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  • When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

    The authoritarian left is bad
    \ The authoritarian right is bad
    \ But if you think that the two are equally bad, then you're wronger than wrong

    • And if you think that makes either defendable you’ve lost the plot.

    • Mao, Stalin, AND Hitler ALL genocided within their own territory, whether intentionally or not ( Mao wiped-out knowledge-workers, creating massive famine, ttbomk )

      The whole "horseshoe political-spectrum" is failing-to-understand that there actually is a different dimenion involved..

      Considered-reasoning only lives in the middle,

      & imprint->reaction-mind owns both extremes, AND it also owns many who nominally are "center".

      Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow" is on the difference between the 2 kinds of mental-function,

      and to the best of my knowledge, the imprint->reaction mind is lower-forebrain, while the considered-reasoning mind is upper-forebrain.

      ALL ideology/prejudice/"religion" ( religion, not spirituality, which is considered-reasoning rooted ) is rooted in the imprint->reaction bypassing-actual-thinking mind.

      The Catholic inquisition, the murderers of any religion, the murderers of any political-ideology, etc..

      I simply cannot understand how anybody could maintain that the ideology-genociding-of-the-left OR the ideology-genociding-of-the-right OR the ideology-genociding-of-religions OR the ideology-genociding-of-racism OR the ideology-genociding-of-gender-racism ( the inquisition was part of that, the Muslim immigrant gang-rapes committed in their new countries is part of that, the male-supremacist-vote which helped block Harris from winning in the US is part of it, the fact that rape is a pretend-crime in actual-practice is part of that, as the male authorities just don't consider it to be a "real" crime, if its "only" against girls & women, the scum who rewrote Genesis millenia ago, to alter it from saying that women "ate of the fruit of the knowledge of Good & Evil" ( which it still says ), to instead "interpreted" that, right in the text, so that instead of meaning that women ate of moral understanding ( altruism is demonstrated to be generalized-mothering, in wasps & humans, & grandmothers in the tribe are a significant tribal-survival-advantage, through deep-time/evolution )..

      Is the intentional-genociding of Tibetans & Uighurs "OK" because it is being done by the left?

      Was Stalin's force-exterminating millions of his own country's people somehow OK?

      XOR is it that the genociding of fascists doesn't count?

      Obviously, you hold that I, like the original-poster am beyond-reason, beyond wrong.

      That's fine.

      I'm fed-up with being gaslit by ideologues, & ideologues are equally fed-up with all who are not within their ideology, obviously.

      Which is the essence of The Great Filter, in-which humankind will either lock entirely into imprint->reaction mode & simply tantrum/pogrom until all our kind is extinguished,

      XOR some fraction of humankind will do all they can to lock-into considered-reasoning, & do everything they can to continue force-evolving, while surviving the apoctalyptic-nihilism of the ideologues..

      I don't expect the total-war to cease until the end of this century, once it starts ( in the 2030's, probably )

      Party-fascism ( which is what "communism" actually is ) & individual-fascism both are intolerant of healthy-diversity.

      Collectivist-evil & individualist-evil are equal-"powers", just different in methods & in their self-programming.

      .. shrug ..

      _ /\ _

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