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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:48 pm
That's because you don't bother to properly assert it, you just grumble about the Leftist Media and Culture War like it's an answer to everything.
it has been properly asserted a zillion times.
Your side is the way older brother in that regard. Time to look into the mirror.
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:48 pm
That's because you don't bother to properly assert it, you just grumble about the Leftist Media and Culture War like it's an answer to everything.
it has been properly asserted a zillion times.
Your side is the way older brother in that regard. Time to look into the mirror.
If you have ever linked something resembling a credible source instead of insisting we all take your cries of Culture War as gospel truth because you say it over and over again, then I don't remember it.
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
Admiral X wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:02 am
"Cartoonish" certainly seems to describe the regressive left's outlook on pretty much everything.
When you say "regressive left," do you just mean the left in general?
My perception is, that he means regressive leftists, when he writes regressive leftists.
He's clearly more to the political right than I am and I consider myself quite far left of the middle. I can't remember him ever accusing me of being part of the regressive left and as far as I can tell, I always had pleasent conversations with him, though our outlook on things is quite different and hard to reconcile at times.
It's funny how those left more towards the middle of the society, whether they be right or left in their particulars, are left in nowhereland and automatically assumed to be part of the extremes or only talking in extremes nowadays.
Yeah I felt it was a pretty obtuse question for lack of a better word, but really the ability to have a conversation across partisan lines is like walking through shin-high syrup. In my experience online, right-wing circles pretty much have always pigeonholed anything to do with the left as the most annoying people you'll see on Facebook or Twitter. I'm fully cognisant of such types of people, and it's honestly pretty refreshing when I hear leftists from like Britain or Germany talk because they aren't as charged on American issues or overly sharp in judging the other side. But yeah it gets hard to talk about an issue without one side if not both preemptively strawmanning the other's position into how people act on Twitter.
But yeah the question doesn't necessarily get anywhere, but it channeled in a nice moment of objectivity if but for only a moment.
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:38 am
WorfFan's statement isn't an actual practical, logistical suggestion, and y'all bloody well know it.
Things like this make me hate everyone who defends 45, because we have so many brutal, in-your-face reminders that him and almost everyone in his administration are all cackling, unabashedly, cartoonishly evil. And not like, Good Cartoons evil, not something nuanced that holds up to the test of time. I'm talking 90s cash-grab poorly animated shit that you watch while waiting for something better to come on cartoon villains. I'd call them supervillains, but supervillains need to have style, theme, and presentation.
You indicated elsewhere an unwillingness to extend the benefit of the doubt to Trump, regarding a comment he made about Russian bots or trolls or such. You're welcome to your opinion, of course.
I hear from the regressive left that racism is OK if it's racism you like, sexism is OK if it's sexism you like, criticizing some religions if fine but others are off-limits, and, hysterically, all that's in the name of equality. I hear that some violence is protected free speech while other free speech needs to be banned because it is violence. I see people who think that if you disagree with them, you're evil and must be broken by any means necessary. And, given that, I can't help but take calls for someone to be impoverished and/or imprisoned because of wrongthink seriously. I am unwilling to extend the benefit of the doubt.
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:48 pm
That's because you don't bother to properly assert it, you just grumble about the Leftist Media and Culture War like it's an answer to everything.
it has been properly asserted a zillion times.
Your side is the way older brother in that regard. Time to look into the mirror.
The media so heavily controlled by the left that the single biggest story of the 2016 elections was the Clinton emails.
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:48 pm
That's because you don't bother to properly assert it, you just grumble about the Leftist Media and Culture War like it's an answer to everything.
it has been properly asserted a zillion times.
Your side is the way older brother in that regard. Time to look into the mirror.
If you have ever linked something resembling a credible source instead of insisting we all take your cries of Culture War as gospel truth because you say it over and over again, then I don't remember it.
Brought to you by the fine progs at Politiitco
The answer to the press’ myopia lies elsewhere, and nobody has produced a better argument for how the national media missed the Trump story than FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver, who pointed out that the ideological clustering in top newsrooms led to groupthink. “As of 2013, only 7 percent of [journalists] identified as Republicans,” Silver wrote in March, chiding the press for its political homogeneity. Just after the election, presidential strategist Steve Bannon savaged the press on the same point but with a heartier vocabulary. “The media bubble is the ultimate symbol of what’s wrong with this country,” Bannon said. “It’s just a circle of people talking to themselves who have no fucking idea what’s going on.”
Now, to remind you that Betsy Devos, like most of the administration, is a bad cartoon villain, the special olympics funding she wants to cut is the amount the government spends on 5 trump visits to maralago.
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:27 am
Thank you for the source.
So it was properly asserted?
Your gang on this site shall remember that this matter is settled or they will keep pretending they are the hippies of 68?
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:27 am
Thank you for the source.
So it was properly asserted?
Your gang on this site shall remember that this matter is settled or they will keep pretending they are the hippies of 68?
I have no control over other posters any more than you do. I will in future remember that you have provided an actual source to back up your assertions. I have not yet accepted that as gospel, but let the record state that today you provided something other than your good word for it.
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:27 am
Thank you for the source.
So it was properly asserted?
Your gang on this site shall remember that this matter is settled or they will keep pretending they are the hippies of 68?
I have no control over other posters any more than you do. I will in future remember that you have provided an actual source to back up your assertions. I have not yet accepted that as gospel, but let the record state that today you provided something other than your good word for it.
Accepting it as truth and reality is good enough...
