Not too late to catch up
TemutheeChallahmet
joined 1 year ago
That just means you haven't found the thing that speaks to their soul yet, just something that they agree with on a surface level and doesn't incept them with a will to unpack anything personally. For me my de-libining came after 2016 when I read what the groypers were saying and thoroughly read intellectual dark web stuff and saw that the lib brand of alternating snark, hysteria and patting themselves on the back for being the "decent" side was completely toothless against and ignorant to these rising political currents.
All of the Democrat messaging I saw felt designed to make them look good only within the parameters of right wing framing, and depended on taking the right's bad faith arguments at face value ("I thought you loved the troops but now you're attacking Gold Star families? Busted!"). I saw how the dirtbag left didn't mince words when talking about troops or back down when another self-righteous fake outrage campaign was started by the right, I saw Richard Spencer get punched once, lose the majority of his following and disprove the notion that the "marketplace of ideas" was the best antidote to hate, and I never looked back.
The person has to be so captured by an idea that they seek to learn more by themselves and replace one all day media diet with another
Who else here is a true MAGA patriot and SICK of their mixed race dominatrix never letting them CUM even once??
I would prefer it if she wasn't self consciously performing for an audience at all times with her forced laughter, or her awkwardly shoehorned in "as a woman" stands.
It is time that purposely waiting for your debate opponent to interject so you can say "Excuse me sir, I am speaking!" or waiting all debate to work in the line "That little girl was me!" so you can concurrently fire out a tweet to sell t-shirts bearing that slogan, or similar parlor tricks stop working on people.
The character Kemi from Veep was clearly a mockery of her.
Abortions for some and miniature flags for others
You're also never able to meet and strategize with the thousands of other small donors to agree upon a single set of policies you can demand that the politician fulfill, whereas a handful of rich bundlers can get together for one dinner party, raise as much money as you and thousands of your fellow schmucks do, and hash out a cohesive list of policy demands that satisfies everyone at the table while being easy for the beneficiary politician to grant.
Plus those rich donors are few enough in number that they can collectively shut down the politician's money hose over a simple text chain if he/she breaks promises, whereas you won't be able to get the scattered thousands of small money donors together to collectively bargain for anything if the politician's actions leave you all completely abandoned, and if you choose to stop giving they'll be able to go elsewhere to quickly fleece more small money donors.
"Barack then calls everyone over to the living room, and presents a basket of keys. 'Now remember folks,' he begins, 'if you like your spouse, you can keep your spouse...at least until midnight."
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Why would you talk down like this to people you want to vote for you, this is just jacking yourself off! (rant below)
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Even if this take wasn't reductive and worthless, guess what, "fascism" is too abstract an issue to count on the majority of voters to go to the polls for. This is an unavoidable material reality. But you don't want to work around it, you just want to spur a circle jerk among you and your hivemind followers about how you "get it" and others don't and you all are the prescient and astute trapped in a world of intellectual lessers.
Fucking morons, I totally get why people go post left if their parents and social circles were all people who talked to each other like this. If you want to call someone stupid and myopic just say that shit, don't pride yourself on avoiding negative politics then do this grating snark bullshit instead.
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Check out the hilarious "South Park of X" Cartoon from Dave Rubin (CW: Transphobia)
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Why after nearly a decade, I am finally at peace with not browsing Twitter (CW: Transphobia)
(hexbear.net)
Today, after seeing another bunch of Nazis gave 132K likes to a post from NickMercs telling Mr. Beast's recently-transitioned friend that she is "abandoning her family to play pretend," followed by the same Nazis going after Mr. Beast for trying to defend her, I have decided I am not even going to browse Twitter through a mirror anymore like I've been doing post-Elon takeover.
Since Trump announced his first presidential bid in 2015, I've stayed glued to this site, because I was always either trying to see the worst people of humanity get dunked on and ratioed for a burst of faith in humanity, or keep tabs on rising movements like the alt-right before they went mainstream. But as of late, as the discriminatory chud filth is becoming the bulk of tweets, I oddly no longer feel compelled to wade through them to gauge what future evil movements may spring up from Twitter.
It's because I see that the white supremacists, tech ancaps, and incels of all races who are thriving on the new Twitter will just keep brigading innocuous posts with shock value slurs and devouring deliberately-phrased clickbait, until they drive everyone half-sane out and get quarantined in a new porn, gore, spam, and virus-filled digital sewer. The new right-wing boosting X algorithm will usher these people into a complete untethering from reality, and embroil these chuds in intra-clique feuds until they either grow out of it, get swindled by one of the many scams now allowed to advertise there, or **** themselves. I firmly believe that Twitter will soon completely stop being where political and cultural winds are steered, and it's all thanks to Elon's stupid decisions.
After seeing the recent deliberate attempts by the Twitter groypers/incels to be inflammatory--by spamming slurs, or saying "based and chuds" to posts reporting hate crimes, or finding another unflattering image of some woman they saw in the media then adding the caption "they are doing this to demoralize you and destroy the west"--- I am confident that the right is devolving into a 'soy' movement with both eyes open the way 2012 college "SJWs" did, and that it will turn them into pariahs who tank their own popularity via infighting. Even this dumbass pickme bitch sees it:
I've recently seen Trads feud with tech libertarians, MMA chuds feud with Great Replacement chuds, groypers feud with old MAGAs (like the post-left and socdems feuded over the Squad), and TERFS and redpillers calling one other groomer enablers and transvestigating one another, and I feel at peace to fully check out and only check back in when it's all burned down.
The difference between all this new Twitter vitriol and the 2016 alt-right rise, is that these new reactionary panics have lore that is too obscure, far-fetched, and indigestible unless you spend long stretches of your life not interacting with real human beings, and is made by a scattered market of profit-driven grifters with no central messaging, coordination, or real-life social competence (unlike the Koch/Mercer/U-Line backed 2016 stuff). I mean look at this extremely normal reply to the above tweet, this shit is not going to travel among normies of any political affiliationm because it will not ring true to anybody who isn't a socially maladapted NEET:
Elon is already a dogshit manager who is in over his head, but this latest pathetic attempts to juice Twitter's declining revenue, like by paywalling streaming, and offering A1 conspirat*rds revenue sharing, are just more Jenga tiles removed from his "free speech" bastion, that bring it closer to its collapse as a political force.
Should actually say (CW: Rap Metal)