They generally buy their own propaganda pretty hard. If you’ve argued with libs on Reddit you’ve pretty much gotten the experience of talking to the average NGO exec
This website unironically helped me overcome my knee jerk instinct to distrust all authority. I directly see the good that comes from moderation here and the execution is a skilled mix of hands off and communicative as necessary. People are free to pull back the curtain, but the process remains pretty simple and it’s by no means a requirement. Hundreds of people browse this site every day without needing to know how the megathreads or the bulletins or the mod staff or the book club or the cytube is organized. It Just Works(tm)
“If you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all”
She says that transvestigation serves as an excuse to criticize people to satiate one’s own insecurities, pointing out that one of the most prominent transvestigators is a woman who stands mostly naked in front of a camera and compares her own body to other women’s bodies to try and “prove” that they’re actually male. And comments tend to be men kind of flirting with her.
He lost the option of shutting the site down years ago. He’s almost certainly an asset, which means his usefulness comes from the site being active and continuing to receive donations (money laundering crypto for the feds, in other words). The site is in a perpetual loop of lawsuits and his legal defense is funded by the site remaining open. And then of course, his identity is so hideously owned that shutting down the site means he gets death threats until the end of his days.
I gravitated to her at one point. She confirms a lot of the biases that Americans are indoctrinated with but are never really said out loud. So just hearing the unspoken social rules stated plainly was refreshing, as was the constant pretense of rebellion that drips from her writing.
If you ever find something that makes vague sense, I’d be interested to hear about it. I’ve read Siege by James Mason and it was largely typical fascist talking points and very affective rather than analytical. I thought that maybe the book the fascists convinced each other to read would have some sort of aha moment similar to when I first read State and Revolution. At least something to make what they do have some internal consistency. There was none.
I’ve heard Mussolini’s writing is better. Burke is considered the father of conservatism, but then you’re getting back to reading older thought. Another one that gets pushed pretty often is von Mises. I dunno. I think at this point, having a rough overview of key thinkers’ frameworks is enough to contextualize readings about history. Getting into the political leanings of historians tends to be a little more grounded.
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They generally buy their own propaganda pretty hard. If you’ve argued with libs on Reddit you’ve pretty much gotten the experience of talking to the average NGO exec