You can tell progressivism--center-left-authoritarianism with egalitarian window dressing (self-contradiction!)--is culturally ascendant...
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...just because right now they're faction in attack mode, openly seeking to control the behavior of others & making abuse & murder jokes.
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If control, abuse and murder are evil when you're on the back heel, they're evil when you're on top, no matter how good you feel.
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Nietzschean variant: send forces into rival territory, claim they're being abused, declare righteous war. Aggression in self-defense drag.
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Ethnic Russians in east Ukraine, settlers in Gaza, the USS Maine, and yeah, GamerGate. Everybody does it.
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And no, I'm not saying people are going to get hacked to death with machetes over video games. Not this decade, anyway.
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Plenty of structural factors mitigate against things blowing up that big. But...it really is the same evil, the same madness, same demons.
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People aren't going to be murdered, but they're already losing jobs. And there will be suicides. Maybe that counts.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.