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To clarify, I mean that the term is snidely thrown around by right-wingers, moderates, etc. to refer to anything left-of-center that requires thought ...

I love the discourse around "Woke". Clown's performing semantic juggling so that the term can acquire whatever vague leftist meaning is needed. I gues...

This is why Ayn Rand never wrote - could never write - about children in her novels, or as far as I'm aware, her non-fiction work. A philosophy incapa...

Just read Marx

This and female hysteria, absolutely.

Yes I've watched 2 out of 3 winners of the Big Five: It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Both are fantastic. Haven't seen The S...

How dare you, I am a proud Gemini

And all cats are girls, yes I agree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P-K4LnGmUo

I've spent the last two days talking about subdiscipline that I think is bullshit anyway and can't say that I care to explicate further than beyond wh...

Yeah, to be clear, I'm referring specifically to trait-based, psychological, innate, yadda yadda yadda, means through which to interpret, predict, und...

For clarities sake you need to do a better job distinguishing what is your suggestion or position, and when you are citing someone else's opinion (and...

Another example of why political psychology is bad.

gah well that's quite upsetting.

The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature by Franco Moretti This was brilliant, can't recommend enough

Sure, I'll admit to getting lazy by virtue of how other people are responding. Such as the quote below: The importance of the premise re: threat and c...

Not sure how my original post varies from what I've subsequently been saying, but whatever.

Sure, but these are just spurious correlations, therefore, no, there is no meaningful value in identifying them.

Maybe you're misunderstanding what I'm specifically I'm targeting here. I'm talking about political psychology that says liberals are liberals and con...

I'm in a one bedroom/one bathroom around 750 sq ft.

We really need to get everyone vaccinated and back on the streets, people are clearly getting way too horny

Pretty evident that I find it stupid, but not worthless, however if you just wanted to get a quick hit-in-run dig to make you feel a little better abo...

Physical media is really the way to go. My last book count landed me a little under 400 books across three book shelves and a built in shelf next to m...

I got the second dosage but it fucked me up for nearly 24 hours.

Let me provide a very simple example as to why psychological analysis is a poor explanatory model for political attitudes. Here is an article from Ezr...

Well perhaps @"Isaac" could clue us in as to who signs his paycheck

You can find this type of reasoning in a plethora of books, from reactionaries to liberals. The article that @"fdrake" supplied "raises concerns about...

I don't really think these moral hypotheticals are actually useful or interesting

Well the promise of political psychology is more complex than that. What the OP and the book in question is describing here is a trait-based framework...

The money can be used to save more lives, so you are committing far more murder if you don't take the money and use it for good.

That just describes other lucrative, but bullshit industries such as economics, evolutionary psychology, neuromarketing, etc. How much do you think La...

To be clear, any attempt to psychologically map out an explanation for why and how conservatives and liberals or whatever political appellation believ...

Who fucking cares

:roll:

This a pretty nebulous digression that's irrelevant to what I'm saying.

This is historically backwards. Feudal power on continental Europe was fragmented - began as decentralized - and eventually moved towards centralized ...

I don't personally care to spend time on the topic currently, but maybe another time. But I would disagree with @"Bitter Crank" in regards to the a pr...

:fire: :flower: :death:

This thread could have been interesting if it's thesis wasn't supplied by asinine quotes: No qualification, no real argument, just an blind assertion....

You don't seem capable of reading more than a paragraph of information so that would have been pointless.

Ever notice how right-wingers don't read books and substitute that by just pimping bad quotes?

If you truly believe in democracy then you truly believe in socialism. There's no contradiction. Maybe that's why Yurtle the Turtle, aka Mitch McConne...

There's a great historical drama by Peter Watkins called La Commune (Paris, 1871) that's filmed in the style of a documentary. It's nearly 6 hours lon...

Thinking about Daunte Wright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_3wjvGiWTU Now, who's the real thugs, killers and gangsters? Set the revolution, let the...

Quinn Slobodian's Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism might be helpful here

I read Ayn Rand, Hayek, Milton Friedman, von Mises, Murray Rothbard when I was 20 to around 24 when they enjoyed a resurgence of interest shortly afte...

Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo

*Eric Weinstein gets harassed on twitter for saying something stupid* "I'm a disagreeable contrarian...basically it's like being a Black American"

He's just a big dumbass https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283483807975260160

My arm was tired for the day but nothing beyond that.