Paraphrased from a conversation I saw:
"These guys didn't get all the Nazi stuff was just memes?"
These guys are hilariously naive.
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They literally thought that if they adopted Nazi memes, language, ideals and political thought, it wouldn't somehow get out of control.
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You could run fascism or right wing racism with a different set of symbols, I would think, but... just as well they don't.
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Apart from this bunch of morons, every fascist movement to date managed to take some kitsch version of their own history for symbols.
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It's a pretty low bar to set, but they still managed to trip over it
OTOH, it's a shame they've totally outmaneuvered the left online.
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I try here, but it seems it's so much easier to use twitter to make things worse than it is to make things better
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You can use this search link to see all the threads in my ever-growing #Twitter guide:
twitter.com/search?f=tweet
Or just start at the top: twitter.com/mwiik/status/8
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It means that my early dreams about trying to make twitter into a truth machine were naive; it's much more of an outrage machine. #FML
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I think it goes **far** deeper than that. There are aspects of the left that make it far more vulnerable to button-tweaking than the right.
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I meant mostly that you'd need to start a new movement, not give better tools to a movement as incompetent as the current one.
I'm not trying to start a movement. I started this deep dive into twitter initially b/c people were begging for to make changes that…
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...they could have done themselves via fully using the existing twitter mechanisms, though these were not readily apparent.
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But yes, every ALLCAPS RAGER and other niche, charisma-less "let's antagonize everyone else" sort of activist is a problem for the left.