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Understanding the Liberal Mindset

arthwollipot said:
Ever wondered why we say "every accusation is a confession"? This is why. Those on the right exhibit exactly the same characteristics and behaviours that they accuse the left of and purport to hate so much. Ideological purity? Check. Resistance to contrary opinions? Check. Absolute certainty that they are right and we are wrong? Labelling the other side with insults? Playing the victim card? Check, check, and check.

The one defining characteristic of them all is that they can't see it.
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I learnt when I was young that as people we do tend to assume that others think as we do, will react the way we do and so on. In terms of modern politics in the USA this is why the likes of Trump claim that those they consider to be their opponents and/or enemies of doing what they would do in the same circumstances; which is why he claims the criminal investigations against him were because the "Democrats" "politicised" the DoJ and the FBI, because as we can see that is what he has done. It really does fall back to a lack of empathy, they can't understand that other people are not like themselves.
 
smartcooky said:
Exactly! On this forum, I have been labeled, called or accused of being any and all of the following...

1. A ◊◊◊◊◊◊ lover (that's the n-word there) because I accept people of colour as my equals and because I disagree with far right people about the reasons for people of colour having high crime rates (my opinion is that its much more about socio-economics, they think its all about skin colour).
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Are you telling us that this was something a liberal or a progressive called you on this forum?

Are you serious?

That sounds more like something your current tribe would say. There is apparently one of them in this very thread posting Nazi cartoons. I haven’t seen you address this person. Apparently the liberals are worse.
 
Besides, being called names just comes with the territory.

You are not shy about denouncing everyone who disagrees with you as a trans rights activist, a Maoist, an Islamist lover, etc….

You seem to be both extremely eager to use insults and rhetoric against the libs and the profs and the lefties and the Starmer lovers, etc…. And then clutch your pearls like pearls are being forcibly requisitioned by the NKVD the next minute.

In short, you dish it out with glee and then melt like the most fragile snowflake the moment anyone raises an eyebrow.
 
Darat said:
I still win on the "what I've been accused of on this forum" - I've been accused of personally committing crimes against humanity, some member and I can't recall who, even created websites to accuse me of such. Beat that!
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Well, I don't know if I can actually beat that, but I was once a moderator for a yahoo group (when they were the big thing back in the late 90s) that discussed Charles Manson and his various crimes. One member seemed to think Charlie was a saint, and they even started a website to ridicule everyone in the group who didn't agree with them.

We booted them, and they retaliated by making a false complaint that we were using yahoo mail to insult and degrade them.

As a result, Yahoo canceled all our accounts, including mine, and one of the other moderators even lost the only pictures she had of her mom who had died.

That pissed me off, and I called up Yahoo to complain that no one had done what that jackass had complained about. I even asked them what exactly we had done wrong, but the one I had talked to refused to tell me and instead simply referred to their guidelines as to why we were booted.

That's why I hate Yahoo to this day.

Anyway, sorry for the rant and please don't send this to AAH.
 
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smartcooky said:
I have been accused of membership in the whole gamut of the political spectrum, from the loony far left, through centrist (which is what I am) to far right thug. I doesn't matter what I say, some cult member here from one end or the other will hate me for it.
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not to say it's not annoying when it happens, but i don't know that you can make a long list of the times you've been insulted by both sides, then blame the rationale for that kind of behavior on the liberal progressive mindset

anyway, this doesn't just happen to you. this happens to everyone, all the time on all mediums. it's a pretty popular way people trying to win arguments
 
AmyStrange said:
Your mileage (opinion) obviously does vary from mine.

BTW, I'm not sneering at you. I merely disagree.
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...did we get a word crossed here??? It doesn't sound like you disagree at all.

'Any topping as fine, as long as it's not anchovies.'

'ugh! sorry but you'll have to get your own pizza if you want anchovies'
 
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Lithrael said:
...did we get a word crossed here??? It doesn't sound like you disagree at all.

'Any topping as fine, as long as it's not anchovies.'

'ugh! sorry but you'll have to get your own pizza if you want anchovies'
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Well, no anchovies, but lots of cheese, please.

It didn't read like we agreed.

IOW, you agree that being kind and helpful is not foolish, wasteful, and destructive. Got it.

Thank you and wake me up when the pizza gets here. I've got lots of sleep to catch up on.
 
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Many years ago I listened to Limbaugh because what he was saying was the old version of conservative that didn't include the racism and weird elements the word would aquire later on.

Be self reliant as possible and assist in making a better society around you. My dad was a Democrat to the bone and passed on the same values.

Then the definitions all went goofy, I moved to a democratic socialist nation and seen that here in a 'socialist" world I had more freedom and less taxes than in the land of the free. I live better.
Fewer socal programs and a lot of bootstrap efforts by everyone made a functional nation too. I am right at home here as this is how it always was for me.

I stand on issues, not any political platform. Like it or not note I am not trying to change your ideas if you disagree. Maybe we mostly agree on another issue. It's possible.

The descriptions are deceptive. Sometimes poorer is richer and left is right.
 
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AmyStrange said:
It didn't read like we agreed.
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It did to me.

Did you perhaps miss the word don't in the phrase "I don't like" immediately before the bit you highlighted and objected to? Here's the whole quote from Lithrael's post again:

I don't like it that there's a wholeass movement dedicated to the idea that offering kindness and help even to people who are not guaranteed to reciprocate is not just foolish but wasteful and destructive,
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Gulliver Foyle said:
It's a safe bet that Cobra is unwilling to admit to his personal views. Generally people who get all huffy about being called racist for their actions are deeply racist.
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I will take that bet.

I have voted for Trump three times. Frankly, it was a no brainer all three times.

I identify as Libertarian. I read The Fountainhead in high school and Atlas Shrugged in college, and found that Ayn Rand's views reflected my own.

Frankly, I have yet to hear a Democratic candidate voice a sound economic policy (there were a few Democratic governors that espoused sound economic policy but, needless to say, they never made it to the national spotlight).

Do I believe everything Trump says? Hell no - I don't believe anything anybody says without independent corroboration. For this reason I get my news from numerous different sources, from Breitbart to Mother Jones. They all lie and/or distort the facts but, if you read enough, you can eventually get an idea of what is really going on.

I also find it interesting that, knowing nothing about me, Gulliver immediately implied that I am racist. This says more about Gulliver than about me.
 
theprestige said:
One thing I will never understand about the liberal mindset is the overpowering urge to turn every conversation to Trump, even when it's entirely off topic, and even when the conversation they want already exists.
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TDS is a helluva drug
 
theprestige said:
One thing I will never understand about the liberal mindset is the overpowering urge to turn every conversation to Trump, even when it's entirely off topic, and even when the conversation they want already exists.
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i’m not a liberal so it’s not much wonder why you don’t understand it.

the conversation i saw was a conservative giving honest opinions on trump. the thing is i have a running thread on trump’s crypto stuff but i don’t think a single conservative has participated. it’s indefensible so i get why, but fact is it’s hard to get any feedback on it.

i will of course presume your thoughts won’t be forthcoming either. since it’s off topic, not because it’s indefensible
 
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