The Washington Post writer had the audacity to speak with conservative podcaster Colin Moriarty. Everyone knows Colin is a villain with a last name like Moriarty. Duh. Also Elon Musk is buying Twitter
The far left and right seem to be trying to race each other to fly off the cliff, giving one another middle fingers and laughing that they'll win the race while their respective engines are on fire. It's insane. As a conservative, it was easy to see the left's overreach and shake your head. Then you turn around and your own people are going crazy and you just throw up your hands and, like so many others, try to find the sane people who are left (pun not intended).
I really want to know how all this shakes out. Is the extremism gonna cool at some point, and if so, what caused it and is that cause even worse? Stay safe with those fires dude.
On the left, I think we see some lawsuits that slow down the gender stuff and allow more moderate voices to steer that convo. On the right, Trumpism burns out eventually when people get tired of being so angry all the time. But yeah I dunno. Division is good for business and keeps the little people squabbling amongst ourselves so who knows.
Gene is a really cool dude, they can't blame him for anything but for not following their black lists. It is not something he actually do, it is that he is not performing, playing the role they want him to play.
The other time i read someone lamenting an actress took a picture with Rowling. The accusser noted that both women were friends bedore any controversy of the Harry Pother author had come up to the public opinion. The actress had never said anything about trans people. She took a pic with Rowling.
That is the most ridiculous guilty for association i have ever seen. It seems Rowling is not allowed to have friends. I have to wonder if their family is also evil by this logic.
Yeah there's no room for redemption with these people. If Rowling has friends she clearly "hasn't been cancelled" or something. You have to lose everything to appease them. Career, reputation, friends, any peace and quiet, all you cherish.
I honestly had no idea about the controversy with Colin. This article helped me understand everything happening on Twitter! Very interesting, thank you!
Re this business with Colin M, once again we see how Wokism is less like conventional Left/Right politics and more like the "political religions" Eric Voegelin wrote about 100 years ago.
The Woke - and their Rightward equivalents - do not regard disagreement as mere error, but as a moral offense.
Colin's isn't just politically "wrong" - he's BAD on a personal level. Any association with him, even for discussion purposes, marks one as insufficiently zealous in the pursuit of GOOD.
BAD people must be shunned, marginalized and - if possible - silenced. Why talk to them? They're BAD - what else does anyone need to know?
"The far left and right seem to be trying to race each other to fly off the cliff, giving one another middle fingers and laughing that they'll win the race while their respective engines are on fire. "
(Rab)
The Woke ascended because regular Progressives let them - they felt that since Wokism arose from the Left, pushing back against it would hurt their own cause(s). To the extent that a non-Woke Left even exists anymore, they are utterly marginal to their own politics as a result.
Trump ascended, in large part, because he was openly and unapologetically confrontational and contemptuous of the now-Wokified Left and servile news media that continued to enable it. Those who coalesced around him have an almost Flat Earth-level of denial about his manifold flaws.
"Speaking with people who have different political beliefs is one of the gravest sins of the modern era..."
Essentially it's this right here. The echochamber of confirmation bias is as close to constant for people that it has ever been. No longer does ignorance simply grow out of small towns and country churches, or iron fisted patriarchal families that live and die on the words of one or two men who dictate how their 'blood' is supposed to feel.
Now to receive validation, you simply log on to twitter, follow the tide, shout down those who think differently and 'dogpile' as it suits your particular mob.
For a time in history when people are more connected than ever, our society seems dangerously close to staunchly living in fear of the 'other'. The dangerous outsider is ever more easily identified when all you need look for are words they choose to read, or the media they choose to listen to.
I dare say, that the only thing scarier for those who armor themselves with the righteous rhetoric of those who believe what they do, are for those who claim to have those same beliefs, open to discussing other viewpoints and the subsequent humanization of those who hold them.
The far left and right seem to be trying to race each other to fly off the cliff, giving one another middle fingers and laughing that they'll win the race while their respective engines are on fire. It's insane. As a conservative, it was easy to see the left's overreach and shake your head. Then you turn around and your own people are going crazy and you just throw up your hands and, like so many others, try to find the sane people who are left (pun not intended).
Haha yeah man. It's a looney bin. The inmates are running the damn asylum.
I really want to know how all this shakes out. Is the extremism gonna cool at some point, and if so, what caused it and is that cause even worse? Stay safe with those fires dude.
On the left, I think we see some lawsuits that slow down the gender stuff and allow more moderate voices to steer that convo. On the right, Trumpism burns out eventually when people get tired of being so angry all the time. But yeah I dunno. Division is good for business and keeps the little people squabbling amongst ourselves so who knows.
Gene is a really cool dude, they can't blame him for anything but for not following their black lists. It is not something he actually do, it is that he is not performing, playing the role they want him to play.
The other time i read someone lamenting an actress took a picture with Rowling. The accusser noted that both women were friends bedore any controversy of the Harry Pother author had come up to the public opinion. The actress had never said anything about trans people. She took a pic with Rowling.
That is the most ridiculous guilty for association i have ever seen. It seems Rowling is not allowed to have friends. I have to wonder if their family is also evil by this logic.
Yeah there's no room for redemption with these people. If Rowling has friends she clearly "hasn't been cancelled" or something. You have to lose everything to appease them. Career, reputation, friends, any peace and quiet, all you cherish.
I honestly had no idea about the controversy with Colin. This article helped me understand everything happening on Twitter! Very interesting, thank you!
Well I'm glad it helps though I have to say it's still puzzling to me so...
Let me clarify: I now understand the context…
The situation is puzzling to me also haha
Re this business with Colin M, once again we see how Wokism is less like conventional Left/Right politics and more like the "political religions" Eric Voegelin wrote about 100 years ago.
The Woke - and their Rightward equivalents - do not regard disagreement as mere error, but as a moral offense.
Colin's isn't just politically "wrong" - he's BAD on a personal level. Any association with him, even for discussion purposes, marks one as insufficiently zealous in the pursuit of GOOD.
BAD people must be shunned, marginalized and - if possible - silenced. Why talk to them? They're BAD - what else does anyone need to know?
"The far left and right seem to be trying to race each other to fly off the cliff, giving one another middle fingers and laughing that they'll win the race while their respective engines are on fire. "
(Rab)
The Woke ascended because regular Progressives let them - they felt that since Wokism arose from the Left, pushing back against it would hurt their own cause(s). To the extent that a non-Woke Left even exists anymore, they are utterly marginal to their own politics as a result.
Trump ascended, in large part, because he was openly and unapologetically confrontational and contemptuous of the now-Wokified Left and servile news media that continued to enable it. Those who coalesced around him have an almost Flat Earth-level of denial about his manifold flaws.
"Speaking with people who have different political beliefs is one of the gravest sins of the modern era..."
Essentially it's this right here. The echochamber of confirmation bias is as close to constant for people that it has ever been. No longer does ignorance simply grow out of small towns and country churches, or iron fisted patriarchal families that live and die on the words of one or two men who dictate how their 'blood' is supposed to feel.
Now to receive validation, you simply log on to twitter, follow the tide, shout down those who think differently and 'dogpile' as it suits your particular mob.
For a time in history when people are more connected than ever, our society seems dangerously close to staunchly living in fear of the 'other'. The dangerous outsider is ever more easily identified when all you need look for are words they choose to read, or the media they choose to listen to.
I dare say, that the only thing scarier for those who armor themselves with the righteous rhetoric of those who believe what they do, are for those who claim to have those same beliefs, open to discussing other viewpoints and the subsequent humanization of those who hold them.
Yeah man, very well said.