I said it in another thread, too, but, to generalize a bit, this really show one of the differences between left/right, conservative/progressive. The right tries to understand reality, the left tries to force reality to fit their ideology.
Rightwing conspiracy theories have the goal of explaining reality.
Leftwing conspiracy theories are attempting to make reality conform to their ideology.
Which is why you get insane shit like this: They're working backward, not forward. They're not looking at the facts and trying to figure out what happened, they're looking at what happened, and trying to make facts that fit with their worldview. They're not trying to learn the truth, they're scrambling for a way to make, for example, Orange Man still be Bad.
Exactly. Their logic is not cause then effect, it's effect then cause.
Once you look for it in the left you'll see it everywhere.
For instance they say more blacks are pulled over for speeding so therefore the cause is racism. So they institute expensive and expansive controls and find out... more blacks are speeding, and in exactly the proportion they are given speeding tickets.
Or the wage gap, women are paid less therefore discrimination when the reality is they're collectively just doing less.
The black female Supreme Court member did this in oral arguments, saying that fewer blacks in some government role was proof of systemic discrimination against blacks, which is this same backwards logic. So it even affects the 'top minds' on the left.
Well it also helps that the default right wing position, or even a centrist/moderate position is to distrust the government and always assume the government is either 1) incompetent or 2) malicious and only concerned with its own preservation/existence
The left wing SOMETIMES rails against the government, but only if it goes against their views, and they won't hesitate to prop the government up to push their shit if it's ok to do so, even if it increases the power of government or it hurts other people (i.e. advocating for the government to censor free speech, cheering the military industrial complex to continue the war in Ukraine, etc)
Someone on Reddit's r/shitpoliticssays (last bastion of sanity on Reddit) said that one thing leftists have lost the ability to do is think of "second order consequences".
They aren't thinking of what happens in the LONG run when you advocate for something.
Case in point, the retards in Europe who are "Just Stop Oil" activists. To them, completely stopping traffic and stopping the use of oil tomorrow will suddenly fix the world.
They don't recognize that it will also hurt THEM and their family and friends if we ever gave those retards what they want.
I said it in another thread, too, but, to generalize a bit, this really show one of the differences between left/right, conservative/progressive. The right tries to understand reality, the left tries to force reality to fit their ideology.
Rightwing conspiracy theories have the goal of explaining reality.
Leftwing conspiracy theories are attempting to make reality conform to their ideology.
Which is why you get insane shit like this: They're working backward, not forward. They're not looking at the facts and trying to figure out what happened, they're looking at what happened, and trying to make facts that fit with their worldview. They're not trying to learn the truth, they're scrambling for a way to make, for example, Orange Man still be Bad.
Exactly. Their logic is not cause then effect, it's effect then cause.
Once you look for it in the left you'll see it everywhere.
For instance they say more blacks are pulled over for speeding so therefore the cause is racism. So they institute expensive and expansive controls and find out... more blacks are speeding, and in exactly the proportion they are given speeding tickets.
Or the wage gap, women are paid less therefore discrimination when the reality is they're collectively just doing less.
The black female Supreme Court member did this in oral arguments, saying that fewer blacks in some government role was proof of systemic discrimination against blacks, which is this same backwards logic. So it even affects the 'top minds' on the left.
Well it also helps that the default right wing position, or even a centrist/moderate position is to distrust the government and always assume the government is either 1) incompetent or 2) malicious and only concerned with its own preservation/existence
The left wing SOMETIMES rails against the government, but only if it goes against their views, and they won't hesitate to prop the government up to push their shit if it's ok to do so, even if it increases the power of government or it hurts other people (i.e. advocating for the government to censor free speech, cheering the military industrial complex to continue the war in Ukraine, etc)
Someone on Reddit's r/shitpoliticssays (last bastion of sanity on Reddit) said that one thing leftists have lost the ability to do is think of "second order consequences".
They aren't thinking of what happens in the LONG run when you advocate for something.
Case in point, the retards in Europe who are "Just Stop Oil" activists. To them, completely stopping traffic and stopping the use of oil tomorrow will suddenly fix the world.
They don't recognize that it will also hurt THEM and their family and friends if we ever gave those retards what they want.
You're 100% right on this.