sempersigh [he/him]

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Cake day: August 12th, 2020

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  • Except the Hasan stuff was essentially a narrative that was made up out of thin air whereas with this there’s actually something to it.

    It’s really hard to understand where people are coming from with this perspective that those of us expressing skepticism about this guy are seeking out “perfection” like Hasan and Zohran have flaws especially the latter but I’m willing to except the possibility that good can come from them.

    This is something else entirely it’s not purity politics . So there’s bad faith actors tarring him? I don’t care about the source I don’t feel comfortable getting behind a guy who patrolled abu ghraib and I don’t want the ADL to have an easy W by having a new anti Zionist senator have a Nazi tattoo.

    Yes you can dig up dirt on anyone and technology can make that easier but that doesn’t mean we have to get behind this one like cmon now










  • Wikipedia lumping all these together as being a part of “the Gen Z protest movement” is the dumbest shit but it’s also hilarious because it’s pretty clear the consent manufacturing machine that came up with this moniker doesn’t actually support all of these and are probably mad that the strikes for Gaza in Italy and elsewhere are being described as Gen Z protests

    The whole narrative surrounding this is bizarre and incoherent…. Young people are protesting? That in of itself is not novel and deserving of a label and this will only get more weird when Wikipedia is forced to contend with the fact that basically any protest that involves young people is going to be called a Gen Z protest by a “reliable source” that isn’t deeply integrated into the consent manufacturing machine such as the nytimes which only describe protests as Gen Z protests if it aligns with US interests.

    Because we are being told that this is all innocuous it’s just about young people it will inevitably just be applied to anything and as mass media picks and chooses what does and does not constitute a Gen Z protest the people buying into this bullshit will have to increasingly jump through more and more hoops to justify why any of this even makes sense.

    I think it speaks to how lazy the people pushing this stuff have gotten since the effort required is so small compared to back in the day you just have to game the algorithms and get your hashtags out there until western media starts running with the narrative.