Daily Bard Digest 2024-09-04

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Here's todays official post from the BARDCHIVE:

07/30/20 17:26:04 with a score of -3: https://old.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/i0u9vj/up_the_vote_reddits_irl_2020_voting_campaign/fzsqdsd/?context=8

It's an extremely cold take. You want hot? Here's hot:

Most people have a baseline of fairly conventional kindergarten morality, and Postmodern Conservatism often clashes with it.

You can rationalise the contradictions in your beliefs: "I'm not a bigot, I just believe in State's Rights"

But as American Conservatism gets more radical

It gets harder to square one's politics with what one assumes to be one's beliefs.

So you learn, when someone challenges you, to cycle through beliefs (and thought-terminating comebacks like "That's a hot take"), until something sticks.

Just Play Your Hand, and Trust That You're Right.

or

in extreme cases

insist that you have no beliefs at all, you're just here to watch the world burn.

But you're not.

You are willing participants in the burning of only certain parts.

You don't actually care what you believe, but you know what you hate, and you don't want to think about why you hate it.

On paper, you believe in Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Expression, but you also hang out in communities where Muslims and trans women are punching bags - and operate subreddits like SPS that explicitly serve to direct harassment at the people you hate.

And as I've mentioned before - the piper's price has come due on your movement.