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I think “intersectional national socialism” could well be the defining ideological “mood” of the moment, that’s what resonates with the average person under 25 practically worldwide at this point.

@loveofdoing @SydSteyerhart DMCA violation?

@_tedks @SydSteyerhart Nah, it's another reframing.

Using the prophetic perfect tense when talking to yourself is the key to successful autosuggestion. This is a concise summation of everything written by Neville Goddard (and he was right). It's the Landian hyperstition tense.

@heyellieday There was, it was a nazi site

why is there not MoreRight

This is why @BigMeanInternet's Activist Bop-It last chapter of Kids These Days goes so hard.

@hecubian_devil You can't be an "ally" to an abstract group. You can be an ally to specific people who share your goals. Abstract groups don't have specific goals.

She’s halfway right, tbh. She’s wrong that “only” trans women are “above critique”—trans women are neither above critique *in general society*, nor are we the only minority that leftish people walk on eggshells around for fear of social pressure. Because she’s a Black woman, she’s unlikely to have been on the wrong side of a wokeness equation before, so it may feel like trans women are the “only” group for whom some people censor themselves out of fear of cancellation, but everything she describes in the video is applicable across other identities. Even her discomfort with trans women’s slang as misogynistic perfectly mirrors white cís women upset at Black cís women because some Black women say “bitch” in a way that makes some white women uncomfortable. She can’t see it, but the dynamic she’s experiencing is actually totally familiar across basically every boundary of identity in left-of-center social circles. But she is correct that the allyship premise is fundamentally poisoned from the start if disagreement, criticism, or even ignorance are habitually met with “cancellation”—an ambiguous and overused term often out of step with its real consequences, best replaced with a more realistic phrase like “social pressure.” We have this fantasy—every minority group, from what I can tell—of our allies perfecting themselves *in advance* of doing any work, in advance of being in any social relation to our group. That they will have spent years in some distant mountain monastery, so to speak, only to emerge when fully enlightened and capable. Anything less than perfection will therefore be disciplined by social pressure. Insult, reputational harm, exclusion, shaming, etc. Are these tools really so totalitarian or powerful? No, they’re not. They’re pretty weak, really. But that’s actually an argument *against* relying on them so heavily. They simply don’t work. Look at this woman as an example. Did she become *less* transphobic after her milquetoast and common aversion to the slang term “fish” resulted in her being insulted and shamed? No, it made her feel under attack, feel resentful, and has apparently put her down the early stages of the transphobia pipeline, from what her current rhetoric suggests. But she seems uncomfortable with this; this appears to be a woman who sees herself as progressive, inclusive, non-bigoted, so she’s experiencing cognitive dissonance between her broad values of inclusion and tolerance with her specific resentment and discomfort with trans women. This is a very old and common story, and it belongs not only to trans women, but to any minority group. So the shaming didn’t fix her, and it may have in fact made her worse. Is she transmisogynist? Yeah, kind of. You can tell she is. AND YET! You can tell she doesn’t *want* to be, because this conflicts with her self-conception as a tolerant and progressive person. This is not someone we should shame or reject. This is, in fact, the raw material of most allies—not only for trans people. This reality applies to *any* cultural minority. If she had known a trans person who could’ve heard her discomfort with the term “fish” and talked it through with her, judgement-free, perhaps drawing analogies to other minority groups—including Black cís women—whose language is policed in similar ways, maybe she would’ve resolved that discomfort. At minimum, she would know she doesn’t have to perfectly toe an unforgiving party line in order to be in relation to or allyship with trans women, and she would not have subsequently stewed in resentment over her “cancellation.” I think women like this represent profound missed opportunities for trans women. And her story more generally represents the demise of Woke 1 and the missed opportunities with millions of people across every identity imaginable, who have moved from a progressive and inclusive self-concept to one of resentful individualism. When “the community” becomes a knot of worry, a dangerous-feeling place whose ostracism and shaming you fear, can we really be shocked if you walk away from it? If you walk away from “community” altogether? On the Left, we love “the community”. As a nebulous archetype, it’s where we locate legitimate authority. Not in an empowered patriarch—“the father”, as the Right does. Not in rules or institutions—“the rules”, as the Center does. No, our wellspring of justice is “the community.” The vaguely egalitarian, vaguely defined, vaguely articulated mass from which truth is passed down as received wisdom from elders to initiates, and in which all are empowered to enforce the will of the community. It has upsides and downsides, relative to the other models. The each have their weaknesses—frankly, I don’t like any of them—but my point is we can’t be surprised if people walk away from “community” after we have made the *experience* of community one of self-censorship, fear, and resentment. In that sense, this woman is perfectly correct.

@harrowthefirst1 Live players

@_tedks I hate how much of modern internet culture is just downstream of 4chan man. How did this happen

I think one of the great ironies of our time is that this possibly only happened because Stormfront decided to try sliding /b/ around 2010 by spamming bbc porn and blaming it on the Israelis. Unironically that gave many young men certain fetishes that they are still processing.

@grep_cat_ I requested a Linux laptop

When I started my career we each were issued a Linux desktop which we used for all our work. The MacBooks were just for meetings How times change

@usr_bin_roygbiv Most vegans are not cat people because cats are tailor-made ecosystem destroyers and murderers, and until recently it was not even possible to feed cats vegan diets without killing them. Since east coasters are more principled, this genus just has had less time to propagate there

I was talking to a couple jewish friends from new york a couple months ago and they were really surprised when I told them my sister and her husband were hardcore atheist vegan cat people. Is that just not a thing on the east coast or do I come off the opposite?

@Pontifex cant beleive we got pope ai psychosis before gta6

Good morning to all my West African followers and friends in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, and most importantly, SIERRA LEONE (and only these followers). How're you all doing today?

It ALWAYS happens sooner than you think!

This was absolutely a thing at my college (though people usually used the takeaway containers) and the university probably didn't care because it was all bought from the state prisons for nothing.

@heyellieday @SYNESTHEIZURE Chesapeake

@SYNESTHEIZURE @_tedks any you would add

List of separatist ethnic movements I uncritically support (non exhaustive) • Basque County • Qullasuyu • Biafra • Quebec • the Deaf • Yunnan • Kurdistan (IRAQ ONLY) • Cameroon Anglophones • Southern Illinois • Kashmir (not saying from who) • Wales

GPT 5.5 Pro Extended, the smartest AI in the world, gives a fermi estimate of 4-11% and 12-30% respectively. AI can give very good estimates for this if you allow it to ground in reasonable statistics and elaborate reasonably.

At the function spreading the word about the Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything

what if we kissed where our UUIDs collided