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And everyone, including you and me, think they are exempt from this flaw. It's just that damned lizard brain and how it shuts down rational thinking whenever our "perception of reality" is threatened. It's why it's never a good idea to be dogmatic.

If nothing else, it's an interesting study on decentralised propaganda and how stupid partisanship can make you. And while it may seem stupid to make the comparison, it reminds me of fandom controversies in the old days of the net......

Been around on certain leftist forums, and I'll never stop being weirded out at how they treat Trump like he's Literally Satan. Nobody has any idea about what his actual policies and ideologies are, they're just projecting upon him every policy and ideology they hate or consider evil. I think...

Our defeat. Theirs too, of course, and theirs will come before ours. Well, the rioters and Trump seemed to think it was. I personally think there was no plan for what to do after they entered the building....but that defiance of government authority on such a scale cannot be let off.

There was definitely a significantly large demographic that voted blue in every election except 2016 purely to spite Clinton for looking down on them. And because I fancy nobody really thought he could win. Trump won because of a protest vote from the northernmost Blue states. If you think you...

I'm not worried about either. The rails have been set centuries before we were born.

That part is quite true. Trump is merely a symptom of a cause, and that cause is the alienation of certain classes from the neoliberal agenda of the US elites that rose after the fall of the USSR. From the left, it was moving from outright socialism to socialism-adjacent topics. The so called...

I remember how back in the day, online left leaning people insisted that Trump's victory could lead to everything from mass murder of LBTQ people to nuclear war. What instead happened was a plethora of petty scandals and one ineffectual attempt to overthrow the Republic that only ended with one...