WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]

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  • This is a great exercise for therapy if anyone wants to help me out.

    In that section about not assuming that identity politics will hold voters of color, the negation makes me really angry really quickly. “Oh, so you were assuming that black people like it when you say black people? End of story?”

    But if I’m going to not be emotionally volatile, what’s the alternative? Maybe I think about how little the author gave a shit about writing. They’re not actively thinking that POC are so gullible, they’re just not even putting any effort into the theory of mind for the essay. It’s clear when they don’t even make a conclusion or verify anything they’re saying. So in that sense, maybe the interpretation that this is an admission of a vile mind is not the only one possible, maybe it’s an artifact of a mind that did not find this work to be important. This person isn’t representing the whole DNC either, this was just some suit filing in a mad lib. If they’re not showing what they think then there’s no need to read deeply into what they say.

    Does it absolve the DNC of their transgressions? No! But it’s a forgiveness of expecting them to give a shit about what they say. Caring about words, their meaning, and other people is a gift that makes me unique and kind.








  • I have this idea for a novel about fantastical origins of white supremacy. This DnD warlock patron is in all sorts of cosmic debt – an archfey gets 20% of any sort of positive gain+emotion in their life. So in order to try and pawn off the debt on someone else, he tries to become an authority over a diaspora of half elves who he can cite as an asset responsible for cosmic taxation. They take the the elves to a mountains and stumble across Agartha.

    The Agarthans want nothing to do with this plot and rightly don’t trust the main character. So the MC takes it upon themselves to try and market the half elves. They’re so smart and studious. They’re good at this and that, in fact, they’re the beauty standard for the whole world! Fuck it, they’re the chosen people! You’d have to be dense to not let the half elves immigrants be let into Agartha because diversity is strength.

    Something something, the MC almost gets away with it. Something something the Dennis Reynolds-like MC does not forsee the consequences of creating white supremacy for what is essentially trying to exploit a tax loophole.




  • If I go to 4chan I think the biggest ideological divide is whether the Jews are preventing you from having kids or are encouraging you to give up pleasure to make workers.

    So they’re always going to be like “anon, go do farmsteading with a barefoot pregnant wife” or it’s like “you gotta learn how to take Adderall and stare at crypto charts for 13 hours a day to afford sex workers.”

    Charlie Kirk was of course too Israel aligned for either of them. Trump usually gets put into a tug of war about how much/whether he likes Israel. So they do experience the mainstream politicians not being good enough. Socialism is when the government does stuff and it’s never real capitalism so they get indignation even though they never have to bother with theory discipline.

    If I try to invoke my avatar of a 4channer I think they’d be pleased instead of concerned with reputation (being called out for hypocrisy is an engine that fuels them, after all). It’s like if Garfield heard that a Monday got hurt. I don’t think they’re concerned about recruiting like we are. They get a VC backed alt-roght pipeline of recruitment of which it’s not too difficult to find race obsessed people in a society addicted to caring about race.