The dumbest shit ever is how when someone notices this strategy of licking things people treat it like they've gone full insane and think the most recently licked thing is actually fash
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maybe i'm nuts but seems to me it's not that hard to contextually distinguish nazi
from innocent uses.
looks like "look at me i'm signaling my affiliation with white identity politics."
if someone turns to me and goes, "that cake was amazing,
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sure but *you're* going to do
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this is true, but reveals something different. that is: everything in masscult is already, & merely waiting to be activated by the appropriate gang of fascists to be received as such
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you leave out the word "fascist" after "already" just ONE time & youre immediately as incomprehensible as lacan. love it
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was gonna say no i still do this then remembered i'm lowercase left as far as anyone is concerned and there's nothing *i* can do, we are talking about a sort of seismic tidal cultural tendency
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enh, sensitive dependence on initial conditions, there is no action so small that it can be relied upon to be insignificant
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a counter strategy would be to proactively turn as many things into left dogwhistles first
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it certainly would, Ollie
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I just straight up don't believe this to be the case. Maybe for a month or two the more fad aware people might use it less, but I really don't think people will stop using a common hand signal. I'd welcome proof to the contrary, do you have any incidents that show this happening?
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nope. idk, i could be nuts for sure. the kind of effect i'm modeling would only be demonstrable in the kind of stats i can't collect without being Mark Zuckerberg or Kevin Systrom anyway
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