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[–] axont@hexbear.net 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

the liberal has no beliefs. She believes in nothing other than aligning with what she perceives is the socially acceptable left-liberal position. It should have been obvious she no longer had a soul when she was willingly hanging out with Hillary Clinton. Contrapoints is not a person with beliefs other than she deserves an audience. She's an empty vessel, she's a husk who wants attention. She wants a personal mythology and adoring fans. Everything she says is run through a filter to calculate the best possible audience retention. This is a person for whom beliefs and internal conviction are not an avenue to change the world, but rather beliefs are a malleable problem to be solved by choosing the correct postures in order to gain some mythical mainstream appeal.

The liberal is someone who believes there is a correct position, not necessarily correct on its own merits or based upon personal experience, but instead it's correct by virtue of how much of an audience it can get. But it's not even properly calibrated, it's based on the perception of what a broad liberal audience may agree with. Like I'm reminded of how Chuck Schumer has an imaginary retired couple who lives in Long Island or something, and before he does anything, he considers what their opinion might be. Liberals have given themselves imaginary brain creatures who whisper in their ears on what to say and do, because they know if they only acted based on conviction, if they only said words based on their own beliefs, the only words out of their mouths would be "i want to be popular."

[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

Oh god Chuck Schumer and the Bailey's. His fictional long island family.

You are so right about liberals believing in there being a "correct" position. Everytime I get woke scolded on Reddit for trying remain consistent with my ideology it's some liberal angry that my position would alienate a certain percentage of the potential audience or voter pool or whatever. Well or it's a conservative Nazis who literally just wants to punish everyone they feel deserves it; of course the liberals will defend their right to say that, curious they never defend me though.

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