So I may not be as online as others, but is there any right-wing cinematic universe significance to the "FFT"? Because I see that name and think, no, the fast Fourier transform was invented much later than 1776
It is a tactic that works though. This kind of manufacturing alternate reality by repetition is quite common in other similar regimes too, because followers here are not following out of logical expectations/trade-offs but emotional attachment & identification, they are essentially believers.
I keep saying it but everyone hates to hear it, this all happened when we stopped calling people like this "retarded" and didn't find a replacement term that struck an equal degree of shame into their hearts.
This is exactly what I am talking about, liberals exclusively responding to things they dislike with snark and sarcasm, which is communication that only has efficacy within their in-group and depends upon unspoken but assumed agreements. It's all insults that don't work in a vacuum.
I know you figure this is important political work but consider people are just making fun of a dumb reply.
Yours was uniquely dumb to be frank.
I do wonder how this efficient unsarky communication fits in with your "call people retards" political theory. On second thought, keep it to yourself.
In about 3 months you will see the phenomenon of leftists and just apolitical people everywhere calling conservatives "retarded" like they already do on Twitter.
You are going to see people like yourself all pearl clutching about why this is happening, and the answer will be "because it works."
The emboldening and institutional legitimizing of endlessly baseless and conspiratorial pontification due to an absence of forceful direct challenge--which was replaced by more clearheaded people all siloing themselves and only mocking the idiocy wryly together from afar, as it ascended in influence
Except the people it hurts also include the marginalized, which supposedly the left cares about until they need to weaponize disabled people to hurt the feelings of their enemies. Big allies those leftist.
It isn't leftists saying it, it arises organically out of anger from people who don't call themselves anything (especially not allies) and it carries both social and syllabic weight.
You aren't going to scold people out of stopping its usage until its efficacy wears out.
"You aren't going to scold people out of stopping" from someone literally advocating for scolding and shaming people out of something is peak hypocritical bigot. 😂 Just admit you hate disabled people and get off on being a bully.
Not to mention, not everyone who's neurodiverse prefers the absence of slurs to the absence of rights, and many will align with whatever cultural current empowers a movement that guarantees their livelihoods and dignity under the law over one where people are polite to them in liberal spaces.
An article of faith among conservatives is Biden needlessly killed the chickens and that spiked egg prices. They are like doomsday cultists saying, "eggs prices will be fine in 6 months, once new chickens grow. You'll see!"
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Yours was uniquely dumb to be frank.
I do wonder how this efficient unsarky communication fits in with your "call people retards" political theory. On second thought, keep it to yourself.
You are going to see people like yourself all pearl clutching about why this is happening, and the answer will be "because it works."
When you say “this all happened when…” what exactly are you referring to?
You aren't going to scold people out of stopping its usage until its efficacy wears out.
Podcasters & journalists, get ready.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails