(January 22, 2018 at 11:38 am)Brian37 Wrote:(January 22, 2018 at 11:23 am)wallym Wrote: This is a better example of what I was talking about in the 'shithole' thread about the liberals who control the social narrative being really awful at picking battles.
Almost everyone is on board with the idea that sexual violence is bad. But somehow they take it to a place that is so indefensible, they end up fighting with Matt Damon and Bill Maher.
Over and over, they take a position that is generally reasonable/popular, but then keep tacking on nonsense, until they've alienated everyone willing to do any critical thinking. And because they are bad at math, they say "Fuck 'em, we don't need those jerks." because they have no idea their dopiness has whittled their groups support down to 25% of the population.
HOLY NON SEQUITUR BATMAN
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The main idea of my post is "Liberals who control the social narrative being really awful at picking battles." It isn't a non-sequitur, because the Bill Maher video is about the "Liberals who control the social narrative picking an awful battle." I only referenced the "Shithole" thread (not the shithole issue), because that's where I recently brought up the topic of "Liberals who control the social narrative being really awful at picking battles." Your initial post is also adjacent to the idea as you say (paraphrased) "Liberals who control the social narrative insist on blanket solutions which causes problems." Which I think could be interpreted as "Liberals who control the social narrative insist on picking awful battles."
This was just a better example than any I came up with in the other thread, because it's one that is more universally seen as an 'awful battle.' You, me, CL, Bill Maher, and Matt Damon all are in agreement. That says something about the quality of a position if that group of 5 people all think it's lousy. And it's absurd. Because the topic is sexual violence. All 5 of us want to be on their side. So you can imagine how stupid something has to be to alienate people when you're the anti-sexual violence side.
