Net Neutrality became partisan based on a lie. Become politically active and inform your congresspersons what it *really* is. That it is completely unrelated to the Fairness Doctrine and that such claims are lobbyist propaganda.
And "the Right" got a Nintendo PR representative fired for the content of her (distasteful) thesis in college.
Both "sides" are guilty of having outrage mobs that got people fired. Identity politics is pure idiocy and hurts everyone, regardless of political policy learnings.
"Quite a suggestion about a group that had a heavy hand in electing our soon-to-be President...."
Did they? Before Hillary gave a /pol/ meme a national platform, they were a primarily obscure Internet subculture content with nihilism and provocation on social media.
Hell, rumor is that Buzzfeed blackmailed m00t into banning them from 4chan. If true, Buzzfeed is in part responsible for forcing a containment board leakage onto the rest of the Internet.
Bannon isn't alt-right - he's just a neo-nazi that embraced the alt-right for exposure vs blindly hating them like Stormfront hates The Daily Stormer.
Bannon isn't spouting off a bunch of Internet memes for one thing. Instead, he unironically believes in topics that trolls ironically pretend to believe in.
Even before Hillary's mistake of feeding the biggest piece of sustenance ever fed to trolls in the history of the Internet, troll king Andrew Aurenheimer was continually expressing disbelief at how insane 2016 (a.k.a. (current year)) has been and how trivial it's been to troll mainstream media outlets into printing false stories of IRL events based on nothing more than a few tweets.
"What I'm advocating for is the allowance of a public rebuke to them. Scorn is a wonderful antidote to idiocy, but we can't levy our scorn if the alt-right is disappeared from our conversations...."
Agreed. Within the alt-right, there is a form of much milder (but still worrying) unironic racial identity politics. It would be healthy to argue them away from believing in that....
Good lord this media craze about the alt-Right is the epitome of stupid.
Geigner - did you listen to the D.C. press conference Richard Spencer gave a few months ago after Hillary put a spotlight on the neckbeard neo-Nazis known as the alt-Right? If so - how can you possibly take them seriously? He spent almost an hour memeing off at a crowd of D.C. political staffers, military officials, balding reporters, and Think Tank members. He literally tried to explain to them how important "dank memes" are. He explained to them a trollish political interpretation of "don't be a cuck".
He created a logo for the alt-Right that was a mix of KKK hoods, an Illuminati reference, and shitty retro wannabe cyberpunk style synthwave
There is nothing about him that should be taken seriously. Nothing about the alt-right should be taken seriously by anyone.
In fact, continuing to take them seriously will end up convincing them that their theatrically racist speech has actual political merit. That would be the worst conceivable outcome as it'd create actual bigots out of memeing trolls.
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For everyone calling the alt-Right the "alt-Reich" or Nazis - stop. It's the equivalent of pillowtalk to them. They dozens of memes idolizing Hitler is the theatrically provocative manner common to imageboards.
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Net Neutrality became partisan based on a lie. Become politically active and inform your congresspersons what it *really* is. That it is completely unrelated to the Fairness Doctrine and that such claims are lobbyist propaganda.
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Both "sides" are guilty of having outrage mobs that got people fired. Identity politics is pure idiocy and hurts everyone, regardless of political policy learnings.
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Did they? Before Hillary gave a /pol/ meme a national platform, they were a primarily obscure Internet subculture content with nihilism and provocation on social media.
Hell, rumor is that Buzzfeed blackmailed m00t into banning them from 4chan. If true, Buzzfeed is in part responsible for forcing a containment board leakage onto the rest of the Internet.
Bannon isn't alt-right - he's just a neo-nazi that embraced the alt-right for exposure vs blindly hating them like Stormfront hates The Daily Stormer.
Bannon isn't spouting off a bunch of Internet memes for one thing. Instead, he unironically believes in topics that trolls ironically pretend to believe in.
Even before Hillary's mistake of feeding the biggest piece of sustenance ever fed to trolls in the history of the Internet, troll king Andrew Aurenheimer was continually expressing disbelief at how insane 2016 (a.k.a. (current year)) has been and how trivial it's been to troll mainstream media outlets into printing false stories of IRL events based on nothing more than a few tweets.
"What I'm advocating for is the allowance of a public rebuke to them. Scorn is a wonderful antidote to idiocy, but we can't levy our scorn if the alt-right is disappeared from our conversations...."
Agreed. Within the alt-right, there is a form of much milder (but still worrying) unironic racial identity politics. It would be healthy to argue them away from believing in that....
On the post: Why Twitter's Alt-Right Banning Campaign Will Become The Alt-Right's Best Recruitment Tool
Geigner - did you listen to the D.C. press conference Richard Spencer gave a few months ago after Hillary put a spotlight on the neckbeard neo-Nazis known as the alt-Right? If so - how can you possibly take them seriously? He spent almost an hour memeing off at a crowd of D.C. political staffers, military officials, balding reporters, and Think Tank members. He literally tried to explain to them how important "dank memes" are. He explained to them a trollish political interpretation of "don't be a cuck".
He created a logo for the alt-Right that was a mix of KKK hoods, an Illuminati reference, and shitty retro wannabe cyberpunk style synthwave
There is nothing about him that should be taken seriously. Nothing about the alt-right should be taken seriously by anyone.
In fact, continuing to take them seriously will end up convincing them that their theatrically racist speech has actual political merit. That would be the worst conceivable outcome as it'd create actual bigots out of memeing trolls.
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For everyone calling the alt-Right the "alt-Reich" or Nazis - stop. It's the equivalent of pillowtalk to them. They dozens of memes idolizing Hitler is the theatrically provocative manner common to imageboards.
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