Also, incidentally, you might receive fewer downvotes if you avoided blanket statements like "It is always safe to love the left, and always safe to hate the right". In particular, I live in an area of the country where the reverse is true.
I find this hard to believe. Name this area: Does this area have a newspaper? If it does, please compare how that newspaper treated the former Rhodesia with how it treats North Korea, compare how it treats Sarah Palin with how it treats Governor Romney.
How come I have to produce citations proving stuff that every educated person should know, but you do not have to produce citations proving stuff that no one can know?
I predict that your newspaper will have told us that the famine in North Korea is caused by the umpteenth consecutive year of bad weather, run the notoriously doctored images of Arab Israeli conflict without retracting them when they were discovered to be doctored, and that every time Sarah Palin says something that differs from what gets taught in the schools, it implies that this is evidence she is an idiot, and does not tell us this is evidence that not everyone believes what is taught in the schools.
Name this area
No.
Does this area have a newspaper?
I guess the county seat does, does that count?
please compare how that newspaper treated the former Rhodesia with how it treats North Korea
No mention of either.
compare how it treats Sarah Palin with how it treats Governor Romney.
For one thing, it refers to them as Governor Palin and Mitt Romney.
every time Sarah Palin says something that differs from what gets taught in the schools, this is evidence
that the schools are run by evilutionists.
Edit: This went from +1 to -1 in the last ten minut...
On reddit today I read 'the-Gandhi-quote' on a post about the Wall Street Occupation Protest:
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.."
I'm transitioning, possibly, from the laughing stage and am beginning to feel the tiniest bit excited that perhaps some actual change is in order. On the one hand, I feel sufficiently skeptical about the probability of a 'revolution'. On the other hand, given how fast the world has been changing (the internet, gloablization), maybe change is inevitable and this is the way it happens now.
I know this is a rationality site, not a current affairs site, but when something tweaks my interest I like to know what "Less Wrong" thinks...waiting for a spontaneous post could take forever and finding a 'rationality-spin' would be disingenuous so I'll just ask:
What is possible and what is likely?
What factors are important?