NikkolasKing posted:

He has, ironically, tired of debates, not because of no platforming, but because arguing with these dishonest fucks gives him a headache and they are threatening to destroy his life.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Oathkeepers were going to protest Maxine Waters' office in South Central lol

they didn't show because black and brown neighborhoods don't play games with these guys, and also Waters wins elections with Vladimir Putin esque margins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC-pGGMvgTg

MysticalMachineGun posted:

I thought he'd already quit. Giving these assholes any air time is just asking to be doxxed, swatted or worse

Reclines Obesily posted:

https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1020089030275358720

this is some boomer snake poo poo

Zeroisanumber posted:

They're also standard cop anti-riot tactics but the cops are better trained and equipped.

But yeah, their fetishization of poo poo like shieldwall tactics as the ultimate street fighting equalizer only works if everyone knows what they're doing and the counter-protesters don't just start throwing bricks.

Reclines Obesily posted:

the guy went silent for an entire minute when destiny got him to admit that equality of opportunity doesn't exist, i think his brain broke

cumshitter posted:

i cant stop laughing at a bunch of white milsurp fetishists going to harass black people in south central haha

there is a big loving jeep i see driving down the highway on my way home from work every once in a while with like an 8' military antenna on it and oathkeepers stickers on the back i hope it was that guy

Peanut Butler posted:

that silly dipshit keeps platforming chuds and either doesn't realize that you don't debate the gorillas, you study them from afar, or it's an easy way to get views in a world where getting views determines what's for dinner that night

CheeseSpawn posted:

I totally disagree, Destiny does the dirty work of engaging these chuds and winning over people who would be sitting on the fence otherwise. I know that's taken a toll on him and I hope he's still doing well despite him being an edgy dipshit.

Zeroisanumber posted:

Wohl is such a pathetic little clinger.

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

Thats not really a bad plan, but lol if trump is going to notice his baby-tier shitposting. He would need to do something completely insane to get the heat off of donald rn

Krankenstyle posted:

idk where to put this but centrists (american ones especially) are really bad

quote:

Opinion columnists, influential academics, and think tankers feel a need to occupy a middle ground, even if it’s one that is increasingly a product of their own imaginations. As a result, they wind up giving the right wing a free pass or accepting its worst impulses as a reality we have to live with, while reserving their criticism and armchair quarterbacking for anyone to their left.

I’ve come to call these pundits “reactionary centrists.”
Reactionary centrist (n) — Someone who says they’re politically neutral, but who usually punches left while sympathizing with the right.
Reactionary centrism is an ideological stance that isn’t really centrist at all. It can elevate a speaker in the mainstream media as a liberal-ish critic of liberalism and make someone feel good about being above it all and not taking sides, but it’s increasingly a stance that leads to sloppy thinking, especially as the Republican party continues to lurch rightward and away from democratic rule. We should identify reactionary centrism when we see it, challenge it, and ask what reactionary centrists could be doing instead to more productively contribute to public debates.
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When Vox’s Ezra Klein challenged Pinker on these facts during a podcast, it became clear that Pinker was not familiar with this political history or with the real advocacy positions of mainstream climate groups. Yet Pinker’s views still hold sway in the science and tech world, with prominent philanthropists like Bill and Melinda Gates promoting his book as a must-read.
More fundamentally, Pinker’s book admonishes the left to change its stances on climate policy. But why not tell the right to change their stances instead? It’s a question we too often fail to ask because conservative movements have made antipathy to compromise a key part of their political worldview. In admonishing the left to find more ways to work with the right, reactionary centrism does the right’s job for them.
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In political science terms, what the right is doing is shifting the Overton Window in their direction, trying to make extreme ideas such as climate denial, undermining voting rights, and dismantling the social safety net appear mainstream. Reactionary centrists, in urging the left to compromise with the right, play into this strategy.
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Pinker is among many scholars who worry that intolerance on the right is being matched by a different kind of intolerance on the left. To be clear, reactionary centrists don’t deny that the hard right is bad and terrible. They see the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, the conspiracy theories, the voter suppression, the censorship of government researchers, the ICE agents picking people up off the street. But then they look for something, anything on the left to balance this out so they can stay in the middle.
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These incidents are silly, but they speak to the deep need some pundits have to punch left, even if they’re punching at works of fiction. They also fail to recognize the outsize power of right wing news media on conservative politics and how right wing news outlets routinely lie to their audiences about campus activism, taking out-of-context stories from right wing advocacy groups like Campus Reform and laundering them them through more staid commentary magazines like the National Review and Weekly Standard, eventually pushing them into columns and op-eds in mainstream publications like the Times and Wall Street Journal.
Reactionary centrists also elevate these incidents, in part, because they believe that intolerance on the left somehow causes polarization on the right. But the mechanism by which this occurs is never explained
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At best, reactionary centrism is a lazy response to politics. If progressive groups are doing something you can describe as distasteful or beneath you, or ineffective, that’s an excuse to avoid the hard work of participating in the progressive political movements that are actually trying to make our politics better.
But at worst, reactionary centrists fail to critically assess how the right operates in America and wind up playing along with its agenda as a result.
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There’s plenty of room for compromise along the way, including compromise with committed centrists and conservatives. But one should never be blinded into compromise as a goal in and of itself. Compromise and standing in the middle is a tactic and a tool, not an ideology. And in an era where the right refuses to compromise on anything, reactionary centrism isn’t centrist at all.

Mr Interweb posted:

https://twitter.com/Daddy_Warpig/status/1018331812857180160

Mr Interweb posted:

https://twitter.com/Daddy_Warpig/status/1018331812857180160

Mr Interweb posted:

https://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg/status/1019796126873006080

Hey guys, I THINK Sam has some issues with black people

Mr Interweb posted:

https://twitter.com/Daddy_Warpig/status/1018331812857180160

CheeseSpawn posted:

https://medium.com/s/story/we-need-to-talk-about-reactionary-centrists-f0e6f8c4d58

Not sure if this link made it to this thread but I think this a good summation of the overlapping conservative reactionary ideology I've seen that's straight forward to read.

Reclines Obesily posted:

Mr Interweb posted:

https://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg/status/1019796126873006080

Hey guys, I THINK Sam has some issues with black people