TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
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TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
2d ago
as religion is getting a bit of a upswing
Not a thing, source 1 source 2 source 3. At most you could say that the decline has levelled off by some metrics, but statistics keep showing that the importance of religion in peoples' lives is slowly but monotonically going nowhere but down.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "postmodern" here other than as a vague gesture at a blob of liberalism-wokism-rationality etc. Perhaps the Right will come to dominate. Currently, the Right is dominated by conspiracists like Candace Owens, Just Asking Questions connoisseurs like Tucker Carlson, and shitposters like Catturd. As bad as it is right now, I have faith that it will eventually be replaced by something even worse.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
2d ago
A lot of the hate for Jews comes from the following areas:
- Genuine (stupid) Neo Nazis that hate Jews for little reason other than because Hitler hated them 80 years ago. Some people want to keep up the LARP.
- Disgruntlement that the US has acted like an arm of Israeli foreign policy with almost no pushback for peoples' entire lives.
- Jewish domination of culture relative to their population count, and their pushing of leftist propaganda from their positions of power. Jews are overrepresented due to their high verbal IQ, and this has given them quite a bit of clout. Dumb rightists have hallucinated a coordinated attempt to destroy America, when the reality is much simpler: smart people are just overwhelmingly liberal no matter where you go. There was also extra incentive for Jews to push for leftism since they perceived the Right as their main threat for a long time and many probably thought that an America that was dedicated to multiculturalism was the best defense against anti-Semitism.
I personally agree that Jews are pretty great overall, and it seems like they've been having a slow-motion awakening on the threats of mass-migration. A good chunk of them are becoming socially conservative, but are leaning towards a more intelligent conservatism rather than the conspiratorial populist rightism. Maybe they'll be the ones to eventually salvage the Republican party, doing the job that the tech-right was supposed to do but utterly failed at.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
4d ago
I mean, the Nazi Bar analogy explains a decent chunk of it at least. But this is the type of Nazi Bar where anti-Nazis are viewed with deep suspicion by most of the patrons, as well as the barkeep.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
14d ago
I don't recall Amadan explaining that to me, but maybe I just forgot or only glanced at his reply at some point. It doesn't really change my point, thought the fact he's not banned right now is something I'll keep in mind.
The conversation I linked is a great example of him not being hostile to anyone involved in the conversation, while people like Amadan are using tons of personal attacks.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
14d ago
Darwin was banned for a long time at some point. Is he unbanned now? I thought it was a permaban, but maybe I'm misremembering.
He confidently asserted something as fact, was shown that he was wrong, and then got hostile about it.
I've never seen an example of him getting hostile despite asking people multiple times for examples of his worst posts. I've only seen people getting hostile towards him.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
14d ago
I have stated a couple of times before that this place is not right-wing, it has not ever been.
I'm coming to this post from the AAQCs thread. This is farcically wrong. This site absolutely tilts right pretty far. That's not to say it's exclusively right-wing, but the following are all true:
- The Quality Contributions threads are a combination of nonpartisan wonkposts, and right-wingers creatively sneering at the left. There is no equivalent of left-wingers creatively sneering at the right due to a combination of fewer left-wingers, and since any left-leaning effortpost is much less likely to be nominated.
- Upvotes/downvotes skew rightward. They also skew towards longer/higher quality posts which some people try to point as the only effect, but low-quality left-leaning posts will almost always be heavily downvoted, while there are plenty of low-quality right-leaning posts that will be highly upvoted.
- Consistently left-leaning posters have much higher moderator scrutiny and can follow all the rules and still get banned for frivolous rules that plenty of right-leaning accounts violate all the time. A great example is Darwin, who was a prolific left-leaning poster. There was plenty of consensus that he was "bad" in some nebulous way, but when I asked repeatedly what was wrong I was only ever given vague runarounds and examples of posts that proved my point like this one, where I disagree with Darwin's political point, but in terms of debate etiquette and rule-following his detractors are massively worse than he ever was.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
18d ago
Fair enough then.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
18d ago
Scott Summer (Sumner?) is making a valid point here, but this is like the least convincing way he could put it if he wants to persuade the MAGA right, which I presume is what he's trying to do. They'll tend to read this argument as "You'd be 8 times richer but think of all the processed goyslop and TikToks you'd miss out on!!!"
I certainly prefer living in 2025 to 1959 all things considered, but I'm something of a futurist. I wish I could live in 2125.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
18d ago
If you can't afford occasional takeout on a salary of >>$100K, you either have a family of 6+ or have very poor budgeting discipline.
I read through it and I'm still not seeing any good examples. I see two main examples with you claiming they're violating the unwritten rules of debate by making a "flat dismissal" and being "uncharitable" in some nebulous way. Once again, this seems like a case of "you just don't like his arguments". I don't either, as I think they're bad arguments, but I'm really not seeing anything objectionable in terms of debate decorum, at least not something that right wing posters do on a nearly constant basis without any intervention.
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