You can't understand the 2017 culture war without understanding the original flashpoint.
i mean, okay, but that's not how i'm analyzing it i'm analyzing it as one of the many faces a mass popular movement wore
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the thing is it occurred online where it can be evaluated and picked apart and analyzed, and the ability to do that makes it seem consequential, and when those arenas are significant to your life it's easy to extrapolate it to part of a broader thing
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it seems nonsensical to me to see dozens of reactionary pimples breaking out on the face of society and decide that this one pimple is unrelated to the overall pattern because it's too nerdy
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shrug, to plenty of people i'm sure it captures me because i think Rev's objection to the expansion of mandatory bien-pensance into new markets is valid, if not agreeing that that means gg was Good Actually
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the whole point of the term is it captures whomever you want. If you respond to me saying this, then that is a reaction, and you are a reactionary!
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Likes are a type of reaction, people. I DENOUNCE YOU!!
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uhm i'm on a rock that's revolving at 30 km/s so i'm clearly a revolutionary thanks
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that's okay, I won't kink shame, each to their own. Wait... did the rock consent to this?
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i don't know what the fine points of the distinction you're drawing consist of but what i'm talking about certainly does register as swarmlike in character
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I think we should avoid using 'swarm' for human organizations. Swarms are networked intelligences, humans are networked dumbs. I suggest we use the term 'mess of' instead.
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