Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2022 11:36 am
The 2022 CLS award goes to The Daily Wire!
A usually smart, fun, conservative-libertarian think-tank but on occasion so bat-crazy it boggles the mind.
Earlier in 2021, with Ben Shapiro saying he doesn't want the federal gvt to have the power to control and standardize the way national elections are organized, even when aiming to develop technologies and procedures to ensure all voters feel the final results can be trusted. Included Trump voters.
Rephrasing BS Shapiro: "If you give the federal the gvt that much power... the risk is too high that this power will be abused! We all know what the danger of too much central power is..." Not just stupid IMO, but crazy beyond crazy.
Recently this Matt Walsh with his movie "What is a woman?". Easy shot from the hip exposing the woke-type lefties, check-mating them, pushing them into a self-referential loop. Showing the political intolerant idiocies and medical excesses they produce like brainwashing young children into situations where they start to feel there is something wrong with them and definitely need to consider a sex change.
But Walsh throws the ball back into the dark middle ages: he says gender dysphoria is a mental illness. Instead of promoting the idea that whatever is at the core of phenomena like these, let's start with not defining minorities as mentally ill and instead accept who they are, listen what they have to say.
Even without being bullied, these kids and adults who feel they are trapped in the wrong type of body obviously experience an amount of stress, loneliness and confusion. Add an environment with kids who start to bully them, adults who try to help them saying "Don't worry, this phase will pass, it is an illness and there is help!"... unintentionally rubbing salt into the wounds. Where eventually the psychological trauma is so severe that revenging on society with woke-illiberalism is only natural. Karma. Some groups of people may deserve each other.
An analogy comes to mind: albino Africans who are total outcasts, chained in huts outside their village. Their bones believed having magical powers so afro-albino bone powder became a profitable market too. Imagine they unite and with some other minority sympathizers revolt, demanding acceptance, protection and some TLC. But it ain't really coming because it is still same ol': "You are ill. Don't bother me, go see a doctor, hopefully you can be cured... Now go weirdo!" With bullies always round the corner, as is the nature of things.
Could be a nice title for a new sequel on Netflix: Albino. When outcasts cross-species unite. Starring an albino snapping turtle.
A usually smart, fun, conservative-libertarian think-tank but on occasion so bat-crazy it boggles the mind.
Earlier in 2021, with Ben Shapiro saying he doesn't want the federal gvt to have the power to control and standardize the way national elections are organized, even when aiming to develop technologies and procedures to ensure all voters feel the final results can be trusted. Included Trump voters.
Rephrasing BS Shapiro: "If you give the federal the gvt that much power... the risk is too high that this power will be abused! We all know what the danger of too much central power is..." Not just stupid IMO, but crazy beyond crazy.
Recently this Matt Walsh with his movie "What is a woman?". Easy shot from the hip exposing the woke-type lefties, check-mating them, pushing them into a self-referential loop. Showing the political intolerant idiocies and medical excesses they produce like brainwashing young children into situations where they start to feel there is something wrong with them and definitely need to consider a sex change.
But Walsh throws the ball back into the dark middle ages: he says gender dysphoria is a mental illness. Instead of promoting the idea that whatever is at the core of phenomena like these, let's start with not defining minorities as mentally ill and instead accept who they are, listen what they have to say.
Even without being bullied, these kids and adults who feel they are trapped in the wrong type of body obviously experience an amount of stress, loneliness and confusion. Add an environment with kids who start to bully them, adults who try to help them saying "Don't worry, this phase will pass, it is an illness and there is help!"... unintentionally rubbing salt into the wounds. Where eventually the psychological trauma is so severe that revenging on society with woke-illiberalism is only natural. Karma. Some groups of people may deserve each other.
An analogy comes to mind: albino Africans who are total outcasts, chained in huts outside their village. Their bones believed having magical powers so afro-albino bone powder became a profitable market too. Imagine they unite and with some other minority sympathizers revolt, demanding acceptance, protection and some TLC. But it ain't really coming because it is still same ol': "You are ill. Don't bother me, go see a doctor, hopefully you can be cured... Now go weirdo!" With bullies always round the corner, as is the nature of things.
Could be a nice title for a new sequel on Netflix: Albino. When outcasts cross-species unite. Starring an albino snapping turtle.