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tokin opposition posted:which of the naomis was the terf Neither of them. You'd think Wolf might go that way as a UK-educated academic feminist who's pivoted to reactionary conspiracy theories, but not yet. And before the pivot she was very anti-Trans panic https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-lgbt-history/interview-u-s-author-naomi-wolf-condemns-uks-moral-panic-on-trans-issues-idUSL8N2ID2IG Civilized Fishbot has issued a correction as of 21:13 on Sep 27, 2023 |
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StashAugustine posted:It did, she just moved onto a new one I feel like she'd be less embarassingly stupid about things if this was a calculated pivot for money. Like, Taibbi, for example, says a bunch of dumb poo poo now, but he's not screaming on twitter because someone talked about giving a stuffed bear a vaccine.
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listening to the new Naomi Klein book, doppelgänger and it’s good as hell. completely maps out how Wolf and others like her have careers now in The Mirror World. makes sense: what were wolf’s options to still feel like a respected intellectual when she obviously cannot be that anymore because of poo poo like her book being entirely premised on false understandings of historical documents? the parallel economy of grift and strange theories is all she had left. Klein does a fantastic job of pulling all this apart using Diagonalism, which was new to me, as the political lens to make sense of a lot of what we’re seeing, and why hippie dippy granola moms were able to make common cause with white supremacists. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/quinn-slobodian-toxic-politics-coronakspeticism/ we have diagonalist factions on this site rn, though they probably don’t recognize themselves as such, because it’s cringe poo poo selec has issued a correction as of 22:03 on Sep 27, 2023 |
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selec posted:listening to the new Naomi Klein book, doppelgänger and it’s good as hell. completely maps out how Wolf and others like her have careers now in The Mirror World. makes sense: what were wolf’s options to still feel like a respected intellectual when she obviously cannot be that anymore because of poo poo like her book being entirely premised on false understandings of historical documents? the parallel economy of grift and strange theories is all she had left. what’s diagonalism. im not going to read a book to find out
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fart simpson posted:what’s diagonalism. im not going to read a book to find out It's when you poop very painfully
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fart simpson posted:what’s diagonalism. im not going to read a book to find out scanned the article, seems like neither left nor right nor black nor white nor too big nor too small ie grasping for some kind of identity markers to explain why everyone is going insane when class analysis would be more helpful. idk
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fart simpson posted:what’s diagonalism. im not going to read a book to find out
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selec posted:listening to the new Naomi Klein book, doppelgänger and it’s good as hell. completely maps out how Wolf and others like her have careers now in The Mirror World. makes sense: what were wolf’s options to still feel like a respected intellectual when she obviously cannot be that anymore because of poo poo like her book being entirely premised on false understandings of historical documents? the parallel economy of grift and strange theories is all she had left. name and shame em
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diagonalism as I understand it: 1. all power is conspiracy, no existing power structure is legitimate 2. the government is always lying 3. your intuitive understanding of the world is superior to what any expert you don’t agree with says. now infest this movement with self-appointed grandiose messiah types and reflexive contrarians and it’s go. I do think it’s different than just class politics because they are deeply orthagonal to mainstream lib/con structures. they’re mostly middle-class and more self-employed than their cohort tends to be, but they’re not so easily pinned down by standard class markers and shibboleths. they don’t look or act the same as the larger cohort in a lot of ways—not getting your kids vaccinated, for instance, is a diagonalist thing you’ll find that puts them in the minority, and divides them from standard GOP types, though their tendency to say they’re neither left nor right while staking out pretty reactionary positions on the issues they do care about makes it easy for them to be more associated by and large with right wingers, and why people with considered, serious anti-racist beliefs are harder to pull into these movements regardless of how they feel about the topics the movements do care about. there are very good reasons for these movements springing up; I don’t agree with them in any way, but it’s obvious you shouldn’t trust the government to have your back except by accident, and the ongoing perpetuation of huge lies within our culture (like that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself) makes it easier to see why you’d go all the way with this poo poo. if a lie becomes too obvious and too intolerable, it drives some people to lengths I wouldn’t go to; it doesn’t drive some people crazy enough to me too though! my liberal dad and stepmom don’t believe Epstein killed himself, but they can’t quite bring themselves not to love the Clintons even knowing all the bullshit connecting them to him, which gives me diagonalist feelings. selec has issued a correction as of 22:37 on Sep 27, 2023 |
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HashtagGirlboss posted:It’s funny to me because the first and second game were turn based. You could play it quasi real-time by queuing up your actions and letting the turns play out quickly, or by just trying to click along as the turns played out. But doing it the second way would have made the second half of either game relentlessly difficult. Idk. Maybe there’s more. But that’s why I lolled BG1 and 2--Also Neverwinter Nights, Kotor, Planescape Torment, and I think Icewind Dale--were what people call "real time with pause" and yeah you could either try and do everything as stuff played out constantly pause and unpause to keep setting up actions. There's a certain kind of nostalgia to it, but honestly I think combines the worst of both systems and DnD is a fully turned based system in the first place so this is really just going back to how it's intended to be played. Come to think of it, I think Dragon Age uses the real time with pause thing too.
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christmas boots posted:Come to think of it, I think Dragon Age uses the real time with pause thing too. So do the pillars of eternity and pathfinder games, though most of those have a fully turn based option. Rtwp made good sense for BG1 because low level 2e DnD combat didnt have much tactical depth. A lot of your party was just going to do exactly the same thing for most combat rounds in the game: swing or shoot (usually just one time) at the enemy, with a pretty high chance to miss. This is especially true in the early game, where your casters have very limited memorization. By BG2, RTWP was pretty clearly holding crpgs back.
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selec posted:diagonalism as I understand it: 3 is dicey but 1 and 2 are mostly correct. Put another way believing the opposite of those three just makes people completely regular democrats. who have been, are, and will continue to be wrong about most elements of government and economic policy at the cost of tens of millions of lives and untold suffering.
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Best Friends posted:3 is dicey but 1 and 2 are mostly correct. how do you get from 1 and 2 to “they’re going to send out a signal on everyone’s phone on October 4th that activates the nanites that will control everyone who got vaccinated” though? like, I am pretty strongly in the 1 and 2 camp but also somehow don’t believe that every single individual in the government is in on a secret that never meaningfully leaks. where do you see them going so grieviously into a ditch?
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Anarchists everywhere itt smdh
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selec posted:how do you get from 1 and 2 to “they’re going to send out a signal on everyone’s phone on October 4th that activates the nanites that will control everyone who got vaccinated” though? I don’t, so consequently I don’t see it as a very useful framework to identify bad beliefs.
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https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1707260758046752996 Typical. As soon as we get our first broad for a president everything turns to poo poo 
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Milo and POTUS posted:they're gonna start attacking vaxxed people aren't they I mean, we had a guy wearing a KN95 blinded in one eye, we ain't far from that already.
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Milo and POTUS posted:they're gonna start attacking vaxxed people aren't they for a minute, then they'll get winded from the physical exertion due to long covid
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selec posted:how do you get from 1 and 2 to “they’re going to send out a signal on everyone’s phone on October 4th that activates the nanites that will control everyone who got vaccinated” though? A big part of this "diagonalism" is the belief that every part of modernity that they don't like is part of the conspiracy, and if a person feels strongly about just one thing, they can get suckered into the rest of it. Picture one of those signs that goes "In this house, we believe: Black lives matter, trans rights are humans rights, vaccines work, etc." Someone who believes in 5 out of 6 statements on that sign has a chance to go down this rabbit hole where they start reading about their pet disagreement. Someone starts out at feeling anxious when their baby cries while getting a vaccine, reads websites that agree with their beliefs, and ends up believing Bill Gates is making up a plandemic to sell fake vaccines. Someone is generally liberal but hates paying taxes, then they start reading anti-tax websites that claim illegal immigrants get more taxpayer dollars than homeless veterans. Then it's natural to go from that one pet issue to trusting nothing, and ending up with the ancaps who believe in nothing but individualism and property rights.
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Or you just be terminally lib brained. An aunt of mine used to be an NDP voter but after Canada ovated an SS officer and had the anti-lgbt protests she's had to rethink her positions to better accommodate the nazis because surely all these fine people wouldn't be lying/wrong.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1707767779410010256?t=wFge-Crs85Q0o8hJkUrHUA&s=19 was Orwell doing socialism when he spied for the British government
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Road to Wigan Pier is a very modern socialist book in that it is a mostly pointless personal essay followed by lots of boring charts and a demand for votes
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my bony fealty posted:was Orwell doing socialism when he spied for the British government not actually crazy. just lovely.
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my bony fealty posted:was Orwell doing socialism when he spied for the British government its called democratic socialism
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DACK FAYDEN posted:it's crazy that he went from like really committed to the left cause to... well, that. he was always really, really concerned with respectability. it was more important to be accepted by the bourgeois and those in power than it was to topple the structures that granted them power
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lobster shirt posted:its called democratic socialism writing a letter to the secret police denouncing your friends and acquaintances is democratic socialist as gently caress
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projecthalaxy posted:Road to Wigan Pier is a very modern socialist book in that it is a mostly pointless personal essay followed by lots of boring charts and a demand for votes he was right that socialism would never take hold in a bourgeois capitalist society because of personal disgust toward the working class
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bedpan posted:writing a letter to the secret police denouncing your friends and acquaintances is democratic socialist as gently caress i agree!
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insane clown pussy posted:he was right that socialism would never take hold in a bourgeois capitalist society because of personal disgust toward the working class 
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bedpan posted:he was always really, really concerned with respectability. it was more important to be accepted by the bourgeois and those in power than it was to topple the structures that granted them power  poisoning takes many forms
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The higher up's will never respect you. Never ever.
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I mean he's probably one of the most referenced figures across the political spectrum today, even if it's mostly to complain about vaccines and wokeness.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:it's crazy that he went from like really committed to the left cause to... well, that. He was also a colonial administrator and dabbled in wildlife management.
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"An Asian person might chortle at me, thus omnideath for all creatures" is probably the most epically leftist and cosmopolitan thing you can say. E: For those not clued up about epic gritty bro Orwell projecthalaxy has issued a correction as of 16:07 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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