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By RedSparrows
#40113
There must be a particular word for this exact combination of myopia and pseudo-insight Goodwin repeatedly displays.

It's not enough to be ideologically-blinkered, it's to be ideologically-blinkered as you make a career out of attacking ideological blinkers.

The conference is a case in point. 'Why isn't this a massive event of global significance? Could it be us that are reading the tea leaves wrong? NO! That's what the lefties do, that's why we're here. But why are there only dozens of us...?'

It's SO FUCKING DUMMBBBBBB
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By Andy McDandy
#40115
https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning

This article, about cartoonist Scott Adams, shines a bit of light on the thought process. In particular:
Dilbert creator Scott Adams is a massive bigot and a reactionary crank, which is something anybody who has been paying attention has known for at least a decade now.

Scott Adams the creator of Dilbert sure does seem to believe the central message of Dilbert. He’s very impressed by his own lack of stupidity, and also very impressed by what he perceives as the extreme stupidity of almost everyone else. He’s not impressed by too much else. He’s mostly skeptical.

He’s skeptical about the science, for one thing. What science? All of it, as far as I can tell. He’s skeptical about climate catastrophe, and doesn’t believe it’s caused by human activity, even though we are now in the midst of a rolling series of climate catastrophes. He’s skeptical about the severity of the Covid pandemic, which has caused millions of deaths worldwide. He’s skeptical about the existence of anti-Black and anti-trans and anti-woman bigotry, even though he has claimed to believe that Black people have a natural lower average IQ than other races, and that women are not as naturally well-suited to technical fields as men, and that atavistic discomfort is a natural and perfectly understandable reaction for a person to have when they see a trans person. Adams is very proudly a skeptic on all of these matters, and as a general rule, which is unsurprising, since skepticism is a common posture among those who believe one of the foundational tenets of supremacy, which is that reality must be mediated through and approved by them in order to be deemed real by the rest of us.

Again, Adams’ authority for positioning himself an arbiter of reality is that he created Dilbert, which is a work which looks like it was drawn by a modestly talented 11-year old, and which recently has started incorporating anti-diversity and anti-trans material reflecting the worldview of its creator, who in case I have not mentioned it is Scott Adams.

It’s worth noting that Scott Adams the creator of Dilbert is not a climate scientist, or an expert in the fields of racial or gender studies—which are areas of studies the teaching of which are being criminalized as felonies in the state of Florida—and he isn’t a medical professional dedicated to the latest developments in transgender treatment, or an epidemiologist, all of which are areas of study so rich and deep and complex that very smart people devote their entire lives to understanding them so they can finally butt up against the edges of human knowledge in those fields in hope of advancing them. Nevertheless, they have all committed the regrettable sin of not being convincing enough to Scott Adams the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, who cannot draw hands as far as I can tell.

The skepticism of Scott Adams creator of Dilbert does have its limits. He is not skeptical about Donald Trump, who is the former President of the United States and who is also one of the most profoundly ignorant and grotesquely obvious scam artists of the century, and who is also an open authoritarian and white supremacist bag of dicks. Adams finds Trump perfectly credible on any number of issues that neither he nor Trump are expert in, and he finds discredited race science and discredited climate change denialism and discredited Covid conspiracy theories to be very convincing, too.

The thing that seems to make Adams skeptical is credible evidence. Wherever credible evidence exists, he’s skeptical of it; where it is absent, he is a believer. It’s a sort of upside-down worldview, unless you realize that it reflects exactly the sort of rhetorical conditions that would be necessary for the creator of a crudely-drawn comic strip to be accepted as an arbiter of reality.
By mattomac
#40671
Go too far down the corridor though you alienate some of your core vote for people who would never vote for you again anyhow.

The salient issues are services and the economy, I can’t see that changing and all the government has done at its very best is a sticking plaster.

With the NHS it’s just left it. If you can turn the entire country into believing every sexual offender is Trans then you might pull it off, I can’t see it though. They’ve started to believe owning the Libs on twitter and being liked by Tommy63738362847469 is vote winning.

It really isn’t.
By Bones McCoy
#40676
mattomac wrote: Thu Mar 09, 2023 12:55 am Go too far down the corridor though you alienate some of your core vote for people who would never vote for you again anyhow.

The salient issues are services and the economy, I can’t see that changing and all the government has done at its very best is a sticking plaster.

With the NHS it’s just left it. If you can turn the entire country into believing every sexual offender is Trans then you might pull it off, I can’t see it though. They’ve started to believe owning the Libs on twitter and being liked by Tommy63738362847469 is vote winning.

It really isn’t.
It depends what you mean by winning.

I think "the right" have reached a level of despair.
One where "winning" equates to "securing an income stream beyond the next election".

Even wingnut welfare won't pay them all, so expect plenty of fighting like hamsters in a sack.
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By Youngian
#41172
BBC presenter I can think of who gobs the most off the clock is R4’s Jazz Greats presenter Ken Clarke. Then there’s Word of Mouth SWP supporter Michael Rosen who has plenty to say for himself. Fortunately Radio 4 listeners are middle class enough not to be confused. The BBC is however worried football fans might be too thick to cope with Gary Lineker having views they don’t like.
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By RedSparrows
#41182
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:30 pm Public opinion was fairly to favourable to Lineker, wasn't it?

From what I understand yes, but scholarly Matt has fallen for the oldest idiocy in the book: anyone who doesn't agree with my narrow view is a woofer, ain't that right salt of the earth scu- I mean, salt of the earth yeomen of England?!
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By Bones McCoy
#41186
Yeoman, now there's a term that politicians abuse.

Freeholding farmers who passed a land-value test.
At a time when most farmers were feudal tenants.
References to the emerging social stratum of wealthy land-owning commoners began to appear after 1429. In that year, the Parliament of England re-organized the House of Commons into counties and boroughs, with voting rights granted to all freeholders. The Act of 1430 restricted voting rights to those freeholders whose land value exceeded 40 shillings. These yeomen would eventually become a social stratum of commoners below the landed gentry, but above the husbandmen.
By Youngian
#41207
mattomac wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:18 am A year or so it will include George Soros if it doesn’t already.
Charles Schwab of the WEF is now the head lizard man. I’ve asked a few nutters as to when the WEF took over as world rulers from the Bilderberg, Illuminati lizard people but no analysis was forth coming.
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