Identity Politics

Another corker this week from Pie

Despite title is more about news media now lack of objectivity

 
He's quite funny actually. Mind you, it's not groundbreaking stuff is it.
 
Great stuff.

Extremism should always be ridiculed and often combated. Because extremist ideologies lead to the same end whether they come from the left or right. That end is totalitarianism. The concentration of the determination of the all in the hands of the few.

And before anyone starts, Libertarians are the worst of all, because they claim to be neither left nor right, and their end is no leadership at all -- anti-totalitarianism -- which sounds lovely except its fucking odious dreamy idiocy to think any social entity could function like that, so it's pointless in application and therefore pointless period.

To paraphrase my favorite writer, there's a reason revolutionaries start so few revolutions. Revolutionaries tend to be puritans, and puritans are a pain in the ass.
 

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