I’ve always wondered how lefties can reconcile this sort of cognitive dissonance. Like they’d think the best way to beat the far right is to not validate their narratives of massive tribal conflict and grand cultural transformation that feed into radicalization, but they can’t seem to stop themselves
Anonymous asked:
bambamramfan answered:
I am very proud of my “ principled dissent from the “orthodoxy” of racism and sexism “ and I hope other people take the same path.
I do not agree with rationalism, as it is an ideology obsessed with cleansing society of the “irrational”, with insufficient humility about what is knowable and insufficient compassion for the unreasonable Other.
Presuming this ask believes it is part of some social justice orthodoxy, then they should know that the problem with their ideology is the obsessive focus on shaming individuals. Classism, racism, and sexism are structural problems that need reworking of the incentives our society lives on. All the constant shaming does is continue the cycle of fear and violence.
Christianity and communism represent an escape from that cycle.
Presumably this is one of those things where anyone who interacts with rationalists is stained with metaphorical blood. The Anon’s level of intellectual charity and, hmn, “accuracy” could be matched with “why do you hate people with autism, anon?”
Markets don’t actually work efficiently when people don’t have practical alternatives, don’t have access to information and the ability to process it, or just don’t go through the work of comparing. Obtaining information is NOT free! It has major opportunity costs! And the vendors will fight against you doing it!
“Jeremy Corbyn tried to pass through a law that would required private landlords to make their homes safe and “fit for human habitation” last year – but it was rejected by the Conservatives.
Labour proposed an amendment to the Government’s new Housing and Planning Bill – a raft of new laws aimed at reforming housing law – in January last year, but it was rejected by 312 votes to 219.
According to Parliament’s register of interests, 72 of the MPs who voted against the amendment were themselves landlords who derive an income from a property.”
Whatever you think about the man as an individual or politician, he sure is on the right side of history a lot.
More regulations driving up the cost of housing <—-> Right side of history
the regulation about not cladding the outside of high rise buildings in flammable material tho
having sufficient fire escapes
for that matter fire alarms
very poor choice of example of regulatory harm
I’m sure our dear Voxette wouldn’t mind losing the regulations in favor of requiring all landlords to carry insurance against the death or debilitating injury to occupants with a cap at $1 million per occupant, reflecting the cost to the rest of society of people dying in unsafe housing. After all, it would be terribly immoral to give the landlords a subsidy, right?
They will of course also be required to carry sufficient insurance for neighboring buildings. It wouldn’t be very fair if they got away with a huge fire burning down someone else’s property just because they were bankrupt.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot at congressional baseball practice in Del Ray, Virginia, and possibly four others were injured by an assailant, according to another lawmaker who was at the practice.
Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama said on CNN that he and other lawmakers tried to apply a tourniquet with his belt on one injured person to try and stop the bleeding. Scalise crawled to the outfield.
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“There must have been 50, 100 shots fired,” Brooks said.
Brooks said Capitol security forces were firing back with pistols at the shooter until the shooter was tackled to the ground.
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I’m afraid that we’ve crossed lines we can never come back from. Attacks on public servants are an attack on democracy.
A truckload of presidents have been assassinated over the course of U.S. history. Congresscritters have been succesfully murdered before. Democracy will survive.
Attack more public servants imo
Do you want right-wing paramilitaries? Because that’s how you get right-wing paramilitaries.
How much you wanna bet that silly proboscis monkey/tapir/boar you kids all love is some multimillion dollar viral marketing scheme.
surely not @owlwisdoms100!
Owls actually sinister Capitalist plot by Korean consumer electronics giant and heavy industrial conglomerate Samsung, created in very farsighted move to sell more Galaxy S9s.
@digging-holes-in-the-river reminded me of a form of sexism, or at least huge wrongness, that I sometimes suffer from, although I think I’m improving.
Logical belief: as reported by reliable statisticians, women are 52% of the population
Alief: women are a small minority, like 5% or something. They don’t really take part in society.
I think I get this from working in a very male dominated profession, and, to the extent I ever socialise, socialising with people from that profession.
I don’t often seem women complaining about this kind of view, presumably on the view it’s too ludicrous to occur to them, although I think complaints like “why are you treating all women as a uniform special case” are a sort of second-order effect.
I mean you’d feel like that in some industries, business, politics.
On the other hand: primary school teachers, nurses, dental hygienists (apparently 98% female, in Australia at least).
It’s interesting when you see a particular field pass 50% female intake because you know there’s going to be a shake up coming when all the old guys hit retirement age and society recodes whatever it is as a ‘girl thing’.
Victoria Police has got their female representation up from 8% to 26% and I’m really curious to see how people react if it ever gets to 50% or above, that’ll be totes fun.
Some Normie: as reported by reliable statisticians, women are 52% of the population
A Nerd: women are a small minority, like 5% or something. they don’t really take part in society.
Enlightened Discourse Master: there are no women, only men and traps
Anonymous asked:
kati-laurel-ii answered:
I’m their god and they worship me and my feminine thighs. I have entire death squads at my disposal, and i could not be happier. My guns and paramilitias are my rights, and I don’t need you to fight for them you fucking normie.
The left fought for the rights to continue bath houses and cruising, the left fought for the continued drug use and debased sexual conduct. The left has been the political equivalent of the useless parent who doesn’t ignore their junkie child’s addiction but rather encourages it because to do otherwise would make them uncool or “mean”.
But would the Right have given anything instead? They hold themselves together with religion, after all.
[Random Interval] Reminder that the White Nationalists still seemingly haven’t noticed that widespread human genetic engineering is arriving in 1-3 decades.
Like, here they are, freaking out about IQ levels, when if they’re right on the origins of IQ, it will be sorted out within one or two generations. And that’s assuming that they’re right in the first place.
[Random Interval] Reminder that the White Nationalists still seemingly haven’t noticed that widespread human genetic engineering is arriving in 1-3 decades.
