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Sep 26

Since "noticing" appears to be a thing, I'd like to say that I "notice" things as well....And I can't help but *notice* the obsession that certain people have with Israel, even though other nations (China, India, Russia, etc) impact the U.S. far more....

I also can't help but notice that those same sorts of people are obsessed the influence of wealth Jews, but have nothing to say about the influence of money from China, Qatar, Russia, India, and so on.

The Jews are, apparantly, an item of incredibly deep concern...

For a great number of people, and I can't help but *notice* that the far greater and more pernicious influence (and subversion) coming from foreign money in other countries gets mysteriously ignored, and I *notice* that Israel is held to a higher standard than every other country

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Sep 25

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Wokeness is the alloy of the political ideology and moral value framework from Critical Theory with the social constructivist worldview and epistemology of postmodernism.

As the political side of woke recedes culturally, it leaves behind the underlying postmodern worldview.

2/ The teleology of the woke project came from the moral commitments of intersectional social justice (Trans-rights, Race based activism, etc)

Those movements are being dissolved by their own incoherence and absurdity (Land acknowledgements, claiming men can become women, etc)

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The dissolution and exhaustion of the political movement that provided the teleology and moral value framework for wokeness leaves the entire social movement around which those things were built without any thing to serve as locus for meaning, purpose, or values.

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Wokal Distance

@wokal_distance

Sep 24

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1970873977313874335

The left created an epitemic bubble which filters out everything that challenges their narrative while promoting anything that confirms their priors

It's socially enforced confirmation bias at scale which results in the left having no idea what anyone outside their bubble thinks

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1970873977313874335

The left has what @wesyang calls a "Vertically Integrated Messaging Apparatus." It's an apparatus of messaging distribution which is owned and operated by leftists top to bottom, and disseminates only the information which aligns with leftist moral norms and political priorities.

@wesyang The lefts messaging apparatus used to be the information distributor for all of society (we called it "mainstream media") but new media alternatives and the rollback of social media censorship regime's mean society is no longer a captive audience for the lefts messaging apparatus

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Wokal Distance

@wokal_distance

Sep 23

For decades it was the progressive leftist worldview from which the norms of public life and the values of the common culture were derived. The at-large culture was the home of leftists, and conservative evangelicals were treated like unwanted guests.

Those days are over.

The culture is changing so quickly that people are about to get whiplash. It's no longer the case that the default values of public life are those of the social-justice left, (or of "progressives") and progressives no longer get to determine what is allowed in "polite company."

In other words, the progressives no longer get to simply assume that their goals, values, and priorities get to take center stage in the at-large culture.

The presumption of progressive leftists that they get to set the terms of the debate no longer carries any weight.

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Wokal Distance

@wokal_distance

Sep 20

For years conservatives told people that leftists used violence and intimidation to silence dissent, and the media downplays and ignores it. Charlie Kirk's assassination proved the right was correct, and gave them the moral high ground in the culture for the first time in decades

Kirks' assassination validated what the right had been saying about free speech, censorship, and political violence exactly because Charlie was a vigorous free speech advocate who was killed for his speech.

Free speech is therefore the root of the rights' moral highground...

This means the right now has the backing of the culture, and the culture largely *agrees* with what the right has been saying about free speech, cancel culture, intimidation, censorship, information supression, and so fourth.

The cultural shift is real.

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Wokal Distance

@wokal_distance

Sep 19

Any leftist podcaster or celebrity can hold an event at any University in the United States with minimal security and be completely safe.

Conservative speakers can't hold events on campus without armed guards and a bullet proof vest.

Let's talk about why🧵

Universities have basically said there is no penalty for *trying* to do violence against conservatives; there's only a penalty if you actually manage to injure one of them.

You can try to do violence as much as you like, and there's no penalty until you actually hurt somone.

It's like telling a man with a loaded gun "shoot as many bullets at people as you like — we won't stop you until you actually hit someone."

This is the logic universities use when responding to the threats, protests, and riots the left uses to intimidate and shut down speakers.

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