@ben_mathes I need to stop tweeting anything that looks like support for SJW types. Current climate seems only to reward side-pickers :(.
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@vgr@ben_mathes You don't think creating a climate where everyone must pay lip service to X translates to real power gains for X?
@vgr @ben_mathes C.f. preference falsification, propaganda, preventing common knowledge, North Korea....
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@KevinSimler@ben_mathes My point precisely. North Korea has very little agency. Without agency pie to carve up, what's the point of power? -
@vgr@ben_mathes Well, propaganda benefits the ruling party at least. Smaller pie, maybe, but more for the Kim family. - 3 more replies
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@KevinSimler@ben_mathes 1984 was actually very generous about how functional a speech-policed society could be -
@vgr@ben_mathes So... is your concern primarily that speech-policing makes things really ineffective? (If so, I'm also concerned!) - 1 more reply
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