no discussion - a recent phenomena that, to my mind, positions the left within the traditional corporate machinery
Belligerent Savant » Sat Jul 29, 2023 4:44 pm wrote:.
To drive it home even further, given the recent comments here Re: social security and other domestic social programs, observe the hypocrisy/irony:Lee Fang
@lhfang
Lol within about 15 hours from this tweet Bernie Sanders voted against a special inspector general audit of $117 billion in Ukraine war money/contractors.Bernie Sanders
@SenSanders
Somehow, we never have enough money for health care, education, or housing, but always have more than enough money for a bloated and wasteful Defense Department that cannot even pass an independent audit. It’s time to change our national priorities NOW.
3:08 PM · Jul 27, 2023
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Toby Rogers:
The ruling class literally figured out how to take their fiercest critics and weaponize them to serve capital.
Belligerent Savant » Sat Jul 29, 2023 7:15 pm wrote:.
Another example of the sheer hypocrisy among those that decry 'fossil fuels' but are OK with Military deployments. Apparently 'fossil fuels' are only an issue when THE PLEBES use it, but when the Military uses it (far, far more so than any grouping of plebes) there's SILENCE by the "climate activists".
NOTE: the below metrics are from 2017, well before recent activities in the Ukraine (among other overseas activities).@cordeliers
The dead giveaway that the "Just Stop Oil" activists are doing the work of the ruling class is that they never protest use of fossil fuels by the US military and NATO.Report: The U.S. Military Emits More CO2 Than Many Industrialized Nations [Infographic]
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