noumenist.bsky.social
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As a lifelong rpg geek it grosses me out that so many of these wannabe fascists try to source it in nerd culture.
January 2, 2024 at 5:27 AM
As a lifelong rpg geek it grosses me out that so many of these wannabe fascists try to source it in nerd culture.
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The real thing to understand is that, for the most part, people don't use words to *convey what they mean*, they use words to *get what they want*. There's no coherent rational principle ideology behind ideas like "free speech" or "cancel culture"
/2 . . . how a huge segment of the “free speech activist” culture is just absolutely pathologically oversensitive to criticism and dissent and how much of the “we hate cancel culture” culture is consumed with telling people to shut up.
December 31, 2023 at 4:41 PM
The real thing to understand is that, for the most part, people don't use words to *convey what they mean*, they use words to *get what they want*. There's no coherent rational principle ideology behind ideas like "free speech" or "cancel culture"
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I have managed to never hear this song or follow much of the discourse so I can't speak to his sincerity here but I will say it's inherently interesting for someone to get adopted by the conservative machine and then push back instead of going all in. Trying to remember the last time that happened.
Singer of ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Says It’s Not a Republican Anthem
“I wrote this song about those people,” Oliver Anthony said of his No. 1 hit, after presidential candidates answered a question about his Billboard hit at their first debate.
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2023 at 2:40 PM
I have managed to never hear this song or follow much of the discourse so I can't speak to his sincerity here but I will say it's inherently interesting for someone to get adopted by the conservative machine and then push back instead of going all in. Trying to remember the last time that happened.