Yep. Never use a ten dollar word when a 50 cent one does the job better. The left wing needs to dump it's highbrow (and cringe celebrity endorsements) and use the language of the common people in simple terms that cannot be demonised (or would sound insane to try).
Also, this is a prime example of how demonising words, especially buzzwords, is the strategy they use to make it lose all rationality with the public... the notion of being "woke" originally a good thing, welfare a good thing, etc...
True, not AS bad would have been a better wording.
Unfortunately I firmly believe that any form of society is always going to be at the whim of sociopaths getting into power who will fuck up whatever the system is in place. it's one of the defining scourges of our species, we are easily led like sheep.
And even more specifically, hyper consumerism-driven, wasteful capitalism more than just capitalism itself.
Well regulated and not utterly greed-driven capitalism that gets fairly taxed to support the societies infrastructure that it feeds off is not so bad. If that would ever happen.
IMO there are no harmless ones (by that I mean dictionary definition superstitions - not just things like traditions and adages that have a logical reason or basis), if a person truly believes in actual magical thinking no matter how silly it's a doorway to accepting the rest.
Like letting in bullshit like horoscopes, homeopathy, faith healing, yearning for eschatological prophecies...
Everything about this is like we have all been force-fed industrial strength hallucinogens. That YMCA played by the murderous Saudi prince after that fawning display... WTAF world are we living in any more?
If this was the Matrix I'd be demanding to be unplugged right now, and promptly throw up on the floor
Yep, the right peddles sexy chest-beating wishful thinking and conspiracy theories which sells itself, the left has to sell the actual hard work that is needed - and yes frequently leans into chasing stupid celebrity endorsements and fluff and getting bogged down in the weeds or getting tripped up by well-meaning labels that get twisted used as battering rams against them like DEI, Woke, Socialist, etc.
Unfortunately we cannot win by being as bad as them, that is the burden of being on the righteous path of fairness, logic and reason.
Slop is still slop, and if it was cheaper and less intensive in those ways it would simply be producing way more slop.
almost like they regard it as a shithole country as Rump liked to say about others
Tell this to the internet loon that says carrots are not food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6g_9xZNdRI
Yep. Never use a ten dollar word when a 50 cent one does the job better. The left wing needs to dump it's highbrow (and cringe celebrity endorsements) and use the language of the common people in simple terms that cannot be demonised (or would sound insane to try).
Also, this is a prime example of how demonising words, especially buzzwords, is the strategy they use to make it lose all rationality with the public... the notion of being "woke" originally a good thing, welfare a good thing, etc...
Sadly all his cronies would still be at the wheel back at the office.
Get off the golf course yourself then you orange turd
So many leopards, so many faces...
True, not AS bad would have been a better wording.
Unfortunately I firmly believe that any form of society is always going to be at the whim of sociopaths getting into power who will fuck up whatever the system is in place. it's one of the defining scourges of our species, we are easily led like sheep.
True that. Sociopaths always win. This is pretty much true of any form of society though.
And even more specifically, hyper consumerism-driven, wasteful capitalism more than just capitalism itself.
Well regulated and not utterly greed-driven capitalism that gets fairly taxed to support the societies infrastructure that it feeds off is not so bad. If that would ever happen.
Orange guy cannot even manage a gentle slope never mind the coordination required to ride a bicycle, or form a coherent sentence.
Wot?
That's what I'm saying, it's all bullshit
IMO there are no harmless ones (by that I mean dictionary definition superstitions - not just things like traditions and adages that have a logical reason or basis), if a person truly believes in actual magical thinking no matter how silly it's a doorway to accepting the rest.
Like letting in bullshit like horoscopes, homeopathy, faith healing, yearning for eschatological prophecies...
Imagine Obama or Biden, or Harris, doing this!
Everything about this is like we have all been force-fed industrial strength hallucinogens. That YMCA played by the murderous Saudi prince after that fawning display... WTAF world are we living in any more?
If this was the Matrix I'd be demanding to be unplugged right now, and promptly throw up on the floor
This morning's crisp autumn sunrise
Yep, the right peddles sexy chest-beating wishful thinking and conspiracy theories which sells itself, the left has to sell the actual hard work that is needed - and yes frequently leans into chasing stupid celebrity endorsements and fluff and getting bogged down in the weeds or getting tripped up by well-meaning labels that get twisted used as battering rams against them like DEI, Woke, Socialist, etc.
Unfortunately we cannot win by being as bad as them, that is the burden of being on the righteous path of fairness, logic and reason.
That's what the interviewer asked too. The voices didn't like that question...
They were probably less cowardly
Those were the times I was taking time off to argue with the voices in my head that were telling me to kill again.