Let me try to decode the Cuties thing: The Cuties thing is all about an aggrieved class wanting to expose their perceived elites to be immoral demons.
Populist, anti-elite sentiments are always driven by the desire to cast the opposition as the immoral class (which is natural, morality is how we govern our world). This is what is behind QAnon's obsession with pedophilia — the desire to expose an elite cabal as morally depraved.
When people hit back at the anti-Cuties people (anti-anti-Cuties) — calling them QAnon dummies and what not — that's the elites sensing the revolt and whacking the plebs back into their place. The elites are telling the people who are revolting that they are stupid.
Telling the people that they are stupid is a primary counter-revolution tactic of elites. It affirms the social and moral hierarchy that is being threatened. Stupid people are unfit to govern society.
(As an aside, the usual charge against these people is that they are racist. Why? Racism is immoral, and immoral people shouldn't be in charge. Again, morality is what we fight over to decide who should be in charge.)
If we had a healthier political and media environment, we'd have more open and direct ways of addressing the immorality and decadence of our political and economic systems. Instead we have these clown show proxy wars.
And yes I am sidestepping the question of whether Cuties is good or bad. I haven't seen it. If/when I do, I'll be sure to not share my opinion here.
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It's rather pathetic to watch Democrats and leftists gloating about the fact that the Republican Party seems to still allow for a tiny amount of dissent and debate while their own party is an absolute authoritarian borg that demands lockstep allegiance from its members.
"Ha ha their party has a populist faction that is effective at challenging establishment leadership and extracting concessions. What losers! Pass the popcorn amirite?"
This is mostly the product of educated elites simply having no idea or conception of what democratic government even looks like any more
Just to catch everyone up, a former FBI official who was deeply involved in Russiagate and who was then planted at Twitter was discovered to have combed through the Twitter Files, without telling Elon Musk, before they were released to @mtaibbi and @bariweiss. Can't make this up.
According to Musk, he didn't become aware of this until Sunday, after the files were made public. The official, James Baker, was then fired by Musk.
The current liberal disinfo campaign is to make you think that talking about immigration and its demographic impact on the electorate — something liberals have enthusiastically done for decades — is now an off-limits conspiracy theory & anyone who engages in it should be censored
They are trying to make you think that doing this is engaging in something called "The Great Replacement Theory" so that they can tar their political opponents as extremists who spread racist conspiracy theories and disinformation.
As usual, the point of this is to spread their own disinformation in order to censor media and speech they don't like.
The momentum behind student debt cancellation is a good example of how the Left isn't designed to shift power to the working class. It's designed to shift the Democratic Party toward the interests of the educated professional class by using the veneer of populism and radicalism.
There are many kinds of debt and many forms of economic hardship. Are we to believe that the highly-educated, professional-class-dominated Left chose student debt randomly out of a hat? Is it a coincidence that this may end up being its only tangible policy success?
It's a testament to what can be accomplished by a highly organized group of elites whose main skillset is media and marketing.
After 2016, the Left traded in its populism in exchange for getting to be the well-funded, progressive NGO-Media-Activist arm of the Democratic Party. "Leftism" and "Socialism" became the updated branding of this elite-driven, big-money-funded liberal politics & media apparatus.
The rise of AOC and The Squad were instrumental in forging this new political synthesis.
For a brief moment in 2016, Left populism was a reaction against the Democratic Party's elite culture war and identity politics. Not only was that critique snuffed out, but culture war actually became the binding glue of this new synthesis.
If you could shoplift a podcast subscription online Leftists would change their tunes real quick
I've never seen the standing desk Left get so mad at a tweet. The reason they get so mad when you criticize their lifestyle-brand-as-politics is because it's literally the only thing differentiating them from their MSNBC watching parents.
Agree with Dad on everything, but you also hate Dad? Have I got a fantasy online universe for you.