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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023

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Blue Tribe is never going to forgive the Rats for shattering the illusion you have to be a dumb redneck ti disagree with them, are they?

I think it's more of the "I feel bad for you" / "I don't think about you at all" situation.

Who doesn’t think about the other one here?

In the context of the show Don spent all day thinking about the guy he told he didn't think about at all. He even went out of his way to sabotage him by leaving behind Ginsberg's ad pitch so he could only do his own because he knew that his was inferior.

Blues aren't even aware of us. We are merely conservatives/fascists/whatever-boo-term with tech jobs to them.

Ehhh, given the number of NYT/new Yorker articles about "the dark secret of tech reactionaries: they could be hiding in your boardroom!", they clearly have some kind of hangup.

Like, ignoring tone entirely, we could compare the number of articles about furries to nrx/ssc/etc., and I think furries get less media attention despite being a significantly bigger thing in tech.

There literally is a whole community that is explicitly dedicated to sneering at us. They have their own forum, where they do nothing but repost things from here and other rat-adjacent spaces and mock them.

I meant almost all blue tribers, not that miniscule number of sneer clubbers.

(Most) blues don't think about sneerclub either.

I think blues think about fascists/conservatives quite a bit, as evidenced by twitter.

But that could be thinking about just about anyone ;)

Are we thinking about specific progressives all that often?

That doesn't really answer the question. They get plenty angry about conseratives/fascists/whatever-boo-terms.

Blues don't think about or are even aware of the grey tribe. "Grey tibe" is just conservatives with tech jobs from their point of view.

If the Blues freak out about conservatives, and to them we're just conservatives with tech jobs, are they not thinking about us at all, or are they freaking out? They even have a subreddit devoted to trolling us.

I dunno, they seem historically to have been aware that ‘climate change deniers’ weren’t personally stupid rednecks even if they tended to round the difference off to being evil.

Shattering the illusion is a bit of a strong word to use when I'd estimate >95% of the population has never heard of rationalists, and I don't think it's the source of my amusement at these habits, but if it makes you feel better: I, ChrisPrattAlphaRaptor, high pope of the Church of the Blue Tribe absolve you of your sins. Go forth and live in virtue, my son.

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