Occluded Sun wrote:I love it when people force the entire universe into two groups: their own faction, and the grotesquely evil faction that everyone who doesn't agree with them swears allegiance to.
Personally, I love how fucking dumb you are. Without fail. Everytime you post. Seriously, let's walk through this real slow: I made a statement about the modern conservative movement, and your immediate response was that criticizing conservatives is nothing but petty us vs them tribalism and demonization.
Hint: the only way to reach the conclusion that attacking conservatism is dividing the world into two factions for the purposes of demonizing all those who disagree with you is if you begin from the premise that conservatism is one of the only two factions in existence. If there exists three or more factions of which conservatism is only one, then it is very clearly the case that criticizing conservatism is not at all a sufficient benchmark for the criticism you have levied against me.
Which leaves us with one of the following possibilities:
1) You are a petty tribalist attempting to gain the moral highground by claiming you are above petty tribalism in an effort to protect your tribe from criticism from "the other tribe" (i.e. all those people who aren't conservatives).
2) You are a boring and pretentious fuckwit who wants to argue semantics about "what does conservative really mean, anyway?" Simple: it means the people who identify as conservative and support causes that identify as conservative and elect politicians who identify as conservative. It's a label people voluntarly apply to themselves, and the argument you are trying to have is obnoxiously useless. Conservatives are real people you can touch and poke and evaluate.
3) You do not believe it is fair to criticize the modern conservative moment for the things it says, advocates, and does at basically every level of its existence. In which case, fuck you are dumb.
Given the fact that you are a "libertarian" who constantly uses bullshit pseudo-evolutionary arguments to justify social conservative positions (like women being to blame for their own rape), it is actually the first. You are a petty tribalist protecting your side from criticism, and the reason you think this is blues vs reds bullshit is because you cannot imagine those who disagree with you have enough nuances among them that they could be anymore than one faction.
Kind of funny how that works out, isn't it?
