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  • There used to be an article I’d link to that had a very long dissertation on the notion of Southern “liberty” vs. the Northern kind. Basically, the Southern kind of “liberty” considers things like property rights (and treating other people like property) of utmost concern, so much like what you are getting at here: the idea that others might have agency even if you don’t like what they are doing is not something they value, at all.

    BTW, it’s very interesting to see how you’ll see this manifest. The right went on and on and on about “cities burned to the ground” and the damage to businesses as a supposed counter to what BLM was protesting, which was the murder of people. I don’t think they even realized what they were revealing about themselves.

    I recently read The Unhumans, and IIRC, they made a big deal about how “liberals are coming to take your stuff”, too. Very instructive.















  • It is incredible to watch people this far down the road still say you gotta stand behind the Democrat Party.

    Emphasis mine.

    OH…KAY…and so this guy that apparently left the DemocratIC Party is butthurt because he had a conversation about wildfires with one Democrat that he didn’t like. And apparently has adopted the terminology of the conservatives and the reactionary centrists.

    And, oh, wow, you guys! He’s apparently woken up to the fact that we have two parties - one that is extremely right wing - to the point of being Nazi-adjacent now and another that is moderately right wing. Something most of us noticed by the time we left high school, or at least by the time we left university.

    Cool cool. And what is he proposing to do as an alternative if we don’t vote for the “Democrat [sic] Party”? Staying home or voting for something like the Green Party are just not options for serious people.