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That is a twofold threat to a certain kind of toxic leftist community:
1. If in that subculture high status comes from disadvantage and low status comes from privilege, eliminating disadvantages and acquiring privilege isn't a win, it's a catastrophe for your social standing to be avoided/denied.
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This is not, for the record, just a leftist phenomenon. This also occurs in incel communities, where obtaining a girlfriend is (ironically, considering they're supposed to be INcels) viewed as a rank betrayal.
Basically, it's a dynamic in any community that defines itself via victimhood/disability.
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The Fortress of Misery is strengthened by others who can't get it together - the more similar to the depressed person, the better.
But then if any of those people actually start improving their life, it's high treason, a true crisis, and the crab must be dragged back into the bucket.
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"I can't make things better" is critical to depressive thought processes, and even the most low-energy depressed person will ironically react with ferocity to the intrusion of a hypothesis into their Fortress of Misery that actually they might have the power to improve their own life somewhat.
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2. It cannot be sufficiently emphasized how filled many online leftist subcultures are with depressed people and depressive patterns of thinking, and I say this as somebody once involuntarily hospitalized for severe depression.
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That is a twofold threat to a certain kind of toxic leftist community:
1. If in that subculture high status comes from disadvantage and low status comes from privilege, eliminating disadvantages and acquiring privilege isn't a win, it's a catastrophe for your social standing to be avoided/denied.
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Perhaps another way to put this is that the purpose of winning civil rights gains is to acquire privilege.
E.g. Andrew Sullivan felt resentment at younger gays taking for granted the struggles of his generation, before realizing that he'd fought to give them the privilege of taking it for granted.
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I made this exact point about a week ago: the median modern leftist would 100% have been backing Malcolm X if they'd been around back then. They would have had nothing but contempt for MLK and his non-violent, moderate, assimilationist "bullshit".
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Violence is a liberal win when it's started by Trump and inflicted on protesters who don't fight back. That's how you deeply enrage middle America.
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I saw this post on Twitter last night and I don't know if I've ever seen the fork in the road in tactics and attitudes toward protest expressed so cleanly.
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I remember getting dogpiled awhile back by trans social media accounts over some inane thing, and simultaneously receiving by DM a really thoughtful message from a trans person to the effect of, "listen, these people are young/radical/in a phase, most of us just want to coexist under the radar".
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They might go home that night and get into politics over the dinner table or in front of the TV, of any conceivable variety, but the next morning at 7:30 am it's going to be "The Martian's awesome, I think she can handle that kitchen on her own. We should be ahead of schedule by Thursday."
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My IRL experience has been that most people go through their day just operating on the principle of "if it isn't getting in my way, I'm not bothered".
Join a tilesetting crew and lay fast, even tile for a day and by Day 2, nobody will care if you're a woman, black, trans, or a Martian.
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So either they're complete incompetents who can't figure out that they should boost a story their readers are sharing like crazy, or NYT ownership is Trump-friendly and *because there was no leftist violence*, know the protests are a liberal win that they need to try to cover up.
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It depends on why you think the NYT chose to vanish the story from their entire website front page: because they didn't think readers cared or because they don't want to give Dems the win.
Well, they know readers care, because the story is top 5 as rated by readers sharing it.
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The increasingly obvious thumb on the scale is why I can never bring myself to subscribe - same with WaPo.
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Yes, but they really need a new acronym.
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Yeah, it's a combination of "other people have interior emotional lives" and "actually it turns out that the government does a bunch of difficult, useful things that the private sector can't or won't do on their own".
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Tremendous movie. The curly-haired roughneck with the sense of humor stole every scene.
I still remember the scene where some terrifying underwater construction work becomes necessary to save everyone, and he goes, "Well, Carol," to a rookie scientist with no dive suit xp, "It's your big moment."
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I think there's also a Multiplicity thing that goes on with genre-defining megahits like Dark Souls, where progressively less-competent imitators ape the original without really understanding the fine tolerances and design subtleties that kept the original just this side of madness-inducing.
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P.P.S. And I think the reward for doing everything right yesterday - good principles, good organization, good discipline - is that the images dominating the discussion today are of moments like this, not of civilian property on fire.
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P.S. It appears yesterday's villainy actually emanated from the LA Sheriff's Department, which very much tracks with where the dirtbag law-enforcement officers have apparently begun to collect en masse after years of corruption crackdowns inside the LAPD.
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Israeli co-worker would always slap his forehead at American takes and very slowly say "Mizrahi don't give a FUCK about the Holocaust. History starts in '49 for them and the Arabs are are responsible for everything bad that has ever happened."
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I have not, but you just convinced me to.
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Can you elaborate on what you mean by "battle computation"?
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(For what it's worth, I am fine with this. The US Army has proved on plenty of occasions that there is zero correlation between knowing how to goose step and knowing how to win actual wars).
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I have seen municipal police marching bands with more pizzazz.
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my soul left my body watching the fox news feed glitching out as the tanks roll past the president’s observation stand and the announcer’s voice echoes across the mostly empty streets, “special thanks to our sponsor, palantir”