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Your profound commitment to both-sidesism is so, so tiring. For one, when you talk about MAGA, you are talking about the dominant faction in the GOP, and its likely presidential nominee in the next election. When you talk about the extreme left, you're talking about a couple of hemp enthusiasts on Twitter. Equating the two sides is myopic, but you insist on your hobby-horse myopia.
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I am talking about most of academia, most of the media, and millions of corporate sorts going along with bullshit to get along.
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I just said that ESG and DEI isn't really changing anything, and you seem to agree ("idiot virtue signaling"). The number of people who get in a "career pickle" over this stuff is pretty small.
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Huh? ESG lost so many people so much money, corporations have had to walk away from it. But then, what's a few hundred billion here and there?
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How did the government "squash" the Hunter Biden laptop story? We have all heard far more about that story than it merits. It's the opposite of squashed. And why are you trying to silence the 50 ex-intel officials -- you authoritarian! They are just trying engage in speech about a vital issue of the day, and you want to silence them!
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The Post had the laptop, and it was legit. A pack of ex-intel folks wrote a letter stating that the laptop was likely created by Russians. They knew when they wrote the letter that this was false. This gave cover to Twitter to shut down the Post's account.
Musk has since bought Twitter and dug up a ton of emails showing that FBI, CIA, and NSA folks were working with twitter for years not to avoid misinformation, but to massage narratives by blocking or shadow banning stories or facts that went against favored goals or messaging of govt officials. At the time, these officials feared (wrongly, I think) that the laptop story could cost Biden the election.
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We have always lived in that sort of society, because that's what people are like. It's just the silly pieties in vogue keep changing.
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Right. But the cure for those pieties is mockery, abuse of them. By making them off limits, sacred, we've just created new secular religions for the credulous and the authoritarians that would those the credulous as useful idiots.
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My point is that it isn't changing much, and you don't seem to disagree. You are just butthurt that people are making money telling corporations how to sound more inclusive.
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Nope. May they make more money than they could ever spend. My sole gripe is with the effort to place bullshit beyond critique. If I hear a MAGA nut tell me the election was stolen, I can tell him to fuck off. If I have to listen to some garbage about inclusiveness that's intellectually vacant and a waste of my time as a prerequisite for making money or being an employee (I have had to do so), I can't tell this person to fuck off. I must pretend their silly shit is real and important.
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Who is the MAGA-doppelganger on the left who has taken over the Democratic Party as a wedge for their grievances? Names. You are just so full of shit with this both-sidesism that you say things that are patent bullshit.
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Quite literally the entire progressive side of the party.
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The GOP and Democratic Party are fundamentally different in important ways, and this is one of them. The Republican Party is led by a grievance-spouting reality-TV star, and the Democratic Party is led by Joe Fucking Biden, who wouldn't know a grievance if he tripped over it and who has been a Senator or Vice President for something like half of his life.
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Joe Biden doesn't know what day it is. He's a doddering old man in a centrist pose with a pack of progressives behind the scenes driving granular policy. A lot like Trump's administration in reverse. Trump blathered and grabbed headlines while Leonard Leo packed the Courts.
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The reason we're talking about the kids at the US Open is not that they threw a tantrum, it's that they disrupted the US Open. You wouldn't have even noticed, or cared, if they threw a tantrum somewhere else. You so desperately want to "both sides" Trump and those protestors that you are saying truly stupid things.
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What they did was a uniquely lurid example of what tantrum throwers do all over this country. Yes, Trump enabled a lot of it. His fucking inauguration speech was a tantrum. I'd prefer all of it, from both sides, go back in the bottle.
