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The right as well. My observation is that generally only people who complain about neither or both tend to care about statistics.

px43 5y ago
You are correct that rage addicts exist all across the political spectrum, though I don't think "the right" is nearly as much of a trigger phrase as "the left". There are plenty of other phrases used by left leaning rage mongers, but "the left" has for years been curated to trigger strong negative emotions towards half of the US population. People who use that phrase know exactly what they're doing, or are at least parroting someone who does. People who intentionally use negative trigger phrases to gain traction are not typically people whose opinions are worth spending much energy on.
- deleted 5y ago
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- Clubber 5y ago
  >I don't think "the right" is nearly as much of a trigger phrase as "the left". I dunno, "the left" has their own terms to incite rage: far-right, white supremest (rarely any evidence), racist (same), right-winger, evangelicals, Nazi, deplorable, redneck, etc. "The right" uses terms: liberal, socialist, communist, SJW, etc. If you are strictly speaking in terms of which is more insightful and limit it to "the left" or "the right," I guess it depends on which circle you are closer to. I can see the argument for "the left" as being more insightful, but that might just be because of the circle I'm currently closer to. I try to use terms such as those as a red flag. Anyone who tries to make a generalization for a spectrum as broad as "the left," or "the right," is trying to sell me something. I try to stick to policy, everything else is usually just theatre to distract from policy. Somewhat related, Hillary Clinton was talking with BLM members about how to change things in 2015. She caught a lot of flack about it, but she was absolutely right when she said, "I don't believe you change hearts. You change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate." That's why I tend to stick to policy. Full disclosure, I don't particularly care for the Clintons. https://www.vox.com/2015/8/19/9174077/hillary-clinton-black-lives-matter https://www.vox.com/2015/8/19/9174077/hillary-clinton-black-...
  - bitwize 5y ago
    - Clubber 5y ago
      Are you sure there are not two boogie men rather than just one?
    - slibhb 5y ago
      > white supremacism has enjoyed profound resurgence and evangelicals constitute a huge bulk -- up to half -- of the population. There has definitely been a resurgence in people using the term "white supremacy". Whether that is tied to a resurgence of white supremacy is doubtful. The statement that up to half the population are evangelicals is just wrong.
      - Clubber 5y ago
        It's amazing to me how much political capital is spent on this sort of thing. Meanwhile, we are no closer to anything like universal healthcare, or even lowering the medicare age. The wealth gap is expanding, and jobs are still being sent overseas. Housing is getting more expensive, inflation is wiping out any wage gains, and healthcare is even more obscenely expensive. But hey, we may or may not have identified some additional white supremacists. This analogy just hit me. It's as if people who get into this trap are like addicts. They are spending all their political capital (money) on heroin (rage culture) and not spending political capital on feeding themselves or their families (healthcare, jobs, wages, UBI, etc). All the while, the machine keeps on enriching themselves at our expense. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, we keep tilting at the windmills the elite class convinces us are actually dragons. The GOP will probably take the house and/or the senate, effectively neutering Biden. Expect 2 years of retaliatory impeachment hearings to distract everyone from our goals. The D's had two years of power and almost nothing to show for it, except maybe higher blood pressure.
        nostromo 5y ago
        Giant corporations love identity politics. It completely distracted the left from expensive things that would actually help low-income people. Big corporations woo the left with BLM retweets and pride flags -- which costs them $0 -- while utilizing the global poor stuck in grueling jobs with low pay. It's so convenient I wonder if it's intentional. Getting pressured to unionize from the left? Just retweet BLM, name an arena Climate Pledge Arena, and then move on.
- bityard 5y ago
  Are you saying that nobody on the left (okay, sorry, the "not-right") ever uses negative trigger words in reference to their political rivals?
  - MisterBastahrd 5y ago
    Are you aware that from the 1980s to the early 2000s, the word "liberal" was worthy of enough derision that people would openly cringe at the term? Republicans were fantastically successful at two things politically: tying the support of social programs to the Red Scare and gathering support of trickle down economics by opposing desegregation efforts.
- lariati 5y ago
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px43 5y ago

You are correct that rage addicts exist all across the political spectrum, though I don't think "the right" is nearly as much of a trigger phrase as "the left". There are plenty of other phrases used by left leaning rage mongers, but "the left" has for years been curated to trigger strong negative emotions towards half of the US population. People who use that phrase know exactly what they're doing, or are at least parroting someone who does. People who intentionally use negative trigger phrases to gain traction are not typically people whose opinions are worth spending much energy on.

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Clubber 5y ago
>I don't think "the right" is nearly as much of a trigger phrase as "the left". I dunno, "the left" has their own terms to incite rage: far-right, white supremest (rarely any evidence), racist (same), right-winger, evangelicals, Nazi, deplorable, redneck, etc. "The right" uses terms: liberal, socialist, communist, SJW, etc. If you are strictly speaking in terms of which is more insightful and limit it to "the left" or "the right," I guess it depends on which circle you are closer to. I can see the argument for "the left" as being more insightful, but that might just be because of the circle I'm currently closer to. I try to use terms such as those as a red flag. Anyone who tries to make a generalization for a spectrum as broad as "the left," or "the right," is trying to sell me something. I try to stick to policy, everything else is usually just theatre to distract from policy. Somewhat related, Hillary Clinton was talking with BLM members about how to change things in 2015. She caught a lot of flack about it, but she was absolutely right when she said, "I don't believe you change hearts. You change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate." That's why I tend to stick to policy. Full disclosure, I don't particularly care for the Clintons. https://www.vox.com/2015/8/19/9174077/hillary-clinton-black-lives-matter https://www.vox.com/2015/8/19/9174077/hillary-clinton-black-...
- bitwize 5y ago
  - Clubber 5y ago
    Are you sure there are not two boogie men rather than just one?
  - slibhb 5y ago
    > white supremacism has enjoyed profound resurgence and evangelicals constitute a huge bulk -- up to half -- of the population. There has definitely been a resurgence in people using the term "white supremacy". Whether that is tied to a resurgence of white supremacy is doubtful. The statement that up to half the population are evangelicals is just wrong.
    - Clubber 5y ago
      It's amazing to me how much political capital is spent on this sort of thing. Meanwhile, we are no closer to anything like universal healthcare, or even lowering the medicare age. The wealth gap is expanding, and jobs are still being sent overseas. Housing is getting more expensive, inflation is wiping out any wage gains, and healthcare is even more obscenely expensive. But hey, we may or may not have identified some additional white supremacists. This analogy just hit me. It's as if people who get into this trap are like addicts. They are spending all their political capital (money) on heroin (rage culture) and not spending political capital on feeding themselves or their families (healthcare, jobs, wages, UBI, etc). All the while, the machine keeps on enriching themselves at our expense. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, we keep tilting at the windmills the elite class convinces us are actually dragons. The GOP will probably take the house and/or the senate, effectively neutering Biden. Expect 2 years of retaliatory impeachment hearings to distract everyone from our goals. The D's had two years of power and almost nothing to show for it, except maybe higher blood pressure.
      - nostromo 5y ago
        Giant corporations love identity politics. It completely distracted the left from expensive things that would actually help low-income people. Big corporations woo the left with BLM retweets and pride flags -- which costs them $0 -- while utilizing the global poor stuck in grueling jobs with low pay. It's so convenient I wonder if it's intentional. Getting pressured to unionize from the left? Just retweet BLM, name an arena Climate Pledge Arena, and then move on.
bityard 5y ago
Are you saying that nobody on the left (okay, sorry, the "not-right") ever uses negative trigger words in reference to their political rivals?
- MisterBastahrd 5y ago
  Are you aware that from the 1980s to the early 2000s, the word "liberal" was worthy of enough derision that people would openly cringe at the term? Republicans were fantastically successful at two things politically: tying the support of social programs to the Red Scare and gathering support of trickle down economics by opposing desegregation efforts.
lariati 5y ago
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