I have a rant simmering that is getting so long I may not be able to get it out of my head.
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Replying to @St_Rev @semiotechnic
Mainline progs have been hotboxing the worst "news" media since the late 19th century. Easy to say "this is poison & lies" but
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They've been proven, cold dead proven, to be full of shit basically every time they opened their mouths for years now.
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Mattress Girl, UVa., Tim Hunt, Vox, Gawker, a year's worth of detailed SCIENCE and MATH predicting the election, all shit.
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Do people think "hey, maybe...maybe we should put down the pipe and reconsider some of our working data here"?
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No. No reflection. They tripled down on the rage and terror high they've been on for the last 5 years.
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I think hotboxing is the right metaphor. The creeping politicization of everyfuckingthing from late night TV to video games.
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Other political cultures have tried mightily to bubble themselves--that's how you get Christian heavy metal--but it's hard.
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By comparison, the prog bubble has been nearly effortless. A nice snug warm bath of righteousness, fear, anger, hatred.
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The news sustains it, your hobby sustains it (remember when Rolling Stone covered music?), you get it piped hot & fresh...
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Just a nozzle of fear, hate, sentiment and heroics. Remember Upworthy? And of course your friends all agree.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.