Chrisprattalpharaptr

Ave Imperaptor

1 follower follows 1 user joined 2022 November 15 02:36:44 UTC

No bio...

User ID: 1864

‎

Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026

Chrisprattalpharaptr Ave Imperaptor 1d ago

How many male, rust belt town kids, who kept going to Church weekly well into 20’s vote Democrat? Might be able to shorten that today to - male and has had manual labor jobs for at least a summer.

How about - how many male, rust belt town kids, who went to church throughout their childhood and then went to the northeast/west coast to a prestigious college end up voting democrat?

I would guess with probably a 50% probability that without moderation Reddit would become the Third Reich in 6 months. Leftist places online seem to need to be protected to exists.

The only reason I would pass on that bet is that there are hyper-motivated NEET-autists (see: 4chan) who would spam Hitler memes and scare off the normies. It wouldn't become the Third Reich because a bunch of middle-class redditors had a change of heart and started goose stepping down Park avenue.

Context

Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026

Chrisprattalpharaptr Ave Imperaptor 2d ago

I'm exactly the kind of liberal centrist Freddie despises.

That's exactly the type of cover Freddie would use for opsec. @Goodguy

Context

Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026

Chrisprattalpharaptr Ave Imperaptor 2d ago

Did I miss some flameout that prompted this?

Of those who unironically use low human capital as an insult.

Those people aren't progressives, and they're still around. It's the ones who were nodding along with Hanania right up until he started saying Orange Man Bad. And the econ-pilled ones who were mad about tariffs.

@Amadan is the embodiment of the Platonic philosopher-king, and their judgement is infallible, like the pope speaking ex cathedra. The jannies of the Motte are of a different breed than the soft, nepotistic babies of Reddit. They are veterans of forum warfare. The Navy Seals of the mop force. If you take a look at Amadan's profile and sort by top rated, you will see a long list of people they've dunked.

My pet theory is that @Amadan is Freddie DeBoer. Hear me out.

He's obviously invested in TheMotte, but rarely makes a top-level post (has he ever?) on a new subject - and he can't, because it would inevitably be about basketball or education policy or half-asian babies and destroy his opsec. When he talks about his politics, it's always how he's a true leftist but the progressives put him up on the wall for wrongthink (Freddie saying HBD-adjacent things, being cancelled). He clearly has a job that allows him to piss away hours in the middle of the workday on the sisyphean task of internet jannying. 'Classical-liberal' politics. It all fits. Giants walk among us.

The whole point of the Motte is to talk to weirdos and freaks such as myself with as much politeness and decorum as can be managed.

I'm confident most progs manage to be at least as decorous as this post.

Perhaps your words aren't as convincing to others as you thought it was. Get gud. Skill issue.

The world is too complex for anyone to properly grasp. The purpose of echo chambers is to selectively filter/spin stories that flatter their ingroup, or make the outgroup look bad. I'm fairly confident that if you perfectly swapped someone's social environment to be full of partisans of the opposite valency, and fed them a curated media diet you could change their politics fairly easily over time.

In other words, a lone prog crusader isn't going to convince TheMotte any more than you're going to turn Reddit pro-Trump, regardless of how eloquent either of you are.