"Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart." – Emil Cioran
Banner painting is Sirin and Alkonost, by Viktor Vasnetsov.
FLASHBACK: Trump shared classified intelligence from Israel with Russia - and admitted to it.
Israeli intelligence feared it would end up in the hands of Iran. https://t.co/5ZyJbVILqC
@ELTAuthor@tom_mccausland@sunny_hundal But people have to want to change. They must also be willing to take personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions and beliefs. No silver bullet can be devised which will penetrate and alter the weltanschauung of conservative voters unless the do it themselves.
@ELTAuthor@sunny_hundal I don't dismiss all studies out of hand, but since I cannot know which studies you mean, and if they were done competently, then they don't override my direct observations -- which is that conservatives have no special insight into liberal motivations. Often they're just wrong.
@ELTAuthor@sunny_hundal I don't care what the studies say. IMO, and broadly speaking, I see absolutely no evidence that the Right has any special insight into the raison d'être of liberals or liberalism, and I've grown weary of the urban myth that they do.
But yes, liberals are tactically naive.
@ELTAuthor@tom_mccausland@sunny_hundal But your POV implies that it's the fault of the Left for not persuading the Right to change its mind. Common approach to blame the Left for the Right behaving they way it does. What's wrong with the Right engaging in a little self-reflection every once in a while?
@ELTAuthor@sunny_hundal You can say precisely the same thing about conservatives: they are not good at empathizing with people outside their tribe.
This type of shortcoming is not unique to any one group.
@susie_dent@MooseAllain I had to look up the word "dittography," but I'm unsure how that fits here. Isn't adding an extra vowel during pronunciation something like the opposite of phonetic clipping or elision? It's almost like adding a diphthong to the word.
@Aguszymite@youngjoanna1 Yes, I understand that you were born female. But trans women don't have to be exactly like cis women in order to be treated and respected as women. It's okay to be different. Being exactly the same as cis women isn't the benchmark for validating the trans experience.
@Aguszymite@youngjoanna1 Suggesting there is no "woman essence" in no way invalidates the trans experience.
And just because you don't know what it is like to have gender dysphoria, that doesn't mean that what they feel is invalid.