anybody else remember the actress who got fired and dogpiled for suggesting that maybe half of manhattan shouldn't be shut down for an asbolutely massive police funeral parade that looked straight out of nazi germany
Moralists don't really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.
Man makes a claim and shares his opinion on the first amendment. Second comes along to correct his understanding of the 1st amendment. First accepts the correction and states he will rethink his previous opinion based upon newly provided information.
What a pleasantly rational discord. I wish this were true to all politics.
You know there's no consistency there. This loser doesn't suddenly have a coherent and valuable idea of free speech and is going to continue saying the worst things you've ever seen.
He's just easily convinced to not care this one time.
One of my favourite videos is one MMA fighter challenging a neo nazi troll on Twitter to a cage fight and he accepts. He comes in all proud looking, explaining his beliefs to the camera. Then the fight happens, and he gets his absolute ass kicked with everyone cheering on the background. He gets to speak to the camera again, and now he suddenly had a change of mind and says he understands that what he said was wrong, he was being calm and it actually seemed as if he geniuenly changed his mind.
These people have nothing to stand for, they just believe whomever beats their ass the hardest
I always kind of thought most conservative philosophy was just kind of a paper-thin post-hoc justification for blind reaction of one sort or another. At least, that's how it tends to go for and various people you run into posting
This isn't about a person changing views really. It's more that this worldview is not internally consistent
One might even say there are internal contradictions in the capitalist mode of production and attached ideology, such that capitalism sows the seeds of its own collapse
One might even say there are internal contradictions in the capitalist mode of production and attached ideology, such that capitalism sows the seeds of its own collapse
dang you could write a whole ass book of takes like this
If someone hasn't even thought through their view on a basic level like "what does a company firing someone over speech say about free speech," they should not be "vehemently" weighing in on the issue in the first place.