Is Mina a middle aged dye-in-the-wool liberal or a idealist young woman?

[Doc Dutch]

The rift seems to get wider each year.

Maybe the rift will heal if the WSEs spill enough American blood this summer or the summer of 2024.

[Rune]

Hey Eagle Eye
Guess where I just bought a property?
Bwa ha ha.

[Flash]

The rift seems to get wider each year.

It seems to. It is no longer a difference about issues but hatred of people on the other side. For years public opinion research has asked the question of whether parents would mind if their child married a person of the other political party. For many years the number who objected was very small, but recently an increasing number would object.

Also, a person used to identify with one party because of things about that party they liked. Today, it is more about disliking the other party.

[Melchizedek = Michael]

It seems to. It is no longer a difference about issues but hatred of people on the other side. For years public opinion research has asked the question of whether parents would mind if their child married a person of the other political party. For many years the number who objected was very small, but recently an increasing number would object.

Also, a person used to identify with one party because of things about that party they liked. Today, it is more about disliking the other party.

A house divided!
Americans have to stop seeing Americans as the enemy!

[Matt Dillon]

Maybe, but she has indicators proving she can change if she wants to do so. Her hero is too far down the bottle to be worth the effort.

Her brain has been hardwired to "NPC" by the modern education system.

There's no known fix for that yet.

However, I know how to ask questions that make people like that short-circuit. Call it a gift.

[Matt Dillon]

Maybe the rift will heal if the WSEs spill enough American blood this summer or the summer of 2024.

You are one broken record retard motherfucker, you know that?



Why do you keep wishing something like that to happen? That's fucked up.

It's an indication of a diseased mind.

[Doc Dutch]

You are one broken record retard motherfucker, you know that?



Why do you keep wishing something like that to happen? That's fucked up.

It's an indication of a diseased mind.

Put me on ignore, bet me or stop whining like a three year old. You've danced around the issue six ways from Sunday. Why are you in denial that we haven't seen the last of the militias? Or do you really believe they are all big mouthed idiots with guns who look tough for pictures but are chickenshits IRL like JPP's braggarts?

[PostmodernProphet]

Speaking of MAGA home schooling, to the best of my knowledge, I never met anyone in graduate school or any peers in any of my professional careers who were home schooled.

well hang in there......maybe someday you'll be smart enough to mix with the smartest and brightest.....

[Poor Richard Saunders]

I didn't. A lot of the schools have now.

How do you know schools have abandoned it?

[Poor Richard Saunders]

It could have been a giant kick in your ass, but it wasn't.

Is that supposed to be free verse?

[Mina]

From her posts:




It seems reading through her posts she is a product of an extreme liberal education. As such she shuts down all reasoning powers when faced with an opposing view. Her political outlook is based on two things Liberalism good Conservatism bad.

With that viewpoint she doesn't need to know how systems work as long as they fit her idea of political correctness.

The truly scary thing is we have radicals like her on the right also and both of these idiots vote.

Neither middle-aged nor particularly young. I'm in my early 30's. Yes, I had a liberal education, at least through my undergrad years. My graduate degree was in a subject where the education was more conservative.

[Eagle_Eye]

Neither middle-aged nor particularly young. I'm in my early 30's. Yes, I had a liberal education, at least through my undergrad years. My graduate degree was in a subject where the education was more conservative.

You are a very intelligent young woman. I was fairly liberal in my youth, But seeing and living all over the world I realized that not everything is black and white. In some areas liberalism is fine in others it is better to be more conservative. So let us agree to disagree on many subjects. I am sure I can learn some different perspectives from you and vice versa.

[Mina]

You are a very intelligent young woman. I was fairly liberal in my youth, But seeing and living all over the world I realized that not everything is black and white. In some areas liberalism is fine in others it is better to be more conservative. So let us agree to disagree on many subjects. I am sure I can learn some different perspectives from you and vice versa.

I don't consider myself a one-size-fits all person, politically, even though I tend to lean left more than right. For example, I'm not at all on-board with the Millennial rallying cry of erasing all student debt. I think that many on the left fail to consider the risk of unintended consequences with crusading of that sort. In fact, I've come out against a number of sweeping liberal ideas because of unintended consequences.

Another good example was the pandemic-era push to halt rent collection and mortgage payments for poorer people. Although I was open to that as a very short-term emergency measure, I thought that if it was going to stick around for long it had to take the form not of a "stick it to the landlords/banks" approach, but rather as a matter of socializing that cost more generally, because otherwise you'd just create a disincentive for new investment in affordable housing (if you've got money to invest, why risk it in affordable housing if you think the government might step in and stop your income stream, leaving you out to dry?)

I'm also pro-nuclear power, which is unusual for a liberal, and I'm highly skeptical of the lefty tendency to fixate on a few name-brand corporations to play the villain, rather than thinking more systematically (e.g., the lefty smear campaign against Amazon's labor practices, even when Amazon actually treats its workers much better than most entry-level jobs, including higher pay, better benefits, and better opportunities for advancement).

[Melchizedek = Michael]

Mina is just another Mason sock.....

Mina is Mason?

[Eagle_Eye]

I don't consider myself a one-size-fits all person, politically, even though I tend to lean left more than right. For example, I'm not at all on-board with the Millennial rallying cry of erasing all student debt. I think that many on the left fail to consider the risk of unintended consequences with crusading of that sort. In fact, I've come out against a number of sweeping liberal ideas because of unintended consequences.

Another good example was the pandemic-era push to halt rent collection and mortgage payments for poorer people. Although I was open to that as a very short-term emergency measure, I thought that if it was going to stick around for long it had to take the form not of a "stick it to the landlords/banks" approach, but rather as a matter of socializing that cost more generally, because otherwise you'd just create a disincentive for new investment in affordable housing (if you've got money to invest, why risk it in affordable housing if you think the government might step in and stop your income stream, leaving you out to dry?)

I'm also pro-nuclear power, which is unusual for a liberal, and I'm highly skeptical of the lefty tendency to fixate on a few name-brand corporations to play the villain, rather than thinking more systematically (e.g., the lefty smear campaign against Amazon's labor practices, even when Amazon actually treats its workers much better than most entry-level jobs, including higher pay, better benefits, and better opportunities for advancement).

Thanks, I see common ground on several of your points.