You know why we’re doing the culture wars in the US first? It’s the easiest case.
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Replying to @danlistensto @vgr
Plainly the first kulturkampf was the Kulturkampf
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Amazing what the Germans managed to accomplish in the field of kulturkampf without the internet, the sine qua non of kulturkampf
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Bismarck literally trolled the French into a disastrous war without even a single pepe
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The whole German imperial experience on into Weimar is good enough example of a literate, media-consuming society siloing itself into antagonistic echo chambers that it seems reasonable to accept its paradigmatic status.
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Definitely agree here
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I’d say the comparison reveals more about Weimar than 2019, and if time travel were possible you’d probably have edge lords from today trying to go back to try and run their more advanced playbooks (and hindsight) in 1920s. History is lived forwards and understood backwards etc.
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