Jordan B. Peterson-inspired conservative: "You should debate the strongest exponent of the views you're opposed to."
*freaks out over obscure Derrida quotes & radical feminist trolls*
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Leftist: "Just so!"
*derides Jordan B. Peterson-inspired conservatives*
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Communist: "I CAN SPELL BOURGEOISIE. CAN YOU? I DIDN'T THINK SO. QED."
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Centrist: "These guys are all lunatic cultists hooked on murderous ideologies."
*continues shilling for repeatedly-falsified & demonstrably failing neoliberal policy*
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Politics is so fundamentally vapid & devoid of internal feedback mechanisms it's beyond hope, at least until the next revolution.
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Disclaimer: my own political views are prominently left-wing, but on certain points I despise leftist totalitarianism & willful ignorance.
Boo-fucking-hoo.
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Replying to @Triquetrea
I still can't get my head around the idea that the principle description of most political positions is its position on a single axis from Left to Right. If there were maybe ten axes we might have something a bit more revealing.
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You expect primates to come up with sophisticated classification systems totally at odds with the instincts they culturally can't admit to having?
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Lol! Of course I wouldn't *expect* it, but it would be great to hear conversations that went based around what sort of Left people are defending themselves from being accused of being.
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I've long since lost hope for that. We have those sorts of discussions in Norway. I have never, ever, seen them carried out abroad.
And the political climate in Norway is also deteriorating.
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Really? That's a shame. It seems to be one of those places seen as a beacon of hope for people who know literally nothing about the political situation there.
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Yeah, well, it's still probably a better and safer place to live than almost any other place on the planet for the not-disgustingly-rich, assuming you don't mind the cold and you don't live in Oslo.
That's not the same as saying it's anywhere close to utopia.
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My pseudo-oracular opinion is that we're near the absolute nadir of the current political system.
Unhappily, that could last us five years, a hundred, five hundred, or the rest of our existence as a species - which may well be considerably shorter than some of those figures.
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