Pongalh
1mo ago
You say 99% on their side, and yet his discussion of trans issues is way more than 1% of his output. IOW if you don't talk much about the other 99% of your issue positions how much do you really hold them?
Pongalh
1mo ago
Indeed there was an infograph recently of most popular social media worldwide and Finland stuck out as being the only one where Threads reigns supreme
Pongalh
1mo ago
being qualified to carry a gun selects against "bottom feeders," a term I feel is more appropriate for say, fentanyl addicts. but it probably does select for people who are not well into the arts, i.e. philistines. That's a kind of bottom feeder for many.
Pongalh
1mo ago
What sucks is when the hot fashionable women are the ones saying these things and the frumpy ones are not, and even defend men.
Given men's nature, it's hard to know which way to cut.
Pongalh
1mo ago
Wasn't long ago that conservatives were lambasting the notion of stochastic terrorism. Do they buy it now?
Pongalh
1mo ago
The more important point to me is the privacy part. How many of us would really come out unscathed if all our private convos were unearthed? (In general too many people want to chalk up to extra horrible malice what is better explained by the new information environment.)
Pongalh
1mo ago
That Brooklyn lefty campaigner guy who was killed on CCTV with his girlfriend nearby, conservatives were very much "welp, hoisted by his own..." as in this is the result of his own views on crime. A smug schadenfreude was palpable, but I didn't see overt celebration myself.
Pongalh
1mo ago
This is getting into the weeds of an interpersonal form of "cancel culture" that doesn't seem a good fit for mass society questions regarding the same. It's too untenable as well, tabooing simply disengaging from people who've said things that rub you wrong the way. (And in any case, I think more often you disengage because they've outright lied about you (fraud) or actually treated you badly (harm like not paying you back) not expressed something abstract about the world. Those that do the latter are almost to a T progs, if you're like me living in a blue culture.)
Pongalh
1mo ago
"people are swapping stories about popping in old DVDs so that they can escape the ads and the subscription fatigue."
Funny you say that. I bought a DVD of an HBO series from over a decade ago called Family Tree. Anytime I play it I have to sit through a nearly 5 minute long ad promotional for HBO, featuring series from the time (Girls, Game of Thrones, some cancelled one about New Orleans). I can't skip. Nice time capsule at first but awful over and over
Pongalh
2mo ago
Once in a while The Motte ditches culture war and sounds admirably left populist...
Pongalh
2mo ago
I have gone months without checking my bank account when I was depressive.
Interesting. Depressive but able to maintain a steady stream of income from a reliable job? I've only been very depressed when unemployed of massively underemployed. I envy the six figures, whew.
Pongalh
2mo ago
As a civilian my impression of the military is that it is made up of mostly literal cuckolds, 4’10” fat latinas and idiots that had absolutely zero job prospects outside of what amounts to a government make-work program.
Far preferable to being a gooning NEET who don't even the hustle to take advantage of government make-work. Also they still have to submit themselves to a level of discipline and physical rigor at least initially in a way I want nothing to do with. No one's interfering with my waking up at 10am and doing remote work.
Pongalh
2mo ago
Robinson had a partner but threw his life away anyway. I mean, technically. Presumably they were intimate.
Pongalh
2mo ago
There are still too many right wingers (mostly boomers, but also some enlightened center-rightists) who think we can rollback the clock to 1990 and will thus aid and abet the left by chiding and policing their own side.
This criticism of these boomers is also a form of "chiding and policing their own side." It's just called intra-conservative dialogue.
Pongalh
2mo ago
The standards should be much higher for state-led censorship efforts though. Like fraud level deception. Claiming Robinson graduated from Hillsdale or something. Someone's perception of an ideology is much too murky.
"Just stop."
No
Pongalh
2mo ago
Of all the people to understand the weird indeterminacy of 21st century ideologies interacting with the "firehose of bullshit" of new media, I'd think it was the smart "grey tribe" people who frequent this site
Pongalh
2mo ago
"Frankly I'd respect a simple 'fuck you' more."
I'm sure you would, because it provides a greater sense of righteous indignance due to being up against an uncivilized beast
Pongalh
2mo ago
I think this it, the motivation for taking Kimmel down wasn't misinformation but the seeming concern trolling. He made Trump look insensitive and petty, and that stings.
Pongalh
2mo ago
If you want to use a "comedy" defense, then you have to actually do comedy. That was just an isolated insult slotted into position.
We're at the point in the culture wars where we're parsing exactly which part of a comedian's routine counts as comedy and which doesn't. Line-by-line style.
Pongalh
2mo ago
Right. Kirk unleashed the inner That's Not Funny that had been lurking within the allegedly thick-skinned
Pongalh
2mo ago
except your specific person being insulted is just the category of "Republican." Not the same.
Pongalh
2mo ago
libertarians are either that or the opposite, some truck driving Gadsden flag-waving fella with little money
Pongalh
2mo ago
no, those were formal armies involved. not shifting vague weird internet politics combined with political inference from a romantic partner
I actually wrote about this a bit ago: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/3337822/pennies-trump-target-second-term/
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