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I bet this explains many more schisms and post-x's in history than people realize. I wouldn't be surprised if it affects art, even. eg a group of painters etc having a good time, then some assholes infiltrate the community, and they start over with a new movement with a new name twitter.com/Theophite/stat

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Visa’s Vexing Vacillations

@visakanv

Jul 12, 2020

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Visa’s Vexing Vacillations

@visakanv

Nov 21, 2018

I think a major theme of my life’s work is going to be “how do we coordinate effectively to solve the asshole problem”.

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Visa’s Vexing Vacillations

@visakanv

Jul 12, 2020

there are all sorts of complicated explanations about rats and postrats, and none of it made much any sense to me, until I started hearing some whispers about hush-hush bad shit that allegedly happened, then I'm like, oh. postrats are rats distancing themselves from asshole rats

Visa’s Vexing Vacillations

@visakanv

Jul 12, 2020

could this also, in a sense, be a lens through which to view the multiple waves of feminism? 🤔 women can be assholes too; women know this better than anyone every movement eventually gets contaminated by fools and assholes and needs to be rebirthed

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Yes. Differences between the Scandinavian countries in terms of feminist discourse etc. is illuminating here. Most of the stuff experienced abroad feels like pre- some of those splits. US has a sort of Swedish bent to the dominant strains of feminism, other countries less so.

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(Full disclosure: I consider Swedish feminist discourse to be Very Bad.)

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