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Jesse Singal continues to be trash.
Advice for how to help @ElloEllenOh and @ElleOnWords while they're getting dogpiled by Singal and his friends:
Also:
"[Postmodern conservatism's] recent proliferation isn’t really extricable from the rise of chan culture... 4chan didn’t cause this thinking, but sites like 4chan reveal it in its most concentrated form."
100 commenters: "why u blame 4chan"
100 commenters: "why u blame 4chan"
"I disagree that this is caused by 4chan."
Yeah, so do I, in the text of the video you're commenting on. 🤨
Yeah, so do I, in the text of the video you're commenting on. 🤨
Sometimes I wonder why I try to be nuanced, since people will just hear the least complicated version of what you're saying anyway. Scripts would be a lot shorter if I just made sweeping statements.
I can't sleep so I'm finally watching @PhilosophyTube's video on antifa, and... fuck, I see why don't folks thought my video on fascism was ripping him off.
We use, like... all the same arguments and most of the same examples. 😮
We use, like... all the same arguments and most of the same examples. 😮
(I know I'm late to the party, it's just that hour-long videos are daunting.)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm still thinking about @Hbomberguy's stream and what was so special about #ThanksGraham, so here comes another thread.
I'm a little underslept so let's see if I can string sentences together.
I'm a little underslept so let's see if I can string sentences together.
I've been getting some CuriousCat questions asking if this proves anger and spite are great motivators and whether the Left should rely on them more.
But what strikes me is how, despite being framed as "let's spite Graham," the tone of the stream was anything but spiteful.
But what strikes me is how, despite being framed as "let's spite Graham," the tone of the stream was anything but spiteful.
Something I've been thinking about a lot in the last year or so is how anger is, indeed, a very motivating emotion, and how much of the time that motivation is precisely *why* people get angry.
New video essay! Reactionaries will say seemingly anything to "own the libs," often gleefully contradicting themselves. Are they all just nihilists? Or are there beliefs they simply won't admit to?
If you like this video and would like to make sure the series keeps coming out, throw me a buck on Patreon. patreon.com/InnuendoStudios
This video is an indirect answer to the oft-asked "why do you use the 4chan logo to represent the alt-right?"
Slides for the next Alt-Right Playbook are done. 290 in total.
Last video was 334, so I guess this is progress.
Last video was 334, so I guess this is progress.
I woke up this morning remembering a half paragraph I think I forgot to draw slides for, so I guess it's gonna be more than 290 slides.
Also apparently that's the first thing on my mind upon waking because I am a dull motherfucker.
Also apparently that's the first thing on my mind upon waking because I am a dull motherfucker.
final tally is 293, barring additions/revisions during the edit
I have not researched this thoroughly, and I am also cis, so I'm only going to cover the major bullet points. If you tweet corrections and/or additional nuance, I will add them to the thread. (Transphobes will be blocked.)
Let's talk about puberty blockers.
Let's talk about puberty blockers.
If a prepubescent youth comes out as trans, or as being uncertain or confused about their gender, they can delay the onset of puberty with puberty blockers.
This is not the same thing as transitioning.
This is not the same thing as transitioning.
In the 50's and 60's, the top marginal tax rate for J. Paul Getty was between 70 and 92 percent and he was still the richest human alive. 
Resistance to tax increases is about the principle of the thing. The people Ocasio Cortez' tax plan would affect will never feel the pinch.
They just don't like having a big number when they could have a huge one.
They just don't like having a big number when they could have a huge one.
They will still be the richest people on Earth in the richest country on Earth.
there is a big-ass adventure game sale on GOG right now gog.com/promo/20190116…
Night in the Woods and Unforeseen Incidents are both quite good, FYI.
Always good to bear in mind.
I'm finally playing Hyrule Warriors, and it's entertaining anime trash, but I am very surprised to find that Linkle is my favorite character?!?
Surprised and ambivalent.
The final move of one of her combos is raising her crossbow in the air, throwing her hood back, and singing the Zelda series victory tune out loud - "der der der derrrr!!" - like a fucking dork.
She's awesome.
She's awesome.
Against my better judgment, I'm going to weigh in on Louis CK.
CW: physical and sexual abuse.
CW: physical and sexual abuse.
There are two easy responses to CK's complaint that today's young are boring because their idea of rebellion is talking about pronouns.
First: I understand, to your generation, that Millennials are forever seventeen, but most of the people talking about pronouns are in their twenties and thirties, and they aged INTO it, you has-been.
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This is why I don't title videos "Has Cultivation Theory Been Disproven?" and suchlike. More people will see the title than will hear the argument and come away thinking the wrong thing.
Framing your argument such that it will be properly understood is often at cross purposes to how The Algorithm wants it phrased, which will be covered in a future video.
Innuendo Studios Year in Review:
This year I had a video break 1 million views for the first time. Just this morning, another video did as well. A third is on track to break a mill in Q1 2019.
My channel broke 100,000 subscribers.
In fact, I did the math and gained roughly 70,000 subs this year, which is about the same as my entire career to this point.
So in 2018 I doubled my sub count.
In fact, I did the math and gained roughly 70,000 subs this year, which is about the same as my entire career to this point.
So in 2018 I doubled my sub count.
It is an honor to be on this list, and I agree - with one exception - with everyone's inclusion.
However...
However...
Maybe we should stop letting Rob Marshall make movies.
I did not hate Mary Poppins Returns. Emily Blunt is about the only person who could play Mary and she lovely, as is Ben Whishaw. And it has a number of interesting ideas.
But its ideas didn't cohere and it was mostly boring.
But its ideas didn't cohere and it was mostly boring.
Oh, and the one Big Emotional Moment rang so false I was kind of disgusted.
Like, dude, don't give me fake sentiment and a mediocre some reprise when you're mourning a lost family member.
Like, dude, don't give me fake sentiment and a mediocre some reprise when you're mourning a lost family member.
Expanded my horizons the most: OK Computer
Took my musical tastes the furthest afield: The Richard D. James Album
Took my musical tastes the furthest afield: The Richard D. James Album
Prior to OK Computer I had no taste in music to speak of. And I didn't GET Radiohead, but people whose taste I admired told me it was great, so I listened to it again and again and again...
until I eventually fell in love with it.
until I eventually fell in love with it.
It wasn't as hard to get into Aphex Twin after Radiohead opened me up to stuff outside of, I dunno, blink-182 or whatever I was listening to. But The Richard D. James Album, that altered my whole idea of what constituted "music."
female-presenting nipples > nazis
most everyone likes nipples and most everyone hates nazis, yet the internet devolves into a puritanical space that hides what people like and serves up what people hate while the nazis claim the people advocating for more nipples are the real puritans
I would like to disembark the log flume ride we call late capitalism plz
Ralph Breaks the Internet does character-arcs-over-multiple-films better than 95% of Marvel movies.
It's a messy, overstuffed, tonally inconsistent mess, but what it ends up being about legitimately builds on the themes of the previous movie, using the ending of Wreck-It Ralph as a jumping-off point.
When it works, it works.
When it works, it works.
The only Marvel character with a character arc over multiple movies is Iron Man, and you have to ignore 4 movies to see it.
Also Anthony Burch but that's just by assholes who can't tell two cucks apart.
Come to think of it, I don't think anyone gets mistaken for me...
If you, like me, never got around to playing it, Spec Ops: The Line is currently $6 on the Humble Store. humblebundle.com/store/spec-ops…
Life is Strange is also $6. humblebundle.com/store/life-is-…
Kathy Rain is $3.74 so you should definitely get on that. One of my favorite adventure games of the last few years. humblebundle.com/store/kathy-ra…
Me: I swear the next video is going to be shorter.
Me: I'm going to write a quick endnote.
Me: I'm in a good writing mode, let me write a second endnote for later in the series.
Me: Maybe this second endnote should come first, let me record it.
Me: ...it's 21 minutes long.
Me: I'm going to write a quick endnote.
Me: I'm in a good writing mode, let me write a second endnote for later in the series.
Me: Maybe this second endnote should come first, let me record it.
Me: ...it's 21 minutes long.
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The only good thing to come out of this mess.
Now Fascism Today is talking about getting fascists kicked off social media platforms and the fear that the same tactic could be used against antifascists, and is portraying social media companies as WAAAAAAY bigger allies than they are.
Like, he talks about which fascists have been kicked off Twitter and Facebook without mentioning *just how long* it took to get them booted, *just how many* are still online, or the ways these sites profit off of Nazi presence.
Fuckin' Jack Dorsey *following* half the Nazis on here should at least warrant a mention, I think?
He also doesn't even mention ban evasions and alt accounts.
He also doesn't even mention ban evasions and alt accounts.
Fascism Today is using the currently fashionable definition of "doxxing" that I still feel is too broad to be useful, where "someone attached a name to the face of a Nazi at a Nazi rally" qualifies.
I think this is only defensible if you're going to engage with the difference between that and the public release of addresses, family members, bank details, etc. that the word usually refers to.
The point is, "doxxing" usually refers to inviting harassment, not inviting social consequences for actions people do publicly with no effort to disguise themselves.
In the game of I'm Pretty Sure That's What Fascists Do, how high does "White House releases doctored footage likely edited by a white supremacist" rank?
Not that the game shouldn't have been over around "the President is putting Honduran children in cages/promising to build internment camps/claiming he'll end birthright citizenship" but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
don't be ridiculous, Ian, the difference between this and real fascism is *insects bursts forth from esophagus*
