"I actually doubt that as many believe the election was stolen as say it; I think it's a qualification for membership and they just say it to belong." Yeah, exactly. Same for the liberals claiming that men can transubstantiate into women. They don't believe it. I've seen them caught out countless times in conversation. But they'll preten…
"I actually doubt that as many believe the election was stolen as say it; I think it's a qualification for membership and they just say it to belong."
Yeah, exactly. Same for the liberals claiming that men can transubstantiate into women. They don't believe it. I've seen them caught out countless times in conversation. But they'll pretend they do until their dying breath. The overwhelming majority of vocal opposition to trans surgery on kids or men in women's spaces is coming from the political right. I've lost count of the num per of times I've been labelled "right wing" whenever I speak about trans issues.
And while you might argue that trans ideology has nothing to do with the actual political left, and while yyou're technically correct, its rhetoric is found exclusively on the political left. Just as MAGA, while nothing to do with genuine political conservatism (and sometimes in direct opposition to it) is nonetheless found exclusively on the political right.
"And while you might argue that trans ideology has nothing to do with the actual political left, and while yyou're technically correct, its rhetoric is found exclusively on the political left. Just as MAGA, while nothing to do with genuine political conservatism (and sometimes in direct opposition to it) is nonetheless found exclusively on the political right."
I think the whole left-right formulation has broken down. Neither extreme is about ideology, both are about belonging, about membership in what we have come to call tribes.
Trump lost; a "trans" woman is a man.
There. I just excluded myself from both.
But this is really bad because when truth is no longer a value then we are in a lot of trouble, and the timing could not be worse. Both tribes are getting crazier and now craziness has bcome a competition.
There is nothing in Das Kapital about gender ideology and nothing in Mein Kampf about it either.
But I still deny the symmetry. A huge percentage of Republicans want Trump back, and even the ones who don't are still party members. A huge number of Democrats don't want children mutilated but a distressing number of them don't even believe it's happening.
We inna heapa trubble no matter how you look at it.
I don't think the symmetry between MAGA and the "trans" cult is any more incidental that both are coming at the same time.
Maybe it's as simple as the harmfulness of social media but I see it as something more frightening, a breakdown of our fundamental concepts of truth and falsehood. That First Amendment garbage won't allow us to shut down social media, though there is talk of banning TikTok for national security reasons, but while I think that would help, both movements would find ways to keep the propaganda flowing.
No, I think we are seeing the beginning of a global crackup. Everyone knows that the future is looking very grim, maybe they feel the approach of some Omega Point.
I could understand if those falling for the extremities were already unbalanced people, but a lot of them arent. Some of the people who've gone MAGA were decent human beings before and a lot of people buying into "trans" are educated enough to know better.
During the "bug-givers" craze when HIV+ men were infecting others, lying about their status, showing someone else's test results, putting on a condom but then perforating it (yes all this really happened) I once cornered someone in a gay club and tried to get him to concede that these men were murderers.
It didn't go very well.
He kept babbling some nonsense about "personal responsibility" and when I tore that up he actually broke out into a sweat, a gush of perspiration, breathing hard and scared to death of making a value judgment. I wasn't intimidating him, I wasn't blocking him.
But he broke out and ran away so fast he tripped.
And this was from me demanding that he admit the trivially obvious.
Parts of the gay culture built a mysticism around HIV; they would get an HIV- tattoo with the goal of having it extended with a vertical crossbar to HIV+. It became a rite of passage.
"I actually doubt that as many believe the election was stolen as say it; I think it's a qualification for membership and they just say it to belong."
Yeah, exactly. Same for the liberals claiming that men can transubstantiate into women. They don't believe it. I've seen them caught out countless times in conversation. But they'll pretend they do until their dying breath. The overwhelming majority of vocal opposition to trans surgery on kids or men in women's spaces is coming from the political right. I've lost count of the num per of times I've been labelled "right wing" whenever I speak about trans issues.
And while you might argue that trans ideology has nothing to do with the actual political left, and while yyou're technically correct, its rhetoric is found exclusively on the political left. Just as MAGA, while nothing to do with genuine political conservatism (and sometimes in direct opposition to it) is nonetheless found exclusively on the political right.
"And while you might argue that trans ideology has nothing to do with the actual political left, and while yyou're technically correct, its rhetoric is found exclusively on the political left. Just as MAGA, while nothing to do with genuine political conservatism (and sometimes in direct opposition to it) is nonetheless found exclusively on the political right."
I think the whole left-right formulation has broken down. Neither extreme is about ideology, both are about belonging, about membership in what we have come to call tribes.
Trump lost; a "trans" woman is a man.
There. I just excluded myself from both.
But this is really bad because when truth is no longer a value then we are in a lot of trouble, and the timing could not be worse. Both tribes are getting crazier and now craziness has bcome a competition.
There is nothing in Das Kapital about gender ideology and nothing in Mein Kampf about it either.
But I still deny the symmetry. A huge percentage of Republicans want Trump back, and even the ones who don't are still party members. A huge number of Democrats don't want children mutilated but a distressing number of them don't even believe it's happening.
We inna heapa trubble no matter how you look at it.
I don't think the symmetry between MAGA and the "trans" cult is any more incidental that both are coming at the same time.
Maybe it's as simple as the harmfulness of social media but I see it as something more frightening, a breakdown of our fundamental concepts of truth and falsehood. That First Amendment garbage won't allow us to shut down social media, though there is talk of banning TikTok for national security reasons, but while I think that would help, both movements would find ways to keep the propaganda flowing.
No, I think we are seeing the beginning of a global crackup. Everyone knows that the future is looking very grim, maybe they feel the approach of some Omega Point.
I could understand if those falling for the extremities were already unbalanced people, but a lot of them arent. Some of the people who've gone MAGA were decent human beings before and a lot of people buying into "trans" are educated enough to know better.
During the "bug-givers" craze when HIV+ men were infecting others, lying about their status, showing someone else's test results, putting on a condom but then perforating it (yes all this really happened) I once cornered someone in a gay club and tried to get him to concede that these men were murderers.
It didn't go very well.
He kept babbling some nonsense about "personal responsibility" and when I tore that up he actually broke out into a sweat, a gush of perspiration, breathing hard and scared to death of making a value judgment. I wasn't intimidating him, I wasn't blocking him.
But he broke out and ran away so fast he tripped.
And this was from me demanding that he admit the trivially obvious.
Parts of the gay culture built a mysticism around HIV; they would get an HIV- tattoo with the goal of having it extended with a vertical crossbar to HIV+. It became a rite of passage.