A common tactic used by illiberal groups is arranging for someone to be destroyed for speech that was heretofore well within civil bounds. Analogously to the Navy, one might attempt to defend open turf in a principled manner.https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/navy-warships-conduct-back-to-back-freedom-of-navigation-operations-in-south-china-sea-1.627890 …
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Executing this is tricky, because certain outlets (eg: Quillette) that attempt this end up being simply written out of the Overton window and ignored . . . or something. The dynamic isn't legible to me yet but it seems like cracking it might suggest a counter. Thinking on this.
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3. Shift to an assertive stance. We have spent years falling back on our heels. This needs to stop.https://youtu.be/Ms_WY0s_1XM
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@selentelechia has a favorite post that describes the psychology of a player in MtG who reaches a point where he decides he is going to lose the game. At that point, he stops playing to win, and starts making moves that rationalize what he perceives to an inevitable loss.4 replies 0 retweets 37 likesShow this thread -
Cribbing from Ken Kesey, this is accepting the role another has chosen for you in their story rather than acting as the protagonist in your own. This makes overcoming a hostile narrative nearly impossible. You write your own defeat into every line.
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We don't have to live like this. Irony aside our ideas and values are extremely fucking good when measured against the fideistic puerility arrayed against us. We ought to comport ourselves with confidence and dignity when asserting them and deprecate desperate undertones.
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Replying to @eigenrobot
You can't decree confidence. It would be more effective to find their panic buttons, and use those against them.
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You can't decree it but you can demonstrate it, and it's infectious
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You are not as good actors as they are. If you people want to demonstrate confidence collectively, you'll have to practice first. You have never trained to be "in-your-face" assertive. It's hard.
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The thing is, no one has the courage of their convictions right now. Can you feel it? The left seems ascendant because they've cowed everyone else but no one--not even they--really believe their own shit. There's no end game, fucking plan. It's infantile.
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They can smash shit but they don't have anything like the spirit that animated the pre-Soviet Marxists, and they know it in their heart of hearts.
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Of course. That's why they go after easy stuff. I mean, Confederate generals ? Yeah, hardly revolutionary targets.
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As a foreigner: Have you considered they might have a point and having a ton of monuments to what were essentially nazis around might actually be kind of weird?
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