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Two thirds of the top level posts are about some combination of AI, HBD, Trans weirdness, Indian caste dynamics, Elon Musk, Polyamory or Aella gangbang dialectic. Nobody outside of Silicon Valley talks or cares about any of that stuff.
Most of the polyamory/aella gangbang posts are from christians/social conservatives saying polyamory and the sexual revolution have failed, fun is bad and you'll pay.
Normal Christians outside of Silicon Valley wouldn’t even know who Aella is, or that polyamory is a thing.
They “know” her from outrage-bait reactionary twitter. On sunday they meet in a pointy house in the sticks and sing hymns about the whore of babylon. They go home and have wet dreams. Then they come to themotte and write posts wondering why anyone cares about her.
Nah, your model is totally off here. The Aella-posters on the Motte are rationalist guys, some of whom have actually met her IIRC. I only know of her through the rationalist stuff and find her generally weird, off-putting and unworthy of extended commentary. In real life she has 1/1000th of 1/1000th of the reach of someone like Andrew Tate.
who's talking about general reach? I'm talking about this sub. Your opinion of aella is by far the most commonly expressed here, and you're not in Silicon valley.
But I don’t hear about Aella from reactionary Twitter, I hear about her from the people who post about her, who are Rationalists and the Rationalist adjacent. In other words, people who are disproportionately not normal Christians and who are weighted towards Silicon Valley.
Also, let’s be honest, your post was very clearly accusing people of being hypocritical perverts who denounce Aella in public whilst having wet dreams about her private. I have many hypocrisies but that is not one of them, and I am telling you plainly that I think your model is wrong.
‘Fun is bad and you’ll pay,’ ignores the very real dissatisfactions and disillusionments that have spread through society in the wake of Free Love. Some people have turned to reactionary and/or Christian sexual ethics in response, others who already held those ethics are pointing out that they said sex was not purely harmless fun and behold, it turns out not to be purely harmless fun.
The rat and reactionary twitter have a lot of overlap. The people here don't live in silicon valley, neither are they normal christians.
I think my criticism is about as deep as the usual take about people being "clearly dissatisfied" with the sexual revolution, modernity, neoliberalism, house prices, health care, etc.
I feel the hostility for aella and polygamy is higher than is warranted. Despising people does not require so much communication. Too much protesting versus “I don’t think about you at all".
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