Understanding the Liberal Mindset

AmyStrange · 2026-01-08T04:20:34+0000

Trausti said:
Are you new to this forum?

That's not proof that I'm wrong either.

Trausti · 2026-01-08T04:21:29+0000

AmyStrange said:
I am not an example of ALL liberal/progressive mindsets.

Who says you have to be? Is anyone accusing you of that? Do you have to be a devout Christian to speak about Christianity?

arthwollipot · 2026-01-08T04:22:23+0000

jt512 said:
It's no mystery why liberals don't.

Correct. It's because it punches down.

arthwollipot · 2026-01-08T04:25:21+0000

theprestige said:
The liberal mindset, everyone.

theprestige said:
The liberal mindset, everyone

theprestige said:
The liberal mindset, everyone.

theprestige said:
The liberal mindset, everyone

theprestige said:
The liberal mindset, everyone.

The conservative mindset, everyone: the conviction that it is repetition that makes a thing true.

Trausti · 2026-01-08T04:25:54+0000

arthwollipot said:
Correct. It's because it punches down.

Ah, the progressive stack.

AmyStrange · 2026-01-08T04:26:42+0000

Trausti said:
Who says you have to be? Is anyone accusing you of that? Do you have to be a devout Christian to speak about Christianity?

Yes, they are by saying:

"The liberal mindset, everyone."

As far as the highlighted part goes, if you pick out one christian out of a million, and say:

"The Christian mindset, everyone."

That is another made-up statement, unless you can prove that every single christian has the same mindset as that one guy.

AmyStrange · 2026-01-08T04:34:58+0000

arthwollipot said:
The conservative mindset, everyone: the conviction that it is repetition that makes a thing true.

Yup, and the rest of the posts (that came with those made-up statements), don't offer any proof that they're right either, that every liberal/progressive mindset is the same as mine.

Hell, I might be the only one with that mindset. I don't know, but I do know that many people in this thread have proven that the liberal/progressive mindset is not consistent and is made up of a diverse group of people whose ideas are sometimes (if not mostly) very different from mine.

Trausti · 2026-01-08T04:43:24+0000

AmyStrange said:
Yes, they are by saying:

"The liberal mindset, everyone."

As far as the highlighted part goes, if you pick out one christian out of a million, and say:

"The Christian mindset, everyone."

That is another made-up statement unless you can prove that every single christian has the same mindset as that one guy.

Well, that's intriguing. Me wonders if other posters on this forum would heed your words and not make blanket statements about groups of people. Ain't happening.

AmyStrange · 2026-01-08T04:46:06+0000

Trausti said:
Well, that's intriguing. Me wonders if other posters on this forum would heed your words and not make blanket statements about groups of people. Ain't happening

I mostly agree, but that doesn't mean I can't use my freedom of speech to call them out on it, which I do regularly, especially when they're aimed at me.

Hell, when the fat clown was elected in 2024, there were people here calling me a nazi just because I was a registered republican.

I called every single one of them out on it.

Trausti · 2026-01-08T04:51:23+0000

AmyStrange said:
I mostly agree, but that doesn't mean I can't use my freedom of speech to call them out on it, which I do regularly, especially when they're aimed at me.

That doesn't mean there isn't a definable liberal or, rather, progressive mindset. There clearly is. Birds of a feathers, ya know. And it's not a new Western thing, either.

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AmyStrange · 2026-01-08T04:53:37+0000

Trausti said:
That doesn't mean there isn't a definable liberal or, rather, progressive mindset. There clearly is. Birds of a feathers, ya know.

Nope, there isn't a consistent liberal/progressive mindset.

There are posts in this thread alone that prove you wrong, and that's why I say your post is a made-up one.

Prove me wrong, and I'll admit that I am, but I doubt you will, because of my second sentence.

AmyStrange · 2026-01-08T04:59:53+0000

Trausti said:
That doesn't mean there isn't a definable liberal or, rather, progressive mindset. There clearly is. Birds of a feathers, ya know. And it's not a new Western thing, either.

There may be one thing that's consistent, and that's empathy, but I'm not even sure about that.

Norman Alexander · 2026-01-08T05:00:19+0000

junkshop said:
To clarify: I was responding to the title of the thread, then I read some more of the thread and decided that it was too silly.

Yeah, me too.

Trausti · 2026-01-08T05:00:27+0000

AmyStrange said:
Nope, there isn't a consistent liberal/progressive mindset.

There are post in this thread that prove you wrong, and that's why I say your post is a made-up one.

Prove me wrong and I will admit that I am, but I doubt you will, because of my second sentence.

I would separate liberal from progressive, but the progressive mindset is so obvious. It assumes oppressor/oppressed power relationships, and always assumes the more powerful in this contrived relationship is bad. White privilege? It's how you get "abolish police." It's how the genocide of October 7 is waived off or ignored.

Trausti · 2026-01-08T05:02:32+0000

AmyStrange said:
There may be one thing that's consistent, and that's empathy, but I'm not even sure about that.

Well, yeah. But not just empathy, a pathological empathy. One that excuses not just bad behavior but harmful behavior. It's how you get Rotherham.

AmyStrange · 2026-01-08T05:03:16+0000

Trausti said:
I would separate liberal from progressive, but the progressive mindset is so obvious. It assumes oppressor/oppressed power relationships, and always assumes the more powerful in this contrived relationship is bad. White privilege? It's how you get "abolish police." It's how the genocide of October 7 is waived off or ignored.

See, that proves you wrong right there, and no the progressive mindset has different definitions even in this thread.

AmyStrange · 2026-01-08T05:04:42+0000

Trausti said:
Well, yeah. But not just empathy, a pathological empathy. One that excuses not just bad behavior but harmful behavior. It's how you get Rotherham.

Nope. Wrong, I am not pathological, and that proves you're wrong once again.

Norman Alexander · 2026-01-08T05:07:40+0000

CHILDREN!

Stop bickering!

AmyStrange · 2026-01-08T05:08:18+0000

Trausti said:
I would separate liberal from progressive, but the progressive mindset is so obvious. It assumes oppressor/oppressed power relationships, and always assumes the more powerful in this contrived relationship is bad. White privilege? It's how you get "abolish police." It's how the genocide of October 7 is waived off or ignored.

Nope. Wrong again, because I don't want to abolish the police.

AmyStrange · 2026-01-08T05:09:53+0000

Norman Alexander said:
CHILDREN!

Stop bickering!

Yeah, you're right Norm.

I apologize to everyone in this thread for my prolonged bickering with people who make stuff up, but don't have any proof that I'm wrong.

I'll stop bickering, and I'll just laugh and laugh and laugh again instead.

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