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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent Mar 10

      This is something worth addressing - I am NOT saying prioritize former reactionaries, to be clear, I'm saying focus on a realistic strategy of how to reach non-reactionaries: Radicalism is not going to sway the apolitical because radicalism has a sizable social cost.

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    2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent Mar 10

      A reason so many radical leftists are currently melting the fuck down during Biden's early presidency - far worse than they did even during some of the heights of Trump's presidency! - is because they knew the main obstacle to radicalism's triumph is normalcy.

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    3. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent Mar 10

      Speaking cynically, the pandemic was radicalism's big shot to make massive, OBVIOUS attacks on the edifice of normalcy, and we basically failed to do so - because it turned out that what the population really wanted wasn't communes, it was being able to go to movies again.

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    4. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Mar 10
      Replying to @loudpenitent

      You mean "what the population really wanted wasn't justice and an end to unnecessary suffering, it was being able to go see a few more movies in theaters before the climate collapses"

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 10
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @loudpenitent

      Well, look, the idea that the pandemic represented a political opportunity was never realistic, and in fact people were justified in recoiling from the perception that others saw it as such (this is literally the whole basis of the "plandemic" conspiracy theory)

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    7. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent Mar 10
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      One of the reasons I think the American left was filled with such despair is we've got a historically unusual degree of awareness of how, say, Europe does it (but not all the problems of European politics or the vast spans of time achieving the European social net took)

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 10
      Replying to @loudpenitent @mssilverstein @Nymphomachy

      Europe is seeing a massive surge in ethnonationalism and fascism right now because *that's exactly what the socdem welfare state does when under strain and verging on collapse* It is incredibly predictable and regularly predicted

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 10
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      As soon as the money starts running out people start asking "Well where's all of it going? We're paying for the welfare of THOSE people?"

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    10. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent Mar 10
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @Nymphomachy

      Oh yeah, absolutely, but to frustrated and despairing American leftists a lot of that stuff is invisible - they compare their struggles to the stuff their overseas counterparts enjoy and rage about how they're being denied their obvious due.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 10
      Replying to @loudpenitent @mssilverstein @Nymphomachy

      We really don't talk enough about how for all the "US is a right-wing country by global standards" memes, Europe is incredibly conservative on immigration by the standards of US politics, and this is a completely predictable result of how their social democracy works

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 10
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

          People who believe they have an obligation to pay for the well being of all of their countrymen get VERY touchy about what exactly the definition of "their countrymen" is

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        3. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent Mar 10
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @Nymphomachy

          Yeah. And I think on here, in particular, we're dealing with a far more idealistic and frankly cosmopolitan segment of the population than necessarily is the norm even in Europe.

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        2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent Mar 10
          Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

          God, yes.

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        1. IT’S ALWAYS PSL SEASON  💐 🌳 🍄‏ @BeccaTheWitz Mar 10
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

          And also issues surrounding alternative fertility options. Sure, a lot are progressive when it comes to birth control, but things like surrogacy or adoption? 😬

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        2.  🫖 ☕️‏ @TiaRachel Mar 10
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

          I have backed out of several discussions this past week about how european nations can have good socialism because they're ethnically homogeneous. European ethnic homogeneity (which is itself an iffy thing, no one mentions Roma/Travelers) didn't magically and bloodlessly happen.

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        3. Jack Rudd  🇹🇹  🏳️‍⚧️‏ @IMJackRudd Mar 10
          Replying to @TiaRachel @arthur_affect and

          *looks at the notion of ethnic homogeneity and contrasts it with the make-up of the England, France and Belgium teams that reached the semis of the last World Cup*

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