I'm receiving ever-more angry barking and name-calling instead of explanations from those advocating political positions across the entire spectrum. Also,it seems that we should give the phrase "I don't know" a formal official burial this year. The phrase has disappeared from social media, along with its siblings, humility and self-critical thought.
This post was inspired by this Tweet by Geoffrey Miller:
Interesting stats on Religiosity from Pew, published in October, 2019.
In my view, there are also many other forms of groupishness that I see as religious or quasi religious that are not considered by these surveys. I also suspect that as traditional religions melt away, other groups that don't look like traditional religions at first glance, but which have similar functions, take their place.
Bloodthirsty utopians have a plan. pic.twitter.com/Zl2epBsZGf
— Bret Weinstein (@BretWeinstein) June 5, 2020
This unhinged and dangerous hyperbole would drive out ALL investment and leave us with smoldering carcasses where there used to be imperfect but livable cities. Without police, who would you call when you are carjacked? Carjackings happen in my city neighborhood every couple months. Who is your female friend going to call when someone rapes her? Who will protect the firefighters when your house is on fire? Next time someone puts a gun to your head (which happens periodically in my neighborhood), is the solution to talk nicely with that hoodlum and reason with him? Why aren't we hearing uniform battle cries to reform police departments and demilitarize police departments rather than these disturbingly common demands to kill cops and abolish police departments? I thought that only Trump was capable of such nonsensical blather.
These messages seem to be the far left version of the Libertarian wet dream where all we need to do is abolish government and everything will automatically be great.
When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak … as being spit on by the rest of the world.
Anyone failing to see problems (or at least moral nuance) with the rioting is intentionally blind. I've noticed several of these videos showing the post-riot consequences for small business owners and it is, indeed, heartbreaking.
It breaks my heart to see working-class minorities complain when we smash up their property.
— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) June 3, 2020
Don’t they realise we’re trying to save them from oppression? pic.twitter.com/OfpL4zxIjE