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Yeah I have been seeing all

artappraiser — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 21:19:18 +0000

In reply to Sully quits the Woke Revue

Yeah I have been seeing all kinds of commentary in the circle in which he is included on Twitter, along the lines of wondering what's next.

Sully quits the Woke Revue

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 09:17:49 +0000

In reply to Do Progressives Have a Free Speech Problem?

Sully quits the Woke Revue

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jul/18/anti-trump-british-journal...

As far as politics is

artappraiser — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 04:25:35 +0000

In reply to The core Republican base is

As far as politics is concerned, though, Democratic candidates don't bother going after the core Republican base since Reagen. It's the 1/3 of the country they don't even bother trying to get. It's always the middle., after Reagan stole a lot of them.

And more and more of the middle are registering as Independents because of "pox on both your houses" of agitprop, and cancelling over various purity tests.

And one other thing: I know how much it angers you that we have so many stupid people in this country amounting to almost 1/3.

But they are citizens and the program is we are all supposed to be e pluribus unum. Somehow they have to be lived with.

This is why I always welcomed Flavius' input here, he knew and talked with and was friendly with conservatives on a personal bases.

I don't see the further stoking of this "lock em up", us vs. them, "they're all stoopid kool-aid" drinkers" thing working well so far.

I do see signficant potential in making everything-he-touches-dies Trump a common-good enemy though. There's not been an example in my lifetime of so many Republicans and former Republicans working to elect a Democrat president. A reminder that Geo. W. Bush has endorsed Biden.

Don't look gift horses in the mouth and stop stoking differences, is what I think.

The core Republican base is

NCD — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 03:21:14 +0000

In reply to The illiberal left is a lot

The core Republican base is controlled by hate and fear. What thinking they do, what lies they believe, what conspiracy theories they share only matters to Republicans as long it helps to keep Republicans in power.

It's why Trump can lie 20,000 times. Why he can go from 'the virus will disappear ', to '200,000 dead a very good job', or just say nonsense 'less tests mean less cases', and it doesn't matter. What matters on the right is that he hates the same people they hate.

The illiberal left is a lot

EmmaZahn — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 02:10:07 +0000

In reply to Do Progressives Have a Free Speech Problem?

The illiberal left is a lot less threatening than the right.

Oh, I disagree with that. The authoritarian right tends to be content telling people what they can and cannot do. The totalitarian left insists on telling people what they can and cannot think.

More: "it’s a problem when

artappraiser — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 01:13:05 +0000

In reply to Do Progressives Have a Free Speech Problem?

More: "it’s a problem when the range of proscribed speech is so wide that the rules are hard to even explain to those not steeped in left-wing mores."
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) July 19, 2020