I should have taken a screenshot of a tweet last night which summed up the wingnut, wetting-their-pants-with-excitement, reaction to Tucker Carlson doing an interview as Lord Haw Haw/Tokyo Rose with Putin: the Deep State/Left is going berserk over it because they know that if normal people watch Putin being interviewed at length, they will realise what a decent human being he is, only interested in saving the world with decent Christian values (and against the LGTB takeover of the West.) This wasn't the tweet, but it's similar:
There were several tweets following along the lines of "yes, I have made a study of Putin speeches given over the last few years, and people just don't understand how reasonable and likeable he is."
But I find it hilarious that MAGA, culture war, "save us Putin!" types live in a world where they constantly imagine their culture war enemies as being in a permanent state of terror that The Truth is About to be Revealed and We Must Stop That; instead of the reality that we are simply appalled that so many have gone down a conspiracy rabbit hole and are too stupid to recognise their own manipulation by a murderous autocrat with no interest in democracy or stability in the West.
As has been obvious for years, the reason many of the MAGA Right is in love with Putin is purely due to culture war issues, especially on sexuality and gender, on which the Right has (to a large extent) already lost the war. (Sure, they are making some ground on trans issues, but there's no way you could say that the recognition of gay relationships is at risk of going backwards in those parts of the world where they have made ground.)
There are other reasons involved too, of course, as noted in greater length in previous posts like this one, but the depth of oblivious idiocy on Musk's madhouse (Twitter) has become bottomless, all aided and abetted by Musk himself.
I've raised the Trans issue on Catallaxy a number of times but they are convinced they are fully informed and that sex is binary. The majority have made up their minds without reading any of the relevant material. For example, McKinsey in 1948 found that sexual orientation is not always binary and had a 7 point scale for heterosexuality-homosexuality. His results are very surprising, so surprising I'd need to see other studies. The current description of sexual orientation being a spectrum I disagree with, it is more like a distribution but if McKinsey's data is to be believe it isn't a normal distribution. The demanded language changes are nuts.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the current activism is over the top but the right wing response is over the top. I don't know why this is a big deal to people on the right. The women sports issue I can understand but there is already a big correction happening there. The funny thing is that in relation to changing rooms the women get hot and bothered but the men would find it amusing if a trans man was present in the locker room.