I am elevating this from megathread post to real post
I regret looking at X almost every time
This weird discourse has done actual psychic damage I think
Can someone make this make sense to me? Not uncritically adopting the weaponization of language traditionally, normally even, used to attack queer and neurodiverse people against less-lib American reactionaries by Democrats makes you a fed? It's not a hill I would die but yeah
We are truly reaching levels of normality never seen before, regardless of how not weird and normal it is in many sections of society to be a turbo-reactionary
Have we entered a period where internet leftists and K-hivestandard internet left-libs become almost indistinguishable? I feel like I'm stuck in the event horizon of a terminally online singularity, spiraling toward a center of infinite onlineness
The most online people I have ever seen are telling other online people to log the fuck off, the 🥥🌴 usernames are joining with the 🍉🇵🇸 usernames in fed-jacketing people, the Democrat campaign is reposting dril tweets
We are cooked, the internet singularity consumes us all
Weirdn ormal weird werird normal couch weird weird normal
Yes exactly.
Also what's neat about this is that if it goes on for long enough it will force the fascists into conforming to what we've defined as normal. They are ultra conformists, if they are made uncomfortable by being the "weird" ones for long enough they will conform in order to find comfort again. They can't go on feeling uncomfortable forever, they will triangulate a comfort zone for themselves.
Bullying them genuinely really works.
This also works on some of the liberals from a leftist position too but with moralising. They want to believe themselves moral people and pointing out that they're not and bullying them for it makes them triangulate into a new comfort zone where they move leftwards. It doesn't necessarily create socialists but it does create something better. Although I would say in the case of at least some people here a pathway into socialism did come through this.