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I’ve become oddly okay with the presence of the far right on the political landscape. I think their tendencies towards physical violence have been held sufficiently in check. The rest is a matter of tuning out their verbal violence and combating their institutional agenda.
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Woke is hysterically compared to Stalinism like it’s already creating starvation in Ukraine. What it’s doing at best is choking a few craven HR departments with right-think diktats (bad) and spotlighting police brutality, carceral state etc (good). The right otoh, where to start?
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There’s no point even trying to list what Trump’s goons have accomplished in 3.5 years of carnage. The gestalt headline is: destroy state capacity, drain all compassion and integrity from public life, and drive collapse in public health, law and order, and environment.
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The only half-good thing I can think of to say about Trumpism is that it helped unmask the true nature of the Chinese state, and that at the great cost of a trade war that’s poised to destroy whatever capacity for global prosperity Covid leaves untouched. Pyrrhic accomplishment.
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There is pragmatic criticism of the loony fringe of Woke (I definitely flipped from vaguely supportive to generally critical) and then there is moral panic sliding into frothing paranoia and full-blown Woke Derangement Syndrome. Makes Trump Derangement Syndrome look like sanity.
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But this stuff is largely done. The culture war has done what history steering it was going to. We are in kicking-and-screaming denial phase. 90% noise and fury signifying nothing. 10% tying up loose ends. This war has been over since 2017. We’re just setting up for the next one.
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If you’ve read this far: the next war is definitely going to be around climate action. Avocado politics versus climate tech sector basically. Profiteer from predictable climate change impact vs try to solve it with innovation.
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the avocado politics thing is right-leaning, right? so you think the left is going lean into innovation? I _really_ hope you're right, but seems way more likely to me they'll lean into some degrowth agenda instead :/
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No, left is going to be sidelined due to incoherent shallowness and big-tentism. Tech side is going to be anti-avocado in a more pluralist way, but focused on the hardest technical challenges rather than random social justice side quests.