theblackadonis.bsky.social
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justice is always impractical for the people in charge who benefit from injustice, and the middle-manager class who aspire to their ranks.
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Crucially, all this has to be done as aggressively and destructively as possible. Incrementalism doesn't work when your opponents are maximalists.
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Its not confusing at all, its just racism.
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It lets the party disguise its complicity and political malpractice as combination 4d chess and moral high ground.
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Liberals have a pathological need to cast themselves as morally and intellectually superior, and they won't give that up even if that means losing.
For all their performative objections to fascism, they're loving this shit because they get to say "Ha! We told you so!"
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When you're right you're right.
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I get it. If you are on the editorial board at the New York Times the world order that put you in this position makes great sense. You are smart and worthy and you have wound up in a place that acknowledges your worth. This is how it should work. Anything that threatens this is something to resist.
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To the left, they can hold trans people hostage without committing to anything because Republicans really are that much worse.
To the center, they "hold the line" for people who are transphobic but in a respectable, concerned way, you know the type.
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What *do* the democrats stand for though? Genuinely, theyre so mealy mouthed and non committal that I couldn't actually tell you what their long term policy goals are other than competent management of the status quo.
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The idea that conservatives are just people and not illiterate slur shouting cartoons is deeply offensive to liberals.
We can abhor their politics and voting choices without treating them as some ontologically evil and stupid other.
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Democrats ran on the most aggressively centrist platform possible and they lost. Like Im not sure how you go from that to "no, its the Left who has to learn".
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People want politicians that will go to the mat for *something*, or who can actually give voice and action to the anger and fear that many people (quite justifiably) feel. They want a politics with a sense of urgency that meets the moment.
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People disdain politics bereft of conviction.
The problem with centrists is that they don't believe in anything. Everything is negotiable, and a lot of that "language of practical rationality" boils down to "here's why you're stupid for expecting anything other than managerialism"
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many fascists experienced world-historic hardship and trauma; neofascists are the softest, most cosseted, privilege-saturated children of first world comfort zones
fascists went through the crucible of the trenches; neofascists went through the crucible of gamergate
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Nobody immolated Biden but Biden. Such a strange hill to die on.
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Wait, did Netanyahu play Biden? I had assumed that Biden 100% supported Netanyahu and all the "calling for a ceasefire" was just window dressing for the slightly more compassionate liberals.
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That's a pretty niche case, I was speaking more generally.
Also consider that, outside if Academia or some STEM fields you just don't run into a lot of PhDs even as someone with a Bachelors. So whatever disdain PhDs may have for Magisters and Bachelors just isnt very culturally impactful.
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To circle back, PhDs generally don't talk down to or about Bachelors holder, but both very often talk down and to non grads.
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But if you are a non college grad it often feels like (and to be fair, is sometimes explicitly stated in progressive spaces) that your privileged 'betters' are talking down to you without bothering to listen or considering your humanity.
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For careers and pay that come with an education, and you end up with, for the most part, materially very different worlds, which breeds a mutual sort of hostility and incomprehension.
Now if you're a college grad, you just chalk it up to your superior intelligence and keep it pushing
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Uni doesn't just educate,it inculcates a sociolect that is broadly shared by PhD and Bachelors holders, a sociolect defined at least in part by its self-conscious superiority to the 'uneducated' masses.
Throw in class considerations w.r.t both who gets to go to college and the prospects
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Theres not so stark a difference between the horizons of someone with a bachelor's degree and someone with a PhD as compared to the difference between an HS diploma and a PhD.
Theres a huge social divide.
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The one (1) thing I'll give redpill types is that for all the rampant misogyny, by at least acknowledging that women actually have sexuality and agency and that their desire isnt some reward for your decency as a person, they're being more humanizing than most "just be a good guy" takes.
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divisive issues that don't threaten the immediate interests of capital are more precious than gold, they'll never give one up for free by winning the argument too hard. two identical capital parties that only differ on which bathrooms trans people use would be a dream come true
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With divergent interests, with predictable results.
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All things that benefit the kinds of moneyed interests that write the big checks.
Democrats meanwhile are still beholden to those moneyed interests, but has a base that supports more tax, regulation, etc, etc., and (to put it charitably) are stuck trying to please two masters
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Conservative values naturally align with the interests of the donor class. After decades of effective and basically un-countered propagandizing, your average rank and file republican wants low tax, low regulation, little or no social safety net (for Those People, at least), is anti union.
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this is, i suppose a scoldy piece by nature...but that's not really my point. i'm interested in how the online dynamic leads people to accept circumstances they'd never, ever tolerate in the physical world
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"Don't give them an excuse," I whisper under my breath as I line up at the edge of the mass grave we just dug. I hear rifles position and I look at the shaking man next to me. I grab his hand, "When they go low, we go high."
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Im not one of your prospective constituents, but
you are setting the bar for what I expect of candidates going forward. If they were all like you we'd fix this mess soon enough.
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Its emblematic of a "we're entitled to your vote simply by virtue of not being republican" mindset that has taken hold of both the DNC and a huge chunk of the rank and file.
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culture war brain has convinced people they're owning the chuds/libs whenever they support something the other side generally dislikes. disliking the Fortnitification of popular media is not an inherently regressive belief
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What are the tells?
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A series on the 1st crusade feat. Pete Hegseth.
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If you consider "stop arming a genocide" to be an impossible purity test, you're beyond saving.