understanding the left
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understanding the left
my grand theory of politics is that leftists are those who care about justice, and rightists are those who care about order. If you care equally about both, you're a moderate. If you care about one to the exclusion of the other, then you're likely a radical.
Amjad Masadx.comIf you rule out all dissent on the basis that it's hate speech and misinformation, you will detach entirely from reality.
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸x.comTo my Western leftist friends, from your leftist Israeli friend
yuval-idan.medium.com
No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s “Social Justice.” The author Rod Dreher has called it “therapeutic totalitarianism.” The writer Wesley Yang refers to it as “the successor ideology”—as in, the successor to liberalism.
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly descri... See more
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly descri... See more
trying to understand what ihappened to the left
The reason the ultra-left run into so many ideological incon...
sublime.app
I don’t know how you can use LLMs without concluding that they’re already a very powerful technology — far more powerful than most experts would have predicted 10 years ago — with the potential to become more powerful in short order. The left may get dealt out of the hand if it doesn’t get better AI critics.
Nate Silver • It's time to come to grips with AI
So when their chosen heroes — the freedom fighters in whom they invested so much moral cachet — showed up at a concert and started beheading raver kids and Asian workers and abducting grandmas and God knows what else, what were Western leftists supposed to do? In situations like that there are really only two things you can do, without switching yo... See more
Noah Smith • Western Leftists Have Lost the Plot
