the thing about accepting clowns like qanon as allies is sometimes they just up and hand the other side an opportunity like this - the modern right has so many clowns that there's no need to posit psyops every time one shoots themself in the foot
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Replying to @hikikomorphism @olivertraldi
sure, if they didn't exist the left might have to invent them, to mangle a quote. But the fact remains that the same maladjusted alt-right signal-boosting networks that got Trump into office love stupid shit like this, it's just part of the mainstream right now (just like Trump)
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Replying to @hikikomorphism
tbh it's too good an op for me to credit it to artifice on the part of the left rather than naturally occurring stupidity on the part of the right
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Replying to @chaosprime @hikikomorphism
But where was the stupidity? It was just the one account.
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Replying to @olivertraldi @hikikomorphism
just that one account's stupidity!
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Replying to @chaosprime @hikikomorphism
But how does something dumb one Twitter account does, that is then pretty quickly deleted, become an entire news cycle and come to involve literally thousands of people?
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Replying to @olivertraldi @hikikomorphism
honestly i think it's that our intrepid qanonpoaster struck that perfect tone of overweening, unsupported dumbfuckery that makes dunking absolutely irresistible, just absolute catnip
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nothing really more than the millionth monkey at the keyboard spitting out eighteen sigma "kick me" content
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Replying to @chaosprime @olivertraldi
Exactly - it's a "kick me" sign that reads as an exaggeration of already-present awful tendencies on their side (shaming women for having fun, incel rage, etc) and not just an example of individual awfulness that can be easily disowned
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Replying to @hikikomorphism @chaosprime
what i thought Oliver was getting at: that the hordes of people on the left claiming that the right was "bashing" AOC over this vid had literally no evidence other than the OP...to me the incessant "oh man look at these idiots who think this is bad" takes were built on nothing.
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oh yeah as far as i ever saw that's true, like hiki says though, just like with the prog wackjob college students, as long as the behavior feels emblematic of the outgroup that's enough
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