Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

The nature of the extremism is volatile; tribes, figures, policies will wax & wane. The insanity is here to stay, because there are fewer & fewer shared truth verification protocols — as the overlap between our worlds recedes, we're losing the ability to have conversations at all

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

It’s just an illusion that this happens on one side only. If you venture into conservative circles you get the same stuff directed at feminists with short and colorful hair, gay people, hippies or really any kind of group.

Share the screencap.

The claim is not that stereotyping or tribal pattern-matching belongs to one side. I'm *specifically* tracking the media narrative, because I'm trying to explain that this — who chooses the symbols & how they propagate — is at the core of IDW sense-making.

This is a different criticism than the one that is often made by IDW members though I feel. A few of the news sites that you posted a screencap of actually lean conservative (NY Post, Washington Examiner). Yet there is often a very clear political label attached to this criticism