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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
In politics right now, almost nobody is actually choosing a side; 90% of us are choosing a delaying tactic, waiting for a sane-seeming viable position to emerge, and in the meantime uncomfortably signaling *against* the most insane seeming position among the one available. You’ll notice that most people are far more comfortable attacking either right or left than defending or justifying either. Ie it’s “attack wokeism and stay studiously noncommittal on fascism” or “attack fascism and stay studiously quiet on wokeism.” The 9% who defend an explicitly adopted side mostly sound either clueless enough or grifty enough to ignore. The 1% people who need to be taken seriously and also adopt primarily positive and public defenses of right or left, with attacking the opposition being a secondary priority, are serious only to the extent they are powerful. Not because their positive vision of their “side” is coherent. Dunno if this is a gloomy thought or a positive one though.
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Nasdaq Nico
@nasdaqnico.eth
I really concur with this. At the most crude level, yes humans will besmirch and attack a concept/idea/group that they either through fear or other means- simply don’t understand. Political affiliation isn’t the only thing. Upon closer examination, I’ve seen far far far fewer incidences of Righties attacking lefties unprovoked and typically it’s just the stupid ones. Remember we lump everyone into two categories like this and it muddies things heavily. The key difference is the “left” I’ve noticed is arguably always the side inciting unrest against (anyone) with a differing set of views and want to be “educate” them otherwise they’re a transphobe/racist/whatever. And globally the world is rooting for “the right” because it’s finally coming to light how absolutely asinine and unnaceptable the counterparties behavior is. Abhorrent corruption and gaslighting the masses for starters. Xoxo, ironically a gay guy based outta LA
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