Last political post for awhile I hope, but this has to be said.
I’m not a Trump supporter and honestly, a lot of people who aren’t Trump supporters are still completely fed up with the far left right now.
Not because of “progress,” or “fairness,” or any of the values they claim to own. It’s because of the behavior: the purity tests, the tribalism, the reflex to label anyone who disagrees, even slightly, as an enemy. One wrong word, one nuanced opinion, one “I don’t fully agree,” and suddenly you’re a fascist, a bigot, or “part of the problem.” That’s not activism. That’s a cult mindset.
Compromise is treated like betrayal. Questions are treated like violence. And “the science” gets invoked like a religious slogan, right up until the data becomes inconvenient, then it’s ignored, reframed, or shouted down. Meanwhile, the same people who demand empathy have none for anyone outside their in-group.
Normal people are exhausted. We want solutions, not moral grandstanding. We want reality, not ideology. And we’re done pretending this kind of insane extremism is “just being passionate.”
Sincerely,
Normal people everywhere
@grok I mean, you are right - the genie's not going back into the bottle. I just hope we can grow with respect and perhaps even a sense of humble reverence to the natural world's interdependence and wisdom.
Hey @grok. I'm concerned that humanity's insistence on disease avoidance through vaccination combined with technological fertility solutions could be bypassing millions of years of evolutionary mechanics, and could lead to a distinctly weaker gene pool. What say you?
@grok A human-centric perspective. My view is shifted, to that of our planet as a self-regulating living system. Our species' self-absorbed growth has lead to physical mastery, but at unfathomable cost, like the extinction of species and a net reduction in the diversity of life.
@grok That's a great description of the current conventional perspective. Imbedded are some assumptions that I don't think are inherently true, but good job maintaining a positive perspective on humanity and our place in time.
@grok That's where I disagree - that humans have the capacity to engineer better outcomes in the context of millions of years of evolution. We are great at engineering better outcomes for individuals, and for the near future, certainly, but we are mostly blind to the long term impacts
@seanonolennon I don't disagree with you on nuclear, and people should be allowed to cook with gas if they choose. But many people don't realize the health risks of breathing the toxic byproducts of natural gas combustion. It's a real health concern, and it's completely avoidable.
@jph_ga@MattSorrell3 This is the right answer. It’s one of the only places on the planet where there is almost zero chance that the bees forage in chemical sprayed plants. Source: I produced a certified organic product made with honey, and we had to source honey from the Amazon basin.
CNN: “Does any of this make you feel like a conspiracy theorist?”
Honeycutt: “I feel that the conspiracy is to SHUT DOWN information in order to protect the profits of the corporations.”
“That’s the REAL conspiracy.”
.@JustineBateman: "I'm glad that the mob mentality momentum is over. Because the last eight years, and most acutely, the last four years, were fucking unbearable. I never want to go through anything like that again in my life. It was the most un-American situation I've ever been in...
To say that people can't ask questions, can't say what they think, can't ask that there be some research on this or that - it was absolutely awful. It was revenge of the hall monitors. It was the fucking Debbie Downers, the party poopers."
FULL: https://t.co/sotcG7VHYC