Goddess Posted February 3 Report Posted February 3 I saw this post on X a few days ago. It really made me think and stuck with me for quite a while. Then I saw that it also inspired a substack from one of my favourites. First I'll post the text of australianwoma1 from X, then a link to the substack, if you're still interested. Her post went sort of viral and now her account is gone. Not sure what happened there. The moment of clarity didn’t arrive dramatically. It crept in through the small, uncomfortable questions I started asking myself. Why was I so certain? Why did I feel such fury toward anyone who hesitated, even slightly, on positions I held? When had I stopped thinking and started simply reacting? When I tried to share these doubts with friends and family—people I loved, people on my side—I wasn’t met with conversation. I was met with a wall. A similar wall to what I had previously put up for anyone daring to question me and my positions. “No discussion.” “You’ve gone right-wing.” Lies were constructed about my motives. It didn’t matter that I was asking questions in good faith. The act of questioning was itself the crime. That is not normal. A political movement that forbids its own members from thinking critically is not a movement for justice. It’s something else entirely. And it worried me then. It worries me more now. Do you remember the 1980s and 1990s? I do. We had done real, meaningful work on race relations. Most people in the West genuinely did not care about the colour of your skin. Were things perfect? Of course not. But we were heading somewhere good. We were building something. And then we pulled it apart. We decided that every small, clumsy human interaction was a “microaggression.” We reframed the past as one hundred percent negative, as though nothing decent had ever been achieved. We became so obsessed with naming every tiny slight that we forgot what real progress looked like. We unstitched the good work and called it enlightenment. Once I began looking with honest eyes, the contradictions were everywhere. We decided blackface was a mortal sin. But woman face? That was brave and fabulous. We insisted entire societies must be restructured to accommodate the preferences of fractions of a percent of the population, and if you questioned the pace or method, you were a bigot, evil or fascist. We pursued reckonings for the crimes of Western civilisation—slavery, church child abuse, colonisation—and those reckonings were important. But we stopped there. Only the West was held to account. The trans-Atlantic slave trade was a horror, yes. But it was the British who ended it. Meanwhile, the Islamic slave trade ran for centuries, and pockets of it persist to this day. Where is that reckoning? Who is demanding it? We created a world in which nobody is allowed to simply settle and build a life. Indigenous people must perpetually identify as victims. Everyone of European descent must perpetually identify as perpetrators—for events centuries old. Yet nobody seems interested in acknowledging that white Westerners were not history’s only colonisers, or that colonisation, in softer forms, is happening right now. Mass immigration into Western countries is a form of soft colonisation. That sentence will make some of you furious. But consider: why is it only European and other Western nations being pressured to “diversify”? No one bags Nigeria or China or Latin American nations for a lack of diversity and not promoting the idea of multiculturalism. Only white-majority countries are told their cultures must be diluted or they are racist. Wanting to preserve the native peoples and cultures of European nations is not xenophobia. It is a right that in the 21st century we wish to grant to every non-white culture on earth. But apparently it’s a sin to want it or expect it for ourselves. And when it comes specifically to Islamic immigration into Western democracies, there are countless videos—not propaganda, but Muslims speaking plainly—describing a vision in which the world becomes Islamic, in which Sharia law replaces secular governance, in which their growing numbers translate to growing power. These are not conspiracy theories. These are now publicly stated intentions. History tells us what happens when these numbers reach a tipping point: the freedoms we take for granted begin to erode. Some know this because they are ex-Muslims. Some know because they are Westerners who converted to Islam and found it wanting. Frightening, even. Expressing that concern is not Islamophobia. It is pattern recognition. Being concerned about how trans medicine affects young people is not transphobic. Asking how trans ideology impacts women’s rights and the gay and lesbian community is not bigotry. These are legitimate questions that deserve honest answers, not silencing. So much of what I had taken for granted on the left collapsed under the lightest touch of common sense. I had to accept something I’d been resisting for years: the world will never be perfect. It won’t. And if you spend your one and only life railing against the world because it refuses to become your utopia, you will lose. Worse, you will drag the rest of us down with you. Constantly tearing society apart because it cannot meet an impossible standard doesn’t make you righteous. It makes you destructive. What I did instead was start asking a different question: ‘What’s the optimal way to improve this?’ Not achieve perfection (#impossible). Not burn it all down and rebuild a utopia from the ashes (also impossible). Just better. What specifically needs improving, and how do we do it? That shift—from ideological fury to practical problem-solving—changed everything for me. So those are the things that drove me away from the left. Not toward the right, but away from what the left has become: reactive, unquestioning, hostile to dissent, and increasingly detached from reality. I wasn’t changed by the right, I was changed by the left. My left. If the West is going to survive—and I think it’s that serious at this point—the left has to start thinking again. Questioning again. Demanding evidence instead of demanding obedience. So I’m asking you—begging you, really—to think. Consider that an alternate view might not be hatred. Consider that you may have been wrong about some things. I was. That’s not a confession of weakness. Admitting a mistake and choosing a different path is braver than marching further down a road you already suspect is leading somewhere dark. You are not a bad person for questioning. You are not a traitor for thinking. The people who tell you otherwise are not protecting you. They are controlling you. That’s all I ask. Just think. Please And the link to the substack: (3) how to tell if you are the problem - by el gato malo 1 Quote "There are two different types of people in the world - those who want to know and those who want to believe." ~~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~~
Barquentine Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 17 hours ago, Goddess said: I saw this post on X a few days ago. It really made me think and stuck with me for quite a while. WTF? Glad to hear you're thinking, but one person's opinion is nothing more than that. 17 hours ago, Goddess said: Consider that you may have been wrong about some things. I was. That’s not a confession of weakness. Like MTG? 2 Quote
Goddess Posted February 4 Author Report Posted February 4 22 minutes ago, Barquentine said: but one person's opinion is nothing more than that. Thanks, Captain Obvious. 🙄 Quote "There are two different types of people in the world - those who want to know and those who want to believe." ~~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~~
Michael Hardner Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 Well it IS obvious but the question of compromise is something that everyone should consider, not just the "left" - which is a term I dispute. If you admit that Trumpism is something very new, his approach to politics and his political persona - then compromise would definitely be required from adherents of that ideology. Quote Looks like someone has a new patronizing catch phrase ! Michael Hardner
eyeball Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 (edited) 22 hours ago, Goddess said: The moment of clarity didn’t arrive dramatically. It crept in through the small, uncomfortable questions I started asking myself. Why was I so certain? Her bullshit filter probably needed maintenance or replacement. She's on the right track exploring the nature of herself though - introspectively figuring out what makes herself tick. I'd start with something like Thoughts Without a Thinker. It looks like she simply leapfrogged over herself to a misplaced conclusion - instead of thinking in both black and white she chose one over the other. Edited February 4 by eyeball 1 1 Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
Goddess Posted February 4 Author Report Posted February 4 4 hours ago, Michael Hardner said: not just the "left" - which is a term I dispute. My feeling is that N. America has never been this divided politically, polarized. What would you call the 2 opposites? 4 hours ago, Michael Hardner said: If you admit that Trumpism is something very new, his approach to politics and his political persona - then compromise would definitely be required from adherents of that ideology. I don't recall you calling for compromise when the left was ruling the roost. Quote "There are two different types of people in the world - those who want to know and those who want to believe." ~~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~~
Michael Hardner Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 13 minutes ago, Goddess said: 1. My feeling is that N. America has never been this divided politically, polarized. What would you call the 2 opposites? 2. I don't recall you calling for compromise when the left was ruling the roost. 1. Good questions, and I don't know. Probably call them different terms for different countries I suppose. In Canada it's Liberal vs Conservative, and in the US Repub vs Dem ? 2. I feel like the system did compromise naturally then, because both sides believed in it more than now. Quote Looks like someone has a new patronizing catch phrase ! Michael Hardner
Goddess Posted February 4 Author Report Posted February 4 8 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said: because both sides believed in it more than now. Not sure about that. More from the right, than the left, spoke out about certain things and were called Nazi, racist, bigot, etc. The rest didn't want to be name-called and have their careers ruined. Pretty much everyone on the right is just done with it all and doesn't give a rip anymore what the left calls them. I'm starting to wonder how many on the left actually agreed with so much of the stuff that was pushed. Some of my friends who identify left are now backtracking and saying, "Well, I never agreed with it all." But they kept quiet because they also didn't want to be called names. So when you say "both sides believed it more than now", I'm starting to think it was only a fringe minority (hee hee hee) that believed any of it. The media plays a large role in making it seem like these minorities are the majority, but they're not. Quote "There are two different types of people in the world - those who want to know and those who want to believe." ~~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~~
eyeball Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 26 minutes ago, Goddess said: My feeling is that N. America has never been this divided politically, polarized. What would you call the 2 opposites? I'd call them badly misguided because they're the result of misplaced concreteness. First of all you have to ask do the left and right only exist in relation to one another or is there a third undeclared unrecognized and ignored parameter in between them? Who benefits from that? 14 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said: 2. I feel like the system did compromise naturally then, because both sides believed in it more than now. Both sides seem to believe they're the only sides. I have serious doubts myself. Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
Michael Hardner Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 1 hour ago, eyeball said: 1. Both sides seem to believe they're the only sides. I have serious doubts myself. 1. We have a new technology culture that we could leverage to solve collective problems Nobody does. Instead they use it to gather the wagons with people who are like them. Hopefully our precarious situation with trade will get Carney and Poilievre to be serious about politics, and move away from the identity politics that goes nowhere. 1 Quote Looks like someone has a new patronizing catch phrase ! Michael Hardner
eyeball Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 31 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said: 1. We have a new technology culture that we could leverage to solve collective problems Nobody does. Instead they use it to gather the wagons with people who are like them. Hopefully our precarious situation with trade will get Carney and Poilievre to be serious about politics, and move away from the identity politics that goes nowhere. Like waiting for a deep large painful abscess to rupture... I think we might need to lance it before the healing can begin. Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
Michael Hardner Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 40 minutes ago, eyeball said: Like waiting for a deep large painful abscess to rupture... I think we might need to lance it before the healing can begin. You don't think that people are getting sick of the clown show? Clown number one doesn't seem to get attention anymore, tariff threats for example. Quote Looks like someone has a new patronizing catch phrase ! Michael Hardner
eyeball Posted February 5 Report Posted February 5 1 hour ago, Michael Hardner said: You don't think that people are getting sick of the clown show? I'm living in hope at least. 1 hour ago, Michael Hardner said: Clown number one doesn't seem to get attention anymore, tariff threats for example. Don't forget dead cats can bounce - the wave hasn't entirely collapsed yet. Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
herbie Posted February 13 Report Posted February 13 Hell no, they'll fight like Pam Bondi no matter how much it makes them look like an obnoxious douchebag. Look at the suckhole apologists that infect his very site. Quote
Nationalist Posted February 21 Report Posted February 21 (edited) Suckhole apologists... I can relate to Farrah. I was quite Liberal...then I noticed some things going haywire. It started with jobs in my profession, being siphoned off to India and China...then Mexico and South. Manufacturing was being siphoned off in wholesale fashion. It was the late 90's. Bush came to power and convinced...or forced...world leaders to think that "He's got 'em." And while we were all fighting about Bush setting Babylon on fire, manufacturing picked up and left all western nations. It was then that I realized that, regardless of political leanings, none of it mattered. There was obviously a "force" directing both. The Globalist Movement. Eventually...politicians began popping up who opposed these Globalist ideas, and wanted to try to reverse the process. In Germany, Italy, England, France, Canada, The USA. Any politician...no matter how...bloviated, who openly opposes this Globalist movement, has my support. This siphoning off of our prosperties, needs to stop now! Edited February 21 by Nationalist Quote Its so lonely in m'saddle since m'horse died.
CrakHoBarbie Posted March 20 Report Posted March 20 (edited) On 2/21/2026 at 8:27 AM, Nationalist said: Suckhole apologists... I can relate to Farrah. I was quite Liberal...then I noticed some things going haywire. It started with jobs in my profession, being siphoned off to India and China...then Mexico and South. Manufacturing was being siphoned off in wholesale fashion. It was the late 90's. Bush came to power and convinced...or forced...world leaders to think that "He's got 'em." And while we were all fighting about Bush setting Babylon on fire, manufacturing picked up and left all western nations. It was then that I realized that, regardless of political leanings, none of it mattered. There was obviously a "force" directing both. The Globalist Movement. Eventually...politicians began popping up who opposed these Globalist ideas, and wanted to try to reverse the process. In Germany, Italy, England, France, Canada, The USA. Any politician...no matter how...bloviated, who openly opposes this Globalist movement, has my support. This siphoning off of our prosperties, needs to stop now! Hummm... Got it all figured out, have you? No.... No you haven't. Think of the World as a big Family. And all the different countries as another Family member. Now, does every single person in your family do all things equally as well? No... No they dont. Some Family members are better a finance. Others, are good at plumbing.. Then still others are all good at whatever they're good at. Logically, the planet needs to function like a Family, so we can all benefit from whos good at what. Globalism is here, and it is the future. So, suck it up, red hat. Fighting the future is futile. Edited March 21 by CrakHoBarbie 2 Quote
John Johnston Posted March 21 Report Posted March 21 12 hours ago, CrakHoBarbie said: Hummm... Got it all figured out, have you? No.... No you haven't. Think of the World as a big Family. And all the different countries as another Family member. Now, does every single l e person in your family do all things equally as well? No... No they dont. Some Family members are better a finance. Others, are good at plumbing.. Then still others are all good at whatever they're good at. Logically, the planet needs to function like a Family, so we can all benefit from whos good at what. Globalism is here, and it is the future. So, suck it up, red hat. Fighting the future is futile. I find it interesting that Humanity is looking to the stars and inhabiting the cosmos and traveling to other planets when they cannot even get along on their own planet for five minutes. I remember as a young boy I could not wait for regular space travel to happen. As I got older it occurred to me that people cannot even get along with their neighbors across the street. Let alone the World. I might have to wait a little longer... 1 Quote
CrakHoBarbie Posted March 21 Report Posted March 21 (edited) 6 hours ago, John Johnston said: I find it interesting that Humanity is looking to the stars and inhabiting the cosmos and traveling to other planets when they cannot even get along on their own planet for five minutes. I remember as a young boy I could not wait for regular space travel to happen. As I got older it occurred to me that people cannot even get along with their neighbors across the street. Let alone the World. I might have to wait a little longer... Agreed. And now, unfortunately, an unintelligent bully has taken command in the U.S. And is attempting to take us back to "right is might" cavemen policy that will not and is not ending well. I browse and comment on a lot of forums, cataloging myriad right wing grievances. So many folks f_cked up to the point of surreallity. We've fallen so far, so fast. Its tragic. Edited March 21 by CrakHoBarbie 1 Quote
John Johnston Posted March 21 Report Posted March 21 1 hour ago, CrakHoBarbie said: Agreed. And now, unfortunately, an unintelligent bully has taken command in the U.S. And is attempting to take us back to "right is might" cavemen policy that will not and is not ending well. I browse and comment on a lot of forums, cataloging myriad right wing grievances. So many folks f_cked up to the point of surrillity. We've fallen so far, so fast. Its tragic. Yep. A true Orwellian Nightmare. We were warned I suppose. 1 Quote
CrakHoBarbie Posted March 21 Report Posted March 21 3 minutes ago, John Johnston said: Yep. A true Orwellian Nightmare. We were warned I suppose. Life imitates art in the most bizarre ways... 1 Quote
John Johnston Posted March 21 Report Posted March 21 5 minutes ago, CrakHoBarbie said: Life imitates art in the most bizarre ways... Indeed... 1 Quote
ironstone Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 On 3/20/2026 at 6:39 PM, CrakHoBarbie said: Think of the World as a big Family. And all the different countries as another Family member. Now, does every single person in your family do all things equally as well? No... No they dont. That is true. It used to be true that the Western nations were better at many things than the rest of the world. But a lot of countries in the West are clearly in decline thanks in no small part to leftist policies. More so than because of 'right-wing' policies. It is left-wing ideology behind things such as the $750 thousand dollar fine for the BC school trustee because he did not share their views on gender ideology. Quote Beware the Brookfield industrial complex...
CrakHoBarbie Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 (edited) 6 hours ago, ironstone said: That is true. It used to be true that the Western nations were better at many things than the rest of the world. But a lot of countries in the West are clearly in decline thanks in no small part to leftist policies. More so than because of 'right-wing' policies. It is left-wing ideology behind things such as the $750 thousand dollar fine for the BC school trustee because he did not share their views on gender ideology. While I certainly cannot abide by a $750,000.00 fine for merely not sharing the same ideology, our society is built on the belief that all men are created equal. Regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, religion, political affiliation, country of origin or socioeconomic status. In an era where we depend on acceptance and consideration for everyone "including" marginalized groups and folks you dont like, what we get from asshats like you, is the demonization of marginalized groups. The vilification of folks you deem inferior. Yet, somehow youve forgotten... America is a melting pot. Negativity and demonization and bullying will not be tolerated. So, while I accept that all yall are going to have all your little biases, and hatred and temper tantrums over how youve been wronged, youll just have to accept that I will always speak out against pieces of sh1t like you. If you dont like it, do not respond to my posts. Edited March 22 by CrakHoBarbie Quote
ironstone Posted March 23 Report Posted March 23 3 hours ago, CrakHoBarbie said: While I certainly cannot abide by a $750,000.00 fine for merely not sharing the same ideology, our society is built on the belief that all men are created equal. Regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, religion, political affiliation, country of origin or socioeconomic status. In an era where we depend on acceptance and consideration for everyone "including" marginalized groups and folks you dont like, what we get from asshats like you, is the demonization of marginalized groups. The vilification of folks you deem inferior. Yet, somehow youve forgotten... America is a melting pot. Negativity and demonization and bullying will not be tolerated. So, while I accept that all yall are going to have all your little biases, and hatred and temper tantrums over how youve been wronged, youll just have to accept that I will always speak out against pieces of sh1t like you. If you dont like it, do not respond to my posts. We all have our biases, including you. Your country is supposed to be a melting pot and I applaud that. My country is not a melting pot. In fact, government policy pretty much discourages assimilation, to the detriment of the country in my opinion. Our government does not treat everyone in an equal manner and certain groups get preferential treatment. Quote Beware the Brookfield industrial complex...
CrakHoBarbie Posted March 23 Report Posted March 23 5 hours ago, ironstone said: We all have our biases, including you. Your country is supposed to be a melting pot and I applaud that. My country is not a melting pot. In fact, government policy pretty much discourages assimilation, to the detriment of the country in my opinion. Our government does not treat everyone in an equal manner and certain groups get preferential treatment. Then we're In somewhat the same boat. But, your government is actually more honest, because it doesn't operate under the false creed of equality. And true, I do have my biases. I've grown extremely intolerant of intolerance. Its quite the conundrum. If I recall correctly, its called the paradox of tolerance. Oddly enough, in order to maintain a tolerant society, one must be completely intolerant of intolerance. With all this id1otic intolerance of marginalized groups, its necessary to combat such intolerance by being completely intolerant of it. Hence the term "paradox". Fascinating, huh.... 1 Quote
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