@jeffcliff@CrustyBurgerhead@Xenophon@truthbait Is this a clone of Jeff Cliff? I don't remember him writing in all lower case like a 14 year old girl before. Did the COVID vaccine make him actually retarded?
@John-Pleroma I actually disagree, kind of. It's because I see the powers that be transitioning from soft power into hard power. It's no longer "we are legitimate because our institutions are valid and correct" and "we are legitimate because we control the institutions that decide your fate." I'm loathe to use the word "legitimacy," because it implies there's more backing behind it than raw force, but they've managed to mix moral confidence with naked appeals to force. It's kind of bizarre. It actually reminds me to quasi-fictional portrayals of autocrats in antiquity: "I am the God-Emperor," etc. People perceive naked force with some very crude aesthetic panache as "legitimate" when they've been dumbed down enough.
@John-Pleroma Sorry for coming off as dismissive at first; I'm used to rightoid fedi being full of people who insist that I take the jew pill and listen to their podcast where they just say "nigger" 1488 times in an hour, and that anything short of this is secretly kiked.
Unironically based take that everything in the last like 100 years has been outdated. I've had very similar ones, actually, that the movement we need today is much more specific to the needs of the present. I also added in that I think most of the ideological analysis of it will amount to post hoc rationalization: what will the history books, assuming they're written honestly, say the Pepe-Wojak populist, terminally online rightoid movement was really about? In the meantime, we should just do what works for us on an ad hoc basis and make no apology for that.
@ChristiJunior Basically this. The Constitution is just whatever leftists want. The Constitution forbids gun grabbing but doesn't mention abortion, yet to them gun grabbing is perfectly Constitutional and banning abortion isn't.
They argue like women (in spite of so many of them being "men"); they learn the polarity of words and then apply them accordingly depending on if you do what they want. If you do what they want it's good words (constitutional) and if you do anything else it's bad words (unconstitutional).
This has led to tons of memes to the effect of: "Fascism is when you don't have gay buttsex." (Because to them, that is what it amounts to, really)
@crunklord420 TikTok isn't really supposed to be used that way. You're supposed to just let it show you shit and you say yes or no to it and it sort of figures out what you enjoy. That, supplemented by manually entering in TikTokkers who you enjoy watching by recommendation from other people.
Pic related.
(I'm not a fan of this structure, but I did get it to work)
@pdp@ChristiJunior@LostShakerOfSalt Not sure I'd call Jeffrey Epstein a winner since he got suicided in a dingy NYC jail cell. That sounds like a pretty massive L to me.
@sun Right, and what's so frustrating about it is raises the question of if the American people deserve this oppression because, bluntly, they tolerate it. And as you point out, they demand it. They show active resistance to actually getting off their corporate reservations; they'll gladly get on another corporate reservation. But where they go, must be a corporate reservation. Have you noticed that these people have an almost magical ability to suss out if something is an evil corporation or not, and will ONLY work with them if they are?
@sun Yeah, I sympathize with that completely. It's just, I feel disillusioned with fedi, and I don't think the issue is the software itself. I think normies are actually nigger cattle, they're hylics, NPCs, whatever term you want to use.
I went to BasedCon and was on a panel about digital vs print books, and as you might know, I have a light printing press in my garage. They let me on the panel for that reason, expecting me to be an anti-digital ideologue, but the truth is, I'm more like an anti-censorship and pro-creativity ideologue.
One thing I noticed about everybody on that panel, and everybody attending it, is that they were basically institutionalized. The argument for ebooks revolved around Kindle. It was Kindle this, Kindle that, and how Amazon can take away your books by revoking access to them. When I brought up publishing DRM-free books, they looked at me like I had three heads.
Conversely, the print media side of it was all the same stuff: what if you can't find an outfit to print your books, what if you get charged too much, and so on. When I raised: "Why not acquire the equipment to make our own books from scratch and build a parallel economy." They also looked at me like I had three heads.
Now consider, the people at BasedCon are all rightoids, conservatives, mostly religious people. They're off the reservation politically. Quite frankly, these people are oppressed; they aren't free to express themselves and tons of effort by the state and the private sector are levied to try to preclude them from doing so. Yet they still insisted, for some reason, on using these institutions, institutions that openly hated them.
And to loop back to this, so too is the case with social media. Functionally, fedi is a federated Twitter clone. People can argue that it's something else, but really, that's how people view it, and that's how people use it. But the thing is, people don't actually want to get off Twitter, or Facebook, or whatever. They want those "platforms" to reform and cater to them. Unrealistic as that might be, this is the hill people are dying on. It's decided already. They won't get off the reservation and start from scratch. Instead, they will turn the reservation into some kind of attrition war until they find themselves ina literal gulag.