IMO, identifying the IDW as fundamentally about growing polarization/SJW influence/etc. narrowly misses the mark: that w/ the mobile web, institutions lost the ability to redirect narratives arbitrarily & started compensating by pandering to "thematic truths" ever more recklessly https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1142970381583704064 …
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This genuinely isn't about a common enemy or a common object-level goal, which is why everyone else seems to care more about the "infighting" than the IDW itself does. It's about the fact that shared reality is spinning out & since the elites can't reel it in, they're chasing it
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If you don't grok why the IDW "picks on" the left so much for a set of mostly self-described leftists, you're not tracking it. It's subtle from this side. It's worth meditating on how strange it is that a piece of voter swag has become an accepted media symbol for "bad person"pic.twitter.com/bQbU6KeHBt
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(I'm not asking you to take any particular position on the stupid hats. I'm asking you to notice the visceral reaction you have to a campaign wearable, to ask yourself where that's coming from, and to consider whether or not this seems normal.)
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I *will* respond to everyone's partisanisms, but fwiw I'm pretty sure I can't show you how the game works while you're still playing. I will keep trying. Please, please humor me.
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I wonder where this dark energy like expansion b/t worlds is carrying us...to the heat death of human interaction or births of new worlds as the observable bubbles grow too far a part to communicate b/t or lob bombs at, forcing a turn inwards, the world may not be big enough
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