• @[email protected]
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      The Internet is a very, very large part of why we’re in this mess. Once the fascists realized they could run a global propaganda network, it was game over for civilization.

      It’s dead, but like a tree it can take a long time to die.

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    Before internet:
    > I want to be a nazi
    > My father fucking beats me up
    > Go back to normal
    
    After internet:
    > I want to be a nazi
    > I find a community that validates me
    > I make content to radicalize "normies" through concerns about "forced diversity"
    > I make them vote against their class interest
    > Why the fuck is everything so expensive now?
    

    One can too play this game!

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      Before internet:
      > I want to be the opposite gender
      > My father fucking beats me up
      > Go back to "normal"
      
      After internet:
      > I want to be the opposite gender
      > I find a community that validates me
      > I learn more about being trans
      > I transition later in life
      
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        Before innernet

        >want to go swimming

        >balls flopping everywhere in trunks

        >balls slap thigh

        After innernet

        >want to go swimming

        >goto the closest Walmart

        >net sown right into trunks

        >balls secured while trunks remain light and comfortable

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      Before internet:
      > I want to be famous without doing anything
      > My father fucking beats me up
      > Go back to normal
      
      After internet:
      > I want to be famous without doing anything
      > Show off random shit on youtube, 10 views spread over 150 videos
      > Try tiktok, instagram, kwai, fucking everything
      > No success
      > Make video about quitting
      > 100k views
      > Make react video to my quitting video
      > 1m views
      
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      There’s a secret reason why this works for Nazis and not commies:

      It’s billionaire dollars

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        Plus nazis adapted to the internet (/tech before it in general, see Hungarian kusoge developer Tamás “Tomcat” Polgár) way quicker than the left.

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          I’m surprised they adapted to the internet earlier, I was around for the internet of the early oughts and much of my experience was that of being disabused of the ideas of my conservative/nationalist upbringing.

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            Basically the left was way more disorganized, and has a tankie problem, that turns people away from left-wing activism.

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              I don’t see why tankies turn people away more than Nazis. Do you think it’s that Tankies don’t bother with hiding their power level?

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                That, plus the general issue of authoritarianism and lack of short-term solutions, which is also true to other forms of more authoriative leftists, like those who think issues caused by callout culture on those who are not children’s authors gone TERF will be solved once we have UBI.

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    The Internet now:

    > google

    > find AI-generated content for your bizarre thing that nobody else has thought of yet

    > start chatting with a bot that reinforces your fantasies with the mashed-up content of all the world’s knowledge

    > disappear into a rabbit hole forever

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    Read the Darwin Awards books and you’ll know that in the past it was “He had an accident when he was younger and can’t have kids now”.

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    Before Internet:

    • want to be an artist
    • not talented enough
    • live in frustration

    After Internet

    • want to be an artist
    • not talented enough
    • google
    • find a community about bestiality
    • Furry porn artist
    • be milionaire