Hotter, Badder, and Unpopularer Takes

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The "2" setting on fans is the most useful.

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I genuinely, honestly cannot grasp--emotionally, empathetically grasp--how a decent human being can possibly be right-wing on material issues, although I believe strongly enough in fair play and honest discussion and have a clear enough intellectual understanding of most arguments for right-wing positions that I'm able to act as if I can grasp it.

I feel similarly about pro-choicers - I can intellectually grasp the arguments but it is difficult for me to see how a decent, intellectually honest person who has thought through the issue can defend it, though such clearly is the case and there are indeed well-meaning pro-choice people. I attribute it to ignorance and emotivism largely, but to me it is something that so plainly cries for justice it is easy to get polemical about.  

Ignorance and emotivism on pro-choicers' part (hence their ability to hold the position) or on your part (hence your inability to grasp their holding it)? I ask because I definitely feel that it's a failure of imagination and a failure of compassion on my part to have the problem I'm describing (since I'm perfectly aware of the descriptive fact that people whom I like very much--such as you and Cathcon!--can and often do have pointedly right-wing politics), and I'm not humblebragging or virtue signaling by bringing it up.

i was thinking about it primarily about how most people arguing the pro-choice case seem to have absolutely dreadful arguments so I was attributing that to emotivism and ignorance (as opposed to malice), but it can also apply to me in that I certainly can be overly harsh and presume that everyone on the opposite side is either callous or hasn’t thought the issue through.  I acknowledge there are informed pro-choicers who have good reasons (though ultimately false) for believing why they do, but it is easy for me to have a visceral reaction that is very harsh.

This needs its own individual thread.

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I'm pretty sure I mentioned my dislike of modern feminism and that it has no place in America. However, it does have a place in the places mentioned by this video:

[snipping that video which is an insult to the absolute king known as yakko warner]

(Although some of the places mentioned by Yakko need feminism less than others.)

Things are better than they were 50 to 100 years ago, but women still face oppression in the 21st century. From being harassed and objectified in the military, to being paid less for the same work while still paying more for women's products, to being underrepresented in all kinds of industries and government institutions, feminism doesn't "have no place in America."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but your Atlas profile says that you are a male. Not saying that your opinion doesn't matter, but unless you're a transgender man who used to be viewed as a woman by society, don't get mad when I don't take your opinion of women's rights as seriously as someone who has a better perspective on whether or not women are actually oppressed. Maybe, like, I dunno, an actual woman.

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S019 is a nice person

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Richard Nixon was a good president.

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Chuck Todd is the greatest person in modern political commentary. People love to hate him, and the reason why is because he isn't a bland neoliberal puppet nor a wacko Twitter user with a 🌹 emoji in his username.