Nobody cares about ""conservative principles"" anymore, Quillette. Everyone understands that's just a weasel-phrase used by the absolute worst worms to get people to swallow the latest Propaganda Update
No wonder Australia is becoming such a complete sub-Canadian horror-show
"The necessity to submit to a host of lies we're too stupid to understand as we strip them of every liberty we can will make a few of our Enemy angry, of course.
But they will still have the 'freedom' to do that. To lose all their freedom to lies. Lol"
This is a deep, humiliating embarrassment, @clairlemon. It reveals that neither you or any of your staff understands any of the actual counter-positions here, which makes you nothing more than janitors for a hilariously authoritarian Australian government
The revival of the ombudsman would consist of hiring an anon anime avatar that absolutely everyone on the staff loathes but who would make their pieces 200% smarter just by saying "Yeah but have you seen this shit out of Israel? Numbers just don't add up"
If you weren't pure slaves to power, and actually believed in your own Science—
Where naturally immunity beats the v*x hands-down, and the Reason that stems from this—
You would propose a *three*-tiered model of citizenship
Where people who've already been infected get First-Class citizen status. Vaxed but uninfected get Second-Class. And the Untouchables get whatever you deign them worthy of
Since you won't accept Second-Class status, but insist on being First-Class, you're just a liar. Simple as
Since the v*x doesn't stop the spread—the entire purpose, right—then they should just be happy to know they'll be protected if they get it
But they should still have to prove they're not infected everywhere they go. Or else they might well be evil Spreaders, who deserve nothing
So the actual "principle" here is that people who were vaxed, but don't have natural immunity, should also be under the rule of brutal authoritarian measures
They should happily ""choose"" to do so, for the greater good—that's simply what the facts show, @clairlemon
You should be really, really happy to be vaccinated, and render yourself second-class citizens until you have *real* immunity. That's the principled logic here. Those are the simple facts
But you're making an exception for yourself instead. Selfish, worthless politics on display
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And by contrast to the vax, I have no objection to seatbelts, as far as I know there are no real tradeoffs (please tell me there isn't a seatbelt-pill)
But that only makes the insistence on seatbelt laws stranger: custom should have accomplished the same as laws, very fast.
Delegating these decisions to insta-law by the Law-Givers, instead of leaving it to the people to organically adopt as custom, which then becomes tradition, suggests to me an imposition of values from a Managerial Class onto a Managed Class.
The funniest part of this piece is when the profilee uses her knowledge of genetics to deboonk a couple of conservative interventions while failing to understand that her own ideology is nothing but a giant heap of interventions all based on the exact same wrong assumption
Since leftism can't accept that nearly all inequality is the result of natural (and thus unsolvable) processes, believing instead it's the result of social processes solvable through correct application of rational policy, it literally cannot believe in humans having genes
I just watched a Sargon video for the first time in like three years and actually thought it was... pretty decent
He's even lost a lot of weight. Happy for the lad. These are strange times. This is the first time I post this pic unironically
This is the vid, btw. Unless you're an old school fan of The Skeptics and owning SJWs on YouTube, I recommend just going to the last five minutes when he's reading superchats, and talking in a way I never would have expected just a few years ago
This is an account that respects people rejecting their former progressivism, even if they don't go as far as I'd like myself.
So congrats, Sargon. You look better, and your life seems better.
lmao. Like this hasn't already happened? Why do you think leftist politics have become so shriveled and boring? Why the same is true of the entire culture? Why are the only interesting things happening outside it?
"We can't let this take over or else everything will become boring, predictable, and mediocre," says person who hasn't yet noticed that nothing their culture now creates is worth watching, reading, listening to, or thinking about
Even this piece itself
"By the way I strenuously repeat that most of what's causing this is wonderful and so I will offer no real criticism of the illiberalism that is completely destroying the culture I love" is about as condensed as liberal thought gets
I was an unquestioning left-liberal until roughly 2014, btw. A lot of what I talk about is me explaining how I got from there to here.
"AMA" if you want to Reddit-out with me on a rare non-anti-social moment
lmao, this is very fun but also impossible to keep up with. Several questions about my initial red-pills, I will try to answer that one in this main thread, but the gist is "I finally understood they were lying to me"
So 2014 was a weird period where a lot of what is now known as the "Successor Ideology" or Wokeness was sweeping across every sub-community
If you believed in liberalism, it was clear they didn't. This would require infinite characters to explain, but if you were there, you know
"Journalists are pro-war because the boss-man pays them to be pro-war" is massive leftist cope
When you view all humanity as interchangeable economic units, as leftism does, this justifies and even requires imperialist war against anyone who rejects their gray goo ideology
Not everything can be reduced to leftist materialism. Why do you think the Afghanistan war failed in the first place. Why do you think "lol but you're voting against your economic self-interests!" has never won over a single conservative state
This isn't about *money*
It turns out that, contrary to the ruling elite's beliefs, a great deal of life is *not* about money
Funny that you, and the pro-war journos you "criticize," believe that's actually all that matters to existence
And then you pretend there's any distance between you and them