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Nov 9Liked by Oliver Johnson

Being a gender-critical lefty feminist has been a truly radicalising experience, in a queasy sort of way. The *lies*, the bullying, the ellisions, the avoidance that came consistently from ‘my’ side… I can give you a long long list of people and indications I no longer trust, and it’s extremely cognitively uncomfortable. But if it’s done anything, it’s made me more willing to look twice at what people say about the other side.

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I feel like this is also where the idea (even implicitly) of the Omnicause is unhelpful for the Left in terms of building a coalition. I get the sense that some people only want supporters who buy in on every aspect of the whole deal, so if you aren't aligned on say Israel then that's disqualifying in all other respects.

PS Enjoyed your Ludwig thing. I did enjoy Ludwig, but I get where you are coming from, and you may well be right. Anyway, back to The Diplomat S2!

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Yeah absolutely. Let’s retvrn to the days when you could donate to Amnesty without expressing an opinion on carbon capture.

Thank you re Ludwig! I saw that you liked it and it was one of the things that gave me pause

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My initial reaction to this 'Trump-quote' was disbelief! If he'd really said that, he would've seemed/been far more intelligent than what's left of him now.

Thanks for the deeper explorations of the Mandela Effect and the pitfalls of human memory.

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Good... v. good

Notional liberal left? Environment? Climate? Good causes? I think it was JM Greer, American writer / he was probably still an Archdruid at the time / put it succinctly probably 10 years ago about the above: (v. roughly remembered) 'If you have demonstrated time on time that your policy / campaign statements don't work, it is probably time to stop and think.'

I have a whole frustration about 'Russia'. I have books by meticulous scholars, written as far back as 2015, with antecedent scholarship records, detailing context, background, history and recent history. I gathered at the time CIA and World Bank data about Ukraine, reviewed my experience working in the Balkans and my sorry lifetime experience of propaganda, and I can still get caught out ... so I actually have to read it again, and remind myself, again.

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