Ginny [they/she]

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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • My sibling in Christ, if there is one thing that did not contribute to Trump winning the election, it is not enough shaming by leftists. If anything there is too much.

    Committed Trumpists can’t be shamed. They love it when the left try to shame them because that means they’re “triggered”. And as a result non-political “centrists” who “just want to grill” can’t be shamed because they’ve got people on the one hand telling them they should be ashamed and people on the other telling them they’re doing nothing wrong; in fact, they’re doing great! Who do you think they’ll side with?

    Don’t get me wrong, I am not defending either of these groups of people. However shame is ultimately only effective when you can convince someone that what they’re doing is shameful, and to do that you have to bring them on side first. Yes, it sucks having to play nice and be patient with the “non-committed voter”, but ultimately the right has the left outmatched both in the ability use violence and the ability to appeal to people who don’t actually want to do anything.

    Anyone who says “your body, my choice” is a lost cause though, feel free to punch those people all you want.













  • Liberalism is also quite a broad term, which on its own can only really be said to constitute a belief in “equal rights for everyone including the right to private property”. The Liberal Democrats, for example, are so-called because they were formed from the merger of the (classically liberal) Liberal Party, and the Social Democratic Party. They are more like libertarians in the sense that they were broadly pro-market but less authoritarian than the tories, but their policy platform has always been more like something that would be described as social liberalism.

    In my experience, the word liberal is generally not used so much in UK politics (outside of the name of the Lib Dems), but if someone self-described themselves as a liberal, I think it would be generally understood as socially liberal rather than libertarian.