MusiqueNow :newpride: · @MusiqueNow
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Keith Murphy :mastoart: · @NerdyKeith
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really is a piece of work. Things really have come full circle with . I'm so glad we are past ... in many cases smoking mirrors of them pretending to care about facts and pretending to be logical or rational. By stating that "science is mostly fake" what Knowles is doing here is cherry picking reality. Not how it works bud. Especially when he's just doing this to justify his .

joemygod.com/2023/07/michael-k

#Science #transphobia #theRight #michaelknowles

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🌷L🏴 · @acidkid
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🌷L🏴 · @acidkid
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🌷L🏴 · @acidkid
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🌷L🏴 · @acidkid
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Terra Jones · @TerraTorment
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There's a lot of "playing the refs" done by , screaming about and unfairness. So that the refs start making calls favoring them to shut them up (it never works) and in practice the calls begin favoring the right.

#theRight #censorship

Last updated 2 years ago

MusiqueNow :newpride: · @MusiqueNow
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tripu · @tripu
163 followers · 1324 posts · Server qoto.org

This post contains some very insightful interpretations and charts, and complements nicely my recent toot about vs .

Some highlights in a 🧵 thread:

#theleft #politics #acx #theRight

Last updated 3 years ago

tripu · @tripu
163 followers · 1324 posts · Server qoto.org

When I was younger, I thought that the defining distinction between and was solidarity — as in, the former necessarily has to have way more of it than the latter.

Gradually I came to realise that characterisation is problematic for three reasons:

  1. want to impose , which is an oxymoron (by definition, you can’t mandate voluntary inclinations, such as affection or desire, on people).
  2. In practice, and at least in my own country (), the Left has become pro-independence and sympathetic towards secessionists (but more solidarity would require larger unions, stronger federations — not the richest regions going their own way).
  3. Sometimes the Right puts in practice more solidarity towards certain groups or causes (eg, non-elites, non-conformists, disadvantaged people who reject the orthodoxy) than the Left itself.

I now think that the ratio personal freedom vs economic freedom better categorises Left vs. Right (cf ). I like to think of those two dimensions as “ to do what you please with your body” (food, drugs, euthanasia, suicide, sex, read, speech, thought, association, religion) and “freedom to do what you please with your property” (save, invest, buy, sell, donate, build, trade, settle).

This is not a defence of or , by the way — I do believe certain restrictions on both kinds of liberties are necessary for any society to function at all.

#theleft #theRight #leftists #solidarity #spain #NolanChart #freedom #anarchism #libertarianism

Last updated 3 years ago