#Liberalism

Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode

HPluckrose

I think this depends on whether your nature is conservative or liberal. We do seem to have both and it's unlikely one is a social construct because how would it

Sheptater

sheptater

Never in a million years did I think that a call of duty advertisement would draw our attention to a huge problem in America happening right now. The interview with

Patrick Porter

PatPorter76

Thread: On realism and Iraq. @McFaul, affronted that some in US progressive politics are calling for a "progressive realist" foreign policy, insists: realism is responsible for war and destruction over

Chad Terry

madtube

Allow me to tell a story. My father is a down home good ol’ country boy. Farmer, redneck, hard worker. He has always shown himself as a conservative Republican, albeit

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan

The Woke hate liberalism as a philosophy and as an organizing principle for institutional order. One way they do that is by insisting among other things that there is no

Mencius Moldbugman

moldbugman

Thread One of the reasons why Wokeism, or Intersectionality, or whatever you wish to term the current new religion tearing through the Western world, is enjoying so much success is

Ani ⚢

aniobrien

I understand that some of my followers have been struggling to figure out where I sit politically because I no longer align myself with a particular party or dogmatic political

small robots

smolrobots

Imagine being the creator of some of the best-loved sitcoms of recent decades, then getting so mad that people called one of your shows transphobic that you proceed to go

Robyn Porteous

RobynPorteous

Racism operates at both an individual level (both consciously and subconsciously), and at a systemic/institutionalised/ideological level. Subscribing to a racist/anti-racist binary therefore makes no sense. It is not about being

Friendly Whale Shark Jackson

TAJackson20

The incel question is the result of modern sexual morality being incoherent. Since consent is the ONLY thing that matters and "legitimate consent" is (re)defined arbitrarily by elites every day,

Sarah Jaffe

sarahljaffe

pretending that your "not believing Tara Reade" is somehow against carceral feminism is some pretzel logic I can't even deal with. you're defending Joe Biden, the fucking architect of carceral

Chris Kavanagh

C_Kavanagh

So kicking off the chapter by chapter #CynicalTheories review/reaction-a-thon with a look at the Introduction. There’s quite a lot of ground covered over 9 pages so strap in. The introduction

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

This is amazing, but not really. There is no more authoritarian species in the wild than US liberals. In every controversy, they side with institutions of authority: they love the

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zei_squirrel

evolution of right-wing and liberal bogeyman caricature of the left to divert attention from structural critiques of capitalism to culture war bullshit:KulturbolschewismusPolitical CorrectnessSocial Justice WarriorsCultural MarxismCritical

Tim Hayward

Tim_Hayward_

The agenda is explicit: to make the world fit for a capitalism of the 4th industrial revolution. This means commodifying every aspect of nature while further marginalising human beings from

Cheese For Everyone!

CheeseForEvery1

A couple of months ago a student asked me what it meant to be a liberal or a conservative in the late 1800s and I struggled to answer because politics