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> So you're just bashing a strawman that you've pigeonholed all opposition into? If you think radicalized left-wingers are a strawman, you live in a separate u
by ratrace 7mo ago
> So you're just bashing a strawman that you've pigeonholed all opposition into?
If you think radicalized left-wingers are a strawman, you live in a separate universe from mine. Unfortunately, I live in the one where I have to wake up and see flyers around my town unironically claiming Trump ate kids.
Can we swap?
- mindslight 7mo agoOh no, flyers? That changes things. Flyers are the worst. How do you even manage?
- ratrace 7mo agoI get by by resenting democracy and the political process. It ain't much but it's honest work.
- mindslight 7mo agoI understand. In fact, I've been there - I was working on ecash and cryptography before bitcoin and the bastardization of the term crypto. "Code is law" and all that. I'm sure some of it is due to getting older, but with open cult-of-personality autocratic authoritarianism (aka fascism) upon us I have become quite conservative. I had been taking a lot for granted about the freedoms we do have, and the position of the Western world. Don't let a desire to make things better goad you into wanting to destroy what we do have. But regardless, if you recoil from the groupthink of the leftists you should be similarly allergic to the groupthink of the rightists. They have taken up the mantles of so many of our longstanding societal problems, only to be led by outright con men and liars who are doing nothing to actually address those problems. And I don't just mean hate-but-hold-your-nose-for-some-greater-good, but rather hold them in the same exact regard as the leftists. Especially as that red tribe groupthink is now in power, and its results are not pretty.