12 Aug 2018 9:28 pm
Well, I do suppose the one redeeming feature of this website is that everybody is free to attack one another. Most forums are echo chambers, where one mishap question or venture into dark territory gets you an IP ban (not too many people are savvy enough to circumvent those, but then again, it's probably not worth returning if that's what happened).Cannonpointer » 12 Aug 2018 8:57 pm » wrote:Well, you are certainly correct about that.
They screech about reporters while ignoring that wall street tells the slugs what to say, leaving them still the same slavering servants of the same masters, while spouting populist slogans that they absolutely reviled during the dark days of obama.
I have absolute respect for anyone who changes his position - but not when he pretends that the new position was his all along. That tells me all I need to know about this "change." It's fashionable, not principled.
My principles have not changed, though SOME of my positions have. I was pro gay rights. I am not, anymore. I will happily vote for an out of the closet homophobe at this juncture. That is a change in position. I can say when and why it happened, but I hardly think that's necessary, given the left's recent shift to outright attacks on the science of gender.
The point is, I have owned my mistake. I was incorrect to add my voice to the chorus in favor of gay rights, well meaning though I was. I am not trying to pass myself off as having always held today's position, as our recent converts to faux-populism are wont.
Likewise, seeing trump as a triumphal middle finger - a heartfelt go **** yourself - to the machine in NO WAY obliges me to defend his insanities, nor do I ever. The leftists on this board BELIEVE I defend trump, for precisely the reason the righties BELIEVED I defended obama, back when they were the shrill, deranged clowns. Attacking bad arguments is not defending the target of those arguments - it's defending correct thinking. On the RARE occasion when conjobs attacked obama with a rational argument, I joined them, and added a bonus grievance or two.
I'm happy to roast the right - helped the mad canuck do so today, when he posted a most incredible clip of retarded right wing politicians advocating arming school children. I'm delighted to roast trump, too - though he sort of self-manages that chore. One needn't even shake well or add water - just roll tape.
No, they're no smarter, sadly. I have come to believe it's a function of IQ. That, and dealing with one's ego. The fear of admitting error is writ large on this board, and it often astounds me that it is so. I mean, we're **** anonymous. I have no idea what anyone looks like, how old they are, who they're sleeping with, how much they earn, etc. Nor do I care. Why should they fear admitting error under such conditions?
You could say the same about other "rights" like "women's rights" or "civil rights," which "evolved" from stopping wife beatings and lynchings to firing anyone who makes a bad sexual or racial joke at work.
The guy who write the tirade/Google manifesto was absolutely correct - the reason more women aren't in the glorified STEM fields is that they inherently are less inclined/interested/capable of that type of work. Nobody is stopping them from majoring in code monkeying or civil engineering at college, yet they think some mythical anvil is weighing them down.