Tangleworm

Thinking about this a little more, I think one of the things that keeps people on Twitter even after the ads are hateful, is the illusion of a marketplace of ideas. Stay to debate the Nazis with facts and logic, or they'll "win!" Maybe even buy a blue check of your own so you don't lose visibility against them! We can't let them take this ground!

Except it's fucking taken, because this game isn't actually played with pure ideas and the left didn't lose Twitter through a failure of persuasion. The Nazi Bar Analogy does not describe a situation where the bar is owned by a Nazi but the bartender keeps working so he can explain to the customers why this is Bad, Actually.

I'm not really concerned with the money - yes you shouldn't be making ad revenue for these assholes, but it's running at such a massive loss that your fractional-cent view of an Epoch Times ad is not going to turn that around anyway. It's more that you shouldn't continue to legitimize Twitter as the "public square" where the best ideas win. Doing so is playing along with the conceit that Nazis somehow won the conversation, instead of the reality that they bought it.

Anyway I'm seriously thinking about how to put together a public pressure campaign to get schools, government offices, other such "neutral" institutions off Twitter. It's well past time to stop being normal about "well yes the Weather Channel has an account on a Nazi site, but don't worry, they only use it to post about the weather! 😊"

The pervasive sense that "everything new is bad" and the culture-wide obsession with past aesthetics are indications of an era with deep-rooted reactionary brainworms I think. Give me a future I haven't seen before. Futurism that is not retrofuturism.

technologists are not exactly doing themselves any favour by actually making most new things bad

but of course, the death of ownership, subscription everything, AI trying to subsume the arts and every other human endeavour, everyone i know in economic peril because of "efficiency" and app based gig work :) .... these aren't the things the mean when they say it's bad

i don't want to hate everything new, i want to feel hopeful and excited about all the new things we're just figuring out how to do, but god damn does the modern capitalist hellscape we live in make that really hard

originally wrote this as a comment, but:

Yeah I think this cultural revanchism is downstream of the tech industry having declared "We are the future" and then doing the most grotesque most miserable shit imaginable.

I do not reject the future, I reject these fuckers' claim to the future. They have lost the mandate of heaven.

those who would dare claim the mandate of heaven always reject man dating
wonder if thats anything relevant

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