corman
3d ago
I must confess that my persona on themotte up to this point has been a lie. I'm actually a progressive democrat. Here's what I actually, truly believe as a progressive democrat. That we have gone much too far with our cultural revolution, that it's not enough we stop pushing for further progressive transformation but that we must also roll back the success we've had. I think that conservatives have a point that our institutions are buckling from the weight of dogma. I also find conservative women beautiful and the men to be strong and handsome. Reminder, I am a progressive.
corman
3d ago
Their approval is worthless, the cultural power they wield is the prize. I expect better analysis from one who is not "proudly ignorant".
corman
4d ago
(as elsewhere, secularization is a bottom up thing)
It is your belief that a certain zealotry is necessary to motivate achievement?
corman
4d ago
The fundamental problem the Red Tribe/American conservatism faces is a culture of proud, resentful ignorance.
Mass, public epistemic victory is about popularity and not truth. If you can gaslight the population to the degree that a 38 year old man can hold the belief that there are no physical differences between genders then it's trivial to gaslight the public to believe that anyone who speaks up otherwise is "proudly, resentfully ignorant". Too bad for you that society requires a minimum level of truth-based epistemology to function and you don't understand that you've crossed the line.
I think you're right and a better way of phrasing would have been that if 30% of paleontology enthusiasts are red and 70% are blue then it becomes a matter of time until social selection pressures ensure that nearly all (or all in the case of NPR's editorial board) end up blue.
corman
4d ago
If trace is concerned about cultural institutions maybe he should have some words with blues using them as cover to shovel propaganda. He knows reds don't have the temperament or interest to "show up" for museums or libraries and begs them not to nuke from orbit leaving no option but to impotently shake their fist at enemy indoctrination operations that overwhelmingly target children.
No thanks. If trace cares about these institutions maybe he should be imploring them to police themselves.
corman
6d ago
Responding to that debate by saying that you can't criticize one view because the opposite view is more socially popular and more visible in the media is an irrelevance when the question is not about which view is more popular but about the arguments themselves.
This is only true if the "popularity" is organic and not yet another outcome of a concerted effort by Zionists to manufacture consent.
corman
6d ago
Of course you're obviously sidestepping the point that Zionist's criticism and hatred of Nazi Germany is blasted on full volume through all channels of media, politics, and schooling in the western world while all discussion of Nazi Israel's ambitions is kept thoroughly in-house.
corman
6d ago
All of this rhetorical tap-dancing of course boiling down to the idea that SS believes that Zionists ought to be held to account for their vicious criticism of post-Weimar German behavior and their simultaneous total embrace of it while you believe they should never answer to anyone for anything.
corman
6d ago
Americans should care about it because they've been taught that national socialists declaring themselves the master race and committing genocide is bad, actually, and both their personal and political will ought to be bent/pulled forcibly toward the end of preventing such an occurrence. Seems to me that per the national mythos Americans ought to be ferociously outraged about people who believe themselves to be "god's chosen" ethnically cleansing their hated neighbors for Lebensraum.
corman
30d ago
I'll respond by saying it's unsurprising that one who argues on behalf of science targeted by DOGE is also in the corner of lobbyists.
corman
30d ago
My objection is obviously that he has skin in the game and as such should not be trusted for analysis of said game.
corman
30d ago
Saying, “hey, random PhD student, I don’t think your work is that important in the end and thus I’m fine with weakening science in the United States across the board”.. it’s certainly a position one may take, but I’d say it is not at all a smart one regarding human or national advancement.
Ok, so then we fund infinity studies for infinity progress. But that doesn't sound realistic, so we need to draw a line somewhere. The current administration has decided to draw the line closer to you than the old one did. I would sympathize more if I viewed science the way I did 10 years ago, an apolitical search for truth but it turns out science that upsets the boss or the donors gets tossed into the dumpster. And scientists aren't ubermensch immune to political bias; they vote blue as a rule.
corman
30d ago
Do you have anything more interesting to say when the wording "any bureaucrat" is changed to "anyone"?
corman
30d ago
I’m in a hard science field with direct applications to societal benefits. I believe that what I’m working on is something many would recognize as important. And I also think there’s a pretty clear link between training people who do this sort of thing (STEM generally) and national wellbeing and competitiveness.
Your entire post hinges on your audience trusting this to be true. I have no reason to believe any bureaucrat in the proximity of the chopping block has any better reason to decry DOGE's mission than "saving my own skin".
corman
30d ago
You keep referring to Russia as the enemy when the voters who put Trump in power view DC and EU elite with significantly more disdain than they do Putin. No Russian ever called me cishet white male.
corman
4mo ago
corman
4mo ago
Yes, I believe the Deep State tried to have him killed. My first thought after Biden's disastrous debate performance was that they would attempt to do so. Way too much was at stake for them to not even attempt it.
corman
4mo ago
They tried to kill him so obviously they consider him a threat to their power.
corman
4mo ago
100% this. It's social pressure designed to wear you down so you grudgingly accept the woke madness America voted to unshackle itself from. You won and you have a mandate, act like it.
corman
4mo ago
The latter is a good problem to have, even if you're chasing after increasingly marginal edges with each additional dollar.
Only if it's not also in direct conflict with your "get billionaire funding out of politics!" messaging.
corman
4mo ago
And, although she lost, I'm not sure you can say it was badly spent. As stupid as it is that paying Beyonce to fart in your direction can make voters want to vote for you, if you're flush with cash and you think it'll help, why not? What else would the campaign spend it on? Yet more clueless college grads to run social media accounts and spam Reddit with Kamala memes?
This is glossing over the miserable optics of paying (out of touch) celebrities to be your friends. Of course this wasn't known prior to the election results but it's another count amongst many in which the democratic are currently a laughingstock.
FYI my respect for towards you didn't move when Coil made the crack but dropped when you proved unable to roll with the punch. Self-seriousness will make you a target.
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