Batya, I genuinely appreciate the work you do, and I think that's precisely why this question matters. Your work is fundamentally a critique of how legacy media lost the working class and the political center, yet you now have your own loyal audience that largely already shares that critique. So the question becomes: how do you make sure your voice doesn't calcify into its own echo chamber, and how do you push it into the spaces where it might actually change minds, not just reinforce them?
The left pretty much characterizes itself as the good guys and any trouble they cause is "good trouble." So, they don't count anything on their own side. They think every terrible thing they do is justified and therefore doesn't count as "left-wing violence." You'll never reach them. They'll never get to the point of asking themselves "Are we the baddies?" Nope. Never. Maybe you can find some partially open minds in the middle. No chance on the left.
It is so tiring, frustrating, and demoralizing to try and engage, often our 90% to their 10% only to hear: "If I have to explain it to you, you already do not get it."
Looks just like any other think tank report jammed down our collective throats over the past 15 years. Climate, border policy, social cause and effect, trans crap, gun violence, and on and on. All meant to sway the reader so the agenda can be pushed further left
Well, the real truth is hard to find. Always remember, all any of us know is what we are being told. So that falls under my rule of believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
Batya, I genuinely appreciate the work you do, and I think that's precisely why this question matters. Your work is fundamentally a critique of how legacy media lost the working class and the political center, yet you now have your own loyal audience that largely already shares that critique. So the question becomes: how do you make sure your voice doesn't calcify into its own echo chamber, and how do you push it into the spaces where it might actually change minds, not just reinforce them?
This is the question isn't it? Glad I have you around to keep me honest.
Eye opening.
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Yes, of course they cooked the numbers. Whatever it takes, by any means necessary.
Thank you, Batya!
The left pretty much characterizes itself as the good guys and any trouble they cause is "good trouble." So, they don't count anything on their own side. They think every terrible thing they do is justified and therefore doesn't count as "left-wing violence." You'll never reach them. They'll never get to the point of asking themselves "Are we the baddies?" Nope. Never. Maybe you can find some partially open minds in the middle. No chance on the left.
It is so tiring, frustrating, and demoralizing to try and engage, often our 90% to their 10% only to hear: "If I have to explain it to you, you already do not get it."
Looks just like any other think tank report jammed down our collective throats over the past 15 years. Climate, border policy, social cause and effect, trans crap, gun violence, and on and on. All meant to sway the reader so the agenda can be pushed further left
It's 1984 speak --- (everything the opposite of the truth)
how events are defined BEFORE the statistics are gathered + analyzed will give the results desired--
in other words bring me the personand I'll find the crime.
For example - Call pro-life peaceful people gathered at an abortion clinic violence and..there you have it ..another addition to the statistics
Was there ever a time in the past when political violence was mainly from the right or has it been, up until now, fairly evenly distributed?
Well, the real truth is hard to find. Always remember, all any of us know is what we are being told. So that falls under my rule of believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
What are you babbling about? Charlie was no God.
At a girl Peggy! You just made the point of the video.
Cato Institute. Not exactly a bastion of liberal wokeism.