My favorite Ukrainian show invited a Newsweek journalist from the US to talk about Trump’s victory. He’s a sweet dude but an absolute far-left drone. He started doing the standard leftoid narrative about how Trump is Hitler and is about to hitlerize America in the most Hitlerian manner. There was a spirited discussion on the subscriber channel while he was talking, and people started to demand that I go on instead. The host interrupted the sweet leftoid dude and began to reassure the viewers that I’ll be there soon. It was very flattering. And also it was great to see that Ukrainian viewers won’t be duped.
Of course, the sweet leftoid dude raised every Ukrainian hackle by sitting in front of a poster that contains the famous Ukrainian saying, “Russian warship, go fuck yourself.” This is a phrase that valiant Ukrainian soldiers said to the overwhelming forces of the enemy when Russians told them to surrender. To us, it’s a reminder of what human bravery can be. And get this. The sweet leftoid dude CENSORED the last words of the brave Ukrainian warriors. He censored them. Instead of “go fuck yourself”, he put “go to the bottom of the sea.” [It’s all in Russian, and I’m translating it]. Thankfully, he didn’t change it to “Russian warship go do your anti-racist training” but give him time and he will.
This is the entire problem of the Left in a nutshell. They mean well. But they are so convinced of their moral superiority that it doesn’t begin to occur to them that their imperiousness bugs people. The same people who berate us endlessly for mispronouncing Kamala’s name think it’s perfectly fine to edit the words of our heroes whose bravery they can’t to comprehend, let alone imitate.
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And they’re wolves in sheep’s clothing until you don’t do what they want, then they show their fangs. I had to defriend a person I followed a long time on Facebook when she went on an unhinged rant after the election, I told her I didn’t appreciate her saying Trump supporters must die since most of my family voted for Trump. Then she said we were all sellouts to white supremacy and I told her she can go fuck herself, she’s an uber-liberal professor of anthropology with a PhD and a Wiccan but it turned out she’s a nasty, hateful bitch under that holier than thou attitude.
I’m getting sick of liberal white people and their bullshit, if you belong to any minority group and don’t dance to their tune, they think you’re a brainwashed idiot and they show themselves to be real wolves. Heck, they don’t even support Ukraine anymore once they saw Ukrainians weren’t going to be their helpless little pets and be their woke puppets, now they moved onto Palestinians who are willing to play that part
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“now they moved onto Palestinians who are willing to play that part“
Well, they’re in for a sweet surprise then!
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They should all be given a free six-month stay in Gaza, at the public expense.
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I will preface this by saying that I voted against Trump. I think his first term was bad and the second will likely be worse. He is wildly inconsistent in everything he does, and he is surrounded by grifters and incompetents. (I saw Harris as the lesser of two evils.)
What I do not understand is why so many people on the left are convinced that Trump is about to give us Nazi-rule/Holocaust 2.0. US society in 2024 is so far from Germany/Europe in the 1920s or 30s that is difficult to compare them. I think Trump is going to make a huge mess of things and likely going to tank the economy (new tariffs + increased food costs due to mass deportation of workers + severe cuts to government spending = nothing good for the economy) but a lot of what he has said is just bluster or very much harder done than said. But scrolling my social media feeds this morning I saw people speculating about Biden, Harris and the Obamas needing to flee the country before the inauguration, people wanting to set up secret places to store books to prevent them from being destroyed, someone talking about a recently out lesbian going back into the closet because she’s afraid of persecution, and someone worried about trans people being put into concentration camps. I think there are lots of things to be worried about with Trump returning to office, but these are NOT the bad things that are even remotely likely to happen.
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It is a weird, weird fantasy world they are living in. Perhaps it makes life feel more meaningful and exciting for them?
Some of us have church for that. It seems to be a healthier outlet.
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“Perhaps it makes life feel more meaningful and exciting for them?”
They’re addicted to the idea of oppression and resistance…. and high on their own supply. They want to be oppressed so they can ‘resist’ it.
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Yeah, but some people just read trashy bondage novels for that kick, and go on with their lives. It’s weird that they have to act it out in public. How do you even respond to that?
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“weird that they have to act it out in public”
I think Bauman wrote about that, one of the defining features of modern life is that public life is flooded by things that used to be restricted to the private sphere. I really wish most of them would head back there.
Public election freak-outs just a recent manifestation of the trend (and another… separate(?) trend of cultural neoteny.
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Exactly. The boundary between the private and the public has been eroded because boundaries are supposed to be bad. Now streams of raging emotions are gushing into the public space, destroying it for everybody. It’s all raging, gushing private streams of feeling everywhere.
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Have been meaning to read Bauman. He is very prolific– what would you recommend as a starting point?
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Liquid Love is an absolute favorite.
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(adjusts book list)
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methylethyl
“…some people just read trashy bondage novels for that kick…”
LOL, like the effect of Fifty Shades of Grey on many(most?) women in the English speaking world. Have to say that despite being in my mid 70’s and having loved one deeply for half a century, I still do not pretend to understand women ;-D
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Gosh, what’s so hard to understand? Women base sexual fantasies on words more than visual stimulation. Fifty Shades is Pornhub for women. Are we shocked that men watch porn? Women do the same for the exact same masturbatory purpose but they read it instead of watching. And they are right because when you read, you control the fantasy. There’s still some agency involved.
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Clarissa
LOL, I understand that it is female fantasy. Every guy stuck at the Frozen Gumboot airport while attempting to read a Harlequin will get that. It is the extent of the fantasy that is difficult to grasp ;-D
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As all pornography, it’s supposed to provoke a very specific result. If so many people read it, it means the book accomplishes that goal. And everybody is happier. 😆😆😆
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And yet, I once flippantly referred to a friend’s bottom-desk-drawer collection of Harlequin romance novels as her “porn stash” and she got all upset and flustered about it!
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“Women base sexual fantasies on words more than visual stimulation”
I’ll mention the idea that while media portrays the idea of men falling in love with digital or android girlfriends (her, ex machina) Paul Skallas (aka Lindy Man on twitter) suggests that actually… digital (esp AI) boyfriends will be much more common than digital/AI girlfriends.
As the sexes tear away from each other women will be drawn to dialogue based AI that really gets them and men will have….. (well…. watch the movie Lars and Real Girl and know that there is already p0nr being made in that…. framework).
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“I voted against Trump … I saw Harris as the lesser of two evils”
Those are absolutely understandable and reasonable motivations. Rational people, even those that disagree with your assessment, would understand them and have no grudge against someone voting for those reasons.
What’s not understandable and reasonable are the pathetic people who imagined that voting for Harris was some kind of edgy rebellious act and that Trump is some kind of uniquely evil monster… or who scream at the camera on tik tok like cranky two-year olds or women awkwardly cutting their hair off….
I miss adult political discourse. I can disagree in a civil manner and learn something from opposing viewpoints… screaming infants in adult bodies…. no, just….. no.
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Exactly. I respect people who voted for Harris or who didn’t vote at all. I know they want what’s best she act according to their conscience. I very much hope that the Democrats learn some lessons from this, moderate their position, and understand that a lot of what they do annoys the very people they want to benefit. We need a strong, coherent left. An entire range of political opinions should exist, and that’s good and necessary. But we need to be able to see where we’ve gone wrong. Saying, as many people are, that Harris ran a flawless campaign but she lost because the American people are low-quality people is not serious or realistic. It’s delusional and leads nowhere good.
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Yeah. Sigh.
When I was a kid, my parents were conservative religious sorts, and my best neighbor friend’s parents were save-the-manatees, antiwar environmentalist backpacking-the-appalachians types. And it was never an issue. We all understood that our families disagreed on a lot of things, and also that everybody in both households were OK, safe, responsible competent adults we could go to if we needed help. The differences in political opinion were the least important things going on there. They caused an eyeroll now and then is all. We could be reasonably sure that, at the end of the day, we all wanted similar things: peace, stability, good things for our families, a safe neighborhood to live in, well-run public institutions (my mom and her mom were both teachers, and would probably 99% agree on what was good for students)…
I cannot even imagine such a thing working out that way today.
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My kid wanted to spit on a Harris sign but I told her in a severe fashion that we are Americans and we respect everybody’s right to support their own candidate. We can disagree but we respect each other as Americans and remember that we have a lot more in common than not.
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One of the big problems in American politics is that everyone has gotten way too far into politics as team sports. You have to be team red or blue and you have to think everything the other team does is horrible. Tons of people pay very little attention to anything coming from the other side because they’ve already decided it’s bad. This way of thinking is terrible for everyone and for the future of the country, but I am not sure how we get out of it.
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