Someone must have deeply hurt you. One thing we can be sure that will not come from a progressive echo chamber is a solution to any real-world problem. The little hints of your ignorance in economic matters are definitely not surprising. It’s not what you don’t know, it’s what you know for sure that just isn’t so.
I am personally acquainted with scores of parents who've lost children to the trans cult. The story you tell yourself about Elon taking a "hit to his manhood" is you misleading yourself about the most noxious and harmful ideology of the 21st century. Clearly you have learned nothing. You will express surpise and rude shock when the child-sterilizing cult is dismantled, pretend that you did not know what was going on when the crimes committed in the name of "trans" are forcibly revealed to you. A few years hence, you may eventually admit that magical mystical invisible ineffable gender-gremlins do not exist, and are not in fact trapped inside the bodies of children, that Elon's son is still a son (but with decades shorter lifespan), and that Democrats made an extraordinary error in backing the Moloch cult. See you then.
A bit surprised by you Nick making this argument. BlueSky is far more hostile towards the type of commentary you make on Twitter.
From my perspective one obvious thing about BlueSky is that it has voices that weren't even on Twitter pre Musk like Jonathan Last of the Bulwark who is a mean caustic commentator and former editor of the Weekly Standard that basically hopes Trump supporters die of starvation and illness. I feel joining BlueSky just to read Last more commonly known by his initials JVL is reason enough.
You are also seeing an ideological battle on BlueSky between the YIMBY's or abundance liberals and the Bernie/DSA left with the YIMBY's well in the lead. On other hand BlueSky lacks the more cultural right or conservative Dems like Ritchie Torres and Andrew Cuomo. Perhaps that is a sign of BlueSky's weakness or perhaps it shows that Torres, Cuomo, and their supporters are missing the boat.
Great points. Some people have a kind of knee-jerk approach to the marketplace of ideas where they think we should put ourselves in a position of being intellectually challenged at all times. But being intellectually challenged does not mean "exposed constantly to people who disagree with you." It means surrounding yourself with knowledgeable people who make you think. People who generally agree with you can also do that. I'm tempted to say tht trick is to surround yourself with people who are smarter than you, but that's simplifying it too much as well and the question of "who's smarter" is generally meaningless. What matters is how the community you choose approaches conversation and dialogue. If disagreeing in that forum invites abuse, you're not likely to learn anything and the confrontations are more likely to harden positions on all sides than lead to the evolution of anybody's views. To take things out of the political, I am a big fan of abstract expressionist art. I've studied up on it and learned a lot. If you throw me into.a forum of passionate art people who want to explain to me that the Old Masters were more skilled and their works should be more highly valued, I can learn something from that, even if I continue to disagree. If you put me in a forum full of people who look at the art I like and respond with, "My 6 year old cousin could..." Well, I am better off elsewhere.
Someone must have deeply hurt you. One thing we can be sure that will not come from a progressive echo chamber is a solution to any real-world problem. The little hints of your ignorance in economic matters are definitely not surprising. It’s not what you don’t know, it’s what you know for sure that just isn’t so.
I am personally acquainted with scores of parents who've lost children to the trans cult. The story you tell yourself about Elon taking a "hit to his manhood" is you misleading yourself about the most noxious and harmful ideology of the 21st century. Clearly you have learned nothing. You will express surpise and rude shock when the child-sterilizing cult is dismantled, pretend that you did not know what was going on when the crimes committed in the name of "trans" are forcibly revealed to you. A few years hence, you may eventually admit that magical mystical invisible ineffable gender-gremlins do not exist, and are not in fact trapped inside the bodies of children, that Elon's son is still a son (but with decades shorter lifespan), and that Democrats made an extraordinary error in backing the Moloch cult. See you then.
I will do none of those things lol
A bit surprised by you Nick making this argument. BlueSky is far more hostile towards the type of commentary you make on Twitter.
From my perspective one obvious thing about BlueSky is that it has voices that weren't even on Twitter pre Musk like Jonathan Last of the Bulwark who is a mean caustic commentator and former editor of the Weekly Standard that basically hopes Trump supporters die of starvation and illness. I feel joining BlueSky just to read Last more commonly known by his initials JVL is reason enough.
You are also seeing an ideological battle on BlueSky between the YIMBY's or abundance liberals and the Bernie/DSA left with the YIMBY's well in the lead. On other hand BlueSky lacks the more cultural right or conservative Dems like Ritchie Torres and Andrew Cuomo. Perhaps that is a sign of BlueSky's weakness or perhaps it shows that Torres, Cuomo, and their supporters are missing the boat.
Great points. Some people have a kind of knee-jerk approach to the marketplace of ideas where they think we should put ourselves in a position of being intellectually challenged at all times. But being intellectually challenged does not mean "exposed constantly to people who disagree with you." It means surrounding yourself with knowledgeable people who make you think. People who generally agree with you can also do that. I'm tempted to say tht trick is to surround yourself with people who are smarter than you, but that's simplifying it too much as well and the question of "who's smarter" is generally meaningless. What matters is how the community you choose approaches conversation and dialogue. If disagreeing in that forum invites abuse, you're not likely to learn anything and the confrontations are more likely to harden positions on all sides than lead to the evolution of anybody's views. To take things out of the political, I am a big fan of abstract expressionist art. I've studied up on it and learned a lot. If you throw me into.a forum of passionate art people who want to explain to me that the Old Masters were more skilled and their works should be more highly valued, I can learn something from that, even if I continue to disagree. If you put me in a forum full of people who look at the art I like and respond with, "My 6 year old cousin could..." Well, I am better off elsewhere.