Things only happen cos leftists make them happen (sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...). Even to the point that far rightists wouldn't have been racist unless, alas, the left exercised their monopoly on agency to make them so. One of the genuinely puzzling features of our ideological landscape! - ThreadSky

lastpositivist.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Things only happen cos leftists make them happen (https://sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-agents-of-history.html). Even to the point that far rightists wouldn't have been racist unless, alas, the left exercised their monopoly on agency to make them so. One of the genuinely puzzling features of our ideological landscape!

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mourn-the-weenie.bsky.social•3 days ago

The only right and moral answer to this shit is to give them the oppression they want to inflict on humanity for the latter having the temerity to not praise them ceaselessly

If they want a fucking dictator, they'll fucking get it, so the rest of humanity can finally fucking prosper

bowtochris.bsky.social•3 days ago

I've heard of reactionaries but this is ridiculous! Whaka whaka!

mr00ney.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ah, yes, the woke tyranny. Remember when Biden took away federal funds from Pepperdine, BYU, & Claremont? Or imprisoned & deported pro-Israeli op-Ed writers?

krittikaa.bsky.social•3 days ago

The right believes there is nothing to change, the status quo/whatever a source of authority says at the time (that also confirms their biases) is perfect and doesn't need to be challenged. Whereas the leftists are "troublemakers". So imo lack of agency is not a big deal for them here.

angelldusst.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Now”. Spare me.

pesto.robbedroot.org•2 days ago

Get rid of laws and there's no crime.
Get rid of people who call other people racist and there's no racism.

It's really quite simple folks.

alanrichardson.bsky.social•3 days ago

Nice essay. One interesting place to see the idea of the Left as the agents of politics and this history is the first lecture in Rorty’s Achieving our Country. There he basically just says the Right just wants everything to stay the same, so if there is change it comes from the Left.

alanrichardson.bsky.social•3 days ago

I find this an incredibly naive understanding of even the “conservative” Right. But it seems widespread. I suppose the Right is always in the thesis position in the dialectic of history on this view.

alanrichardson.bsky.social•3 days ago

First post should say “and, thus, history”…. Bluesky changes my thuses to thises.

spaceyak.bsky.social•3 days ago

Possibly, though I suggest this might be a dialectical evolution.

Reagan: We should be awful to foreign nations in defense of US interests

GW Bush: We should also be awful to foreign nations for the hell of it

Trump: We should also be absolutely awful to anyone we seem foreign in our own country.

solidgarcia.bsky.social•3 days ago

For a while now, I've found this argument to be akin to "Then she shouldn't go out dressed like that." So completely misses the point.

thaskleve.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes, it's hard not to be awed by just how denigrating a view of conservatives this is. I am unlikely to change my views or actions by someone being very persuasive, I can't imagine being so weak-willed as to be so affected by someone being annoying.

juanjimenez.bsky.social•2 days ago

Their entire worldview is based on 'we can't be guilty of anything ever' A very quick way to do that is not being an agent -'I react to everything' so guilt and responsability is always an issue of other people.

pseudonymice.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hm. It seems to me they can't distinguish between persuasion and conspiracy. They find the act of persuasion inherently suspect. To the extent they find common cause with each other, it's because they believe they've all independently found their way to a Hobbesian state of a nature.

pseudonymice.bsky.social•3 days ago

"I read a book, and that's why I'm a bigot" just isn't a genesis story they can fall back on. They all "did their own research" to become what they are.

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