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Went to a Baptist funeral today. It ended with a threat that those of us who haven't accepted christ won't ever see my great subt again in heaven and thst she "got to the finish line first" which is a deeply morbid way of looking at things. It went over well wirh her church friends but nkt so well with the family.

I agree to an extent. The vast majority of right wing slop is post hoc justification and not forward-thinking.

But there are some VERY useful right wingers to understand to get the basis of their philosophy. Reading g Carl Schmitt was legitimately perspective changing, and (though you absolutely don't have to hand it to him) he had a consistent rigorous method to analyze how the world worked and should be. At least he had some interesting claims and justifications that get to the core of society how he sees it. I came away much more knowledgeable about how fascism arises and is justified.

I think reading Nietzsche is similar, though it's a little too easy to be placate by him and think 'eh, hes not so bad' so I would recommend reading Losurdo's book on Nietzsche immediately before or after any reading of Nitezsche. But Nietzsche really did just have a reactionary response to growing trends based on his aristocratic class interests and says that pretty plainly. Right wingers today are similar but with slightly changed class forms (labor aristocracy, imperial core, white supremacy, petit bourgeois, etc)

Phrasing it as equivalent to reading scripture is good. And of course, I'm going to continue reading leftist thought.

I guess I was wondering why Sandifer put herself through reading all the shit she's criticizing.

Completely agree. Outside of a couple of chronically online edge lord debate bro types, I've never had a discussion with a right winger who knew even the slightest about anything that could be considered their "theory".