The point of writing threads that exhibit empathy for some aspects of the Successor Ideology is not to persuade the bearers of the ideology itself that you have good intentions and good will that they should acknowledge and credit. They will never do that.
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The point is to address the much larger audience who are ambivalent toward it, recognizing some of its claims to justice, though quietly harboring the doubts that any reasonable person would harbor toward the extreme means they've adopted in pursuit of their claims.
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The worst response was the first reflexive one -- "LOL triggered snowflake let's elect Donald Fucking Trump President." All he did was strengthen and legitimize the worst of his counterparts that most resembled him in their ruthlessness and disregard for truth
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There is a large plurality, a decisive one, that wants recognition that their claims are real and that you're willing to address them who can also see the unhinged, the power-mad, the sadistic in their midst, but won't break with them until the bullies are gone.
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I don't believe this but I will be very relieved when it makes its presence known.
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