I remember in 2020, I thought 'no way does Trump lose, not to this walking national security crisis". How wrong I was. Now I'm hearing all this red wave stuff, and it just feels so familiar.
Right now my thinking is 'I'll believe it when I see it, but I don't expect to see it'. I'm sure a couple of seat will flip, but is it going to be anywhere near as big as its being made out to be?
Jannies go on a comment removing spree, then lock the comments, and then, finally, just remove the whole post.
I know; jannies gonna jannie. But, its interesting (and hilarious) to see which comments they can't abide being made.
Virgin R*ddit link:
Chad Reveddit link:
Misogynist: Should transsexuals be allowed to compete in women's athletics?
TERF: No.
Misogynist: Why not?
TERF: Because they aren't Women.
Misogynist: So?
TERF: So, if they aren't Women, then they shouldn't be allowed to compete in WOMEN'S athletics.
Misogynist: But, what about being inclusive?
TERF: (*dirty look)
Misogynist: No, seriously. Why shouldn't transsexual be included in women's athletics. You're all about inclusiveness when it means women being included. Why shouldn't transsexuals get the same treatment?
TERF: Because it's ridiculous! It's WOMEN'S athletics, it's unfair to let MEN compete in it.
Misogynist: See, "unfair" gets us into some trouble. Because what constitutes "unfair" will tend to oscillate, sometimes wildly, between any two people. For example...(*pretends to be thinking) fire-fighting. In order to become a fire-fighter in this country, one has to meet an exacting physical standard. That standard is markedly lowered for women. The standard is lowered for women for no reason, other than to make it easier for women to meet the standard. Is that unfair?
TERF: Having a different physical standard for Women is important, because it redresses the innate societal imbalance that prejudices against Women, and for men.
Misogynist: I'm told that an even greater societal imbalance exists against transsexuals. So, in the interest of dismantling this imbalance, why not allow transsexuals to compete in women's athletics? Surely, if fire-fighting is fair game for inclusion, so are professional athletics.
TERF: There is no imbalance against transsexuals, transsexuals are men. All they have to do is cut their hair and switch the sundress for a pair of khakis, and they're back at the top of society.
Misogynist: But they don't want to take off the sundress. The sundress is really important to them. They tell me that they are women, in every way but the physical, and that if they are forced to conform to what society - you - tell them they should be, they'll end up dead by their own hand.
TERF: Just because they say it doesn't make it so.
Misogynist: Put it another way; every industry that you point to and say "there are more men in this industry than women. Therefore, this industry is prejudiced against women". I can point to and say "there are more cis people in this industry than trans people. Therefore, this industry is prejudiced against trans people". Why do the same standards that demonstrate the patriarchy not demonstrate cistriarchy?
TERF: (*dirty look)
Misogynist: Going back to unfairness. I have a problem with the notion that it is unfair to allow a group of people to compete. There are exceptions, weight-classes in combat sports, for example. But this isn't a weight-class issue. If a 6'4, 240lb. woman wants to compete on the Australian women's handball team, you won't tell her to fuck off, so, it's not about weight.
TERF: (*deep, beleaguered, breath) The purpose of Women's athletics is to allow Women a place, in athletics, where they can compete without being overshadowed by men. It is unfair then, to allow MEN to compete in WOMEN'S athletics.
Misogynist: Let's do away with fairness for the moment. Lets talk instead about good or bad. Let's say that allowing transsexuals to compete against women is good for transsexuals, but, it is bad for women, so, it is bad. Meanwhile, lowering the standard for women is bad for men, but, it is good for women, so, it is good. It seems to me that your - the TERF - definition of fairness is the same, in every instance, one-hundred percent of the time, with zero deviation; fairness means preferential treatment for women. Whether a firm is hiring, a judge is making a ruling, a homeless shelter is letting people in for the evening, OR A BUILDING IS ON FIRE - fairness, decency, equality, justice - means preferential treatment for women. Well, the inter-sectionals have decided that transsexuals matter more than cis-women, in exactly the same way that you have decided that cis-women matter more than men. It seems to me, that in this one instance, you are being treated the way you treat men, and it is freaking you right out.
TERF: Fuck off, incel!
Misogynist: I hope the trannies take everything from you.
TERF: (*begins furiously tweeting)
I grew up super liberal - parents, friends, neighbors - all super liberal.
There really is something to the redpill meme. Realizing how thoughtless and small-minded I was being on a particular issue. And then another. And then another. Like slowly waking up from a deep sleep.
And then to start talking with conservatives and find in them warmth, support, humor, all the things that were definitively liberal traits.
To realize that all that vitriol and condescension that was the only acceptable way for a righteous liberal to regard their moral and intellectual lessers was, really, just a petty facade. A means of dismissing anything that deviated from liberal dogma as by its nature unclean and therefore moot.
There are people I knew when I was younger that I cannot stand to be around anymore, and I suppose that's natural, but the reason I can't stand to be around these people is because they remind me of what I was - they think and act exactly the way I did and it is painful to hear, in their by-the-numbers rhetoric, the echos of a mindset that I have out grown and to which they are still, almost fanatically, committed.
I want to grab them by the shoulders and shake them awake.
I know there's nothing I can say, no volume at which I can shout that will snap them out of it. Liberalism can act as a safe, warm blanket, you cover yourself and the world becomes so reassuringly simple.
To paraphrase one of the more prominent liberals of our time; When your opponents are more concerned with being factually accurate than morally correct, you have no need to listen to them. You were morally correct before they started talking and there is nothing they can say to change that - what any detractors have to say is, truly, irrelevant.
Modern liberalism is a dogmatic, puritanical ideology premised on an abject disdain for the other and an ever intensifying adherence to their execrable inter-sectional caste system.
And yet for all the aggravation and the fatigue, I feel sorry for those people I knew when I was young. Those people who, for all their moral superiority and self satisfaction are blind to the world around them.
I see them getting increasingly desperate with every new lie, lies that they have to tell in order to justify their loyalty to this movement, but more importantly, lies that they must believe themselves. When these lies they tell themselves start to feel less viable, then you see the mask begin to slip.
It's a familiar sight by now, that escalation from smug self-satisfaction to deranged, infantile and aggressive, if ever someone persists in disproving their lies.
Increasingly the modern liberal is forced to behave like a dumb, vicious animal in order to maintain their strangle hold on what constitutes acceptable thought. And the normies are starting to notice.
Thing are going to get worse before they get better. Google, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, CNN, NBC, BBC, CBC, MSNBC, CBS, PBS, ABC, NYT, WaPo, The Guardian, Huffpo, Vox, Vice, Slate, Buzzfeed, 99 out of every 100 celebrities and a bottomless pit of emotionally unstable professional activists will be doing everything in their power to derail the democratic process, all under the impression that there are no rules for them because they are fighting literal Nazis. There is no hoax they will not perpetrate, no person they will not attack, no amount of violence they will not justify in the name of pure, clean liberalism.
And they'll lose. Because we are faster, smarter, tougher, funnier, more focused, because there are more of us every day and because nothing they do surprises us anymore. Keep your hands up and your chin down - this is gonna get ugly.
