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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 September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've long thought that while the thrust of the criticism "The Left Can't Meme" is true, the smug certainty of that criticism has become overblown.  When the Left memes, people listen, even if they, like ContraPoints, aren't funny.


I'm starting to accept that there just isn't a place for people like me who think the left has to be opposed strongly and swiftly from within mainstream politics.  From the reception of my previous comment, I'm gathering that people here don't tend to believe that Trump can be that person in mainstream politics.  If not Trump, then who?  If all of the shenanigans pulled by Biden et al over the past three years can't be held to account then where are we as a culture?


I guess I'm feeling defeated.  Once again the establishment gets to tell the story exactly the way they want to tell it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't think nearly as many people have heard of EA as have heard of woke.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The usual litany of accusations after a crazed attacker broke into the Pelosi's house has me thinking about the difficulty of assigning an ideological basis for any specific action or idea.  Generally speaking this is known as a 'motte and bailey,' but there's something even broader at work when anyone can claim to speak for any movement at any time.


But it clearly wouldn't be fair to say that this attacker is representative of 'the right' any more than it is fair to say that the people raving about Russia collusion in 2016 were representative of 'the left,' except to the extent to which those ideas were platformed by the media.


This separation from media, the elevation of media from populace, seems inevitable given the mass confusion that results in exposure of the general population to the misinformation machine that is the modern Internet.


I don't know what to do about it but I begin to think that merely criticizing and replacing 'media' won't solve this problem of human confusion.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				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 January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
But you've been tolerating corruption like this the entire time.  The system is so corrupt that picking any one portion of it to get angry about is missing the point and falling into partisanship.  Do you really want to debate the Democrat talking point of Trump's Ukraine phone call?  It's a losing game.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I'm really hoping that the Republican wave coming our way (I have some positions on Republicans winning both the House and the Senate) will cool the fire on leftwing extremism.  We need a de-escalation in this country and it's never going to happen while left-aligned people continue to belabor their most noxious positions.


A sound defeat might be just the thing to correct some of the worst excesses of the morality police.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You say this because you've never had a social justice type mistake you for a bigot.  The false positive rate for witch hunts is too high.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Biden claims it's not a majority of Republicans, but I think the majority of Republicans don't believe him.




Why should they?  Republicans live in occupied territory: a foreign government blasts its propaganda on their airwaves.




During the time for that, all the so-called adults in the room told the hotheads who saw what was coming to just shut up and endure.




I wish I'd listened a little more.  Now it feels like the only person I've been able to rely on to take the fight to them is old and discredited.  Whether or not Trump is right that Biden has become the enemy of the people, it doesn't matter that he's right.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				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 January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This makes me uncomfortable because it reminds me so much of those times that the Democrats would push narratives about Russia and Trump.  I remember making arguments at length that regardless of whether or not Trump was 'polite' the office of the presidency should still command respect; I thought these were strong arguments and maybe I still do.  When are we going to try to be a more uniting force instead of continuing to hunt down scandals involving relatives?


Kushner being sent to build peace in the middle east was unorthodox in the appearance of nepotism, but in unorthodox times we need unorthodox solutions.  I dare call this preoccupation on Biden's spawn obsessive.  You're trying to hold 'the system' to a consistency it never had.  Trump did things that angered the left and that made me glad, but as I think about a divided country I feel some shame for embracing that power, for now I see in you someone who is angered, much as the left was, over trivial, irrelevant, and imagined corruption.


Do you need to be told that Trump lost, get over it?  Do you need to be told to look to the future and not the past?  What are you looking for?  What are you hoping to find?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				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 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 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
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

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


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 3, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't know if I can go so far as to say that "Trump supporters deserve the rod" because patriots have to stick together, but I think that you have to be smart in politics.


As you (effectively) say, this is about the future, not the past.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Is that an honest question or are trying to twist someone's words?




Honest question.




In either case, the status of the vaccine around the timing of the election is known. Eric Topol has been very vocal about his part in delaying the vaccine until after the election. We've since learned that Pfizer, who Topol said he successfully targeted, decided to simply stop processing lab samples in order to delay approval until after the election:




So the FDA postponed the vaccine until after the election in order to deny Trump a victory??


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I believe this vindicates the front-line doctors and makes mass murderers of the censors, as well-intentioned as those who smashed sparrows for Mao.




Something I've been thinking a lot about as I see a well-intentioned president Trump struggle against the power in this country is the fallibility of human government.  Are you sure you're not overreacting to human fallibility?


Trump was on the right side of history, and I think it's important to retain belief that there is a right side of history and people can be on it.


The CDC was more concerned about getting the vaccine out than perfect safety.  Does that really make them mass murderers?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've seen both, to be honest.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
He's done a far better job of standing up to the wokes than any other politician if you ask me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
mixing the personal and political


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				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 September 12, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


It’s hard to not see this as a coordinated effort.




Why?  You must not go to the parts of the Internet where the recession is talked about.  Don't tell me you actually listened to the Democrats when they said there wasn't a recession.


Don't blame the media for your reading habits.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 3, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It would be one thing if Trump successfully punched out the establishment but he drowned in controversies of his own making instead.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's not like anyone objects (or should object) to shots taken at Biden.  I'm starting to feel like this place may have a problem.