>>489184>my desire to get rid of poverty?There are no poor people, there are people that are over-exploited, or excluded from the economy, or neglected, etc. You still wear the ideology goggles. Go listen to some Micheal Parentie or something. If you say "poor people", like "tall people" or "short people", you define poverty as a personal characteristic. Instead Say it like it's a condition imposed on people.
By the way i wasn't talking about the police stuff at all, because that debate you are having with that other anon is imho so far out there that i don't even know how to respond to it. I'll try to explain. You grant authority to a government to enforce laws, in exchange that government upholds your rights and everybody else's too. If that is not the deal, there is no legitimate authority and it makes no sense to even speak about police. People that do cruel things are called sadists by the way.
>Where did you see tribalismThe right engages in tribalism, most frequently when it comes to racialist identities and religious identities. The liberals engage in tribalism most frequently when it comes to sexual identities. The purpose of all of these are about creating cultural hierarchies, that grant privileges to whom ever is higher in the cultural hierarchy. It's not quite the same as a cast system but it has similarities. In all of those fights there is nothing of substance being debated, it's just a battle of words to establish a pecking order.
Lets dig into some things the liberals do.
Lets start with something that is not/less controversial and examine women-rights or gay-rights. Sounds like progress, right ? Well , but by making those rights non-universal, as in tied to a specific group of people, they remain precarious and revocable. So this really is the liberals holding rights hostage. You could legislate all those rights in a universal framework, as in not tied to a particular group. Go read some of the early socialist feminists who were engaged in political fights with liberals to create universal suffrage (everybody has a right to vote) instead of doing a special womens-right to vote. Overtime this lesson is forgotten. Many of the gay-rights legislations are not universal and instead are particular, and as such they become a means for political blackmail wielded by liberals.
Now the controversial topic. I'm not going to name-drop the identity because i've been burned too many times. I'm talking about the people who are unhappy about the set of genitals they got.
What these people have done is open the door to political interference into medical procedures. That's fucking crazy. What kind of medical procedures are applied is a conversation that only happens between patients and doctors. Nobody else.
I'm now going to tell you a story, bear with me there is a point. Many moons ago, i along side with others had a political pet project about getting traction for universal toilets. As in something that works as a squatting-loo, a sitting-lavetry, a standing-lavetry and a bidet-feature as well as a non-contact hand sanitation system. Ingenious designs to make that happen already exist. It was supposed to be a agnostic universal human toilet, placed into individual toilet-stalls dispersed evenly throughout buildings, rather than the typical toilet configuration. Incidentally this would have been beneficial for the group of people we're talking about. But what did they do, they stirred up a massive political fight about toilets, that went nowhere and now everybody went sour on toilets. My human toilet idea is shelved for at least half a century. This dynamic has played out across many other domains. Many people have explained this detrimental behavior with narcicism.
This group of people also began doing something incredibly reactionary, they began imposing identities on others. The began splitting the sexuality of other people into 2 parts, but for most people that is not the case and there is only one.
It's been pointed out a million times before so I'm not going to go into details here. The kind of social censorship that the Zionists are now trying to weaponize against the ability to criticize a certain genocidal regime was beta-tested with this identity group, and they whole heartily embraced it.
The type of politics where you give a group of people a label and then try to attach political goals to that label, is poison.
For the sake of completion, the right-wingers will get some too. Humanity is not divided into races. It contradicts biology. And religion is a set of believes that people hold in their heads, it doesn't change their organism into something that is less human.
>Criticizing mainstream journalism is not an attack on the journalists themselves (even though they should've resisted the system)Yeah i'm sorry but there is no mainstream journalism. None of these people do anything that one would associate with the profession of journalism. The purpose of the mainstream media is to make propaganda to sell people on wars. They are PR spokes-persons or marketing people.
It's getting very hard to have a political discussion, if half is a type of semantic tug of war.