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> making 3 year olds trans and giving them genital surgery This of course does not happen, which is what makes it such a perfect bogeyman.
Exactly. In Umberto Eco's "A Practical List for Identifying Fascists", the one that is be being displayed here is this: The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” https://www.faena.com/aleph/umberto-eco-a-practical-list-for... "Libs" (or whate…
Heuristics like this seem pretty useless. It's true for basically all political rhetoric. The right is made up of dumb, weak incels living in their parents basement but also are going to usher in an era of totalitarian control and fascism.
It seems pretty natural to denigrate your enemies as well as play up the fear depending on your goals at that particular moment.
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#113Former EVE player, and member of SA. Mittens is a complete narcissist and all around horrible human being.
I've been out of the loop for a long time now, but even from the title of the post I instantly thought "I guess something finally caught up to mittens."
I very much doubt he leaves the game/metagame in any meaningful way as even way back when I played it was speculated that a non insignificant amount of his lively hood was derived from his activities around the game/metagame.
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Exactly. In Umberto Eco's "A Practical List for Identifying Fascists", the one that is be being displayed here is this: The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” https://www.faena.com/aleph/umberto-eco-a-practical-list-for... "Libs" (or whate…
Heuristics like this seem pretty useless. It's true for basically all political rhetoric. The right is made up of dumb, weak incels living in their parents basement but also are going to usher in an era of totalitarian control and fascism. It seems pretty natural to denigrate your enemies as well as play up the fear depending on your goals at that particular moment.
I emphatically disagree with you. All arguments are not equal.
If I had to boil it down to a single line the issue with "the right" from "the left"'s side, it would be that the right is "intentionally heartless".
Not stupid or intentionally fascist, just, intentionally heartless. That's a far cry from the Right's rhetoric of "Commie loving tree hugging libs" and that "We should kill them all and let God sort them out", etc. I'm sure the reality is far more distressing than my imitation thereof.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/11/hatred-li...
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I have a question. Is "woke" actually synonymous with cancel culture or "extremism"? because when I became aware of the term it just meant more or less socially aware, particularly to the struggles of minorities. Then I tuned out for awhile and when I noticed it again it seemed to be a pejorative people like Tucker Carlson use to drum up fear that anyone who said their friend was gay in the 90s is going to prison. Fo…
"woke", at its base, just means recognition of the struggles of minorities, both racial minorities and gender/sexual minorities (LGBT+).
However, there's a VERY LOUD yet VERY SMALL minority of people that try to "out-woke" everyone else. On reddit, I recently had someone tell me not to use the acronym "POC" and to spell out "People of Color" because POC can also mean Piece of Crap. I whole-heartedly rejected their comment and told them it was a deliberate bad faith interpretation in an attempt to "out-woke" me and it just made them insufferable. I asked if they scolded electronics engineers for referring to a "surface-mount device" as an "SMD" because "SMD" can also mean "suck my dick", or if they even go a step further and say they shouldn't use the word "mount" because that can be a sexual term which might offend sexual assault victims.
They deleted their comment.
Back on topic, "woke" has also been hijacked by right-wing media to also refer to "Cancel Culture". CC is also another problematic term, because to some, CC just means "responsibility for your shitty opinions", while to others, it means "simple disagreement". The problem of course is what makes an opinion "shitty" is incredibly subjective. Certainly, someone who is very vocal about how they consider any non-white race to be inferior is shitty, and I think deserves to get "cancelled". But some people have genuinely learned and improved themselves, and yet people still try to cancel them.
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#117It’s funny that he’s complaining about his smears against personal life when in one of GoonSwarms conflicts with Band of Brothers they pioneered mocking the BoB leader for being a repairman irl
According to urban legend, BoB once found the physical location of an enemy fleet commander and cut their power. Only a few years back, a director of CO2 got banned for threatening to cut off a hand of a diplomat that had taken most of their wallet. The Mittani himself, mentioned here, also almost got permanently banned for a encouraging the audience to tell a Goon victim to kill himself on the Alliance Panel at Fanf…
I mean the subreddit has for years been taken over by neo conservatives that basically use it as a means for testing how propaganda works.
https://mobile.twitter.com/nazimadakli/status/14190434038919...
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#118Former EVE player, and member of SA. Mittens is a complete narcissist and all around horrible human being. I've been out of the loop for a long time now, but even from the title of the post I instantly thought "I guess something finally caught up to mittens." I very much doubt he leaves the game/metagame in any meaningful way as even way back when I played it was speculated that a non insignificant amount of his live…
Goonfleet has always loved their charismatic fascist leaders though. A whole lot of the early GF propaganda was veiled Triumph of the Will.
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Amazing that they're downvoting you to oblivion. The same people who caused this man to leave the game have been harassing someone IRL over their personal politics and sending letters to their employer. https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/vzv75n/you_guys_really...
Mittani started all that bullshit. He rose to power by harassing his perceived in-game enemies in real life.
It's hypocritical, and actually quite disgusting, to call him a victim considering how many people's lives he tried to destroy over a video game.