Message from @Perihelion - CA
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Edgy...I wouldn't even call him partially serrated.
You can't win just being just boring conservative guy. Youth culture requires some weirdness
He plays on the edge
This is what subversives did to us in 60s. Hardcore commies larping as hippies and rockstars
Except now it's memes and video games
And liberals are the moral puritans
people are attracted to solidity of personhood and character - if he weren't successful, wealthy, powerful and grounded he would have flopped and ruined his life just as much as an obese racist podcast host.
I agree he is great at playing the edge
He's a savant, really.
Cart before the horse. He became successful because of his personality being a shy weird gamer.
Obviously we can't all be YouTube personas but the point is inside jokes and memes are fun and fun is powerful.
So long as it doesn't become stuffy and self absorbed as you do well to warn us about
If one of your friends from highschool wouldn't be able to digest a line of rhetoric without further explanation - it's simply myopic and ineffective.
and weird.
Wanting to be on the inside of a joke is powerful appeal to curiosity
It's a great tool if used well
The alt-right tried that for over 3 years
how did that work out for them?
With great success I'd argue
The alt right is an utter failure 🤣
their ideas are far more mainstream than before
This was always a marathon
that is their one success.
opening pandora's box
white identity is in the air
That's huge.
And even though we've made a semantic break with the alt right, it's undeniable that we share common roots. That means everything that's come out since 2016 meme war has been in part due to edgelord meme war spilling into normie space. The fact we don't have space imperium doesn't disprove its effect. When you look, the effect is everywhere and a lot of progress has been made meta politically.
Of course mistakes were made too
One of the worst things I notice is people who use too much internet lingo IRL
Sometimes when I talk to dissident people in real life, it feels like they're reading tweets out loud. Very unnerving
The whole idea of people being "extremely online" is definitely real in any radical political circle
Agreed.
Nothing more cringe inducing.
Think of gaming culture as a microcosm. In 1990 gaming culture was dominated by geeks who sucked at sports. By 2000 gaming was mainstream among youth but carried the stigma culturally. By 2010 gaming was mainstream and non gamers were unusual. Current year there are pro gamers and entire subculture of female chearleader equivalents. Gamers didn't have to go out of their way to become mainstream because what they were doing was inherently fun.
Is the dissident right inherently fun? I think so.
Let's not lose that fun loving spirit.
imo the only reason the altright accomplished anything is because many of the fundamental ideas are powerful and normal. The altrights stewardship was pitiful and misguided.
well said.
A solid core rotted from the outside inward.
To the degree the alt right was expression of populist movement it was successful. To degree it was a led organization, it failed.