Establishment conservatism --> Dissident Right --> Alt-Right --> 1488 ---> literally cloning Hitler ... is a classic purity spiral. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
... Regimes tend to stamp those things out (when they don't go suicidally insane). That's what we're seeing this time too.
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Replying to @Outsideness
I see purity spirals on the micro-level; yet, big dynamic is persistent virtue signaling, w/ counter-signals a 2º-order effect
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
"Shoveling everyone who can read into mass graves for sabotaging the revolution is nuts!" "What, virtue signaling again?"
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Replying to @Outsideness
... Torn on this, actually. I don't think the Cathedral could have been hurt this badly without concept of virtue signaling.
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... But it's open to perverse inversions.
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