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shaunphilly.bsky.social
Here to witness the continuing balkanization of online culture. Echo chambers galore! Trump sucks, voted for Kamala, and I'm critical of much of progressive and leftist spaces for...so many reasons https://shaunphilly.substack.com/ Polyskeptic.com
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"I think it's better to have one's own opinion,even if that means a split, than to avoid a split by giving up one's own point of view" -Vaclav Havel

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"You can't go on expecting hope to come from professional suppliers, you have to find it first of all in yourselves. -Vaclav Havel

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"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous: anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not" -Vaclav Havel

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Joseph Heath, who once wrote a post I genuinely liked a lot where he said I was a tiresome British academic who thinks everything is about class - he's right and he should say it, I am cliché! -- has another banger. I too hate this bloody meme image! substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

A new political secularism is required for a time where cultural and political tribes vie for authoritarian power. If we are unable to rise in this moment of continued going low, then we may not like the consequences. Let's learn from history once again

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Are you ready to actually earn your revolution? We can do this the easy way or the hard way.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

If you're less concerned about whether is something is true than if it is righteous, then pardon me for not taking you seriously.

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A note to fellow progressives/liberals: The reason I began questioning aspects of progressive discourse was because I was trained in critical thinking. Friends kept telling me to avoid certain sites and writers due to them being "problematic" But I had to understand for myself, and so I read them

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Hey progressives! The fact that criticism from Left, Right AND center are dismissed as problematic seems to imply that you just can't be bothered to consider that the problem is you. Any person who won't consider that they might be wrong are dangerous even if they are right.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

OMG I literally laughed out loud. Snorted, actually.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

This one is for Blusky. You inspire me so.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

This is also my philosophy. If what I believe is right, being exposed to other ideas won't hurt. Also, I might be wrong. I have been before, after all.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

@danwphilosophy.bsky.social writes another insightful piece about the Lippmann-Dewey debate about public opinion, expertise, and things such as the larger "discourse" which we all have to parse with our own lenses. Highly recommended.

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submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

OK, I hate to post this here, for a lot of reasons, but if you still don't get this then you absolutely need to read this. Especially if you are an online lefty who hates trump (as I am).

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

PSA: Being for neither MAGA nor for the Dem/progressive sets of politics doesn't make you necessarily a centrist. One can be a Leftist and not be for the current trend of critical theory or the toxic end of social justice, for example. I am one such person and there are many of us out here.

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Interesting.

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A thing that continues to amuse and perplex me is the phenomenon, by people of many political and philosophical perspectives, to conflate disagreement with something else, such as bigotry or brainwashing. Some people don't seem capable of seeing that they might possibly just be wrong.

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Skepticism means waiting for the evidence. As a person who is in favor of science as the best method, it's true that often actual science institutions get caught up in activism when actual research should be paid attention to. Well said @helenlewis.bsky.social

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If waking up at 5am and reading Dostoevsky is the wrong decision on a Wednesday, then perhaps today is just one of those days where I make poor decisions.

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One of the most depressing realizations I've had in my life is that some of the worst people live their daily lives surrounded by an illusion of calm and rational support mechanisms. They live within quasi-real evidence of being the good people. This is why they can't see their own faults.

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