in the organizational politics of voluntary associations, stamina - capacity to endure boredom - is the only currency that matters
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therefore, meth heads automatically saturate any new niche as fast as they can be created
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“look decent and keep your private life private and under control” isn’t enough. i predict no new irl political org will work without zero tolerance for substances (and correlated life choices)
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democratic centralism (leninism) might work too, denying crankfiends opportunites to out-blather others, but the core tactic needs to be zero-tolerance for intoxication
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this is hard (as with other forms of selectivity) b/c prime recruiting for right is among communities the left has devastated - which tend to have, uh, problems
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online alignments are exposed to similar attentional attrition tactics but with less at stake, not so big a deal
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obviously your friendly local right wing e-clique should ruthlessly bullycide anyone who seems boring or pointlessly dumb and irritating
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