Message from @GingaBomber
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Yeah I’m all over it tbh, and I know that haha but I’m confident that I will be able to stand out. The majority of “journalists” shouldn’t have their jobs
I’m gonna try look for start up companies... people with journalistic integrity. But it’s gonna be a trek
Let's kickstart a debate: Since *most* of this board tends to lean right (or atleast not progressive) there's a tactics debate right now on the right.
View 1: making fun of people is a bad idea and triggers a backlash.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/owning-liberals-feels-great-but-risks-backlash-at-polls/
View 2: Nah. No one is listening anyway. Need moar shitposts.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270858/ridicule-not-reasoned-debate-best-medicine-bruce-thornton
Which argument do you find more convincing?
View 1, makes sense, that was what the libs did to trump supporters. Now I wouldnt say what rightwingers are doing to leftwingers are as bad but this only serves to widen the divide between the right and the left.
If the divide is going to happen anyways might as well have fun with it.
Which was my point. It sped up the inevitable
But it isnt helping either
Now we have the right stoking the fires and the left burning brighter.
Sooner or later that fires gonna burn bad
Or we can hope it runs out of steam
I kind of think that either outcome isn't a bad thing. Not that I want a civil war or something but if it does happen it will allow for the purging of the radical/authoritarian left and bring the US back to a sense of normality.
I meanits a way of burning excess
The extreme views will die out.
But you can expect the people in the middle to become more extreme.
Well, more in comparison, not actually extreme
Radical centrists lel.
Talking like, I didnt care abotu free speech before, now Im aware and support it
It's not going to be a left vs right thing. It will be crazies vs non crazies.
Thing is everything is so tribal now
Well yeah that's the two party system for you.
Society is too complex for 2 parties.
But people are too simple to think beyond yes and no
Nobody wants to sit through hours of tests to see which party they will agree with
Alot of people agree with trump policies but hate it because of the name behind it
I'm actually in camp #2. We know humor tends to get attention and I think the kinds of people in the camps is actually shifting.
I actually was thinking of the Social Justice stuff when I posted this. In the case of Social Justice, you're not aiming for votes. You're aiming for minds. Rather, I think it's too easy for the Social Justice types to hide, shame and intimidate.
I love the idea of mocking them to force them to show themselves for the fools they are. Much harder for them to hit people that way and forces them to really overplay their hands.
I do have this feeling that social justice crazies are alot like the fundamentalist religious right. I suspect they probably don't understand irony very well either.
It works on keeping the group together
Trump knows that by creating all those nicknames
And trumpers have nicknames for each other and their own injokes
Im talking shit like coats, bricks, the trump train
You need both really
You need to make fun of high-profile people, to show them they're not indomitable, and to show the people that you can win
And you need to shitpost, to push back against their poor argumenting and showing how bad the people are, and gather people who agree
Just make sure it looks like you are having more fun than the other side
Leftie memes are bad because theres alot of stuff thats not allowed to be made fun of
true, Milo for all his fakeness got that part right,
Leftists can't stand Laughter, it is the best power
^ This is why I get reminded so much of the Religious Right. I still remember the crusades against Harry Potter and Pokemon.
because you're not allowed to laugh
The Left are the new puritans.
i must thank the far left. they made me realize that religion is a symptom, not a source.
Can we upload images here?
No