accelerationism: come for the intellectualized excuse for ruthless opportunism, stay for the fast-cycling fungal bloom of love-hate personality cultshttps://twitter.com/jenphalian/status/1050013775909269504 …
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nihilism: come for the courageous embrace of the absence of received meaning, stay for the facile ability to disclaim any responsibility in anything
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feminism: come for the articulation of the oppression of half of the human race and call for their liberation, stay for the construction of what it means to be a woman based on the narcissisms and bigotries of rich nineteenth century housewives
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anarchism: come for the principled commitment to opposition to power, stay for the leisure to indulge in ever more pure intellectual rightness thanks to being thoroughly insulated from any of one's ideas being put into broad practice
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capitalism: come for the unprecedented engine of economic growth and innovation, stay for the absence of any barrier to unbridled rent-seeking
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progressivism: come for the noble commitment to uplifting the most oppressed, stay for the vicious infighting over limited resources based on how high an oppression score you can gin up for yourself
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exit/patchwork: come for the promise of being able to build a community without yahoos and sociopaths rolling in and shitting it up, stay for the screeching racism
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existentialism: come for the clear-eyed embrace of an individual agent's position in the universe, stay for the whiny scolding about who's existentially inauthentic compared to you, the hero of responsibility
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Objectivism: come for the penetrating Marxian economic determinism, stay for the nerd revenge fantasy
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technocracy: come for the promise of systems governed by those most skilled at their maintenance, stay for the systems that only work if you violently reduce human endeavor to things that fit on a spreadsheet
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