On the one hand I’m surprised, but on the other I’m not since most political consultants are fucking out of touch idiots, but I think they were lazy and went for the more recent “hate Palestine or you’re an antisemite” bit and found it didn’t work.
Next I’m worried they’re going to use the much more effective “defund the police makes you unsafe” bit and lean heavier into the “communist” game, if he doesn’t get deported first of course… I’m very happy he won the primary, but I have very little faith he’s going to win the general election unfortunately :/
I do sometimes wonder how effective this is. Before the rise of openly fascist influencers and things like 4chan, I would have laughed and told the Angry White Men trying this something like “the 1950s called and want their Red Scare back”.
But these red-pillers have done a lot to conflate POC, non-xtians, feminists, LGBTQ, and liberals with “communists” and advocate for the likes of fascists like Pinochet (who “did nothing wrong”) and giving “communists” “free helicopter rides” and I do wonder. Especially when it comes to that cyclical theory of the rise of authoritarian terror.
The young people falling into the brosphere/redpill thing probably have zero historical context and are just going to generally be utterly clueless about the dangers of what they are falling in with…they might think they’ll get to be ones conducting violence on others in the name of “fighting communism”, but they probably don’t realize that these things tend to get very ugly, even for the people perpetrating the violence, even if they are complete psychopaths that only care about themselves. Eventually, there are not enough “outsiders”, and you have to invent more…and even the “good” psychopaths might find themselves on the other end of that gun…
went for the more recent “hate Palestine or you’re an antisemite” bit and found it didn’t work.
I’m not sure how recent that is? In any case, it’s hilarious to watch the right trying to do this, even still and I just don’t think it’s landing like it used to. It used to just be assumed as axiomatic by the “liberal media” and the unhinged right wing media in the 90s and certainly right after 9/11.
These days…any gatekeeping on that Beltway opinion seems to result in a faceplant. I just don’t think as many people buy into that bullshit like they might have before. The days of 3 outlets for evening news + a few cable news stations (that propped up the same narrative) are long, long gone…most people get their news from “social media” these days, which has a lot of good and bad. This is one of the good outcomes of that, I think.
Have a little faith, he’s the heavy favorite. The city’s unions and politicians are in the process of rallying around him, while his opponents are all jokes who likely won’t get as many votes combined as Zohran.
On the one hand I’m surprised, but on the other I’m not since most political consultants are fucking out of touch idiots, but I think they were lazy and went for the more recent “hate Palestine or you’re an antisemite” bit and found it didn’t work.
Next I’m worried they’re going to use the much more effective “defund the police makes you unsafe” bit and lean heavier into the “communist” game, if he doesn’t get deported first of course… I’m very happy he won the primary, but I have very little faith he’s going to win the general election unfortunately :/
I do sometimes wonder how effective this is. Before the rise of openly fascist influencers and things like 4chan, I would have laughed and told the Angry White Men trying this something like “the 1950s called and want their Red Scare back”.
But these red-pillers have done a lot to conflate POC, non-xtians, feminists, LGBTQ, and liberals with “communists” and advocate for the likes of fascists like Pinochet (who “did nothing wrong”) and giving “communists” “free helicopter rides” and I do wonder. Especially when it comes to that cyclical theory of the rise of authoritarian terror.
The young people falling into the brosphere/redpill thing probably have zero historical context and are just going to generally be utterly clueless about the dangers of what they are falling in with…they might think they’ll get to be ones conducting violence on others in the name of “fighting communism”, but they probably don’t realize that these things tend to get very ugly, even for the people perpetrating the violence, even if they are complete psychopaths that only care about themselves. Eventually, there are not enough “outsiders”, and you have to invent more…and even the “good” psychopaths might find themselves on the other end of that gun…
I’m not sure how recent that is? In any case, it’s hilarious to watch the right trying to do this, even still and I just don’t think it’s landing like it used to. It used to just be assumed as axiomatic by the “liberal media” and the unhinged right wing media in the 90s and certainly right after 9/11.
These days…any gatekeeping on that Beltway opinion seems to result in a faceplant. I just don’t think as many people buy into that bullshit like they might have before. The days of 3 outlets for evening news + a few cable news stations (that propped up the same narrative) are long, long gone…most people get their news from “social media” these days, which has a lot of good and bad. This is one of the good outcomes of that, I think.
Have a little faith, he’s the heavy favorite. The city’s unions and politicians are in the process of rallying around him, while his opponents are all jokes who likely won’t get as many votes combined as Zohran.
It was similar to Jeremy Corbyn (I’m not arguing he’s perfect) where they didn’t think he could beat Labour as an independent