The fact that they tend to get hate both from the left and from the right indicates to me that they're probably close to the truth.
People have become so accustomed to their preferred news sources catering to their biases, they get offended when someone says something they agree with, but then follows it with something they don't. The uncertainty of being able to safely label someone as "my tribe" or "bad tribe" seems to cause anxiety for some.
This has been a phenomena I've seen of Twatter and Roddit for a while. You can say like "oh I believe in this and this and such such and consider myself a blahblahblah" and some soy fuck will say ahem no you're actually an alt far right fascist and the label sticks. If you're famous enough to have a wiki page it's even worse with "so and so has been described as far right and a conspiracy theorist" and the "sources" used are always the usual suspects. WaPo, NYT, Huffpo, Salon, Vox etc.
That's the funniest part. I saw people I've known for years instantly turn. People who had known me through chatting and such turn just as much as a few months ago saying "hey you know meow meow is an incel fash chud". I'm sitting here like "wtf are you talking about? I've known you for 8 years, you know I have a wife a child, whats this incel shit about?". They don't care, they like their labels.
But of course. Most of their effectiveness requires them plausibly being able to present themselves as "the people" rather than what they are, proponents of some new form of feudalism who, realising how repugnant that is, decided to dress it up as socialism, which is barely any better at all.
The bioleninist nobility are sensitive and angry at the peasant's name-calling.
Michael Tracey, Glenn Greenwald and Aaron Mate have been the only honest journalists on the left in the past few years.
The fact that they tend to get hate both from the left and from the right indicates to me that they're probably close to the truth.
People have become so accustomed to their preferred news sources catering to their biases, they get offended when someone says something they agree with, but then follows it with something they don't. The uncertainty of being able to safely label someone as "my tribe" or "bad tribe" seems to cause anxiety for some.
Breath of fresh air from all the hopium-laced bullshit twitters I've followed tbh.
This has been a phenomena I've seen of Twatter and Roddit for a while. You can say like "oh I believe in this and this and such such and consider myself a blahblahblah" and some soy fuck will say ahem no you're actually an alt far right fascist and the label sticks. If you're famous enough to have a wiki page it's even worse with "so and so has been described as far right and a conspiracy theorist" and the "sources" used are always the usual suspects. WaPo, NYT, Huffpo, Salon, Vox etc.
Fuck commies, embrace their fake labels.
What are they gonna do, guilloutine you again for non-existant racism?
That's the funniest part. I saw people I've known for years instantly turn. People who had known me through chatting and such turn just as much as a few months ago saying "hey you know meow meow is an incel fash chud". I'm sitting here like "wtf are you talking about? I've known you for 8 years, you know I have a wife a child, whats this incel shit about?". They don't care, they like their labels.
But of course. Most of their effectiveness requires them plausibly being able to present themselves as "the people" rather than what they are, proponents of some new form of feudalism who, realising how repugnant that is, decided to dress it up as socialism, which is barely any better at all.
Who cares