Quote (Thor123422 @ Mar 6 2018 11:05pm)

I mean, weaponized morality was the realm of the right, but when you have pussy-grabber in chief as the leader of your party you kind of have to drop the morality aspect.

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 6 2018 11:07pm)

Was, if you're still tilting at 20 year old windmills.
We've been steeped in SJWs longer than Trumps been at the front of politics.

Quote (Thor123422 @ 7 Mar 2018 06:39)

Ha, twenty year old windmills. More like 2-10.

The arguments against gay marriage were entirely on moral grounds, as was pretty much every other social issue of the right.

The only reason they're not really drumming up morality is because it's largely been acknowledged that they've lost the culture war and Trump has made it impossible to keep that stance.

Quote (Goomshill @ 7 Mar 2018 03:37)

Even in the 1990s the religious right was post its apogee and America just got over president slick willy's indiscretion with a shrug and the impeachment flopped.
Anyone who thinks that America is about to freak out about the worlds most famous billionaire playboy turned president having a consensual affair with a big titted woman is awful at judging the political climate

Quote (Black XistenZ @ 7 Mar 2018 05:59)

in previous decades, the left was arguing pragmatically against the moral values pleaded by the right when it came to stuff like abortion or gay marriage. the right lost this battle.
nowadays, it is the left that is arguing with pleaded moral values in favor of female and minority quotas, third wave anti-male feminism, political correctness and so on, while the right is putting up against it with pragmatic arguments like "unequal outcome of unequal input is to be expected and ok to a certain degree".

I wonder which side will win this time around. :rolleyes: ^_^

Quote (Scaly @ 7 Mar 2018 07:04)

A fair few on the left are making those arguments too bud. Not every lefty is a raging SJW.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Mar 7 2018 12:17am)

Fair enough, that's true. I just wish there remained more of those "sensible" lefties.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Mar 7 2018 09:16am)

I don't think you actually run into any of the people you are describing in your personal life.

Your history has shown you tend to focus entirely too much on things you've never actually interacted with when forming your identity.

Quote (Thor123422 @ 7 Mar 2018 09:16)

Your history has shown you tend to focus entirely too much on things you've never actually interacted with when forming your identity.

Quote (Knoppie @ 7 Mar 2018 09:23)

Ppl judging based on labels and the preconceptions that come with them, shutting down rational thinking before interacting, leaving a search for confirmation bias behind.
I'm expecting Black XistenZ to be smart enough to see through it.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Mar 7 2018 09:45am)

oh, I assure you, I am well aware of the pitfalls of confirmation bias. nonetheless, my view of certain things gets confirmed far more often than refuted.