what really grates is how many people claim not to participate but clearly let it shape their own behavior, by strategically avoiding any opinion that provokes the mob while staying on essentially friendly terms with the worst offenders. this is how the right slowly went insane too - ThreadSky

whstancil.bsky.social • 19 days ago

what really grates is how many people claim not to participate but clearly let it shape their own behavior, by strategically avoiding any opinion that provokes the mob while staying on essentially friendly terms with the worst offenders. this is how the right slowly went insane too

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brentwokmaster.bsky.social•19 days ago

The problem with the pro- communism crowd is that they have seen capitalism shit all over the world multiple times in less than 20 years.

Yet none of these dinwits have lived under a communist regime, lol.

They're not serious people, but they are nasty, unhinged, and ignorant people.

reallukem.bsky.social•19 days ago

Look you can just accept there are A)online communists with extremely limited experience of China, B) China’s regime is unpleasant, and C) America’s regime (and american capitalism) is also unpleasant. Do that and stop replying and i promise you it will work.

firmth.bsky.social•19 days ago

That's equating China's regime to ours, which not doing is his whole point. You've just suggested he concede the point to get them off his back, and you worded it in a way that implies you don't realize you suggested that

isauragard.bsky.social•19 days ago

Right, there's no equating America's mass incarceration, slavery, and active participation in genocide, past and present to anything China is doing.

reallukem.bsky.social•19 days ago

Clearly China is worse, but these people only have experience of one. He need not concede anything, he can just stop quote replying to every 19 year old Maoist safe in his convictions

jajajaboo.bsky.social•19 days ago

The left on here is so virulent especially towards center/lib. It has a lot of corollaries to maga and when you call them blue maga they really don’t like it. All grievance and anger/bullying, especially against supposed allies if they cared about real progress. Toxic and counterproductive

jarekfa.bsky.social•19 days ago

Here's just one of the accounts I blocked that was liking the Will pile-on. Opposing liberals right next to MAGA covers a lot of it.

rlgottwald.bsky.social•19 days ago

All the more reason to call them Blue MAGA

jajajaboo.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yep. Fundamentalism of any kind is dangerous. They’re more accelerationists than collectivists in any real sense it seems

rlgottwald.bsky.social•19 days ago

Well the extremes are extremely collectivist. They may nit aleays have the same collectives in mind, but fundamentally, yet again...

optimisticdoomer.bsky.social•19 days ago

Fundamentally they are different than "Blue MAGA" because they say they entirely reject Blue. So they are actually the Greens who are entirely irrelevant except for every 4 years when they get their check from whatever foreign nation wants to split their vote off from Democrats.

patriciashannon.bsky.social•19 days ago

And they put anybody who doesn't agree 100% with them on blocklists with misleading names.

jajajaboo.bsky.social•19 days ago

And god forbid you call out that purity test and bullying *as it’s happening*

jeanlucbacardi.bsky.social•19 days ago

Because Blue MAGA doesn't make sense applied to the left. It's used to described Dem loyalists lol the left isn't blue. And yeah I wonder why we're mad at people whose ideology helped usher in fascism, it's a mystery

moreacomment.bsky.social•19 days ago

(That’s why I followed Singal, incidentally).

wizardoperator.bsky.social•19 days ago

Keep cooking Will, you are right more often than not and I am glad you are here posting full throated defenses of liberalism day in and day out even if I sometimes disagree with your takes I respect the hustle

austinwiltshire.bsky.social•19 days ago

Well I'll try and match the energy but in the opposite direction.

HEY MOTHER FUCKER GO GET YOURSELF SOME ICE CREAM AND A DOUBLE SCOTCH, YOU DESERVE IT!

jsmith33.bsky.social•19 days ago

Get off “X” delete it, Facebook and Insta

johnson.wtf•19 days ago

Terminally online tankies are some of the worst 😒

gleich.bsky.social•19 days ago

it's a fraction of what you deserve

misanthropologie.bsky.social•19 days ago

Or you could just ignore them? Unlike the right, tankies aren't well funded, numerous, or influential in any way.

faoat.bsky.social•19 days ago

They do have a significant presence in lefty spaces I might otherwise enjoy. I've watched friends fall so deeply into this, they were no longer reachable, too hostile, suspicious, resentful for good faith conversations. I don't think it's safe to ignore this, especially since it's not fully organic.

oldbaby.bsky.social•18 days ago

that's a lot of four dollar words but nome of them are "genocide"

generalgoodsman.bsky.social•18 days ago

paranoid, conspiracy theorist thinking. thought you were into research and not antecdotes?

dickiddaveson.bsky.social•19 days ago

Sometimes I force myself to enjoy provoking the mob. I just block the replies.

Guarantee, there are still anonymous chuds with AI avatars still (mutedly) raging in reply to something heretical I said about Israel two months ago, or somethin. Screaming into the online void.

firmth.bsky.social•19 days ago

It's lolcow treatment. You're chrischan to them

jeanlucbacardi.bsky.social•19 days ago

Have you considered not being a giant fucking baby

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