There's been a lot of talk about why the insight crowd disappeared, why LW is gone, SSC sucks now, etc.
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Replying to @riyenakshi
Has anyone considered that one of the reasons is that communists killed it with salami tactics? Because that's, um, true.
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Replying to @riyenakshi
There are people who have been campaigning against me for years, who I can't name in public because they might fucking SWAT me.
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Replying to @riyenakshi
Some of them are very well embedded in the scene, despite that they've never done anything of note besides seek subcultural power.
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Replying to @riyenakshi
They don't contribute. They never will. They claw their way into interesting scenes and strangle the life out of them for political gain.
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Replying to @riyenakshi
And now that they've latched onto it, it's dead. It probably can't be revived. We'll have to go somewhere else, until they find it.
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Replying to @riyenakshi
So does this mean you don't think the "nerd cult" model is fundamentally flawed? That'd be my first guess
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths … its a little played out but this was always a good map to me
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Replying to @ViddyMalchick
That's a gr8 blog, how do I always miss the good stuff
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oh actually, i've seen the front page at least once before, but I thought it looked kinda gimmicky
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