Some of us political right wingers here are erudite as well. Read the texts on how democracy fails. Thought it would be just theoretical, but here we are doing the practical.
I think one of the defining aspects of being on the left is that we disagree a lot, all the time, but at least there is more curiosity and openness to new ideas from my personal experience. Please keep sharing your views and block the ones that are rude.
also: there is correlation with the personality trait of Openness and having leftist ideas.
wondering off topic if maybe maga can't help being uneducated & not curious & shut down to idea & discovery. some research lends to that. how does that affect our dealings with them
It's hilarious. The do nothing, pro corporate centrists who continually fuck the average American have their feelings hurt because we finally have figured them out.
"The annoying leftists here are at least erudite" is definitely not something anyone would say from a wine tasting at an ivory tower as they pontificate about why they can't win over blue collar workers by talking about eggs all the time
I don't know about that. I hear from some real clunkers on this site. Indeed, I suspect many of them are the same dumb-as-rocks annoying right wingers from the other site in fancy dress as "leftists" on this site.
erudite:
having or containing a lot of knowledge that is known by very few people.
He's the author of an erudite book on Scottish history.
Synonym: learned
Being erudite doesn’t mean much if they shut down or go off on personal attacks the moment facts or arguments challenge their self-referential, performance-driven identities
When bigbro sent dogs after Greenpeace decades ago I don't recall seeing keyboard warriors. In 1992 at heritage Foundation abortion protests zealots threw red paint on us as blood of unborn Y'all weren't there
Occupy Wall Street? BLM? DEM BOYS need to get off www and quit fucking hiding. Try that.
You're a conservative hack. You bring nothing of worth to anything you've ever partaken of and I am completely confounded as to how you shambled your way into the priveleged position in society of which you find yourself.
I sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than Yglesias whose whole thing is mostly just to insist that obviously true things are in fact true.
I feel like you may have given the exact opposite statement over on X just to troll people but I'm not completely above being pandered to and it's not like I'm gonna check.
Everybody go read One Billion Americans! It's great!
the annoying leftists i interact with on here sound like right-wingers pretending to be erudite because they think that makes them better than centrists
One day people will gain perspective and just accept the facts of life.. extreme right wingers are stupid.. extreme left wingers are annoying AF.. and we need to work with that instead of trying to change it.. lefties aren't going to quit being annoying.. and we've all seen twitter.
Lol. Matt claims he's a resistance fighter and turns others into the Fascists and claims he doesn't know why that person isn't returning your calls. He's a fake, a fraud, dump him as soon as possible.
Those dang annoying leftists, always saying we should have public health care. Always saying rapists belong in prison, not the white house. So annoying.
Kind of like how the Harris campaign made excuses for working backwards from their right wing donors’ conclusions instead of listening to voters… https://youtu.be/MKJP9qBshdA?si=dc1Uy4hf4OEH2usZ
Excusing destructive behavior? You mean like giving a pass on spending billions to blow up civilians and children in Gaza? You know, the very thing y'all ride leftists for NOT doing? Are you projecting or just fucking stupid?
i keep running into leftists who are just as brainwashed as maga into blind allegiance with no knowledge of history (modern or further back), no knowledge of the constitution, and no understanding of how dire a crisis america is in.
matt isn't annoying b/c of his neoliberalism, though. he's annoying because he uses words like erudite in an attempt to make himself sound more erudite
My politics of doing what is necessary to prevent the election of literal fascists to the most powerful government on the planet?! If you fail to do that bc you are worried about being hypocritical and gross then you need to grow the fuck up.
Thanks, kind sir. I do lean left and adore the proliferation of adjectives in the English lexicon. Some of us being born this way, nerds they used to call us. They may still.
They are a problem wherever you go, your account has been labeled.
@safety.bsky.app your platform is being gamed already by right wing nut jobs silencing progressive voices.
Have you ever thought about diversifying who you follow here? Maybe if you followed more of the accounts here that are right-wing or centrist or even centre-left, you'd find it less annoying?
If you don't follow a lot of people you tend to get more of the hot topic stuff in the discover tab, which I'd imagine defaults to annoying American liberalese
Left of whom? The Overton window is so far right that demanding due process and not destroying the economy are now the defining characteristics of a "centrist." Remember when the US was strong? 90% top tier income tax, strong unions, ironclad Social Security without fear of it becoming bankrupt.
...yes. I can discern the profundity of their worldivew by how often they say "Fuck" whenever describing a conservative.
The gentleman asking the Veep to "gargle his nuts" was a stunning political pundit.
The mind boggles how more people are not flocking to the font of social dialogue and wit.
Whoof, still the levels of taking shit way too seriously and butthurt are quite elevated in the responses. Excellent syntax and vocabulary, though, indeed.
I feel the replies here don’t support this: The hate is much dumber and using much lower-level vocabulary than I expected. Disappointing, guys: scold Matt for not understanding the structural relationship of the post-technological techno-metaphysical continuum etc, etc…
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I think one of the defining aspects of being on the left is that we disagree a lot, all the time, but at least there is more curiosity and openness to new ideas from my personal experience. Please keep sharing your views and block the ones that are rude.
also: there is correlation with the personality trait of Openness and having leftist ideas.
wondering off topic if maybe maga can't help being uneducated & not curious & shut down to idea & discovery. some research lends to that. how does that affect our dealings with them
https://open.substack.com/pub/noelkeith/p/tranquil-piece-of-mind-vol-3-no-4?r=4c7psw&utm_medium=ios
"The right wingers are fascist murderers, and the leftists are annoying yet, erudite... I think we should concede to the right."
having or containing a lot of knowledge that is known by very few people.
He's the author of an erudite book on Scottish history.
Synonym: learned
Occupy Wall Street? BLM? DEM BOYS need to get off www and quit fucking hiding. Try that.
And is it projection if I openly admit that I'm a matty simp? We're both neoliberal shills who want to see the dnc cuck Bernie one more time.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-opinions-of-matt-yglesias-should-be-ignored
Everybody go read One Billion Americans! It's great!
https://a.co/d/dm8MMND
How's that for erudite?
So unhinged
It's crazy
Maybe if you judged them by their actions instead of their words you would see who they really are.
https://youtu.be/MKJP9qBshdA?si=dc1Uy4hf4OEH2usZ
i keep running into leftists who are just as brainwashed as maga into blind allegiance with no knowledge of history (modern or further back), no knowledge of the constitution, and no understanding of how dire a crisis america is in.
And because you're an American centrist you're actually more to the right.
So gross.
You need to fix your soul or hurry up and depart the earth is you think cheering mass deportations and genocide are resisting fascism
Coming here to complain and trying to complement us on our knowledge isn’t as helpful as just removing yourself from the other service.
@safety.bsky.app your platform is being gamed already by right wing nut jobs silencing progressive voices.
The gentleman asking the Veep to "gargle his nuts" was a stunning political pundit.
The mind boggles how more people are not flocking to the font of social dialogue and wit.
Usually takes a few patient back and forths to talk them down and show them they can have a discourse without all the personal nonsense..😎
I would.
We're funny