IdleRich

IdleRich
Is there a basic issue that saying "we care about people and it's okay with us if you're an arsehole provided you're being an arsehole to the bad guys"
If you hire a blogger to be mean to the bad guys... you had better be damn sure... the bad guy.... isn't you (with apologies to Machete)
 
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IdleRich

IdleRich
But there are dozens of middle aged bastards transitioning towards a career of being a spiteful right-wing knobhead. Is this a new development or have I just not really noticed before?
I think it is a well recognised phenomenon. I remember seeing jokes at uni about how liberal law students will have fully transitioned to "hanging's too good for 'em" right-wingers by the time they make it to being a judge.
There was a guy I used to play 5-a-side with in the UK. I played in that team for more than ten years and when I joined there was much amusement as this guy's face was actually in the crowd pic in one of the papers behind a group of May Day protesters trying to smash the windows of (say) HSBC. A few years later I remember someone saying "Waz, will you be going on the May Day march this year?" and he said "Fuck no, I got money in that bank now, if they got me in a pic this year I would be on the other side protecting the windows":
This idea of increasing prosperity is also nodded to in the "secret final verse of Raise the Red Flag"

The working class can kiss my arse
I got the foreman's job at last.
You can tell old Joe I'm off the dole
He can stick his Red Flag up his 'ole!
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Even the title of this thread assumes (however jokingly) that there is a recognised path from left to right.
And for me it makes sense that many travel that way cos I think there are two separate things that can potentially push one in that direction...
Prosperity - some people grow in wealth as they get older, move through their chosen career path etc and while many don't change their politics, I'm sure there are some who reveal that their support for the underdog was conditional on their being the underdog rather than any moral conviction about fairness. I suppose that that is what the right mean by "politics of envy" the idea of people who support redistribution entirely cynically as they, having less than most, will be redistributed to rather than from.
Conservatism - some people just become set in their ways as they get older. Totally different to getting richer but can have a similar effect.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
This reminds me that a lot of former Italian fascists found a new post-war life in the PCI.

Yes, Togliatti was a nasty piece of work, a butcher of militants and workers in the period 43-45, all in service of the bogus national liberation struggle. Bordiga had exposed Gramsci's opportunist deviations as early as 1919, but unfortunately one cannot teach /political/ thinkers any lessons, they must always attend to the enveloping velvet-like comforts of their anuses before they even learn to think. But this is where Gus and co. are wrong. Fascism is entirely in continuity with bourgeois statecraft. It is inherent to democracy, not a deviation from it. Anyone who calls their subreddit sorcery of the spectacle should be shot. The spectacle is not magic it is literally how we relate to each other in daily life, I.E: it is life as such. There is no spell to undo it! Debord called it society for a reason, because it is precisely totality as such. Sorcery would imply an outside, the sorcerer(/ess.) Uncouth philistine bovines! Is this what eating baked beans does to people?
 

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
i got a letter from my landlord that they are now obliged by law to give me a monthly overview of my energy consumption, it is to raise awareness and to motivate renters to use less energy i guess. it annoys me so much, i already try to be as efficient as i can. what's worse though is i have the option to either receive a monthly letter which will cost me 2,50 per letter or i could download their app and have free access to my monthly overview. i don't want to have another shit app. it's all so complicated and complex and it's just not the right time to bother people with this kind of finger pointing, seeing as though rents are already exploding and everything is getting more expensive by the minute.

anyway, it will not really make me go alt-right, but i can get how little things like this can push people in the wrong direction.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Yeah and so much of it is done in abidance with this high-level altruistic agenda that unfortunately just seems out of touch with many individuals' experiences.

The techno-reactionary trend seems like it'll only increase from here unto some kind of tipping point or reckoning of some kind. The amount of passwords you have to keep track of, the growing sense that your devices know more about you than you want them t, etc.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
The overwhelming tech trend may compound with the almost universal sense of disgust people feel about those who posture as virtuous. Even those who sincerely try to be as sensitive as possible, i.e. the militant bleeding hearts, still seem to rub people the wrong way.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
i got a letter from my landlord that they are now obliged by law to give me a monthly overview of my energy consumption, it is to raise awareness and to motivate renters to use less energy i guess. it annoys me so much, i already try to be as efficient as i can. what's worse though is i have the option to either receive a monthly letter which will cost me 2,50 per letter or i could download their app and have free access to my monthly overview. i don't want to have another shit app. it's all so complicated and complex and it's just not the right time to bother people with this kind of finger pointing, seeing as though rents are already exploding and everything is getting more expensive by the minute.

anyway, it will not really make me go alt-right, but i can get how little things like this can push people in the wrong direction.
I think if you were an evil mastermind and you wanted to turn people off from giving a shit about climate change, you'd do something like this.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen


 

Pandiculate

Well-known member
why are they doing film reviews


I give this film a 7.5 out of 10





But here are the scores you really care about ;)


Degeneracy score: 1/5


Feminism score: 1/5


Anti-white score: 2/5


Total subversion score: 4/15
 

sufi

lala
I've been making complaints about Nationbuilder CRM & Stripe payment Gateway supporting Br***in F***t (who this pathetic PA lot are a not at all subtle front org for),
So far I got a reply from a senior exec at stripe telling me they would look into it but then the correspondence went quiet ...
 
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sufi

lala
I've been making complaints about Nationbuilder CRM & Stripe payment Gateway supporting Brxxin Fxxt (who this pathetic PA lot are a not at all subtle front org for),
So far I got a reply from a senior exec at stripe telling me they would look into it but then the correspondence went quiet ...
we should do the same for PA - they are fascists so that is against any reasonable org's T&C
 
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