#liberal principles

[repotting]

So it's clear a lot of the "I'd even vote for Hitler" Democrats are trying to impress upon us the urgency of the situation, like "things are so dire I'd even resort to this!"

And of course one major problem with this tactic is that you're assuming we'll be like "wow, you'd overcome your obviously strong principles" but like.

You haven't established you even have those principles. You've just told us that you'd collaborate with Nazis and like, yeah, that is famously something many liberals have been okay with doing.

[yosbin]

"we're mortal men. we serve an ideal. we cannot always be ideal."

frame studies from conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger

[time-being]

This is what genocide-neutral liberals are telling themselves and each other.

Genocide can be a non-issue if you want it to be!

Pretend that voting is all of politics.

[awesome-cookies-and-cream]

Nobody asked me but Bellini always losing to the late holy father who was always eight steps ahead in chess should've also been foreshadowing on bellini not being pope.

[mothmanavenue]

can i confess something else that will absolutely get me stoned in the town square since im dropping my unpopular opinions. I don’t like altean broadsword Lance. i already disliked red paladin Lance. the broadsword was like rubbing salt in the wound. why couldn’t he have his own niche. why was his character development just making him keith. i understand that it was like “he accepts that he doesn’t have to be a leader and excels as a co-leader and you can find happiness that way yada yada yada”. but you could’ve done that without making him keith. also now give him something unique, cool, that falls in line with his sniper bit. i’m not saying just give him another gun, im saying give him something quiet and lethal. like a garotte. yeah i want garotte lance.

i yap a lot more in my notes by the way if you were interested in other unpopular opinions. don’t send me hate messages or comments i won’t read it and will block viciously i also will not be debating this this is my hill to die on <3

[leikeliscomet]

Western individualism is gonna be the downfall of the aspec community and I dont even care how extra I sound I'm so serious. Whether you like it or not you have some shared experiences with non-aspec queer people, asexuality and aromanticism have social and political impacts and if you're gonna call yourself a community member of anything, you have a moral duty to look out for other people in there and u lot are willing to throw that all away because... what? You have to acknowledge privileges you have that are still there regardless of what aspec label you have? You have to admit there's actual oppression enabled by some aces and aros here in spite of the ace and aro exclus making up allegations? You have to acknowledge aces and aros that aren't you for once? You have to accept that not every ace and aro related thing is gonna be about you personally? Pathetic. When you make a “safe space” for aspecs that has no material conditions in place, no systemic analysis just anecdotes, no actual politic or praxis, absolutely nothing to address the oppression of the aros and aces in your community all because you don't want to feel minorly inconvenienced for once in your life, just everyday 'everyone's valid' and 'it's a spectrum <3' you don't have a safe space. You have a meetup.

[krisdreemurrs]

ofc when arcanes writing team become two privileged men and a woman the plot stopped being primarily about the lower class sisters and how their relationship affected their world as a whole. ofc it mainly became about the elite men and women fucking things over yet facing no repercussions. of fucking course that would happen

[tomwambsgans]

tomgreg is not "i could fix him" nor "i could make him worse" but "i could make him feel like a real person." from both ends.

[cath-lic]

something that’s really been annoying me lately is like… the woobification or demonization of religion. i saw an absolutely brain dead take by someone on instagram saying that abrahamic religions were “toxic” and that people should stick to non-theistic religions.

guess what, the problem of evil exists in every religion! every religion has nuance. there is NO religion that is “non problematic” and that is an absolutely insane thing to ask of any religion or belief or whatever.

[mangocheesecakes]

all of you vote blue no matter who americans deserve the president you're going to get (either trump or biden will be just the same, they both will trample on your precious "rights" anyway) but by god Palestinians don't deserve to suffer the terrible consequences of your so-called democracy. It's so nauseating seeing people with a complete lack of conscience/morals/empathy insist that after everything that's been happening for the past 9+ months, somehow, they still could not come up with a reason NOT to vote for genocide joe.

[count-woe-laf]

taking one (1) political science class is just. Huh. People really truly fundamentally misunderstand the words they use sometimes

[mobiused]

Do you know what Hamas has as their number one goal? It’s not to free Palestine, it’s to kill all the jews.

Not really though

[thatscarletflycatcher]

"Now voluntarist or contractarian accounts of the liberal polity have consistently argued that the equality that is prerequisite to the idea of consent can only be advanced under a political philosophy that views individuals as bearers of rights in the abstract sense... can we advance a version of liberalism that both retains consent (and therefore freedom and autonomy) and does not depend on a notion of the individuals as a priori equal?...it is clear that what replaces status in the formulation of liberal relations of power is not consent but its precondition, rationality, which is a quality of the mind."

And, pray tell, is that not, you know, an a priori trait of individuals, madam?

[jimmyspades]

"When did you have your last abortion? Until you know everything that goes with it, don't you dare lecture me or anybody about–" "I know what goes with it! Obviously I haven't experienced the physical part, but I know the overwhelming emotion that goes with it. I know the sense of loss, I know the doubt, the guilt, so please, don't–" BOSTON LEGAL 5.08 "Roe"

[wild-at-mind]

'Here's a 4chan post about how liberals that like Harry Potter in current year see the world.'- post engaged with on here by people on the broader left for some reason.

[chadsuke]

Books Read in 2023:

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman (2019)

Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling (1996)

The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards (2018)

The Little Book of Lykke by Meik Wiking (2017)

American Cozy by Stephanie Pederson (2018)

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian (2021)

The Conscious Closet by Elizabeth L. Cline (2019)

My Happy Marriage Vol. 1 by Akumi Agitogi (2019)

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)

[ID: Covers of the aforementioned books. End ID.]