The most ironic thing to me is the amount of coddling these self-purported “strong men” need. The idea that someone wouldn’t blindly accept what they say is enough to throw their egos into self-protection mode.

Sad

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inglor_cz an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The most ironic thing to me is just how fast the political pendulum swings.

One day you have kente cloths and taking the knee everywhere, and before you know it, right-winger bloggers are running the law enforcement.

This is no way to live, 80%+ of the population is neither committed progressives nor committed conservatives/reactionaries, but they rule (or ruled) the social networks and thus dominate(d) in elections.

By the grace of the algorithm, you majesty the king.

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nosianu 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This did not happen fast though, but over decades.

On one side, the right preparing by slowly taking over positions, on the other side people ignoring the problems of many.

Here in Germany I fear the AfD too may get into power, because instead of fixing the problems that people complained about for decades (costs, bureaucracy, rents, no vision apart from "consume and work") people are fixated on that right wing party itself.

When I did some skydiving in my youth I was fascinated by watching sooo many skydivers barely avoiding the lone single tree near the landing zone. Turns out, if you concentrate on something ("I must avoid that tree I must avoid that tree...") you end up steering towards it. The winning move is to instead concentrate on where you do want to go. There are precious little positive ideas in our politics, it's mostly about what we don't want, or distractions on things that while it sounds nice and it's definitely okay when it gets done should never be the main focus.

	▲	inglor_cz 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well, roots of everything are long. We are a long-lived species and our political attention spans decades or longer. People still think of the Roman Empire and write in Latin alphabet, after all. But the actual short-term jumps in policy are absolutely wild now. That wasn't the case in the 1990s.

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refurb 27 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Don’t mistake what you see online or in the news as evidence of broad agreement.

Plenty of people might disagree but choose to keep their mouth shut.

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ktallett 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The most snowflake of all is those who love using the term snowflake.

	▲	nephihaha an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Chuck Pahlaniuk then? He devised it.