One aspect that doesn’t get discussed enough is how effective their grassroots in predominantly young, male hobby spaces has become.
20 years ago, if you weren’t that interested in politics, you wouldn’t get much of it. Currently though, it has thoroughly infiltrated spaces like athletics and gaming. This was not an accident. They have a strong ground game, it just operates in spaces we’re unaccustomed to thinking about in reference to politics.
and it’s global, and it’s concerted, and Murdoch’s remapping of Leninism from left to right, from “proletariat dictatorship” to “populist dictatorship”, has been one of the elegantest misuses of effective-world-power in the last century.
Why bother being surprised?
The left won’t compete against the prejudice being pushed in the “manosphere”, so … Natural Selection’s going to be pruning lives based on the intentionally-established prejudice … same as always.
White “taliban”, is all that’s winning, here as Down Under.
There was some article in the FT, iirc, identifying that under-40-males were swinging HARD right, & this is exactly what the ideology-pushers want: to “return” to the male-supremacy of “biblical” life, or of the caliphate, or of any of the major empires of the last 2-ish millenia: narcissism’s “glory” is all it is.
REAL honesty’s hard, REAL growing-up’s hard, REAL earning-human-meaning’s hard, but that is exactly why ideology has an easy time of winning when nobody’s doing honest competing against it…
The opportunism you’re identifying ought be expected…
From the party who brought you “Keep your politics out of my [X]” it’s incredible how much time and effort they put into forcing politics into every fucking thing. Can’t play a video game, can’t watch YouTube, can’t watch the actual TV, can’t listen to a podcast, can’t even walk my dog down the goddamn street in my own neighborhood without being slapped upside the head six times with Reich-wing bullshit.
One aspect that doesn’t get discussed enough is how effective their grassroots in predominantly young, male hobby spaces has become.
20 years ago, if you weren’t that interested in politics, you wouldn’t get much of it. Currently though, it has thoroughly infiltrated spaces like athletics and gaming. This was not an accident. They have a strong ground game, it just operates in spaces we’re unaccustomed to thinking about in reference to politics.
and it’s global, and it’s concerted, and Murdoch’s remapping of Leninism from left to right, from “proletariat dictatorship” to “populist dictatorship”, has been one of the elegantest misuses of effective-world-power in the last century.
Why bother being surprised?
The left won’t compete against the prejudice being pushed in the “manosphere”, so … Natural Selection’s going to be pruning lives based on the intentionally-established prejudice … same as always.
White “taliban”, is all that’s winning, here as Down Under.
There was some article in the FT, iirc, identifying that under-40-males were swinging HARD right, & this is exactly what the ideology-pushers want: to “return” to the male-supremacy of “biblical” life, or of the caliphate, or of any of the major empires of the last 2-ish millenia: narcissism’s “glory” is all it is.
REAL honesty’s hard, REAL growing-up’s hard, REAL earning-human-meaning’s hard, but that is exactly why ideology has an easy time of winning when nobody’s doing honest competing against it…
The opportunism you’re identifying ought be expected…
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From the party who brought you “Keep your politics out of my [X]” it’s incredible how much time and effort they put into forcing politics into every fucking thing. Can’t play a video game, can’t watch YouTube, can’t watch the actual TV, can’t listen to a podcast, can’t even walk my dog down the goddamn street in my own neighborhood without being slapped upside the head six times with Reich-wing bullshit.