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luka with the anti-conspiratorial take, didn't see that coming. what a role reversal. I don't think you're wrong, surely payola to people with platforms is one element, tho the incentives content creators already have to jump on anything that will generate views and increase their profile...

I definitely think there's something there I've said it before, surely I'll say it again: it's exactly what the Romans did after they defeated Carthage and became the only superpower their culture wars were about Greek culture and general Eastern decadence supplanting traditional Roman values...

I agree with most of that. I should have just said paradigm in re QAnon. I didn't mean to imply it was first so much as the current paradigm for an entirely subreddit-hatched conspiracy that seems to arise ghost in the machine style but is clearly directed, at least inititally, by someone(s)...

sure, but as you say it's a strong enough motive for anyone. high-level dealers (and pharmaceutical distributors) here, the cartels, presumably the initial manufacturers in China (or Indian or Myanmar or wherever). it's not a prima facie argument for deep state involvement, at least in a who...

yeah, I guess, my question would be, draw me a line from point A to point B in an indirect sense of institutional knowledge gained by half-century of Cold War psyops, maybe but draw me a relatively direct line from stuff like that to Lee Atwater and Karl Rove to Cambridge Analytica to this

also, random tangent but interesting I guess the gas that killed 130 hostages in the Moscow theater siege (i.e. what Nolan ripped for the opening scene of Tenet) was a fentanyl derivative the Russian authorities decided that some level of fentanyl deaths was preferable to a lesser agent...

let me understand the timeline/chain of causality Oxy is - disastrously, for everyone besides the Sackler family - approved by the FDA in 95. its recreational use explodes, creating huge demand for more intense opioid highs/lows. eventually the FDA steps back in to, belatedly, try to limit...

something no one's mentioned yet but that we've certainly talked about before is the chain of informal to more formal information sources i.e. the echo chambers of 4chan, reddit, etc to social media to traditional news outlets and its role in creating and especially in amplifying these kinds...

undoubtedly intentional and again, refined by decades of experience to a finely honed cutting edge

the only part of that I disagree with is "blundering". the left has undoubtedly been outmaneuvered by brilliant (and deeply cynical) line of attack, but it's not a secret. the trap is right there for everyone to see but we have to fight anyway, because it is literal life and death. and not...

I haven't paid too much attention to this thread bc I'm a lot more concerned with pragmatic struggle for survival rn than abstract theorizing - while acknowledging that the struggle for survival is in some way, albit hard to define or quantify, downstream of abstract theorizing, there are just...

I definitely don't know enough to speculate about what this actually means or how it will make the Internet and consequently human communication look, but I've seen a few things about how previous AI language models have now infested the Internet with their answers, so that any future model will...

idk how often yall talk to people irl with seriously different beliefs than yours I do it pretty often. mainly in the gym, actually. evangelicals, right-wing meatheads, COVID skeptics, what have you. you're always better off focusing on the underlying belief system rather than individual...

what I think surprised most people is that having access to more information has made people less well informed there's a line in In the Loop where the Rumsfeld analogue says "in the land of truth, the man with one fact is king" I might rephrase it as "in the land of post-truth, the person...

tribal democracy only works if you have the numbers I strongly believe that right-wing strategists recognized long ago that they were demographically fucked, and what that meant it was probably obvious pretty far back to anyone paying attention you have a country that is getting more racially...

the GOP has this kind of bizarre post-WWII trajectory McCarthyism (100% concocted to get back into WH after 20 years out of power) followed by decades of people like William F. Buckley trying to make GOP "respectable" i.e. kicking out segregationists and John Birch Society types, then the...

Pat Buchanan infamously gave a speech on it at 92 RNC basically all the greatest hits - abortion, gay people, etc - besides trans rights bc ofc trans visibility was nonexistent at the time

replace "for fun" with "to win" specifically meaning to win as an end unto itself, rather than because you're interested in governing well

I'd agree with that. TERFs have basically zero public visibility here outside of academia. the trans hate here is a lot more religious - what a surprise - and unlike the UK has to little to no pretense that it's about protecting biological women.