What role wpuld you be going into?

Warfare officer.

scuse me

Y tho.

Discipline. Responsibility. Service. The skills.

All valuable assets.

wittgenstein

my g

What is Islamism? Isn't it just Islam? We don't say Christianism

Islamism is political Islam.

Just read it.

Quote from: LC on March 30, 2016, 01:27:37 AM

Great moogly booglies I for some reason seem to have combined the posts you and Irish made when reading this thread.

Disregard me.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on March 30, 2016, 01:19:12 AM

Thank God.

Had to clarify; apologies for misunderstanding.

wow get it the fuck together guys

I'm jittery, mate.

FUCKING COOL MAN

safe my g

Hiadt apparently as a history of trying to "tear down and ridicule liberals" with his research.

Being familiar with Haidt's work, as well as his political activities, I'm fairly confident in saying this isn't true. Haidt's current work focuses mainly on studying partisanship, promoting viewpoint diversity in the social sciences and facilitating  cross-spectrum discussion and deliberation on policy. (He's also currently writing a book on capitalism which explores the two narratives of "exploitation" and "liberation" on both the Left and Right).

I can kind of see why some people would use Haidt's work as a political weapon--and why some would see Haidt as a political figure--but he really isn't. He's pretty much a centrist.

You'd have to be completely brain dead for someone to not realize they feel it's murder.

Thank God.

Had to clarify; apologies for misunderstanding.

That last episode was shit.

Quote from: Luciana on March 29, 2016, 11:10:42 PM

Oh I forgot to mention that anyone too far left or too far right are both cancerous and idiots in their own regards. Horseshoe theory and all that.

muh moderation muh common sense muh

Conservatives who aren't moderates aren't really conservatives. Political moderation is good procedurally, if not explicitly ideologically. You can be an ancrap or a theocrat or whatever and I won't really give a fuck, it's a problem when people start trying to tear down established institutions to reach their goal.

Never thought of it quite like that.

What?

America has seen at least some conservatives stand outside abortion clinic with signs saying "abortion is murder", and you've only just now thought that some conservatives might see abortion as tantamount to murder? Even if you disagree with it?

You're only noticing it more because you're on the receiving end of it

No, I haven't. I've seen other people be talked down to--of all political persuasions--more than I myself have been talked down to. I don't even identify as a conservative much outside of close circles. I usually opt for centrist or, when talking to non-Americans, liberal.

It seems like some of your points are based on assumptions, not actual information.

In case you aren't aware the same is true in the UK for the opposite side of the spectrum and it's called the Shy Labour Factor.

When Labour have a 1992 or 2015 election result then you can tell me how relevant the Shy Labour Factor is for modern British politics.

I'd also be a bit wary with Haidt, he's been criticized for creating agenda driven studies in the past.

By whom? What agenda does he have? How does this invalidate the methodology used? It's very easy to talk past what I'm saying, without offering a substantive response.

"Oh the ideology of liberals is easy to follow and requires so little thought"

Except that's not the implication I was making; you're pulling that totally out of thin air. My point was to demonstrate an asymmetry in how conservatives and liberals understand each other. I'm not saying liberalism is so simply that conservatives know exactly what's going on, I'm saying the evidence suggests liberals are incorrect to an important degree in how they evaluate their 'opponents'.

"Oh conservatives are so much know so much more than those liberals because they have the minority opinion"

I literally haven't even come close to hinting that this is an opinion I hold, or even a respectable thing to think. Stop putting words in my mouth.

Also, as a follow up to LC, conservatives understand liberals better than vice versa. A disparity does exist, and hand-waving it away as confirmation bias without further thought isn't particularly persuasive as a method of convincing me I'm wrong.