The problem with "cancel" as a strategy was always that it was an argument in favor of bringing back blacklisting communists. Which I thought we all agreed was a bad thing, but apparently not, so here we go...
Listening
16d ago
I have actual, literal, in-real-life dead friends driven to suicide in this mess. "Loss of hegemony" is way down the list. I'll worry about sinking once I'm not drowning.
Listening
17d ago
"You should go commit suicide, or let us shoot you in the head if we get particularly bored, because if you don't America Will Be Destroyed!" isn't nearly as compelling an argument as you seem to think it is.
(Alternating between "America must be destroyed!" and "you're going to destroy America!" is even less compelling—but that's neither here nor there...)
Listening
18d ago
I want my politicians moral, I want them virtuous, I want them to at least pretend not to be pigs rolling around in the mud.
And I wish the idea that the enemy are creepy, weird little subhuman freaks who deserve it hadn't been so thoroughly normalized all down the political aisles.
The people most competent to execute Actual Fascism are the fascists. C'est la vie.
I also don't think that column is likely to be motivating outside a small, highly atypical tribe of politics-obsessed weirdos.
I always wonder about that kind of thing. It's certainly why I decided to kick the bastard out of my life. I've heard the same from others. But I'd never risk talking about it.
Who can know? Preference is adversarial, I suppose.
Listening
1mo ago
Hm. That's definitely part of it. But I don't think it's the whole thing.
When the rule was compassion and conversation, I supported the dems as a matter of principle. I didn't personally benefit from most of the work. When the rule became "actually, it's okay to hate people for being born with the wrong immutable characteristics," I just supported whoever was in my own interest. "Do as the Romans do."
I'm not convinced that's a reversible transition. Maybe it's minority enough to say "irrelevant."
Listening
1mo ago
Discover time travel and warn Google and the New York Times not to put nutters in charge of their hire/fire policies? Alternatively, they're welcome to "make bigots afraid again."
Listening
1mo ago
They were both the identity candidate. Being a straight white male football coach just means he was also picked for the color of his skin over his competence.
Listening
1mo ago
Unitarianism was historically a kind of Eastern European heresy. The modern American version basically just took the name. They're more properly termed "Unitarian Universalists" if you want to avoid confusion over the whole "New Age" thing.
Listening
1mo ago
Hm. All the antifa guys* I know cover their guns in this kind of stuff. I feel like it's a kind of purity ritual, in addition to the "autistic guy with too many laptop stickers" effect.
It's not necessarily for external consumption.
Listening
2mo ago
they're at least faster than the other guys.
More "less stridently involved in politics" I think. Lackey always liked to talk more than her skill could support.
I doubt they'd have to refuse nominations today.
(I've heard rather pointed "heteronormative" puns. I'd not trust to good will if it came to that.)
The previous bargain was "we'll be mostly very polite as we render everyone who dares disagree permanently unemployable and watch them die alone under a bridge."
As far as I can tell "Dark Woke" means "we'll do the same thing, but while shouting 'retard!' and making generated pictures of Trump as a fat man with lots of Stars of David."
So absolutely much safer.
I suspect they think they're feminists. Joshua Norton thought he was emperor of the United States.
As far as I can tell they're fandom carnies.
Kaja looks like one of those women who Doesn't Count as far as the People Whose Opinions Matter are concerned, like most autistic "feminists" who think principles trump social skills and status. Occasionally useful, always disposable.
The writing is too "sex pest" to earn remembered approval in real life and too heterosexual to thrive outside it. (I see there's already been drama of the expected variety.)
I would file it under the same category as any "comic-book woman with green eyes, red hair, and Amazonian physique" thing. Even if the protagonist doesn't look the part. She's burlesque enough.
Listening
3mo ago
Ah, noted. Regardless of topic?
(Should I move the post? Delete here/add there?)
This isn't really something I'm commenting on, but it is culture-war related and I do genuinely want to know, so...
[...]
But I think that culturally, a lot of ordinary left-leaning people had no idea that there was this constantly building demand for Republican Wokeness.
[...] the idea that the dominant majority would be jealous of those tools and want to use them is absurd.
[...] and I never found another left-winger who understood that part of the impetus was to satirize #ownvoices. [...]
I think to a very large extent left-wing culture in the US was totally unprepared for that kind of jealousy. [...]
[...] to a large extent a lot of left-wing culture has been caught flatfooted by this phenomenon because they didn’t see it coming at all. They don’t understand where the psychological impulse comes from and so they have trouble understanding how to fight against it.
Can anyone who considers themselves left of center comment on the accuracy or lack thereof of this post? Is this a thing, or more something particular to this specific guy.
Edit: I'm asking about his description of "what is understood" and preparedness. I'm not really interested in "which specific policies is it this time" or "what makes people feel good about themselves."
watching pornography, playing video games, engaging in "devil worshipping" activities like D&D, and not being married
Eh. We've heard enough about neckbeards, pick-me's, and incels not to buy that line.
Nobody's being honest here. Just waving the old carrot and hoping it's not rotten...
Listening
5mo ago
meaningful political force
I can only shrug.
Guess we'll see who wins...
if mild progressive nerds the likes of this are already fascism
Oh, no idea. I was just quoting the doctrine.
(I'm pretty sure the real progressives like Gebru just enjoy hurting people. More the merrier, so why limit yourself?)
Eh? Is he a transhumanist? I mostly only noticed all the blogging.
Listening
5mo ago
Transhumanism is the chief ideology of TESCREAL fascists and extremely right-wing and problematic.
I believe the traditional phrase is "once you pop, you can't stop." You can socially normalize a direction but not a concrete set of standards.
Nobody's ever in complete control of how trends develop. And only a fool would concern himself with the philosophy of a mob.
More options
Context Copy link