milol
― maura, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
Milo is selling supplements on Infowars. This is not a drill. pic.twitter.com/zieQXOqtRi— Ross McCafferty (@RossMcCaff) February 21, 2018
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
Milo's entire purpose to the right wing condensed into a 16 sec clip pic.twitter.com/qWvvdpxgbm— PeterNorway (@classiclib3ral) February 22, 2018
― too notch (stevie), Thursday, 22 February 2018 10:21 (six years ago) link
talking about this today in my new job which i started last week
MIlo worked here for a couple of months (2013ish need to check). CEO went on holiday with him in Nassau
― anvil, Thursday, 22 February 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
NOBODY is talking about how the online depression community has been infiltrated by alt-right recruiters deliberately preying on the vulnerable. There NEED to be public warnings about this. 'Online pals' have attempted to groom me multiple times when at my absolute lowest.— Mister Happy Die Happy (@MrHappyDieHappy) February 23, 2018
― Milton Parker, Monday, 26 February 2018 09:47 (six years ago) link
long thread in there
― Milton Parker, Monday, 26 February 2018 09:48 (six years ago) link
Is there a way to try to get this young man help? At the end of the thread he keeps saying he is going to kill himself.
― treeship 2, Monday, 26 February 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
at least arm him and get him to take out a few alt right recruiters before he goes
― smashong pumpgong (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 February 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link
not funny imo
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 26 February 2018 13:17 (six years ago) link
I’m guessing the popularity of the thread will lead ppl to reach out to him. still, it’s jarring in our online age to have ppl make red flag statements like that and the vast majority of the responses breeze past them
― treeship 2, Monday, 26 February 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
twitter is blocked on my computer - what's the nature of this infiltration? message boards? i know alt right people have infiltrated all sorts of communities, typically older communities with lax moderation - i think they've completely taken over, for instance, gamefaqs. i don't know what the online depression community is like, because i've never wanted to actively seek the company of other depressed people (it just works out like that in practice)
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Monday, 26 February 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
2018 is crazy
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
a couple commenters mention that it's similar to scientology; another parallel that's not mentioned is the general disdain for therapists and psychologists among this crowd, to the point of discouraging people from seeing them ("go see a therapist" may be a cliche in certain communities and advice sites, but it's way better a cliche than the opposite)
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
might align with masculine attitudes toward talk therapy, that it's a waste of time & money, something that only women do, being unable to open up to someone.
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
that's definitely a big part of it - "you're not the problem, snowflake society is the problem, so you don't need to be cured you need to get angry"
― smashong pumpgong (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
it's pretty obvious why a politics based on bigotry and blame wouldn't be too interested in self-analysis
― smashong pumpgong (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
this bullshit bias against talk therapy extends outside rightwing worlds, it's really depressing. only logical argument against it is prohibitive cost for some
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
oh sure they're not the only naysayers and there's all kinds of nuanced arguments to be had about the value of therapy and its structure as in industry but it's clear why the redpill crowd are agin it
― smashong pumpgong (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
yeah there's sometimes a kernel of that (a lot of people in these communities self identify as "NEETs") but it isn't the entire story or even the biggest factor
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
true
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chuck-johnson-survivor-audition-tape_us_5a952956e4b02cb368c568be
― maura, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
The clash of titans. The great debate of our age.Who is the real enemy - postmodern neo-marxists, or neo-marxist postmodernists? pic.twitter.com/OTo6SoKIRx— Rocko's Modern Basilisk 🏴 (@InnerPartisan) February 26, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
gotcha! the real enemy is white men
― maura, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
Oh my god. The Orpheum?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
"philosophy", I may never stop vomiting
― Dan I., Wednesday, 28 February 2018 02:48 (six years ago) link
barf
re: "postmodern neo-marxists", I consider this the final word on that
hi i'm a postmodern marxist. that means i believe in the deconstruction of the master narrative and the proliferation of perspectives, but also, somehow, simultaneously, believe only in marxism.— your friend john (@johnsemley3000) January 25, 2018
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 February 2018 02:55 (six years ago) link
Your friend John is otm. And anyone who has a problem with that position should read Sloterdijks Critique of Cynical Reason.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 10:12 (six years ago) link
whinging about postmodernism is like whinging about oxygen tbh
― https://cdn1.umg3.net/95/files/2018/01/BANNER.jpg (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 10:22 (six years ago) link
Again, otm. Fuck the metamodernists, though...
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 10:24 (six years ago) link
cute story from the Bay Area
Ten times in the last six month, Revolution Books, the far left bookstore in the Telegraph Channing Mall, has found itself under attack from far-right activists.
The latest skirmish was Sat. March 4, the one-year anniversary of the pro-Trump rally in Martin Luther King Jr. Park that saw people on the right and Antifa and BAMN activists duking it out for control. A group of people who called themselves “Berkeley Warriors” on a live Facebook feed came from Sacramento and stormed the store.
“Fucking Commie scum,” one demonstrator, Rob Cantrall, said on a video taken by bookstore staff while Reiko Redmonde, a volunteer manager at the store, tried to prevent him and others from entering. “You are commie scum. We are going to burn down your bookstore. You know that, right?”
https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/03/07/right-wing-activists-target-berkeleys-revolution-books
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
This headline from the LA Review of Books is so great I'm almost afraid to read the piece for fear of almost certainly being let down.
A Messiah-cum-Surrogate-Dad for Gormless Dimwits: On Jordan B. Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life”
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 9 March 2018 02:52 (six years ago) link
Real life feels like The Screwfly Solution. Mass delusion and violent hysteria
― Dan I., Friday, 9 March 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
“The intellectual heirs to the obnoxious right-wing shock-jocks of yesteryear” is a good line from that LARB piece
― maura, Friday, 9 March 2018 08:31 (six years ago) link
How are teenage boys even hearing about Jordan Peterson in the first place? Does he show up as a suggestion in a youtube Overwatch playlist or something? Twitch advertising? It's terrifying that young men are apparently such fertile ground for that kind of shit right now.
― Dan I., Monday, 12 March 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
It has to be mostly Youtube. All kinds of stuff on Youtube leads towards Jordan Peterson. Pew Die Pie was holding up a copy of his book last month.
― jmm, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
At least in Canada, he has been getting a ridiculous amount of mainstream media coverage for years at this point. The National Post opinion pages were practically functioning as his cheerleading squad for a while. P sure it would be easier than it was for teenage boys to hear about Chomsky in the 90s. xp
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
last night I was in a coffee shop and the girl next to me was watching many Jordan Peterson videos. I was confused
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
Adverts for his book are all over the fucking London Underground
― imago, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
Prepping for a blind date?
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
The apparently authentic enthusiasm for JP among young people--as well as its magnitude and reach--might be the most distressing thing for me since Trump was elected. If the kids aren't alright, I'm running out of things to feel optimistic about
― Dan I., Monday, 12 March 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
My preferred response when encountering such: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ab9df7b8-db3b-4772-982f-bdf8e9e5c90e
― Moo Vaughn, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
gonna hope coffee shop girl was watching jp vids as part of a 'know your enemy' manouevre
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
quick survey of the youth in my experience is that v v few are paying attention to JP but every one of them will start a band
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
i just pray every day that none of my students tries to drop some jp ~noledge~ on me
― j., Monday, 12 March 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
jp's stupid fucking voice has ruined 'the rainbow connection' forevermore and for that along he should be dropped down a well
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
er, that alone
Wait, that's truly the same guy?? I just thought it was some self-help guru with the same name! The quotes they excerpt are more feel good facebook meme than alt right screed.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
xxp don't let him ruin kermit (a prince)
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
the title of the video I saw was something like "Why Men Are Going Their Own Way" (it wasn't worded that way but it definitely had the same sentiment) so I sure hope so
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
oh good that's just a fleetwood mac cover and lyric video, JP sitting in his bedroom studio behind a pop shield crying about someone he met on match.com that called him a dildo while he was eating noodles
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link