That’s true, and I think you show class consciousness by saying that. It’s easy to fall into dichotomy and say “all these rightoids are fascists”, thinking we’re “in the right side”, but, look, we’ve all been wrong, we’ve all been there. There are many people who are now leftists but had this rightoid phase.

I think his work is very good as an entry level. Maybe that’s why he lasted so long in the public eye: he focus on “liberal” issues so at leasy people can look further into is more radical ideas.

A way to control discourse is to reduce the (Overton) window of possible ideas being discussed but energetically incite engagement/debate within that space (Chomsky, I think.)

Withholding the code should not be defended. That’s sure. No excuses for that. However, I wish they were as critical to western companies, like Microsoft and Apple, as they are to this. M$ has done far more damage and even the Linux community is mellow towards them, just see excuses for using Windows and Mac in any Linux forum. In fact, they’re lenient towards many western companies, but will beat them up if they’re “progressive” (see the Code of Conduct meltdown), but not homophobic (see the guy from Brave browser getting praise, although finally he’s getting shite for basically coding an adware)

the first post-post-modern marxist

This is very concerning because Canada still lives under the veneer of a “liberal, equal society”.

Luckily I learned that at least the Chinese students had orgs based in China that helped coordinate and get students at each college to meet each other to try to break that… but ya most countries are not going to have that level of support.

Another example of xenophobia is that there is the narrative (in certain web forums, not gonna name) that these orgs are to further Chinese espionage. Of course, if these orgs came from a western country, no one would think that – maybe they would even praise it for “keeping their culture and support”, even if they had spies.

“FreEdoM oF exPrEssIon”

“ThE gOvErnMent iSn’t ThR pEoPlE” (so the ppl can build)

Actual responses to your question that I’ve seen.

These people don’t believe in symbolic violence. A monument/name-calling/making a party is OK because it’s not “violence”.

Calling a nazi war monument a nazi war monument is hate crime. Gotcha.

I don’t know your country but it seems America. I think the American culture around medication and drugs is so weird and toxic that no one knows who to trust. I live in a place where things are mixed, but they would bring heaven on Earth to help patients before thinking about precribing them drugs.

Caffeine reduces migraines for the majority of people and it may enhance paracetamol’s effect. Being the least “offensive” chemical, it’s easier to make drugs that have effects around caffeine, instead of clashig with it.

The fact that meditation has been hijacked for “pRoDuCtIviTy” is so sad. Vipassana and mindfulness was reduced to “concentration exercises”, with breath as the object, but nothing more.

It makes sense, which would also explain the stereotype of the businessperson using coke. However, alcohol also isn’t taboo, and it stops you from working, but it helps with socialisation, so it’s accepted. Also, alcohol has been with humanity for longer than we imagine since drinking water wasn’t available everywhere – even Amazonian tribes have alcohol, although they have more direct access to resources, even drinking water. So, yeah, t’s a mix of status quo and status quo.

“You should know yourself and what you want! Work hard, yada, bootstraps, yada!”, said the cancervative who remarried 4 times and blames women and the court.

Seize the means of scatology.

this is so nocontext I can’t make sense of it even with explanation

I’m gutted about this, but that’s what losing feels like. It highlights what you said, and it also embodies the full symbolic violence: it’s ok as long as it’s ahistorical. Tech brogressiveness and spectacle wokeness. Policy of language. After today it made realise how much CTH was actually hated. I understand that: telling that the current system sucks and giving it names and reasons must not feel good for the majority of people who support it; but it also made me think: we were ever the baddies? Not in an evil way, I mean in a chaotic way. CTH used too much humour to the point of blurring the message, so it openly advocated for violence. Empty words, but violence nonetheless. I can’t help but think that policing the language would fare better, but also I realise it castrates movement.

I can thank left edginess for radicalising many people (and I have a lot to go in radicalisation) and even furthering my reading, left edginess was needed to balance out right-wing media domination, but I also think we needed to get past this type of humorous discourse. Even if we call the people who disliked leftiness as “libs” or “centrists”, they’re still a considerable chunk of the population, and so they may not see the oppression of the current system. Solidarity, even if late.

This almost sounds like seeing live accelerationism. It’s so weird. I’m gutted too but that’s what losing something feels like.