the most charitable I can be about this is that the people who say this shit have no earthly idea which ideas we like - ThreadSky

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social • 1 day ago

the most charitable I can be about this is that the people who say this shit have no earthly idea which ideas we like

what is this "leftists melt when exposed to ideas they dont like" shit. im exposed to ideas i dont like when i catch half an episode of BONES. theres ideas i dont like printed on the side of a chipotle bag probably

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avaayers.bsky.social•1 day ago

If BlueSky is a safe space from ideas I don't like, why do I have to avoid it in the evenings to prevent panic attacks

ctc3d.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because caring. You care. It's not safe from ideas you don't like, and because we all care they're highly represented.

TBH, there's no reason you should consider it safe.

mockgod.bsky.social•1 day ago

To be fair, I did a Wicked Witch impersonation when someone forced me to watch a Jordan Peterson video...

clarity727.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who is going to remind them about January 6 — who absolutely lost their shit that day?

howlingwolfmohegan.bsky.social•1 day ago

They straw man the left’s concerns about marginalized people as being the language police: pronouns, “enslaved people” vs “slaves” without engaging in the ideas that motivate the evolution in language, because if they did argue against the ideas they would sound exactly like Trumpists.

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social•1 day ago

they strawman the left as being the language police because they don't want to think about what it would take to politically confront the police police

mattbh.com•1 day ago

I think that's 100% right and also where most political/media people actually encountered any attempts at language policing (social media) there is a famous lack of direct connection to the substantive ideas behind memes

isheoughtto.bsky.social•1 day ago

increasingly seems to me that they do not really care about the factual content of the ideas as much as they do about the idea that someone might like something different from How Things Are and ever do anything to actually try and change it

isheoughtto.bsky.social•1 day ago

every leftist is precisely "the mac and cheese on my plate is touching the broccoli" and every conservative's response is "deal with it" and the actual content can be anything no matter how serious or trivial

ctc3d.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's really that the people who say that are reactionary snowflakes who boggle at the idea of anyone having objections to their own terrified fantasies.

maggiemarbles.bsky.social•1 day ago

They also seem to think the right has ideas, as opposed to scripts they holler at us until we decide to withdraw our attention. I don't know which characters on the right are bots or Russian operatives, as opposed to people speaking their real opinions, but it doesn't really matter anymore.

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