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Fallacies abound. >Nobody outside the internet takes seriously the idea that due process shouldn't exist. The Internet is made of people. Do these people (you

Fallacies abound. >Nobody outside the internet takes seriously the idea that due process shouldn't exist. The Internet is made of people. Do these people (you and I and everyone ITT) not exist in the real world? >...ever since Ronald Reagan. Do you honestly believe a Golden Age actor invented Conservatism? Crazy town banana pants >...the Tumblr left is somehow mainstream. main·stream ˈmānˌstrēm/ noun noun: mainstream 1. the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are regarded as normal or conventional; the dominant trend in opinion, fashion, or the arts. Isn't mainstream more of a reflection of Common Knowledge then ubiquity throughout subgroups? Regardless, the idea that leftishness is somehow an underground thing is CTBP. Full disclosure, I am an intellectual anarchist. THAT is a fringe group. I am not trying to hate, i just disagree with what you said, and i am sorry if you feel offended by anything i wrote, but i am not sorry for anything i have written.

eli_gottlieb 12y ago
>The Internet is made of people. Do these people (you and I and everyone ITT) not exist in the real world? The internet is mostly made of a strict subset of people who exist in the real world, and the people who make up The Internet, in the sense of internet-centered subcultures, are a very small subset of all real people. The fact that an idea or ideology is loud, or even possibly dominant, within our subculture is not even evidence of its being dominant within society as a whole. Most of society are nothing like us net-folk. >Do you honestly believe a Golden Age actor invented Conservatism? Crazy town banana pants What I said is that he brought it to mainstream electoral dominance, particularly after the social-democratic Postwar Consensus. > Isn't mainstream more of a reflection of Common Knowledge then ubiquity throughout subgroups? Right, hence why we need to check to make sure that what we think is common to think among our friends and cliques is actually common among the population as a whole -- because our friends and cliques are not representative samples. >Regardless, the idea that leftishness is somehow an underground thing is CTBP. Don't be silly. It's not underground, it's just a comparatively small minority of the total population. In the United States, for instance, if I recall the numbers correctly, I believe that roughly 40% of the population self-report as conservative or conservative-leaning, 10% as independent/undecided, 20% as liberal or leftist, and 30% as moderate/centrist. So in total, there are fewer devoted leftists than devoted rightists, and fewer devoted anything-ists than self-declared non-ideologues. And of the people who self-declare as leftists, only a minority will be Tumblr leftists. So yeah: a tempest in the internet's teacup doesn't mean that a bunch of authoritarian identity-politicking liberals are taking over the world.

eli_gottlieb 12y ago

>The Internet is made of people. Do these people (you and I and everyone ITT) not exist in the real world? The internet is mostly made of a strict subset of people who exist in the real world, and the people who make up The Internet, in the sense of internet-centered subcultures, are a very small subset of all real people. The fact that an idea or ideology is loud, or even possibly dominant, within our subculture is not even evidence of its being dominant within society as a whole. Most of society are nothing like us net-folk. >Do you honestly believe a Golden Age actor invented Conservatism? Crazy town banana pants What I said is that he brought it to mainstream electoral dominance, particularly after the social-democratic Postwar Consensus. > Isn't mainstream more of a reflection of Common Knowledge then ubiquity throughout subgroups? Right, hence why we need to check to make sure that what we think is common to think among our friends and cliques is actually common among the population as a whole -- because our friends and cliques are not representative samples. >Regardless, the idea that leftishness is somehow an underground thing is CTBP. Don't be silly. It's not underground, it's just a comparatively small minority of the total population. In the United States, for instance, if I recall the numbers correctly, I believe that roughly 40% of the population self-report as conservative or conservative-leaning, 10% as independent/undecided, 20% as liberal or leftist, and 30% as moderate/centrist. So in total, there are fewer devoted leftists than devoted rightists, and fewer devoted anything-ists than self-declared non-ideologues. And of the people who self-declare as leftists, only a minority will be Tumblr leftists. So yeah: a tempest in the internet's teacup doesn't mean that a bunch of authoritarian identity-politicking liberals are taking over the world.