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Culture War Roundup for the week of February 20, 2023

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What about The Last Psychiatrist take?

"If you are seeing it, it's for you". In other words the war machine knows its potential supporters are harry potter loving mentally stunted noodle armed horse-faced lesbians, and as such it crafts its messaging accordingly. That does not mean it's executed well every time as seen here. Executed well it will use "Kyiv" instead of "Kiev" and avoid "the Ukraine" at all costs, the audience is the same!

But I think the notion of messaging being a better reflection of not the messengers but YOU the audience should be the prior, it explains the stupidity far better than "{billion dollar enterprise} is retarded and run by diversity hire nepo babies".

it explains the stupidity far better than "{billion dollar enterprise} is retarded and run by diversity hire nepo babies".

I'm leaning more and more on the side of "diversity for diversity's sake has started rotting THE MACHINE from the inside too much to hide it". My favorite recent examples are Sam Brinton and Kamala Harris(Absolutely politically inept but checks all the boxes and slept her way to her position)

From that TLP article from 2013:

Who is the ad trying to attract?

"Is it paraplegics?" That's a weird guess. "Is it basketball players?" I'm going to assume that's code, no.

Man, it took me 10 years to be immersed enough in American internet bullshit to get that reference (it's black Americans) and I thought this style of irreverent Noticing was relatively new and slowly evolved in reaction to 2008-2014 nascent wokeness.

I'm having this really weird moment where now a lot of my normie peers are coming up to me and want to discuss this worrying new trend of wokeness, and do I maybe think things might start to go too far? And I exasperatedly tell them that I have been telling them for over 10 years, welcome to this Brave New World, grab a soy milk shake. But then I see things like this, or even from the late 90s and notive that I, too, am at least 10 years behind the curve.

Fascinating, very much not my analysis of what TLP was attempting to convey. When I read his piece originally and read it now, my takeaway is that if a given piece of propaganda found its way into your hands, it's not by accident. If your reaction to it is (an execrable) Wholesome 💯, consider that was the intended response. If it results in frothing rage, consider that to be the intended response.

We live in an era of superstimuli: I'm willing to bet that companies (or a Company) with small-nation-GDPs for market caps and a specialization in marketing have heard of shibboleths before, and maybe they're releasing scissory material on purpose.

I personally assume that anything which tries to hijack my emotional train of "thought" is a weapon of some sort; maybe deployed by my tribe, maybe deployed by another, doesn't matter, the point is the reaction. Who cares if they're cringe or factually incorrect, even if it is, dare I say, based? You saw it and you felt a certain way. Mission accomplished.

But what this is supposed to mean? Is Hoffmeister a "diversity hire nepo baby"? I don't think there's really much overlap between him(?) and the people he complains about other than being aesthetes.

I meant that the wording and references in the tweet betray who NATO thinks their audience is, albeit executed poorly.

Saying its about You was just me immitating TLPs writing style.

Saying its about You was just me immitating TLPs writing style.

Please don't.

I am TLP.

I thought so. Unsubtle advertising on obscure message boards was his modus operandi.

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