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Davis wrote:
I’ve seen several shows that really take digs at Floriday (most notably Family Guy and Brooklyn Nine Nine) and on a few sites I’ve seen people encouraging you to either name a town in Florida and do a news search and see how much white-trash-crime goes on there. I have to guess that there is a lot of hyperbole but the kind of ins…

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I’ve seen several shows that really take digs at Floriday (most notably Family Guy and Brooklyn Nine Nine) and on a few sites I’ve seen people encouraging you to either name a town in Florida and do a news search and see how much white-trash-crime goes on there. I have to guess that there is a lot of hyperbole but the kind of insults are along the…[Read more]

Sorry Your Holiness, I mean Panama City Beach. This stupidity happened just by where I stay. However I seldom see a crowded beach as I only go there for a week around Thanksgiving. The rest of the time I stay in Atlanta.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I spend time most years in PCB in Fl.

Do you mean PBC in FL? If so, I grew up (mostly) there, in Palm Beach County. I didn’t see much bigly there forty five years ago, but saw some near the armpit states (north-east Gulf of Mexico area). I remember driving through there with a CB radio and listening to some rednecks…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Holy crap, Unseen.

To make matters worse, there is a third faction, loosely aligned with the AntiFas, calling themselves anarchists. These aren’t the small-government free trade libertarian leave-us-alone anarchists, these are the violent bomb-throwing, fire-starting, breaking store windows anarchists. Unfortunately, they run with…[Read more]

I think the right is winning “bigly” in a lot of places. I spend time most years in PCB in Fl. and short-term vacation rentals are open again. Hardly anyone is following safety protocols anymore because “freedom”. Then they all go to church together.

In fairness, restaurants are only using 50% of their seating and tourists are not back fully yet.

I am playing Fry Cry 5 on the PS4.  The photo above reminds me of the “peggies” or cult members of Eden’s Gate that I am out to save the world from. Somebody’s got to do it!

I’m sure I would agree with the social justice agenda, and the ways in which they would like things to change.  But I think that the way they try and achieve it can sometimes be deeply silly, and exclusionary of other viewpoints.

However, like many avant-garde movements, some of the ideas can end up filtering into the mainstream.

Holy crap, Unseen.

@Reg, I think you are spot on with one addition. The efforts of the “alt-left” and the “alt-right” are paying off. Their ranks are growing. They seem to be flattening the curve, so to speak. In my town, the right is winning. Many of my previously sane friends have lost their minds into Trumpism. They are starting to resemble this……

While my sympathies as a generally liberal guy tend to align more with those of the anti-fascists (aka AntiFa around here), both sides are ready to mix it up in the streets.

John and Jane Doe, who have two kids, car payments, and a mortgage don’t necessarily identify with AntiFa’s values, especially considering that the Does may be religious and…[Read more]

I think it might be worth considering a further distinction between the Left and Right.

I have not thought through the following yet so it is just my initial idea on the topic.

Our understanding of the basic differences between Left and Right have been corrupted. Imagine a line drawn marked with points 1 to 100. The Left = 1 to 50 and the Right…[Read more]

Anyone who questions a word they say is branded a “fascist” or a “racist” and is liable to have their career ended.

Again your hyperbole is out of control. I don’t know anyone who calls someone who disagrees with terms a fascist. A loud tiny minority does it…so are we all guilty by association? A few got hit unfairly by such claims but they ar…[Read more]

Yes, the right is very skilled at portraying liberals as useless snowflakes to sway the center to the right. Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo are awash in such material and leftists often play right into it and offer lots to work with. Pretending that women are incapable of lying and that all white males are automatically toxic rapists is ill advised.…[Read more]

The people who attack left-wing progressives are right-wing dingbats.

A lot of them are.  But I’m not a right-wing-nut.

Who is branding the left wing as right wingers? … Why does that make the right-wing electable?

???

The problem is, they’re doing all the hard work of making the Left unelectable.  Anyone who questions a word they say is branded a “fascist” or a “racist” and is liable to have their career ended.

Who is branding the left wing as right wingers? The people who attack left-wing progressives are right-wing dingbats. Why does that make the right-wing…[Read more]

I agree with their stated aims, but the way they do it can be so very tiresome, not to mention hilarious once they start arguing.

where the hell did you pull out this nonsense that people looking for social justice are all post-modern relativists? Did you just make that up or is it some assumption of yours?

Jordan Peterson.

you should be a lot…

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Social justice warriors one and only aim are: to bring the world more social justice. Which is not a particularly bad thing consider rights and treatment of women, black people and LGTBQ+ are barely barely tolerable. Yes its all portrayed well on television and cinema and most of the media, yes there are bubbles of high tollerance and black or gay…[Read more]

So, what do YOU think? Do SJW’s act on a motivating principle that nothing makes a difference or not?

No, I don’t.  They really act like they give a shit about a lot of things.

Simon Paynton wrote:
I’m not saying they really do say that, but it can be their reputation, as parodied in the cartoon.  Helen Pluckrose, who has contributed to TA, seems to think that it’s pretty close to the mark.

So, what do YOU think? Do SJW’s act on a motivating principle that nothing makes a difference or not? I’m not interested in what…[Read more]