Because their compassion is so screwed up, they present with Buttinski's Syndrome, forcing their "good intentions" on everyone else. These "good intentions" are pathologized into a damaging virus that is deadlier than what anything mother nature or a Wuhan lab could ever concoct.
During lockdowns, there was a news report about a South East Asian country (I can't remember which one). Because of restrictions, people couldn't work and were left hunting rats in the sewers for food. My brother sent the article to my nuts-o cousin and said, "This is what your policies are getting." My cousin wrote back, "That's irrelevant."
Wouldn’t be irrelevant if they were the ones hunting rats to survive.
What has got me about all the craziness is how quick some lose rational thinking.
It seems lobbing your conscience and moral compass of what is right and wrong is ok and valued to fit in and follow any of their crappy narratives.
The irony is how they always want to take the moral high ground as to present themselves as saints. In the process projecting sainthood they do more damage than ever could be possibly thought up.
Insulting them doesn’t work with family, work associates, and friends. It is best just to not talk politics with them. Some will come around in time, but will be less likely to do that if you insult them.
Oh, it does work with them. I insulted them for their idiocy and retardation and now I don't have to deal with their bullshit anymore. See ya! Life has never been better.
I am unwilling to throw out friendships based on politics, particularly what passes for politics now. I simply refuse to talk politics with them, so we talk about other things. Amazingly enough, you can talk for hours without talking politics.
You are a gentleman and a scholar. I am unwilling tot throw out friendships based on politics as well, but according to polls the majority of leftists don't share that sentiment.
If you do not insult people, then they are more amenable to rational argument. Cracks are definitely developing on the Democratic side of things. I have heard family and friends say things that they never would have said over the last few years. People are waking up. It is a slow process, but it is really happening. Biden is even talking about building a wall along the Texas/Mexican border. I will believe it when I see it, but it is progress.
The hatred of Americans for diversity never ceases to amaze me. Has there ever been a more hateful culture? This level of hatred for those of differing opinions is not normal, folks. This is just not normal.
It depends. Do you mean diversity of thought or diversity of immutable characteristics? Because it doesn't matter if everyone in the room looks different, but thinks the same.
The thing that gets me are the "Progressive" and "social justice warrior" tags. They actually believe they're fighting the establishment. I've been yelled at for pointing out that they kinda ARE the establishment..
Everything we think of as "Left" is totally frozen in amber from the 1960s...these people could be billionaires who control companies or high-level govt bureaucrats and still imagine themselves as rebels fighting The Man. It is a pose that will only die when the person dies.
Progressive, Woke, Leftist, Democrat, are some of the stupidest people I have ever met. And this has nothing to to with education or degrees. They’re “destroyers”.
Leftists are demoralized because they are casualties of the enemy's wartime propaganda. Can they be saved? They've already been poisoned with bioweapons developed by the USA DOD. I don't think many can be saved, and the majority can be weaponized into enemy combatants. If they shout down our antivax narrative and point the finger at our wrong think, they are acting at the behest of our enemies, are they not?
While a lot of AWFL (Affluent White Female Liberals) have an excessive and irrational "compassion" which is easily manipulated by business interests (show a dead illegal kid, profit from ongoing illegal labor) the deeper and unspoken problem is resentment.
The entire left is 100% driven by various resentments which are never spoken out loud. Women resent being physically weaker than men, blacks resent their failure to compete academically, gays resent the disgust others have for sodomy as an identity.
Embarrassment prevents them from saying what they really think and feel. So instead, myriad rationalizations are invented to justify these resentments. This is why the rationalizations cannot be argued with. They are just cover for deeper unspoken and unspeakable feelings.
"Man would fain be great and sees that he is little; would fain be happy and sees that he is miserable; would fain be perfect and sees that he is full of imperfections; would fain be the object of the love and esteem of men, and sees that his faults merit only their aversion and contempt. The embarrassment wherein he finds himself produces in him the most unjust and criminal passions imaginable, for he conceives a mortal hatred against that truth which blames him and convinces him of his faults." - Pascal
That breathtaking chart of deaths by age group and era. Wow! So, the recent mysterious increase in deaths of adults may have been drug deaths, as I suspected. That could upset the vaccine focused ( &I’m not a fan of the Covid vaccine) but I was thinking the ‘public health’ lockdowns, job loss, loss of hope, were leading to substance use and deaths.
The dark blue in the older age group suggests that eventually one’s heart will stop!
It's all ego-based. It all follows a story that's been repeated and indoctrinated in the echo-chamber. These are high-end "luxury beliefs" and require constant re-affirmation so those that hold them can cling to virtue, even thought they have more holes in them than I do presently having just come out of hernia surgery this week (ouch). I have friend and acquaintances across all spectrum of society, and at this point the only perspectives I trust that ring true day in and day out are my rural, lower income friends in a town we frequent in the Mojave Desert. They have true compassion, and do not have the luxury to adopt any false compassions for persona's sake. My lower income friends, thus, are awake, truly awake, whereas to be woke is to be in an even deeper sleep. "Language is violence" to the woke leftist, because... well, not because it actually hurts anybody in a marginalized class.. language is violence because it pierces their own egos , narratives, and personas, and it does so very effectively. So they are correct - language hurts. doesn't hurt those they virtue protect, it hurts their own egos. As we all know, the pain of a hurt ego is worse than physical pain.
Because their compassion is so screwed up, they present with Buttinski's Syndrome, forcing their "good intentions" on everyone else. These "good intentions" are pathologized into a damaging virus that is deadlier than what anything mother nature or a Wuhan lab could ever concoct.
During lockdowns, there was a news report about a South East Asian country (I can't remember which one). Because of restrictions, people couldn't work and were left hunting rats in the sewers for food. My brother sent the article to my nuts-o cousin and said, "This is what your policies are getting." My cousin wrote back, "That's irrelevant."
Never heard of the Buttinsky Syndrome before - great term! You could also interpret as someone who has their head up their arse.
Wouldn’t be irrelevant if they were the ones hunting rats to survive.
What has got me about all the craziness is how quick some lose rational thinking.
It seems lobbing your conscience and moral compass of what is right and wrong is ok and valued to fit in and follow any of their crappy narratives.
The irony is how they always want to take the moral high ground as to present themselves as saints. In the process projecting sainthood they do more damage than ever could be possibly thought up.
I suspect most of them weren’t ever actually rational. Magical thinking abounds.
100% to what you say.
I suspect my cousin is a sociopath. His thought processes are almost hyper-rationalized, which ends up making him pretty irrational in the end.
He is cruel.
They didn't lose the capacity for rational thinking, they were never in possession of the capacity for rational and critical thought to begin with.
Leftists are impossible to argue with. It is a waste of time.
I don't bother trying. I just viciously insult them.
Insulting them doesn’t work with family, work associates, and friends. It is best just to not talk politics with them. Some will come around in time, but will be less likely to do that if you insult them.
Oh, it does work with them. I insulted them for their idiocy and retardation and now I don't have to deal with their bullshit anymore. See ya! Life has never been better.
I am unwilling to throw out friendships based on politics, particularly what passes for politics now. I simply refuse to talk politics with them, so we talk about other things. Amazingly enough, you can talk for hours without talking politics.
You are a gentleman and a scholar. I am unwilling tot throw out friendships based on politics as well, but according to polls the majority of leftists don't share that sentiment.
Sorry to say that is true.
Wake up. You're at war. It's not supposed to be pleasant. This is moving into life or death stage. Act accordingly.
You'll make new friendships and close bonds with like-minded people. I did.
If you do not insult people, then they are more amenable to rational argument. Cracks are definitely developing on the Democratic side of things. I have heard family and friends say things that they never would have said over the last few years. People are waking up. It is a slow process, but it is really happening. Biden is even talking about building a wall along the Texas/Mexican border. I will believe it when I see it, but it is progress.
You cannot argue with a personal who doesn't have a sufficiently high enough IQ to process rational and critical thought.
The hatred of Americans for diversity never ceases to amaze me. Has there ever been a more hateful culture? This level of hatred for those of differing opinions is not normal, folks. This is just not normal.
Actually for most of history it has been pretty normal. The Enlightenment was a short respite.
And the enlightenment was predicated around free speech, which leftists are shutting down.
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Returning to the Dark Ages is "Progress"!
The Future IS the past!
It depends. Do you mean diversity of thought or diversity of immutable characteristics? Because it doesn't matter if everyone in the room looks different, but thinks the same.
The thing that gets me are the "Progressive" and "social justice warrior" tags. They actually believe they're fighting the establishment. I've been yelled at for pointing out that they kinda ARE the establishment..
Everything we think of as "Left" is totally frozen in amber from the 1960s...these people could be billionaires who control companies or high-level govt bureaucrats and still imagine themselves as rebels fighting The Man. It is a pose that will only die when the person dies.
Truth is dead on the left. There are only lies on top of lies on top of lies.
https://williamhunterduncan.substack.com/p/lying-multiplies
Progressive, Woke, Leftist, Democrat, are some of the stupidest people I have ever met. And this has nothing to to with education or degrees. They’re “destroyers”.
It literally boggles my mind.
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Leftists are demoralized because they are casualties of the enemy's wartime propaganda. Can they be saved? They've already been poisoned with bioweapons developed by the USA DOD. I don't think many can be saved, and the majority can be weaponized into enemy combatants. If they shout down our antivax narrative and point the finger at our wrong think, they are acting at the behest of our enemies, are they not?
left isn't RIGHT, RIGHT is right!
Somethings are overly simple.
Time is precious.
Pearls are not to be wasted.
Only those that have an interest (genuine) should be given consideration. Tough love works!
Hat tip to Conundrum Cluster for detailed documentation on the spate of leftist activists facing consequences:
CC missed one. I’m torn on this one as I was an acquaintance of hers many years ago. But I suppose legacies can be made in nuanced ways.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/23/teen-charged-with-murder-and-robbery-in-the-death-of-oakland-baker-jen-angel-whose-friends-called-for-restorative-justice-after-her-death/amp/
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/18/jen-angel-oakland-baker-angel-cakes
While a lot of AWFL (Affluent White Female Liberals) have an excessive and irrational "compassion" which is easily manipulated by business interests (show a dead illegal kid, profit from ongoing illegal labor) the deeper and unspoken problem is resentment.
The entire left is 100% driven by various resentments which are never spoken out loud. Women resent being physically weaker than men, blacks resent their failure to compete academically, gays resent the disgust others have for sodomy as an identity.
Embarrassment prevents them from saying what they really think and feel. So instead, myriad rationalizations are invented to justify these resentments. This is why the rationalizations cannot be argued with. They are just cover for deeper unspoken and unspeakable feelings.
"Man would fain be great and sees that he is little; would fain be happy and sees that he is miserable; would fain be perfect and sees that he is full of imperfections; would fain be the object of the love and esteem of men, and sees that his faults merit only their aversion and contempt. The embarrassment wherein he finds himself produces in him the most unjust and criminal passions imaginable, for he conceives a mortal hatred against that truth which blames him and convinces him of his faults." - Pascal
Fauchovah grant me the serenity to accept the unvaccinated I cannot shun; courage to shun the unvaccinated I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
That breathtaking chart of deaths by age group and era. Wow! So, the recent mysterious increase in deaths of adults may have been drug deaths, as I suspected. That could upset the vaccine focused ( &I’m not a fan of the Covid vaccine) but I was thinking the ‘public health’ lockdowns, job loss, loss of hope, were leading to substance use and deaths.
The dark blue in the older age group suggests that eventually one’s heart will stop!
It's all ego-based. It all follows a story that's been repeated and indoctrinated in the echo-chamber. These are high-end "luxury beliefs" and require constant re-affirmation so those that hold them can cling to virtue, even thought they have more holes in them than I do presently having just come out of hernia surgery this week (ouch). I have friend and acquaintances across all spectrum of society, and at this point the only perspectives I trust that ring true day in and day out are my rural, lower income friends in a town we frequent in the Mojave Desert. They have true compassion, and do not have the luxury to adopt any false compassions for persona's sake. My lower income friends, thus, are awake, truly awake, whereas to be woke is to be in an even deeper sleep. "Language is violence" to the woke leftist, because... well, not because it actually hurts anybody in a marginalized class.. language is violence because it pierces their own egos , narratives, and personas, and it does so very effectively. So they are correct - language hurts. doesn't hurt those they virtue protect, it hurts their own egos. As we all know, the pain of a hurt ego is worse than physical pain.
Most Leftists are overcome by what is best described as Bonhoeffer's theory of stupidity.