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> I wonder if this is an affect is siloed conversations and censorship at large?

Well, if I'm being perfectly honest, at the individual level, it's that Coca-Cola doesn't spend advertising dollars trying to dislodge coffee, it spends the money on trying to get rid of Pepsi. Heretics and apostates are the target of more ire than infidels. There's also a tendency of partisans to dig trenches and demand that you get in the trench and grab a rifle and fall in line: "Pick a side!" Same rhetoric as the lefties, even: "$outgroup is literally trying to genocide $ingroup and if you don't buy our worldview *now* then you are basically as bad as $outgroup! You're probably a secret member of $outgroup!"

And the people doing this, they have this GLR-style worldview. (They also get angry if you point out that they're doing GLR, not Hitler.) And they think they're going to get converts from the Republicans or Libertarians. GLR didn't ever get any traction, so they shouldn't be trying to ape his recruiting strategies; it's a recipe for only getting dipshits to join up and in the off-chance that they even get enough dipshits to be noticed, the psychopaths will show up to fleece them.

So, I think they're doomed and they've picked a stupid hill to die on, and that's the one thing they *really* can't tolerate: not being taken seriously.

> it's a pretty obvious D&C op to split progressives from economic populists and caused the cultural division that kept people away from targeting banks and finance for a while.

That's my reasoning, yeah. I think the only real axis on the "political compass" is the y-axis and that the people all the way at the top of the y-axis are in charge and hosing everyone south of them.