LiberalRetvrn
they don't understand the things i say on twitter.
User ID: 1892
LiberalRetvrn
1hr ago
No, liberalism is an opinion about how things should work. A fairy tale is a story with supernatural elements, usually with simplistic moral themes designed to teach people life lessons. The Bible, the Quran, Harry Potter, and Hansel and Gretel are examples of fairy tales. There's nothing wrong with them, but they shouldn't be the basis for government decision-making.
LiberalRetvrn
1hr ago
I think there should be some restrictions on politicians being religiously motivated. In the same way that people objected to Biden being in office with cognitive impairments, I think it's a problem to let government officials base their decision making on religious delusions.
LiberalRetvrn
20hr ago
Well it is a big problem that our discussion about the merits of bombing iran is being derailed into debates about the interpretation of a fairytale book. Cruz is openly admitting that his religious fantasies are a primary motivation for his foreign policy, which in my opinion should disqualify him from holding public office.
LiberalRetvrn
20hr ago
Borders are a perfect example of something arbitrary. They have no physical significance, them being set up the way they are has no justification other than historical precedent. We are all entitled to go wherever we want.
LiberalRetvrn
7d ago
I assure you that leaders of other countries understand who "their people" are and serve their interests
That doesn't seem to work out very well for them, other countries suck and all of their people want to come to America. The American identity survives regardless of who makes up our population. Countries whose identity is only their people and their genetic lineage don't have a persistent set of ideals like America does. Germany has gone from a colonialist empire, to a liberal democracy, to fascist, to half liberal and half communist, to centrist and authoritarian. What does it mean to be German? Nothing. There is no persistent trait or moral value that Germany has had for the past 100 years, let alone 250 like America has. You can justify anything as "serving the interests of our people." Every shithole country has their own "unique" identity and feels pride in their sovereignty, with their special little flag and theme song and their soccer team, and they're all the same.
LiberalRetvrn
7d ago
I have contact with illegal immigrants every day at work, they mostly seem like hard-working and friendly people. I respect their willingness to defy arbitrary rules.
LiberalRetvrn
7d ago
Any other fair ideas?
Open borders. Pure capitalism. Unlimited cheap labor. Save hundreds of billions on immigration enforcement.
LiberalRetvrn
10d ago
We'll see. It would be really dumb for him to move against Trump right now, but that doesn't mean he won't. The patriots in the streets fighting back against the brownshirts are already doing a good enough job.
LiberalRetvrn
10d ago
Why would I? I don't care about the term "woman". I know what conservatives and radical feminists mean when they say the word "woman" - they mean one of the two natal sexes. But again, I find meaningless arguments about semantics to be really boring.
LiberalRetvrn
12d ago
Of course we do. The entire debate is meaningless semantics. Obviously there is such a thing as biological sex, obviously there are some differences in behavior of the two biological sexes on average. Obviously there is such a thing as a male brain and female brain. None of that is inconsistent with allowing people to transition. Transgenderism is a transhumanist technological development, not an ideology. The only people who are confused about what a woman is are feminists and christians who think there is some deep meaning to gender roles and gender identity.
LiberalRetvrn
12d ago
Trump sends in the National Guard, Newsome looks like a pussy.
Why would he look like a pussy for refusing to help ICE agents who he disagrees with? Letting them get locked in a building for 2 hours is an alpha chad move, he's showing that feds aren't welcome in California.
LiberalRetvrn
12d ago
LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment’s notice
I don't see how this is false. He said "LA authorities", not federal authorities. ICE is not an LA authority, and should not expect any help when they're interfering in states where they aren't wanted.
LiberalRetvrn
13d ago
awful Mexican music
Mexican music is objectively better than the slop being pumped out in the US these days. I spend a lot of time around lower class mexicans at work, and it's mindblowing how many of them listen to melodically complex folk music played on real instruments.
LiberalRetvrn
22d ago
I made plenty of them, not on this forum but on plenty of my suspended reddit accounts. I also think antivaxxers are incorrect, but vaxx mandates are regarded even from a purely practical standpoint. If a really serious virus came along, nobody would have to be forced to get the vaccine. But even if it were airborne ebola I would defend the rights of people to make their own choices.
LiberalRetvrn
22d ago
Pro-trans people think that gender is some ontological thing
Well I'm pro trans and I don't believe that at all. I'm a nihilistic hedonist, and I think people should be allowed to do whatever they want with their own bodies. I want to liberate the west from yolk of middle eastern morality. I think people who believe in god are mentally ill deranged barbarians, but I would never advocate for them to be sent to camps.
Pro-trans people vary wildly, of course many of them do believe in an ontological concept of gender and reject that biological sex exists. But to me scientific evidence is very important.
LiberalRetvrn
22d ago
I think the most important parts of a social contagion are that it's self-replicating, and that it contains some form of error correction to prevent its core payload from mutating beyond all recognition. In my opinion there is one obvious existing social contagion, Christianity. The primary function of Christianity is to perpetuate itself through evangelism. It also has error-checking capability to prevent its core payload (the holy trinity, etc) from mutating too much, but beyond that it adapts to fit in every culture and every corner of the world. Note that this isn't true of most other religions - many don't even want to perpetuate themselves beyond their own original culture. I think it's also reasonable to argue that wokeness a social contagion, since conversion through guilt-tripping seems to be a major component of the woke doctrine. However, the woke doctrine itself is not very well-preserved as wokeness reproduces itself, since wokeness is not a formal religion. Different woke people can have radically different beliefs, much more so than different sects of christianity, which still agree on 99% of their doctrine. I would argue that JK Rowling herself is part of woke culture - she is a radical feminist who believes in male privilege, and votes left on basically every issue other than transgenderism. Most of her criticisms of transgenderism are based on woke identity politics (women need safe spaces, men are evil raping oppressors, blah blah)
But I think transgenderism itself is fairly inert. People do decide to transition by witnessing other people transitioning, true. But there isn't always an ideological component. Some people just want to change their physiological sex characteristics to the extent possible. Imagine the counterfactual, that nobody wanted to change their biological sex. That would be pretty weird if everyone just happened to be totally satisfied with the results of a coinflip at their conception. People want to change all kinds of things about themselves, why not sex as well? I think a world where everyone was fine with their biological sex would actually require a mental gender identity. Somehow the brain would have to be adapted to prefer being in a body with the correct biological sex characteristics.
So the question is whether our observations of approximately 1% of people choosing to mess around with their physiological sex characteristics is more consistent with a social contagion containing that goal, or with some people just inherently wanting to do that, and social restrictions being lifted in the last few decades.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
He's against women being in the clergy, against homosexuality, and against nonbinary genders. Doesn't sound very progressive to me, actually a big step back from Francis.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
those who are not Catholic or even Christian sticking their oar in for point-scoring purposes
If this were Judaism, Shinto, Hinduism, or any other religion that isn't explicitly trying to convert the entire world, I would agree. But for the big two globalist religions, Christianity and Islam, I reserve the right to comment on their internal affairs and air my grievances. These religions will affect me whether I like it or not, because their followers will be trying to convert me either with relentless badgering from Christians or actual violence from Muslims. I shouldn't have to waste my time becoming "informed" about catholic theology before having an opinion that the Pope should be more liberal and open-minded.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
That sounds like an average 6th grade dance, from what I remember. Up until a certain age, kids think romance is gross and embarrassing. Then in about high school it flips, and having a gf becomes cool. As an incel, I distinctly remember completely missing this change, not realizing that people were going on unironic dates. Even then, it's nowhere near as direct as boys asking girls to dance. That would be trying too hard, which isn't cool. The actual courtship happens behind the scenes, without adults watching.
If these are high school kids, then it's a little weirder, but since they're being homeschooled maybe the process is delayed.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
I think the problem here is the fake quotes, not the AI itself. There's nothing wrong with a journalist adding some AI filler slop to an article, as long as he takes responsibility for the accuracy of the final product. This incident should significantly lower the credibility of Yahoo News, and they should issue a retraction and fire this reporter.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
He doesn't have the kind of dementia where you forget your kids' names, but he obviously has severe cognitive decline relative to any old video of him talking. He's settling further into routinized thought as his mental plasticity disappears. His perception of the world is now filtered through a few basic ideas that are now hard-wired into his brain: trade deficit BAD, media LIARS, deport the illegals. He's not capable of moderating his ideas or taking account how context has changed since he first had these thoughts in the 80s. Which doesn't necessarily mean he's wrong. Old people with fixed beliefs can sometimes provide a useful perspective. The issue is with letting him unilaterally make horrible policy decisions in domains where details matter, like trade. Biden's dementia wasn't a big issue, because he surrounded himself with trusted advisors who helped him make the actual policy.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
Well I think being untestable and unfalsifiable is a pretty big component of all religions. One has to believe in the religion even if there's no evidence. If there were evidence, anyone could believe it, and the true faithful wouldn't be doing anything very impressive or unique.
Is this random list of names supposed to convince me of something?
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
healing the sick and raising the dead and multiplying food
Well if he actually did magic and people took videos of it on their cell phones, there wouldn't be any faith required. At that point it wouldn't really be a religion anymore.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
Interesting, though that seems like a very abstract distinction, and not something that really contradicts what I said. From my point of view, Jesus was just a guy who claims to know everything about how the universe works. If a guy like that appeared in 2025, we would call him mentally ill.
I agree, human rights are arbitrary in a sense, but I think there are certain rights that enlightened humans converge upon as being worthy of protection. They are much less arbitrary than borders, which are the result of random initial conditions, geography, lines drawn randomly on maps by politicians, etc. Borders could be very different and society would still work fine.
More options
Context Copy link