What are some notable lib "goalpost shifts" you've noticed lately?

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That gun thing isn't actually moving the goalpost, it's hypocrisy and guns for me but not for thee.

Goalpost moving is:

"Nobody's giving transgender surgery to minors"
"Transgender surgery for minors is rare, it basically doesn't happen"
"Transgender surgery for minors is rare, but it's important and life-saving treatment"
"More minors need transgender surgery"
Feel I need to repeat this for truth as... yeah, like, 99% of the examples raised in this thread are not "goalpost shifts," they're just double-standards, or else just standard libsanity.

I've been having discussions with a friend that remind me of one goalpost shift I've been seeing for years--the whole "fascist"/"nazi" thing where they always redefine the words so that basically they can never be counted as one but their enemies can.
 
Its why I have been thinking about some other feasible conditions to put on voting other than "you were born here".

Currently my best conditions have been restricting a vote based on how much of a person's income is from the state. It could effectively prevent the mentally retarded, gib mongers (AKA wastrels, niggers and native Americans) and elderly existing solely off social security from further fucking up the country so they can get more gibs at actual contributing members of societies expense.
Add students to the list. I fucking hate these septum piercings with their fickle ideas that need to be done now NOW NOWWWW!!! voting in local shit as it is. They shouldn't vote on anything anywhere. Get your nose back in an old book and learn something you queers.
 
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Dude they believe whatever the nearest glass screen says. Be it computer, phone or tv. This is why the NPC meme arose in 2017, and you can prove how effective and true it was because the ADL condemned it.

They don’t have meaningful opinions unless you count spurious emotions as thoughts. No need to focus on them at all. The number of actual lefties you can fit inside a phone booth. See, the failed protests today of “no kings” where the only thing that happened was 2 democrats were shot by one of their own.

And furthermore this is commonly why you see a sea of grey hair at these rallies: View attachment 7503289

Astroturfed, synthetic, fake and gay.

I think I am sledgehammering my point by now, but the non-left and right are just as anemic, complacent, apathetic or even demoralized as the left. You remember the Tea Party of 2010? These were boomers scared as hell about Obama’s health care overhaul. They had skin in the game. They were organic. They pushed back, but ultimately, simply had their money cut off at the knees by that bitch in the IRS Lois Lerner. Just like the trucker protests in Canada when Trudeau simply flipped a switch and froze bank accounts.

Just that easy. And to this day, the total vooter participation has been going down per capita every year. You can also see this in crowd size at inaugurations. 2008 Obama was the last big hurrah for public participation. Now people are cynical as hell and don’t really think anything can be done.
For 48 bucks an hour, I'll protest for whatever cause they have on tap that day.
 
Everything.

They will shift goalpost on anything and everything as long as it benefits them. Covid being the most egregious example being one. The other being the willingness to call everyone who regards them as the oxygen wasting communists they are a nazi. They then turn around and screech at jews and support actual nazis in ukraine.
 
This is less of an overall "goalpost shift" but more one that often comes up in debates:

They become increasingly strict about the source of knowledge. Back when I was on Reddit I often ran into the phenomenon where I would point out something, then be increasingly told that my knowledge/observation wasn't valid for increasingly restrictive reasons--now its because its an anecdote, now its because I linked to a Youtube video, now its because they don't like the website which hosts the article..... and then when asked "okay, what will you accept?" its always something that's behind a paywall.

It's led me to thinking that left-wing credential worship and "source?" obsession is really nothing more than them wasting your time, hoping you'll give up because they can't actually defeat your argument.
 
Lincoln is the absolute best president for preserving the union and crushing insurrection

Trump is a fascist for preserving the union and crushing insurrection

This is less of an overall "goalpost shift" but more one that often comes up in debates:

They become increasingly strict about the source of knowledge. Back when I was on Reddit I often ran into the phenomenon where I would point out something, then be increasingly told that my knowledge/observation wasn't valid for increasingly restrictive reasons--now its because its an anecdote, now its because I linked to a Youtube video, now its because they don't like the website which hosts the article..... and then when asked "okay, what will you accept?" its always something that's behind a paywall.

It's led me to thinking that left-wing credential worship and "source?" obsession is really nothing more than them wasting your time, hoping you'll give up because they can't actually defeat your argument.
The funniest part. If you say "I read it online" you're dismissed and called retarded...

As if you gave a different interest than they do
 
It's led me to thinking that left-wing credential worship and "source?" obsession is really nothing more than them wasting your time, hoping you'll give up because they can't actually defeat your argument.

Bad faith purity spiral in action. Seen this a lot myself.
 
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It's led me to thinking that left-wing credential worship and "source?" obsession is really nothing more than them wasting your time, hoping you'll give up because they can't actually defeat your argument.
It’s just pseudointellectualism in the purest sense. People who are too dumb to reason properly so they treat argumentation like a game of Yu-Gi-Oh where they can just slap down a higher level “thing” and automatically win the debate (whilst maintaining the superficial guise of being a serious, educated person). I’ve seen this a lot IRL with people acting like having a degree in something means you’re infallible about anything relating to your field.
 
It’s just pseudointellectualism in the purest sense. People who are too dumb to reason properly so they treat argumentation like a game of Yu-Gi-Oh where they can just slap down a higher level “thing” and automatically win the debate (whilst maintaining the superficial guise of being a serious, educated person). I’ve seen this a lot IRL with people acting like having a degree in something means you’re infallible about anything relating to your field.
So what you're saying is you've encountered this:


... But in real life?
 
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