This is not to say that the right is a truth machine but it fails in a very different way - it fails out of failing to understand the nature of the left - it often claims a motive of *financial* corruption when there's none there.
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To a leftist money is meaningless because when you have power you can simply take money from those without power. Every NGO lawsuit that extracts millions from some corp is the left transmuting power to money. Rightists live in a world where money is earned on the market.
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All part of Scott's worldview where the left and the right are just different teams that have some different views ("culture war") rather than being very different things - a worldview he forces himself to stay within b/c he can't integrate the implications of it being incorrect
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Always annoys me hearing wokeness described as "divisive." In fact, the Woke Left does try to unite a "coalition of the fringes" against socially conservative white Christians. It's not so much a strategy of division as one of demonization and dispossession
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Yup, it's "divisive" because it's a negative identity and focused on the group they hate but it's laser focused on keeping group cohesion.
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"Tribal signaling" itself seems like a reddit concept that denies the spiritual nature of such conflicts
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I think you do see some of those dynamics among the Facebook boomer meme sphere on the "right" messages spread that are optimized for virality, and relatively few of the most viral messages are wholly true but ofc. they never get larger cultural influence, bc lol
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"The left believes in the most false narratives it can find and also attacks any fringe right false narrative it can find" is closer to reality but not what Scott was saying *at all*. Example - Biden talking about how the right believes people like him drink baby blood.
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Toxoplasmosa of rage *citation needed* even if true would be unaccountable due to tech censorship & promotion algorithms.
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