@kentcdodds What happened to private property rights?
Ai is just technology, everyone cries the skies is falling every time we make a leap in efficiency, it doesn't justify nationalizing private companies.
Where does the Constitution grant the federal government such powers anyways?
@AutismCapital All that is unfair about life can be made right through the Atonement of Jesus Christ
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
31% of children with lesbian mothers are forced to have sex against their will at least once in their life
The democratic law Prop 8 should never have been overturned by that singular corrupt judge.
@TokensMagazine So you mean:
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who DOES the will of my Father who is in heaven."
and
"the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?"
It’s not symmetrical at all.
The Left is feminine coded.
It’s a feminine trait to affirm.
People on the Left feel the need to affirm everyone in their tribe, or anybody presenting as downtrodden. So if anyone in-group deviates notably, it isn’t well received. Over time this has narrowed the Overton Window on the Left. It’s partly why Charlie Kirk was so threatening. He wouldn’t affirm anything he didn’t genuinely believe of his own mind and worldview, and would draw out even minor distinctions between similar views. This was always done in a tone of friendly debate, but was still culturally alien. It wasn’t affirming.
The Right is masculine coded.
It’s a masculine trait to prove.
People on the Right have no problem saying “I disagree with you, let’s hash this out. Prove it.” Call it debate, intellectual sparring, civil dialogue, whatever. The Right is perfectly comfortable disagreeing. As a result, the Overton Window on the Right is much bigger than the Left. It’s the “big tent” party now for that reason. It’s how Musk, RFK Jr, Gabbard and others were able to join. Do they agree on everything? Obviously not, but they also understand that they don’t need to agree 100% to make progress toward their mostly-mutual goals.
The result of all this: The Left, in their fervor to affirm and welcome the downtrodden, have drifted further left to affirm and welcome ideological radicals agreeable to their priors. They’ve also narrowed the range of acceptable speech/thought.
The Right then exists in territory so far away from what the Left will even *look* at that it ALL looks like “far right” extremism to them. That’s how a politically moderate Christian Conservative like Charlie Kirk gets called a “Nazi, bigot, Fascist,” etc. and the whole Left believes it. They 1) Won’t examine his remarks themselves, even though it’s ALL available, archived, unedited, and easy to find, and 2) Must affirm each other, their leaders, and the weakest and most radical among them. If a particularly fragile person says “he made me FEEL UNSAFE!” then the entire tribe must AFFIRM that person’s feelings because all feelings are valid (even if the feeling is asserting something counterfactual)!
I don’t suppose it’s always been like this.
But it is definitely like this now.
Everybody on the Right has been through the Left’s ideological landscape, spent time there, travelled those lands, watched their movies, listened to their arguments, and concluded it’s emotionally motivated nonsense. They don’t have much use for it.
That is not at all true of The Left. The Left are afraid of the Right’s ideological landscape, both because it’s more wild and openly hostile by nature, but more importantly, they can’t go there because their peers on the Left will judge them for even *looking* at it.
The modern American Left is a bizarrely insular, uncurious, histrionic tribe that doesn’t even understand itself, but will feverishly enforce its unquestioned rules. Another word one might use for that kind of group is a “cult.”