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?
Looking to journoswine for truth is like looking to prostitutes for love. That's not what they're there for. That's not their job.
If you find yourself outraged by something written online, it was likely written for the express purpose of outraging you, because outrage is the fuel which makes the engine of social media turn.
The writers were just writing what they know, because they are sobbing messes with daddy issues seeking emotional validation. Also, they claim to be lesbians despite having penises.
Combating misinformation, hate speech, and violence sounds great... right up until you find out who gets to define what is and is not misinformation, hate speech, and violence, and how they use that definition to advance their own agenda.
Remember kids, there is no legitimate argument against globohomo. Anything that runs contrary to the official narrative is misinformation and hate speech, therefore it must be banned, as must everyone who believes it.
Never ever ever trust anyone who claims to hold a permanent monopoly on truth or morality.
Like everything else about John, this sob story is fake and gay. He just likes to present himself as cool and interesting. He's finally admitting he's a guy because he thinks he can gain social advantage from it.
As is the case with any conspiracy theory, the 'far-right conservative fascist gamer bigots' are simultaneously a small fringe minority of irrelevant losers, and a major cultural force capable of tanking billion dollar entertainment franchises and getting presidents elected.
No one is better at deceiving you than you, especially when you want to be deceived. Lots of people who are unhappy grasp for simple explanations and solutions as to why they're unhappy that confirm their suspicions, allay their fears, support their fantasies, or help them throw rocks at their perceived enemies. It's not my fault I'm miserable and failing at life, it's white supermacy's fault! Or it's patriarchy's fault! Or it's transphobia's fault! Or it's capitalism's fault! Or it's Donald Trump's fault! Or it's OP's fault!
We get manipulated because we get swept up in the stories we tell ourselves. Our minds naturally recognize patterns and fill in the blanks with our own experiences and biases, creating our own narrative that is extremely seductive. Confirmation bias kicks in, and pretty soon we can't tell the difference between the constructed narrative and reality. Or perhaps, we do not want to. Even if that lie is horrible, like "Neo-Nazis are everywhere and want to kill me". The more one becomes invested in this narrative, the more difficult it is to realize that it isn't real.
Combine this with an echo chamber that will give you a social reward for believing this lie--and a social punishment for speaking against it, and you've got one hell of a drug. Are you afraid you might be a coward? Join us in pretending to believe this lie and you can pretend to feel brave. Are you afraid that your life is meaningless? Join us in pretending to believe this lie and you can pretend your life has purpose. Are you afraid you’re mired in mediocrity? Join us in pretending to believe this lie and you can pretend to feel exceptional. Are you worried that you won’t be able to forget that you’re just pretending and that all those good feelings will thus seem hollow and empty? Join us and we will pretend it’s true for you if you will pretend it’s true for us.
You can’t be doing well if it seems like an improvement to base your life and your sense of self on an insane fantasy that you know is only a fantasy. But they keep doing it, because when the fantasy gets challenged, it threatens to send them back to whatever their lives were like before they latched onto this desperate alternative.
The ends justify the means. If you think your cause is a moral emergency, you can break the rules in pursuit of the cause.
Look up narcissistic rage. When a narcissist gets told no, their response is to destroy the offender.
This is hardly news. Kamala is an empty suit for Obama to rule by proxy, and Obama is pro-Iran.
It's about the hit of self-righteousness. "I am more virtuous than you. I am more enlightened than you."