#<- PRAYING there is no discourse linked with that or some shit lol i should mention that ppl can do whatever bc its a game btw

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I think the anon re: memes versus left/right was trying to point out that you yourself have a double-standard when it comes to them and that you've uncritically spread right-wing ones before that turned out to be bullshit while mocking the left for falling for the exact same thing????????????? hillary death note

eh, i dont think so? I dont think it is speaking to me, i mean, it goes:

Interesting how memes mocking the left don't have to be factual, but memes mocking the right have to be backed up with a fucktinllion of evidence.

memes mocking the left are generally coming from a basis that isnt too concerned with the factual while memes mocking the right are coming from a basis that is totally concerned with being factual. I feel the right side is EMOTIONALLLLLLY invested rather than intelligently. I mean, it’s in the name, reactionary politics, as it is a desperate appeal of return to the status quo ante, which has depression and dread about the SITUATION NOW as a prerequisite. For them, it’s a terrible loss bordering on grief, and that lends itself to an outlook and sense of humour that speaks out of dark, sardonic wit. They have nothing to lose, so to speak, because they have already lost as far as they know. It’s a political rage against the dying of the light and they will be as surreal and intangible about it, indifferent to how outsiders interpret that, relishing in others’ confusion as they worship gods of chaos via repeating digits and making pee pee and poo poo jokes with icons of a frogs.

The left, however, are smug and confident in using wit and “facts”, because they are the status quo and part of what they feel and express is the “right side of history.” No matter how bad or awful they feel civil rights are, they KNOW, in their gut that they will be validated by time itself and that lends itself to a sense of “evidence is on my side” and a light wit appended to that. See: the daily show. Memeing and joking about the right wing opposition is treated like a sideshow oddity on it’s way out on the love boat ride of history, and that lends itself to a sort of sensible, condescending smugness.

to factually assail the far right wing’s memes is ineffective, because yeah, their memes tap into something emotional rather than “factual”. But the effect these emotional memes have on the left and producing real change on discourse and awareness is promising. A means to an end. It’s hard not to get excited about that, because it confounds and infuriates the left because it has the trappings of a real counter culture they have no control of. It gets the left invested in a way they have previously been passive about and that lends itself to constructive discourse, once taboos have been shed and the playing field leveled.

Unless you made that anon, maybe you are projecting your own frustration with me onto that ask?

This double standard you have ascribed to me tho, i acknowledge that.

Because for all the facts and statistics, you can have your face in the details for so long that the greater picture eludes and morphs around you and ultimately out of your grasp. The left commands power and clout the right wing can only grasp at and hold in fleeting moments. The left, for having command of the media and the “facts,” somehow inspite of that, nationalism and reactionary politics is on an incredible rise and no matter how much fact checking and dispelling of “fake news” is done, it can’t help that. So what good is there for me in further fact checking here when its done all the time on CNN, MSNBC, most news outlets and so on that you, yes you, can tune into rather than wait for me to do so. Also i have like a million tabs open and links to follow up on stories and shit ive posted before but never get around to it because i have a live and career out of this and I run this blog FOR FREE

You can use this bleg on the internet as a counterweight or barometre against mainstream news, i actually encourge that lol. Youd be figuring it out for uRSELF and forming ur own opinion, which is ideal haha. I really dont want people relying on me

I usually get the impetus to make time to post if something excites me or if its readily just there or if i find it particularly controversial or inflammatory. I find myself focused on the prevailing status quo and it’s failures more often than i would employ a general consistency to ALL.

But yeah, anyway, mainstream news (REAL NEWS™) is a tool for maintaining status quo. It fact checks the western right but is totally blind to the needs of population and the rise of the right wing among western muslims (in a way that isnt totally inflammatory, theres hardly ever a nuanced constructive look at it - only “not all muslims” or “yes all muslims”) who are a reaction to the global predominance of western culture/influence, that in turn fuels the rise of the right wing in the west because the concerned westerner’s options are either the reigning side of total ignorance/apologism or complete ethnic upheaval/nationalism as a function of western polarization because of how ineffectual the status quo (liberals) are.

The western left isn’t looking forward, it’s isnt looking in the present either, it’s looking to the past, in maintaining itself independent of the multiple trajectories and developing trends around the world, and an increasingly antiquated pipeline to progressive utopia hoping for indefinite power over the right rather than evolve with everyone else who now has figured out a way to exploit these narrow focused western progressive blinders. (lengthy sentence, take a breath, sorry lol)

It has no vision, while people are captivated by vision. Selective factchecking and saying everything is hokey dorey and praying for a large enough multicultural vote one day - because it’s been pre-ordained by Being On The Right Side Of History, because cmon it’s Current Year - to deny the right wing power isnt a platform worth being captivated by. I surely am not captivated by it, especially with how it has fanned the flames of polarization and become apologist toward awful international militarism it’s responsible for and SOME forms of terrorism that has resulted from that.

You can look at the factchecking about the economy and see unemployment in the USA has been down since 2008 thanks to obama (arguably? adminstrations generally cant effect the direction of the economy so well), and yet the american midwest is still an economic wasteland riddled with opiate addiction - that has helped push Trump into the white house. You can believe that more immigration will grant you demographic destiny and ensure the success of a truly progressive forever guaranteed slate of power where everyone lives in peace, newcomers drop their customs and assimilate into a country that becomes a mixed race nation transcending tribalism without the right wing impeding on that... except the obvious brewing timebomb of ethnic strife experienced in other diverse countries that OTHER NATIONS RECOGNIZE AND SEEK TO FOMENT AND EXPLOIT IN THE WEST, rendering that narrow utopian platform a failure in waiting when shit like this happens:

I mean yes, i have peddled things that has turned out to be bullshit, but who hasn’t? I use this blog often to speak to areas i feel are ignored and fuck around with shit i see that isnt already posted to high hell about already elsewhere. The left listens to factual contest and the right listens to gut punch populism.

what is a double standard anyway, what is the standard even? politics is the study of languages and not everyone speaks the same language. Why should i correct the speakers of hindi for not using the grammatical structure of romance languages? You may speak one language, baffled by how i dont fit in that but im plainly busy trying to comprehend languages and apply them in places where necessary.

I think i started rambling off track, whoops, ill end this now lol

TL;DR: its my blog you can unfollow if you dont like my apparent inconsistency, im not trying to appeal to your or anyone’s standards besides my own (i dont have any, really, im along for the ride). im like the facade of a contrarian on steroids and self likened political historian, observer of sorts - which is all egostroke, im just a shitposter on the internet and i like gauging reactions and flossing my thoughts by responding to things like this ask.