not a perfect analysis, since Mickey is only human, but some worthwhile thoughts from a queer ND leftist therapist
edit: the stuff about how this behavior can echo that of the evangelical church made me realize how much of my experience the past few months had awakened religious trauma for me and was a huge catalyst for lessening my activity on this site.
Kinda pains me to see other leftists see “things happening” in an extremely sanitized filter bubble and actually believing it’s representative of real world happenings.
I’ve seen this pattern of “Wow things are finally happening!” followed by nothing happening because the “thing” falls out of the news cycle and everyone (but online leftists) loses interest. Godamn I fucking hate algorithms. They fundamentally change our understanding of reality in an almost trance-inducing way