Having body cams on cops was the one of the best decisions we’ve made as a society in recent years. Not only do they flush out shitty cops like this, but they have also protected good cops from false accusations and violent people. They need to be required everywhere and cops must have them on their entire shifts or they’ll face criminal investigations.
I did misread your comment, and I apologize for that but my point still stands. We’re not doing a survey here, we’re simply observing the current state of leftist culture and discourse in society. Looking at the the left right, can you say that purity testing is prominent element of it? It’s a simple yes or no question, and I think the answer is a yes if we’re being honest.
That’s not what I’m asking, I’m saying you can’t judge now many people are not engaging in purity testing.
That’s a moot point. First of all, I’m not casting judgement, I’m simply pointing out the state of leftist unity. You can’t deny that purity testing is a huge element in leftist discourse, and if you are going to anyway then you’re simply not being honest. It doesn’t matter how self identifying leftists do or don’t purity test, the point is that enough do where it’s a cornerstone of leftist culture.
That’s exactly what confirmation bias is. “All the toupees I see are bad, therefore, all toupees are bad.” Confirmation bias with a basis of fact to it, still completely ignoring the toupees you don’t notice.
That’s not what confirmation bias is. Confirmation bias is when you actively seek out information that support your preexisting beliefs. My opinion is not confirmation bias, but a simple observation.
Academics all over the world are in consensus about this, and you can be sure they’ve examined all the sources available to them. Tankies are the only ones who want to argue otherwise.
It’s a similar to MAGA in a way. MAGA’s biggest problem, as an ideology, is that it revolves around blind loyalty to a single idiot and therefore the entire movement starts and stops with his whims, no matter how contradictory, damaging, or nonsensical. You could say it’s confirmation bias that I have this opinion, but I think given recent events, this opinion does have a basis of fact to it. The same applies to the left when it comes to purity testing. It’s really not hard to see how prominent purity testing is in leftist discourse.
You’re right, BUT it will never happen. Hearing different perspectives and understanding other viewpoints will not only broaden your horizons, but it will also deradicalize you… but the people who you are asking to do this are the radicals who are allergic to ideologically diversity. Purity testing is one of the hallmark defining traits of the modern left, and the further left you go the more extreme it gets. The far left will excommunicate anybody who doesn’t agree with on just about everything. You simply can’t have a serious movement with this type of mentality being as prominent as it is.
The modern left-right political spectrum only makes sense in a modern sense. Trying to apply it like it’s some sort of universal law is stupid. Monarchism, for example, can’t be placed on the spectrum because there are different types of monarchies that are radically different from each other and there are different monarchs within each of those systems that are radically different from each other.
Liberalism is antithetical to fascism both ideologically and historically. Literally only online Marixsts are ignorant enough to think that liberalism is just fascism lite.
Idk why you’re downvoted, horseshoe theory has proven to be correct over time. There’s that much that separates Marxist Leninist authoritarianism and Fascist authoritarianism
Literally only tankies are stupid enough to believe old Soviet Propaganda about how Holodomer was not a genocide. when it clearly was.
The Holocaust was so devastating because the Nazis were incredibly efficient. Soviet genocides didn’t rely on efficiency, but malicious negligence.
The issue is that you’re a minority in your camp. Broadly speaking, the left sees compromise as weakness, neutrality as cowardice, working with opposition towards a common cause as treachery. These are all symptoms of purity testing, and it’s the reason why the left in so many places is completely paralyzed.
The infighting amongst the left is entirely self inflected
A lot of the far left types would rather have fascists rule and ruin everything just to spite their opposition rather than make compromises by working with them.
A professor in college once said something that stayed with me. He said that “bad ideologies will always find ways to self implode”.
This stuck with me because it’s true. Good ideologies tend to be pragmatic and flexible, and so they’re able to adapt and evolve. However, bad ideologies tend to be more rigid and focus mostly on theories and ideals, and therefore they’re unable to adapt or evolve. Far left ideologies firmly fall in the latter category which is why they are where they are.
Allegations of sexual crimes should always be taken seriously and addressed immediately, however, that’s not the same as taking the words of the victims words as the truth. A due process has to be mandatory and proof must remain a non negotiable requirement to arrest and punish someone. That’s the one and only way justice can be served.
Why would want to move a country that’s worse in every capacity?
Wait, you want to move to South Africa?
Begone tankie
Of course he is. President dipshit is on a mission to make everything worse