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Has to go to the leadership and media. Libertarians think the govt has no role except apparently tax cuts for companies with mediocre if not outright poisonous products with far more nuisance value than utility.

It is unrealistic to expect collective action on something like this that people have been taught to ignore and it seems ever worse.

As McKay points out the one good sign is the most useful type of disaffection people feel which is making them, as it made me years ago, look to the left for answers I was not finding elsewhere.

In fact, I think that is what he was pointing to. I have found Current Affairs a real resource.

When even non-controversial things like vaccines are seen as dangerous by a third of the population over there…

I was surprised that something as generic as vaccination could lead to a culture war.

It is not as bad here. But communication is hard still.

I am a fan of Orwell and I would like to think he would never have curdled into a conservative:
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He was imo more like say Lucien Greaves or even Yasha Levine, Hamilton Nolan, Chris Ketcham, Ed Zitron, Andy Nikiforuk’s
Nobody feels like gushing when someone from the other side makes an astute observation.

But hey maybe vaccines do apply metaphorically finally. A human brain that completely shuts out all views of a type will find reality harder to assess. A dash of the least dishonest and least bound-to-fail-and-spectacularly variant..I doubt these analogies and metaphors.

People who don’t confuse left with stupid.

But he is dead and everyone likes to claim him and an obscenity like Dudesy but with Orwell .


I myself name drop lefties only to indicate that were I ever in a conflict at least please be fair enough to attack the type of left I am. I saw you arguing elsewhere about strawmen and I understand. There is nothing anywhere near as impossible as a defense of a position you don’t even hold wielded by (and this isn’t a comment on anyone on DU..I find infighting fatiguing) the type of person with all sorts of awful views.

(I myself deal with that where these persons who back all sorts of foul things and then tries to slander me should get that I am on the left and if you try to smear me, I will call you a CATO humper. And one of us will materially turn out to be more correct “Josh”. Shut up and sing! I was just having a bit of fun with a type who I bet has way worse political predictions despite being a scientist and probably some sort of awful Democrat. I am not on firm ground with that type in-field or in fairness in any kind of honest debate involving facts rather than truthiness. So a left Trumper like me has to ..lol.. gallows humor eh..
It is not kayfabe because I feel bitter that so many decisions that seem sensible and even decent disproportionately screw over people like me and the effect that has on some of the nicer people with any resources left is glossed over and billionaires reign supreme. But well I don’t want to payback in kind. I just think “Hey maybe use that brain in less clunky ways”).

There is prof Ryan Williams - an academic scientist who studies algorithms and I don’t know his politics but I would be shocked if he wasn’t just cool, but intelligent enough for things to not be inadvertent torture.
Pettiness that plays so rough.

I am a people person to the extent that I feel at least needless torture should be avoided. A possibly controversial position.

Btw I have absolutely no ties to any of the people I ever cite. It is purely all a thought experiment. I am serious. They shouldn’t be doxxed ..of course humans would get that.
Dammit.
I was looking at this:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/george-orwell-snitch-list-reactionary-grass-blacklist-communists-information-research-department-ird-government-celia-kirwan-a8414066.html

Absolute fairness etc are hard to assess. But it is easier with left wing sensibilities to have a clearer idea of what reality is shaped like.

I am not running an entrapment racket of course. But I cannot take more nuisances that suck my life away and the officials in a decent state would stop playing dumb.
The street outside is not one for speeding lessons. I am not a teacher nor a celebrity. I trust that in a Covid like emergency state officials here in India will get the message today instead of behaving like Trumpers in some other country.

Sorry OkItsJustMe. Reality ain’t easy these days.