It’s funny to watch them rather studiously engage in things they feel they “ought” to enjoy like producing/consuming arts or science. They may even have some talent and painfully cultivated taste for it. But a deep joylessness radiates from how they do it.
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Everything actually liberal they do, they seem to do with one eye on peers, esteem, and social acceptance. It feels like conservatives larping a playful, childish element in liberalism that they can see but not quite access.
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Hard for me not to see it as a pure exercise in branding. Especially in Rubin’s case.
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It’s not entirely insincere though. Part of it is a kind of cargo-culting. Some of them genuinely *want* to be liberals, and distance themselves from the alt-light crypto-fascism that is constantly threatening to swallow them.
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do you know any analysis done on *why* people think that liberalism is so cool? From my outside view of the US it seems that conservatism got tarnished bad by the Bush admin and the fact that Obama was (initially) able to big tent
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Do they think it's cool? I always thought all flavors were basically nerds with vague fanboi complexes relating to a bunch of 17-19th century philosophers in powdered wigs. It's like greek statue-head classical greek philosophy fetishists except they don't make them their avis.
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im speaking more to (admittedly hazy) assumption that there was a generational cohort who thought that conservatism was kinda dumb and who passively IDed as liberal
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I think it has to do with the way American history gets taught in public schools here, among other things.
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Also the right for a long time treated liberal=progressive, and called the one acceptable flavor "classical liberal" (which is a sort of contradiction in terms). Lately, classical liberal has become the only liberalism and schism-ed off from old ally progressive= woke.
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Labels are kinda ridiculous tbh
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Many political ideologies are obsessed with niche labels but none, it seems to me, more so than libertarians. The mileage they apparently expect to get from gerrymandering some new label just so to include only those they agree with most is extraordinary.
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they totally are, but seem critical to the political economy of friendly to hostile inter-group relations... it's like a social network
at the moment woke has zero friends and is somewhere between ghosted to attacked by everyone
libertarians have been default lolcows since 2010
(OT: I just realized who the anime girl is, avi changes really throw me off)
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