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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 18, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I suspect that there's overlap between people who accuse Trump of inciting the riot on January 6th despite his explicit call for 'peace' and people who believe that the 'bloodbath' comment is evidence that Trump is ready for a civil war even though he was clearly talking about the automotive industry.


I think that Trump should be in the past for the good of this country, but when we can't even agree on what words mean anymore, I don't know that I think there's a lot of hope.


Sometimes I think about how we got here.  Something I've seen a lot of leftwing people talk about recently is: "The system is what it does."  The left is what it does, not what it says it does.  The postmodernism, the communism: there's this sense in which I just want to say we can see you.  But there's always equivocation about 'the left.'  They call it 'essentializing' the left even as they apply their reductive reasoning to Trumpism.


And I'm old enough to remember that Obama came in on backlash to the Bush administration.  "Cthulhu swims left" is the sort of thing neophytes say on encountering politics for the first time: it follows that Cthulhu swims right in a great drumbeat.  Much of the surveillance apparatus that creates our authoritarian present was built during the Bush administration.


I'm afraid of what people will turn to if Trump isn't enough.


Maybe there aren't firm conclusions in here, but there's no one else talking today, so here I am.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The better question is if there's any allowance for humor here; how many of the people who upvoted you did so because of the logical point it contained?  ;)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


On Covid, scientists were unwilling to admit the lab theory because the labs running GoF experiments were doing the same thing in China as they were in the USA. It’s as simple as that. It could have happened in America, blaming “the Chinese” was nonsensical.




The above screed (that you're replying to) was written by someone who rather than consider just how difficult it is to tell the truth to an inflamed populace would prefer to lean into an ideological mistrust of 'blue tribe' targets.


To the extent that this place is attempting to be 'conservative' it's essentially lost all semblance of responsibility as a virtue.


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
mixing the personal and political


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I know, and I weighed the consequences of brevity in this instance, and decided that a correction in one sentence was sufficient.  To fulfill dharma I cannot be obligated to address all dukkha incurred by another's attempt to teach.


It is also an intended read that if you are irresponsible enough to take spiritual training (is it the transfer of knowledge about the spirit?) over the Internet from someone's book report, you can be responsible for performing your own search.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Most Republicans don't believe climate change is a problem at all, your optimism is incoherent


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It is somewhat irresponsible to mention dharma without also covering dukkha.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How many people here are "unfuckable messes" and would be comfortable being made a subject like this?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It sounds to me like you're resisting an obvious conclusion: you need religion.  The choice is between tradition and its challenging but earnest calls to a better life and the degeneracy of rainbow churches.


You need religion because you boast about your sexual relationship with your wife online.


You need religion because instead of keeping your family business in the family, you make political hay of it to strangers.


Talk to the people you need to talk to, don't just vent helplessly.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
When did we become so bleak?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Are you familiar with the phrase "business is pleasure when it's done right?"


This is a business place, where we discuss serious things seriously.


My question is genuine.  Another phrase: "Put up or shut up."


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
WE ARE ALL SINNERS


IT IS KNOWN


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Why not?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
One of the criticisms that stuck with me early on in Trump's presidency, don't know who said it, was that by embracing a politician whose action deliberately enraged the 'other side', we were furthering division in this country.  I think that was undeniably true, and it was undeniably the sort of thing any proper conservative party should understand.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I would impeach Biden for being old and will accept any pretext whatsoever.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Any of it -- you talk like a liar.




This man thinks he tells the truth.


Concerning.


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You do need Jesus.


But that's neither here nor there.




Go ahead and talk about why you think Trump is terrible and Trump supporters should repent




Trump supporters should repent because it is wrong to turn brother against brother in politics.


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What don't you believe?


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
An argument?  You want an argument?


Every person who was wrong about Trump and his effect on this country needs to pray to God for forgiveness.  I know I have.


If you spectated this disaster from the comfort of intellectual distance, you're part of the problem.


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's when it broke for me, the illusion that this was ever a president.


You don't understand, I saw how the media treated Bush so I thought they were histrionic.  Now I look at the people who are backing him in a hysterical narrative and I see a threat to the future of this country.


I see a generation of men being taught that winning is "declaring yourself the winner" and I despair.


Prior to that I didn't see just how much he never ever shut up and I understood: this is a chronic issue of the degradation of the boomer mind.


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Back then we didn't know about what he told Kid Rock.


I'm still dwelling.


Forgive me that this is where I dwell.




Conversion is a long, steady process, of slow erosion, and steady persistence.  Time, repetition.  You build a wall in a season and tear down a wall in a season, but a hole can be made right away...


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's over for me.


We pretended that senile rambling old man was a president for four years and now the country is more divided than ever.  I am ashamed of how I have treated people while I have been under the influence of that horrible man who helped break this country.


I say helped break because he didn't do it alone.  Every person who covered for him, who made excuses for him, who refused to see that there was an old man with no control over himself (he was leaking constantly, he couldn't keep a secret.  He couldn't keep a secret.) has some share of responsibility in this.


This is a serious situation that we let get out of control.  And we need to be united, and I wish I had been able to admit that Trump was a divider sooner.


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Warning: CNN link, John Durham's investigation into the Trump-Russia investigation has been released.


I think it's clear that the politically motivated investigation found nothing but did a lot of damage.  It was an early instance of the two-movies-on-one-screen phenomenon becoming a deep division in our political spheres.  If there's one thing I wish I could get my remaining left-aligned friends to understand it's that their reaction to Trump is worse than anything Trump could have said or done.


Even after the Mueller nothingburger they still talk with utter seriousness about Russian interference in our elections and I don't know how this divide in our country can ever be bridged.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 3, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This is the correct reading of my comment, which I admit was unclear.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 3, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You have no understanding of why Democrats are in shrill hysterics after a mob ransacked a building of our federal government?  In reality it was a sad selfie party but don't let that make it impossible to understand why Democrats think the way they do.