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Lance Walker's avatar

Your psychological observations are applicable to everyone, regardless of politics… and, if I may suggest the following: have you considered that the neurosis you observed in certain right-wing men may perhaps be as, if not MORE, common amongst left-wing individuals? I shouldn’t need to remind you that the rate of mental health diagnoses is SIGNIFICANTLY higher amongst left-wing identified individuals relative to those on the right. You seem to be making many unjustified assumptions in the course of your analysis, you should probably take a look at that.

Sounds like typical leftist projection, it is precisely your inability to separate the political from the personal that indicates psychopathology. I hope you’re well.

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Steven Wallis's avatar

Putting the “pole” back in polarization. You need a bigger sample size to draw accurate conclusions. Otherwise, your prejudices come through.

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Bruce Raben's avatar

So progressives should have sex with MAGAs

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Jini Jane's avatar

Yes!!

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DJ's avatar

Can you, uh, introduce me to some of them

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Bruce Raben's avatar

what if the outcome of the congress goes in the other direction?

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Sheluyang Peng's avatar

“The film ended up telling us something important about the differences between those who land on the conservative side for organic reasons, working-class men who this kind of politics naturally suits, and the thinker who is as distant from members of his own coalition as he is from his fellow intellectuals.”

I would like to see you write an essay about the plight of the right-wing intellectual: so far from the natural space for the intellectual on the left, yet annoyed by the populism, vulgarity, and anti-intellectualism on the right. And the fact that so many right-intellectuals were former leftists (Burnham, Podhoretz, etc.).

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DJ's avatar

On a recent Know Your Enemy podcast they interviewed Sam Tanenhaus about his biography of William F. Buckley. Near the end they talk about Buckley's warm embrace of the liberal intellectual class even as he argued against their values. He was by all accounts a very generous man who everyone liked, regardless of politics.

They speculate that in a way he *had* to do that because the media was so overwhelmingly liberal. Nowadays that isn't necessary because there is a very lucrative right wing media industry. It leads one to wonder how someone like him would fit in today. Would he be such a happy warrior, or would he feel alienated?

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Sheluyang Peng's avatar

The problem is that the "right-wing media industry" you speak of is incredibly anti-intellectual. People like Laura Loomer are basically the media in MAGA World. Buckley would also bemoan the fact that the fusionist liberal conservatism that he pioneered is no longer popular.

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EternalPhilosophy's avatar

So we’ve finally reached the intellectualization of the goon flick era of Hananias career.

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Anna Katherine Colomb's avatar

The violent stupidity of this premise. No we don't give more access to people who don't respect us as a baseline of our humanity, fuck off forever.

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Evan's avatar
8hEdited

On the positive side, the film itself displayed different dynamics between females and males. However, I don't think the filmmakers themselves are coherent in what they are saying. Jini seems to not know why she wasn't attracted to Sid, at least she can't explain it coherently. He was insecure, that's it. Also the film was revealed to be "fake". They directed her to ask for jewelry and say she was pregnant. This framed a false understanding of female attraction. I cannot recommend this inauthentic film.

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KIRAC's avatar

“Revealed to be fake” your such an idiot

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Jini Jane's avatar

I like insecure men, I am not capable of handling a 100% confident chad, watch Honeypot again and more closely and you will understand

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