Should I reboot the trainspotting contest I was doing before @kongbu outed my alt and tanked the whole show?

Discuss.

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Trans furry lives matter too the Welsh.

You can see it by yourself

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I don't really know what this is. It seems to mainly be but may also be genuinely . The demented violence and incoherence reminds me of jinxschizo

piped is a youtube frontend to get around the stronger age block. Used to be embedded videos didn't ageblock but piped is best way around age wall

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Ain't that right fellow Asians?

Actual line from newspaper about presidential election.

trans lives matter

There is a general confusion between the authoritarian left which prescribes upon us via the state-as-human-caretaker model that many, myself included, find noxious.

And the more strident invasion of a fascist movement on US soil.

I was there. I saw the fascist pollution enter into Scott Alexander's culture war threads.

And these people? They were united by one single common thread.

They couldn't smell the fascist pollution.

And attack dogs like me that Bark Bark Bark well we aren't supposed to bark at the things the hive mind is trying to enshrine into the darn place!

So I was bullied by these people, in profoundly pathetic ways! I am enough of a bully to know that these were pathetic power plays! Please don't hurt me @captain_bbbb, you are actually invincible! These people were so pathetic, they would be like "uh if you don't want to bet then you clearly aren't invested in the situation loser" and this would get upmarseyd. "He's right, the man's not betting, so he must not care."

That's the kind of place it was!

This was Reddit, mind you. The acerbic honesty of Reddit writing stands as one of the unusual artifacts of the era. Where did literate reddit go? It's still there, though largely underground.

I still can't leave it.

But point is there was a sort of 'don't-be-too-much-of-an-butt-but-be-direct' protocol between people on old reddit. And this place made that impossible. And this place was set up as a refuge by people who had just seen a moral principle enshrined self-righteously by power-hungry people which they used to hurt people in self-righteous rage... well they set up their "NO ONE CAN BE BOOED FOR RACISM OR FASCISM" rules because FREE SPEECH motherlovers but

Not for me. Because I ruined the illusion. I pointed to the fascism.

@Impassionata has been going through some arguments on fascism with the AI, and it occurs to me that Impassionata knows what the AI is going to say, at least to the extent that he lets the AI build the argument that Scott Alexander should be named and shamed for his community's role in making space for fascists and racists to speak. At the very least it would be good to see some admission that an error in judgment was made which was severe: that of consciously choosing to seek a neoreactionary audience and inviting them to mingle.

I'm just trying to get all of this out. Seeing the AI write... it's so fast. So perfect. Very precise. For me it is always so slow, and in such halting fashion...

Because what I remember is this:

In the early early days of the Internet I researched the white supremacist forums to this extent: I found them, I performed some psychogeographical scans which retain some interest as an especially cruel form of punishment: an actual concentration camp portion of the site where doomed users were sent to have their final say before their accounts were finally terminated. Evil minds! But generally losers. Aware that they were losers. Living out a private fantasy.

MAKE

RACISTS

AFRAID

AGAIN.

But I believe I read enough of their culture to understand that they had a strategy for fitting in, and a strategy for... recruiting.

They know their views are noxious and they believe that humanity is divided into sheep who buy the state ideology on race equality and thsoe who privately agree with them. This is why when they congregate they must be abhorred. Directly. To their faces. I don't like freedom of speech restriction laws but I do believe that if you dress up as a nazi you should get punched and I think that makes me a goddarn American. Not everyone has to punch Nazis. Cheering for the Nazi punchers also sends a message.

It's not about right or wrong. It's about the consequences. And the second order consequences.

And then I had my sorcery of the spectacle arc, which is to account for my present significant accumulation of Power. My circle is almost complete. Last call if you want in.

And then 2016 hit and I was angry at myself for not reacting sooner. And I entered into the culture war threads as an old reddit voice and found:

These people who had gotten chased out of other spaces for pointing to inconvenient or annoying truths now shunned me for pointing at fascism and racism as I saw it. Once I was bullied, no matter how pathetic it was, I knew it was over. I could still hit the occasional Quality Contribution but by then I could see how rotten the whole thing was: it just propped the legitimacy of the place up. That was a rightwing politics forum in denial. To this day Scott Alexander probably describes himself as a libertarian idealed liberal.

By far the weirdest bit of it was seeing the time dilation. Catch this:

• 1990-92: Rush Limbaugh goes on the air. All of these Cold War boomers read Marx in college. Rush Limbaugh used the rhetorical construct of 'class' directly and pointed to Universities, Journ*lism, and Hollywood as the class elites of our society, and to the degree that he had a point, it is now obscured by the propaganda superweapon it gave Fox News. There's a wave of jokes about PC police.

• 201?: A blogger writes about Universities, Journ*lism, and Holywood as the class elites of our society.

• 2022?: Scott Alexander writes about how Republicans should use more class in their rhetoric, as he shakes hands with a monarchist whose experience with actual monarchy consists of having finished books which he waves around in a constant smug bid for authority, disregarding the decades of succession wars which mar European history. If you are a monarchist it's quite possible that the only thing that can be done for you is taking away your Internet privileges forever. If you consider a monarchist a serious political thinker and or peer, you are an idiot and have failed a basic political intelligence test.

Here's another.

• In the wake of 9/11, many leftist accusations of fascism were made of Bush II who more or less acted unilaterally and I don't really know how much people actually bought the theater of WMDs anyway. That got people real bitter about government. It was never in question whether Bush II would step down at the end of his terms. But the prevalence of this question as well as the strengthening of nationalist imagery which occurred post 9/11 gave a pretty compelling example of a line for what should and shouldn't be termed 'fascism.' which is and always shall be connected with a sort of fasces or authoritarian spirit guiding the US in its collective delusions

• Authoritarian impulses can only be understood as the man. So it's trivial that in our split realities, the man to be feared, the worst aspects of the corporatocratic neo-feudalism we suffer under, it is a blue man they fear in rural counties and a red man in cities. There's even a song about it: Everybody wants to rule the world, and since they don't, the mistakes of the world are all the fault of the political affiliation that sometimes has power. Very straightforward. Very functional. When it falls apart, it falls apart only in an unusual circumstance, as we shall see.

• But there's a very clear line, and that line is a very specific kind of lie revolving a very specific kind of implausible deniability. Fox News has been known for this. Bush II had faults, and one of them was he was a poor communicator, so Fox News tended to spin things heavily.

• This community, Scott Alexander's community, was full of people who bought implausible deniability.

• The plausible deniability generator built for Bush II was terrifying under Trump.

• As a consequence the threat of a fascist movement on US soil was completely overlooked by a group of people who thought they only

argued dealt in object-level thoughts.

Woke Derangement Syndrome.

A people so afraid of woke cthtlululu that their political forums included racists (the 14 words got to 80 or so upmarseys) and fascists and this was widely regarded as a good thing, and so these people got to make subjects of people of color and trans people. So They Must Be Made Subjects Of. It's not more complicated than that. If you let moral constructs like ideology get in the way of subjecting people to the treatment which must come their way in a just and proper universe, you are just being a coward.

So I called them out for their hypocrisy, and when I got bored of the place and understood at last that they would never take me seriously and if I did a good moderate piece I'd get a quality contribution that would make me feel worse I ragequit.

And they still consider that what they do at themotte discourse.

Tell you what, @Impassionata's been banned for life there, but I haven't.

I got permanently banned on my account and any time I try and make a new account it instantly gets shadow banned so that no one can see anything that I post. Anyone know a way of bypassing this other than using a VPN forever, every single time that I log onto Reddit?

This is a besmirchment of MacDonalds