Botond173
8hr ago
I also suspect that they'll retcon the history of the Great Awokening and deny that it ever happened, claiming that it was the invention of neo-Nazi propaganda and never anything real and substantial. Basically the same way they've trivialized and misrepresented political correctness, critical race theory, radical feminism and DEI. There have been extensive discussions of this memory-holing process over the Intellectual Dark Web subreddit.
Code Pink, however, is I think a rather different story. I'd argue that the Bush Jr. administration utilized the parallel wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a huge source of distraction in domestic politics, which largely explains why the Culture War was more or less dormant during his presidency save for manufactured and long forgotten scandals like the stem cell research issue. (This also explains most of the existing nostalgia for the 2000s.) For the left-wing opposition it seems like a good idea to push an anti-war message, which then compelled many Republican normies to troll them in turn with militarist antics. In reality, very few average people are dedicated militarists or anti-militarists. Code Pink was a case of manufactured pacifism / anti-interventionism. Kayfabe, basically. The hatred of immigration restrictionism, on the other hand, is genuine.
Botond173
14hr ago
It seems to be almost a Reddit left wing consensus that the year is 1933 and you should do whatever you would have done then if you consider yourself a good person.
As far as I know, there is a well-founded overall consensus among historians that the political line pursued by the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) after 1919 in the Weimar Republic ended up abetting the Nazi seizure of power instead of preventing or even disrupting it. There is also largely a consensus that the Anti-Fascist Action organization as it was founded in 1932 was little more than a front organization of the KPD. I sort of wonder how these people would react if you merely asked their opinion on this, but I guess asking this question in itself would instantly mark you as a Nazi in their eyes.
Botond173
15hr ago
I can only wish the right-wing was ever as based as these people claim it is.
Botond173
1d ago
Yeah. Somehow I surmised that whatever happened is largely due to the lockdowns.
Botond173
1d ago
Maybe @BahRam You can chime in with what he meant more specifically.
I mean the standard diner that is a recurring location in Goodfellas, for example.
Botond173
1d ago
The classic 24 hour diner doesn't exist in most locations anymore, and when it does it's too expensive for broke young people to go there casually. Also they kind of frown on people just hanging out for hours, and young people are staying at home online anyway.
As someone not from the US I'd ask you to elaborate on this a bit. I've only seen such particular diners in movies and I can only assume that they normally make cozy third places in the terms of sociology. Is there any particular reason why they are normally open around the clock and are disappearing and are relatively expensive?
Also I think maybe older people have the idea that anime is more high-brow than it is? We got this small subset of poorly translated anime films in the 90s, plus everything from Studio Ghibli, and thought it should be some high-class artistic statement because we didn't understand it.
This is supposedly such a widespread media phenomenon that it has its own article on TvTropes. Sadly I cannot remember the term anymore. The short story is that importing anime in the '80s, dubbing and distributing it was a big market risk, so these companies only selected those anime series that were pretty much guaranteed to be popular. This created the misconception among many Westerners that these series represent the entire anime industry and that anime is always high-class. Unfortunately Sturgeon's Law applies to it as well.
Botond173
1d ago
I guess OP was referring to the life choices of white and Asian students, not blacks.
Botond173
2d ago
I'd assume they found the news about reprinting the yearbooks at a cost of over $50,000 due to OK signs to be cringe and lame as f***.
Botond173
2d ago
Which is just another case of a news report alienating the normies even further.
Botond173
2d ago
It was developed by Gramsci for his fellow Marxist-Leninist cadre. Otherwise he is dead and forgotten by everyone besides dissident rightist political theorists. Those who have implemented it are identitarian mainstream liberals – feminists, LGBT+ activists and liberal culture warriors in general. Them coddling their own sense of intellectual superiority is beside the point. The point is that the Long March by definition represents the opposite of accelerationism. In other words, it succeeds as long as the marchers and their opponents are both decelerationists. To the extent that you ever reveal your true motivations at all, you only do so when you’re already structurally unremovable from power, when the limited but irreversible gains you’ve been steadily making reach critical mass. As OP correctly pointed it out, this assumes “that long-march leftists were simply too clever, disciplined, and coordinated to challenge directly”. What this also entails is that hardliner leftist culture warriors are to be reined in so as not to alienate the normies too soon.
Botond173
3d ago
I remember that companies cancelling people for the OK sign was a spectacle so cringy that even Bill Maher ridiculed it on his show, which is normie-friendly entertainment by anyone’s standards. When the woke overplay their hand and they come across as desperate and shrill, even the media that isn’t particularly known as anti-woke will not play along with their agenda.
Botond173
4d ago
The Gramscian concept of the Long March Through the Institutions as determined by mainstream liberals was based on the assumption that the only token right-wing opposition that will arise will come from loser cucks like Mitt Romney, John McCain or Jeb Bush. It was never supposed to be challenged by someone like Trump.
Botond173
4d ago
Cancelling people for the OK sign does have the potential to alienate normies though, provided that the anti-woke media spins it the right way.
Botond173
6d ago
Charlie Kirk was engaging in calls to coordinate state violence against his out group (ie running on political issues that would negatively effect the alphabet folks).
How did his proposals amount to coordinated state violence?
Botond173
7d ago
I'm having some trouble discerning what exactly it is you are arguing for here.
That CNN and the legacy media in general is lying through its teeth about his character and the nature of his activities, I guess.
Botond173
8d ago
The variant (if one can call it that) with the downward-pointing wings was certainly also in official use. (See this huge gallery from the Third Reich in Ruins site.) One example are the famous bronze eagles at the Luitpold Arena in Nuremberg. I have no idea what the heraldic/symbolic significance of this is, if any; I guess there were also practical considerations at play (cost, size, structural balance).
Botond173
8d ago
Botond173
8d ago
Indeed, but unlike these eagles, those predate the Italian fascist movement.
This page has a picture of Japanese-American troops in the highly-decorated 442nd wearing these coats.
It's kind of curious in this context that the US national eagle adorning the entrance of the Epinal American Cemetery, as pictured on that site, is an almost perfect copy of the Nazi imperial eagle. (The eagle decorating the entrance of the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Belgium, on the other hand, is pretty much a copy of the Nazi Party eagle. The difference is kindly explained on Wikipedia.)
Botond173
8d ago
Also, Xi's half-sister was studying at a military academy (I wasn't aware that those were accepting women back then in China) and was driven to suicide during the Cultural Revolution, at least according to Wikipedia.
Botond173
8d ago
Those of them who survived to 1941 were mostly released and conscripted back to frontline service, as far as I know.
Botond173
8d ago
I'd say he made a good attempt at humor and correctly summed up what the argument of lipstick feminists would be if it was a uniformed organization mainly consisting of women that'd be the one criticized for its looks.
Also, I'm somewhat of a misogynist myself, but I'd ask you to differentiate "women" from "lipstick feminists".
I won't disagree with your argument (although I doubt it's anti-ableism that is an important factor in this) but my point is that "Anti-Fascist Action" named itself as such because they, in accordance with the Stalinist line, considered Social Democrats to be fascists as well but at the same time wanted to dishonestly appear to non-Communists, which is a tactic their modern-day heirs are also continuing. I imagine this would be another divisive subject of discussion among Blue Tribers if they actually thought about it for a minute.
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