Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
I am actively attempting to deradicalize myself. I dislike puritanism and intolerance. DM me if you want my Discord, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
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Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
They divorced some time ago. The socialist arc was a couple years ago when she was hanging out with Vaush.
The trilogy is complete.
This is the third time in my life that a professional pundit has made a shocking political transformation, I found out about it after the fact, and I'm left wondering how it happened. You'd think there'd be some drama YouTuber recapping these stories in a well-edited highlights reel, but it's all just spread out over many, many hours of streams.
First, it was shoe0nhead. I stopped paying attention to her completely after her feud with ShortFatOtaku, and then I heard about her getting involved with BreadTube (yuck) through Sargon of Akkad, and now she's... making really based tweets about current events that keep finding their way to me? I asked what happened, and people say she's not a socialist anymore and has a trad right boyfriend. I'd love to know how that last shift happened, because I've never seen someone go that far left and then pull back.
Then, it was Red Scare. I never paid attention to Red Scare, but I knew they were a sister act to Chapo Trap House and that prominent celebrities listened to the show, and I knew about the "Sailor Socialist" incident where the InfoWars reporter rudely accosted Dascha but asked totally reasonable questions, which Dascha responded to with dismissive quips, which meant she won in the eyes of the internet. Now the hosts are tradcaths, one of them got kicked off an HBO drama for being anti-woke, and they're doing right-wing tribal signalling. I don't know when or how that happened.
But now I just found out about the MOST INSANE one of all.
I remember the groyper wars from four years ago. The one good thing Nick Fuentes ever did. But the groypers lost, right? Covid killed all their momentum. This year, AFPAC died because Fuentes lost all his fans. Even the Kanye West bump didn't save him.
But today, on Twitter, I saw Charlie Kirk (rightfully) defending Elon Musks's statements on Da Jooze. In the replies, someone pointed out that over a month ago, he interviewed Steve Sailer on his podcast.
For one thing, I'm shocked that I didn't hear about this immediately when it happened. But also, HOW did it happen? Kirk's organization was blacklisting people who got near Unz or VDare.. heck, people who just admitted to reading them! He's part of Con Inc! Now he's okay with it? What changed? How did this happen? I thought the groypers lost! Was this a downstream effect of Musk taking over Twitter? How the heck???
Looking over at this post, I spent too much of this post talking about show and Red Scare. The reason I'm posting tonight is because I want to know if anyone understands why Kirk is suddenly breaking bread with the people who were his enemies just yesterday.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
I don't know who Crenshaw is. I only know who Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo are. Tell me more about this Crenshaw.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
Ah. Sadly, not only do I not share normie cultural assumptions, I don't even understand the assumptions of the terminally online culture I've grown up in.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
One could argue rightists are aware of this and just want to give them a taste of their own medicine. Not that revenge is a healthy thing to pursue. I don't advocate punishing anyone for criticism of Israel, but I do get a perverse delight in seeing leftists do a surprised Pikachu face when the exact thing they asked for happens to them.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
You're reading the slogans that are meant to beat liberals into submission, not the inner thoughts of the movement.
I often wonder whether neurotypicals can read minds, since they so often as though they can.
I see your point, though. And I think you may be right, but I'd like to be charitable.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
This is a worthwhile post, but it doesn't relate to what I'm talking about and would better fit in the Gaza megathread.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
A leftist talking point between 2017 and 2019 was that if someone seems to deny someone else their rights, then they forfeit their own rights. Therefore, it is okay to "punch Nazis".
Now, I'm hearing a lot of the opposite, that queers and feminists stand with Palestine because homophobic transmisogynists are human too.
It's hard to know for certain what happened. My hunch is that these are largely the same people, and that they've never been interested in meta level principles. But it's possible that these are totally different people who've replaced the leftist activists of a few years ago. That's certainly a more charitable explanation.
(I'm not posting this in the Israel/Gaza thread because it's not directly about that conflict.)
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
I love the work of both Sam Hyde and Joss Whedon. Am I a freak?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
I have a question for those of you who support a ceasefire.
How do you think Israel should respond to the events of October 7?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
Long, but great read. You should post this on Substack.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
Yeah, you're new. I've been posting online since 2003. I was in the second grade and just discovered Neopets..
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
You're assuming I'm the one hosting all of my own content, and that's a crazy assumption.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
In that case..
I'll be fine as long as it's only available to the government and maybe a select few corporations. I've done nothing illegal, but I have done things that are cancellable, and I don't need my neighbors or middle management to know about them.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
If AI does that, then how fucked I am depends on how much my writing style has changed over the years, and I certainly have no way of knowing.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
If they only do it when the government isn't cooperating with them to uncover the identities of mass murderers, then it doesn't seem like a problem to me, but you're right that it does call their sovereignty into question.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
I didn't know about the curfews, or the freedom of movement. Could you tell me more about the freedom of movement? Are they not allowed to move throughout Gaza, or do you just mean that they can't leave Gaza? Because the latter is just sensible border policy.
Believe me, I'd read about this if I knew where to find reliable information.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
It's not obvious to me.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
Wasn't there a lengthy period without Hamas-organized terror attacks before this one?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
The only way out is through de-escalation and the only permanent de-escalation is through formal legal recognition of Palestinians in the territories as full citizens in a democratic system. This might come from the establishment of a Palestinian state
Does Gaza not already count as a Palestinian state? Ignoring the blockade, they have sovereignty.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
I keep giggling at the idea of Netanyahu saying "Leeroy Jenkins". Thank you.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
Maybe they're afraid to let their hypocrisy on Israel's border vs. America's border be too obvious, especially in light of Tucker Carlson bringing it to the attention of boomers.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
If the United States thinks that the Palestinian authorities have a legitimate claim to Israeli territory, then why are we supporting Israel at all? If the United States thinks that they don't, then why aren't we bombing them back to the stone age as part of the war on terror?
This is a good quote. I'm gonna use it.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
1yr ago
Oh.
I mean, did I ignore the facts of the situation re: Hamas?
That's what I thought was happening in 2016. Then "anti-SJW" content got replaced by communism, best personified by Ethan Klein of h3h3 removing his podcast with Jordan Peterson, apologizing for it, and then making Hasan Poker a co-host. A safe edgy variant of the left won the youth. Or so I thought.
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