The same people who rail against fascism and want to abolish the police wish to be the enforcers of a powerful one-party state with the power to crush dissent, because that dissent is immoral.
Nothing legitimizes the unethical treatment of others more than the belief that you are more ethical than them. Every dictatorship on earth began as a campaign for justice.
the trans stuff was about affirming the individual's identity, not trying to factory produce "hot transwomen" by castrating young boys.
Sure it's about affirming your identity. It's just that the identity they are looking for is that of a fuckhole with no agency. Look up the writing of Andrea Long Chu.
The last decade has been everyone except aggrieved white men forming a collective identity. What a surprise, they reacted violently.
Nothing legitimizes the unethical treatment of others more than the belief that you are more ethical than them. Every dictatorship on earth began as a campaign for justice.
If I were you, Trudy, I'd be more worried about your approval rating dipping below 30%, and how everything indicates you getting kicked to the curb in your election next October.
Of course! Assad was an Iranian puppet. Syria has been a failed state for decades. Russia ia exhausted from the war in Ukraine, and Israel has defeated Hamas and Hezbollah, both Iranian puppets. It is not a coincidence that Assad has been ousted; he has no more Russian air support for his regime.
As opposed to the pro-Assad forces, who are bankrolled by Russia or Iran. The whole middle east is one big proxy war between the US, Israel, Iran, Russia, and maybe China and the Saudis too.
Critical Theory, of which Marxism is a subset, cannot build. It can only destroy. It can only define itself as "not the current thing". Critical Theorists believe that by destroying society, a glorious, oppression-free utopia will magically arise from the ashes. Pointing out that this is an absurd pipe dream gets you labeled as problematic.
Cutting family members out of your life for ideological reasons is how cults isolate people for the purpose of controlling them.
It's about the hit of self-righteousness. "I am more virtuous than you. I am more enlightened than you."
It takes a really miserable person to anoint another human being as the ruler over your emotional state, especially a complete stranger. Or to make someone who doesn't know you exist into your life's villain. Everything that is wrong with the world is Trump's fault or anyone bad is similar to Trump. He is the measuring stick to evil in this woman's mind.
I think someone like her is using politics to accentuate whatever ills them internally. Maybe they lack purpose or need a scapegoat for why their life is filled with failures or unhappiness. Maybe they have a hero complex where they think their advocacy will "save" society from the world's villain. It is far more rewarding for her to yell at her computer screen or phone than it is to deal with her issues.
"I am upset it is affecting /me/ now"
Wu is a narcissist and a big ol' phony, everything from his politics to his sex. The only reason he's turned against the Dems is because he thinks it is in his best interest to do so. He has no principles beyond, "Do what keeps me in e-clout". So he hasn't had some epiphany that this is suddenly the moral thing to do, he's doing it because he realized he could score more e-fame this way.
Sure is a lot of words to say "B'AWWW!"
It's another version of "Everyone who criticizes me is Hitler".
Progressives think of themselves as champions of virtue. Since they are the virtuous ones, those who are not like them must not be virtuous. Those Other People don't just have different values or lived experiences, they're evil. They have looked at the obvious and irrevocable virtue of Progressivism and knowingly rejected that virtue. You cannot reason with evil. You cannot compromise or negotiate with evil. You cannot coexist with evil. The only thing you can do is eliminate the evil.
You can only ingest so many messages of identity-based harm being everywhere before you start to really believe it. Social anxiety evolves into paranoia. The world becomes full of people who want to kill you for your identity. At that point, the only option left on the table is to strike first, killing them before they kill you. After all, your social media feed keeps telling you that this is a matter of life or death. If your lefty friends really meant this, they wouldn't be crying on Twitter; they would be arming themselves.
If religion is the opiate of the masses, then Twitter is crystal meth.
Their expertise comes from being morally right; being factually correct is downstream of that. Just ask AOC.
I witnessed first-hand its chilling impact on access to data, funding & publication of research, implementation of solutions, and scientists themselves.
Did you witness the previous administration's chilling impact on research into trans shit too? Or any other research that contradicted The Narrative?
If the two most accomplished women in the history of American politics cannot defeat the worst, most vile American who ever lived in a Presidential election, then we aren’t the country we say we are.
If Kamala Harris is one of the two most accomplished women in the history of American politics, that's pretty pathetic.
When someone says 'transphobia', what you should hear is 'sin' or 'blasphemy'.
It's like watching the Road Runner beep-beep his way through the traps of Wile E. Coyote.
The Harris campaign has to be one of the worst I can ever recall. Worse than Al Gore. Worse than Hillary. She has no plan other to call Trump Hitler and saying that all Trump voters are willfully ignorant rubes or evil -istphobes. It’s like watching an abusive wife unable to comprehend why her husband is leaving her and telling everyone how she’s the real victim.
Progressives like to think of all people as blank slates which can be elevated to equality with sufficient resources. If people were not blank slates, if our biology imposes limitations on us, then that carries two implications: First is that there are limits has to how many people can be elevated to equity. Second is that the unequal status quo may actually have good reasons to operate the way it does, given the constraints of human nature. Both of these problems place limits on the progressive ideal of universal equity and add legitimacy to the present, unequal society. Naturally, this is unacceptable to progressives.
Progressives believe that it is possible--and morally necessary--to socially and politically engineer away the ills of society: racism, poverty, pollution, etc. But if people are not blank slates, if human nature is a constraint, then that puts limits on how effective those engineering programs can be. Worse, it also suggests that the institutions that progressives decry as oppressive and illegitimate have good reasons to exist the way they do. And once you start noticing that, it's just a matter of time before you're carving swastikas into your forehead.
Why play a criminal in GTA?
Why play someone about to be traumatized or murdered in Silent Hill?
At some point, people run out of things to say, and they just write shit because they have a quota to fill. That said, when you share things like this, you do the journo's job for them, because their goal is to make you angry so you will click and share their story, giving them a whole bunch more clicks, which is the sole metric for their performance. Thank you for using an archive and not the actual site.
And when we suggested that you might regret your decisions ten years ago, you screamed bigotry and transphobia. No refunds.
And if people would rather choose this allegedly horrible evil over you, then what does that say about you and your campaign?
Remember the Satanic Ritual Abuse panic in the 80s? It too was promulgated by psychiatrists and journalists looking to gain some quick status while armed with questionable methods and a complete lack of evidence. Their rallying cry was "Believe The Children". Even when their arguments made no sense or were physically impossible, Believe The Children. Even when they had to be coerced or manipulated into giving the correct answers for the witch hunt, Believe The Children.
This game was never about solving the problem of Satanic child abuse, otherwise they would have quickly lost because they would have realized that Satanic child abuse wasn't real. This game was a virtue game. They weave a story about how their striving is motivated by the solving of some immediate moral dilemma. The people making the allegations were high-status figures who spoke at conferences and wrote for newspapers and authored academic papers and were interviewed by Oprah. Everyone knew child abuse was the most urgent moral crisis facing America, and that all those poor suffering children had, for so long, been ignored. Who could be against Believing The Children? Who could be against fighting abuse?
Need to score some quick social capital? Just Believe The Children.