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Thread title suggested that this was going to be about WW2 Yugoslavia.
It’s actually the most pronounced division of fact vs reality I’ve seen in the msm.
I am going to email everyone I know with a plea to stop the HCQ denial and to spread the email. It would be morally wrong not to if we all have a chance to save many lives and stop the pandemic almost immediately.
Another moral dilemma. Do you let them control and chill ordinary speech, or do you risk your job?
Booger saysThread title suggested that this was going to be about WW2 Yugoslavia.
A third of US households didn't make their July housing payment. Give it time.
https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/rent-growth-since-1960/
how do you discuss that matter with anyone under those circumstances. They refuse to believe facts and go on the warpath against anyone that doesn’t conform to their thinking.
But at least we can discuss this kind of partisan division here. That's something. Maybe we will come to some useful insights.
Now days the partisan divide is more of a result of indoctrination than anything else. Academia, Media, and Corporate culture promotes a narrative with many followers. That narrative is in near perfect contradiction to Christian Traditions, historical norms, and objective analysis of data.
Patrick saysI want more unity
Instead of unity all you will get is more disunity.
they'd need to get on all 50 states ballots and I'm not 100% certain that's a possibility anymore. And anyone signing on to that ticket at the 11th hour is doing it purely for financial gain
I think they have a chance, and they're not in it for the money.
They are just too naive. They should have expected to be banned by Twitter. It's like they are only now discovering how corrupt the left is, and how willing to stifle all voices that don't toe the Democrat party line. They don't actually have agreement from the Greens or Libertarians to get space on the ballot, or any response from Tulsi or Dan yet.
They are just too naive. They should have expected to be banned by Twitter. It's like they are only now discovering how corrupt the left is, and how willing to stifle all voices that don't toe the Democrat party line. They don't actually have agreement from the Greens or Libertarians to get space on the ballot, or any response from Tulsi or Dan yet.
Yeaaah...sounds like a bunch of grifting going on there.
Because of the enthusiasm Gap, Big Tech/Media knows they'll only take votes from Dems, the ones that see the party sliding into radical Leftism but can't bring themselves to vote for Trump. So they censor it.
They don't actually have agreement from the Greens or Libertarians to get space on the ballot, or any response from Tulsi or Dan yet.
That's why I think they are sincere.
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By "partisan" I mean belonging to parties with distinct shibboleths of belonging:
- Democrats say "dreamers", Republicans say "children of illegals"
- Republicans tend to be believing Christians, Democrats not.
- Democrats tend to eat elite foods such as arugula, Republicans not.
- Democrats say "jobs Americans don't want", Republicans say "jobs where illegals drove down wages"
Democrats tend to avoid directly saying what they really mean.
BLM is a self-justifying way for white liberals to say "I hate Republicans. They scare me."
Republicans tend to go for conspiracy theories.
Most political division is visceral and not rational, directly due to one's genetic and economic position in life:
1. Women tend to "think of the children" more more than men do.
2. Men tend to care much more about the integrity of national borders than women do.
3. People who are losing their manual labor jobs to cheap Chinese labor or illegal Mexican labor care much more about immigration than knowledge workers do.
4. People who are "educated" (much of which is propaganda for the superiority of "educated" people) tend to look down on those who do not have credentials.
5. People who have been in the military tend to approve of hierarchy and the strict application of laws.
6. People in big cities tend to approve of government wealth redistribution programs.
7. Race alone is a good predictor of party affiliation.
8. The young tend to be liberal, the old tend to be conservative.
You could probably add up the tendencies predicted by each aspect of someone's existence and come up with a 95% correct prediction of their political affiliation.
You think you're in control of your political choices, but you are not. You are carried along on the currents of your genetics and your experiences. Maybe it's possible to be rational and look at it all honestly. Maybe not.
When you know how the psychology of partisan division works, you can:
1. know what the right thing to say is in a given situation or
2. know when there is literally nothing you can say
For the best introductions I have ever read, see:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ and
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/
A site that tries to at least collect similar numbers of articles from both sides: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
A site that points out media blind spots on right and left: https://web.ground.news/ (click "Blindspot Report:Your weekly news spotlight" top center)