Posts by MeanMrMustard

I don't think those shows characterize the populist right.. not anymore at least. I could never stomach Savage, and Beck used to be a bit over the top. He's moderated the dramatics quite a bit. Mark Levine was alright. I think he's got good ideas re a convention of the states to amend the Constitution. Some of his proposed amendments seem quite reasonable. Repealing the 17th amendment. Term limits for SCOTUS. Gut the Commerce Clause (its not an excuse to regulate everything). I would love an amendment (not sure if it was his suggestion) that would require reading all bills before passing and requiring a pause so Congress can do that - and if the bill is changed at all, the clock resets (no passing unknown bulk bills in the middle of the night).

But as for Fox, Don't watch. Kinda watched clips of Tucker. But that ship has sailed. All legacy media is dead to me.

I only see clips of legacy media here and there when they say something so outrageous, it ends up on podcasts. And even then all they have to do is play the clip and let them hang themselves.

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For example, I saw one thread, allegedly by a newly-PIMO elder, complaining about specific issues in his congregation and how he was trying to exit but it looked like it had been written by a 14 year old. Call me a snob, but for me, that instantly reduced the credibility of the writer.

I don't know. The publications also seem like they were written for fifth graders. I don't see modern elders exposed to anything rigorous. It's all dumbed down (as strage as that might seem to us).

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I'm scratching my head a bit at the bizarre mental hoops you're jumping through to link Hegel and this thread topic. I'm pretty sure you just got a kick out of getting a chance to use "Hegelian" in a sentence.

Ok. Here. There is a history to the current woke bs. It's not just kids and social media.

https://youtu.be/xbby7yFrIxM

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@enigma:

It’s all garbage. Go back to science and reasoning..

The thing that we call the "culture war" is a philosophical divide. The "leftist" side is steeped in postmodernism, and is pushing the most incredible anti-scientific ideas you can think of.

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@pokertopia: what?

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Just where the current climate we live in got its start. If you wanna go way back.

I don't think so - although I think it goes far back. The current woke ideologies come from critical theory. Originally a Marxist legal theory, now applied to race, meant to tear at the fabric of society through your classic Hegelian dialectic.

It feels like a religion because it IS the religion of the left. Ironically you have other posters freaking out over the fact that some people are starting to notice the Marxist root in all this, and have a principled push-back.